TEACHING
I teach at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels at the University of St.Gallen and partner institutions. Rooted in public management, my courses focus on innovation and digital government. They connect current research with pressing challenges in public-sector practice and show how academic insight can contribute to solutions that create value in practice.
Public Sector Consultancy Project, Wrap-up 2026
Undergraduate Level Courses
Public Management and Governance
Undergraduate Level,
University of St.Gallen, 2023, 2024
This undergraduate course offers a comprehensive introduction to Public Management, covering both its theoretical foundations and practical implications. Students develop a solid understanding of Public Management through a set of core thematic areas, including bureaucracy, public-private collaboration, New Public Management, public finance, digital transformation, agile government, service models, and smart government.
The practical component of the course allows students to work directly with real partner organisations, including the City of Zurich, the Health Directorate of the Canton of Zurich, the Federal Civil Service, and the cities of St. Gallen and Kreuzlingen. In collaboration with these partners, students develop concrete solutions to real-world challenges faced by practitioners.
By the end of the course, students are able to apply key concepts to practical problems, think critically, develop value-adding solutions, and communicate their findings to a professional audience.
Digital Government in the Digital Era
Undergraduate Level
University of St.Gallen, 2021, 2022, 2023
Technology is reshaping how governments operate, and this course examines what that means for public administration in theory and practice.
In this undergraduate course, students explore key concepts, debates, and real-world implications of digital government, including both the opportunities it creates and the challenges it poses. The course is interactive and follows a flipped classroom approach: student groups help shape the course by selecting thematic areas they are interested in, researching them independently, teaching their peers, and designing hands-on exercises to illustrate the main insights. Guest speakers from local, cantonal, and federal government, as well as from the private and non-profit sectors, complement the theoretical foundations with perspectives from current practice.
By the end of the course, students will have developed a solid understanding of digital government and the skills to critically analyse and apply its concepts in professional contexts.
Graduate Level Courses
Consultancy Project: Innovative Service Models in the Public Sector
Graduate Level,
University of St.Gallen, 2026
Amazon, Netflix, and Uber did not just build better products; they reinvented their business models entirely. So why should the public sector be any different? This graduate course challenges students to bring that same spirit of model innovation to government.
Public-sector innovation is not only about improving individual services. It also requires rethinking the underlying processes, roles, partnerships, and governance arrangements through which public value is created. The course draws on the book Service Model Navigator, co-authored with Kuno Schedler, and teaches students to take an end-to-end perspective on public-sector innovation.
Working directly with real-world partner organisations, students work in project teams to analyse an actual public-sector challenge, develop an innovative service models, and present their solution to the partner organisation at the end of the semester.
Executive Level Courses
CAS Public Administration CeMaP
Executive Level,
University of Bern,
2026
The CAS Public Administration CeMaP is an executive education programme for senior leaders in public administration, offered in collaboration with the University of Bern. I teach in this programme and serve as module lead for Module 6, “The Future of Public Administration.”
Public administration is changing — in how it is organised, how it works with citizens, how it uses technology, and how it leads through uncertainty. This module helps participants make sense of these developments and consider what they mean for their own role, their teams, and their organisations.
Working with experts from academia and practice, participants explore future challenges and develop practical perspectives for a public administration that is better prepared for change.
Master Class: Smart Government and Remote Leadership
Executive Level,
University of Cologne Business School
How can large, traditionally hierarchical institutions navigate digital transformation? This is the central question of an executive-level masterclass I teach at the University of Cologne Business School for senior leaders from the German Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) and the Federal Ministry of Defence.
Innovation and digital transformation are highly relevant for the Bundeswehr, but they also raise complex organisational and managerial questions. Against the backdrop of the Bundeswehr’s Digital Transformation Strategy, the masterclass examines how large public institutions can move from e-government to smart government. It focuses on digital innovation and on how leadership, culture, and organisational structures need to adapt in this process.
The session combines conceptual foundations with practical reflection on the specific challenges of leading transformation in large public-sector organisations. It addresses how leaders can create orientation, maintain trust, and support effective decision-making while navigating digital and organisational change.