Michael Gross is 3 x Olympic Champion (1984 & 1988), 5 x World Champion (1982 – 1991) and 4 x Sportsman of the Year (1982-84 & 1988).
Talent, knowledge and will – for Prof. Dr. Michael Gross the combination of competences is decisive. In the past as a sportsman. Today in his work as an entrepreneur, speaker and trainer, author and lecturer on digitalisation.
Michael Gross is Germany’s most successful swimmer, having won a total of 21 titles at Olympic Games, World and European Championships. He won a total of 39 medals at international championships and set 12 world records. Because of his swimming style in the butterfly and because of his large arm span of 2.13 metres at a height of 2.01 metres, a journalist from the French sports daily L’Equipe gave him the nickname Albatros in 1983.
Michael Gross is married and the father of a daughter and a son. He studied German language and literature, politics and media science, receiving his M.A. in 1990 and his doctorate in 1994. Michael Gross has been a lecturer for more than two decades, and has been an honorary professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2023. Michael Gross is managing partner of Gross & Cie, Beratungsgesellschaft für Change & Talent-Management, Königstein/Taunus. He is a lecturer at the “Frankfurt School of Finance & Management” (Frankfurt am Main) in the subject area of personnel management and corporate culture.
Michael Gross lectures on the topics of management, motivation, self-leadership and on the subject of sport.
Michael Gross Lecture Topics
- Digital Leadership – The new leadership of companies
- Digital Transformation: Implementing Change Successfully
- Change Management: Making Companies Fit for the Future
- Motivation – An Olympic victory every day
- Self-leadership – Making things simple in the digital transformation
- Success in the VUKA World – Change, Resilience, Talent Management
Successfully implementing digitalisation
Almost all companies and managers know why digitalisation is important. Many have already decided what needs to be done. However, very few know how to make the digital transformation a success. The lecture shows the success factors and fields of action for a successful digital transformation in companies.
Making companies fit – ensuring success in the future
The only stable thing is change. More than ever, companies need to “make their organisation fit”. This means developing a performance culture that sees great opportunities for the future in new challenges. The lecture shows the most important tasks and mistakes in the implementation.
Michael Gross: Diversity, Resilience and Change to Digital Transformation.
Athlete and entrepreneur, speaker and trainer, author and lecturer. The diversity of his tasks and roles already developed in his school days. At that time, learning on land and training in the water stood in parallel in the foreground – until 1984, when he was allowed to pass his A-level and Olympic exams with only a few weeks between them. Since then, new challenges and opportunities have arisen again and again – in recent years intensified by the digital transformation.
A good ten years ago, Michael Gross asked himself how digitalisation would change his life and his profession, no matter what technologies were used. The answer was simple: cooperation and communication in everyday life will develop in a revolutionary way within the digital transformation. New skills will become necessary, whether as a consultant to companies, a trainer in seminars or a speaker at an impulse lecture. After several years of studying and trying out, working in theory and practice, the results have not only been compiled in reference books. As a lecturer in the master’s seminar at the University of Frankfurt on “Digital Leadership & Management”, scientific research is constantly being processed and new methods tested. Michael Gross can use this work in his other tasks, up to and including constantly updating keynotes as a speaker.
Management & Digital Leadership & Motivation
In digital transformation, he has come full circle to his experiences in his sports career. In short: standing still means going backwards. Digitalisation always offers something new, almost daily, just as every training session used to offer new experiences. Today, however, deepening one’s own knowledge also benefits others. For Michael Gross, the exchange of experiences in the digital transformation is the exciting thing, whether as an entrepreneur and lecturer, as a trainer and speaker. For him, only one thing is certain: life is never boring.