Christa Muth

Professor emerita at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Haute École d’Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud). Born 1949, she earned her Ph.D. at La Jolla University San Diego (Swiss Campus) in 1991.

In 20 years of consulting for public and private organizations of every size and any kind, Christa has often accepted high risk assignments when the survival of the organization was at stake. She usually privileges working on the intangible factors to resolve critical situations, such as communication, motivation, teamwork, corporate culture. Most of the time, her approach proved to be the right one if compared with approaches based exclusively on structures, facts and figures.

Christa developed her innovative approach since her studies where she had the opportunity to learn from exceptional scientists and intellectuals like Edgar Morin, Paolo Freire, Paul Watzlawick, Henri Laborit and Jean Ziegler who were her professors or mentors. Later she integrated her field and research experience to finalize her approach.

She was the driving force in conceptualizing and developing Leonardo 3.4.5 as a major R&D project of the European Union intended to enable teams and managers to turn complexity and diversity into innovative outcomes. Christa was the first Master Trainer for Leonardo 3.4.5 and she presently contributes to Accreditation Seminars for advanced participants.

In order to share the knowledge and experience gathered over the years, she developed the postgraduate Master of Advanced Studies in Human Systems Engineering, which started in 2002. Alongside, Christa directed or inspired several international research and development projects.