Brandt

Helena Brandt founded Skolar in 2011 after two decades running strategy and operations at scale, most recently as chief executive of a European industrial group. She teaches on Strategic Leadership and leads the academy's academic direction.

Helena studied economics at the University of Vienna and completed an MBA at IMD. She sits on two supervisory boards and continues to advise executive teams on strategy, which she regards as necessary: teaching strategy while no longer practising it produces exactly the kind of faculty Skolar was founded to avoid.

• 23+ years in senior operating roles across industrial and services businesses.
• Founded Skolar in 2011 with a faculty drawn entirely from practitioners.
• Teaches Strategic Leadership and contributes to Leading Transformation.
• Currently serves on two supervisory boards in Austria and Germany.
• Contributor to Harvard Business Review and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
• Guest lecturer at IMD and the Vienna University of Economics and Business.