Sunnie J. Groeneveld is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inspire 925, a consultancy for cultural change in the context of digital transformation. She is also the co-founder of the two spinoff companies LunchLottery and Inspire 529.
In paralel, she contributes her strategic innovation and digitalization expertise as a board member of the Swiss engineering group HHM, the software development firm emineo, the healthcare insurance provider Sympany, the media group galledia and the communications agency Jung von Matt/Limmat. Moreover, she is also the Associate Dean of Studies for the Executive MBA Digital Leadership at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration in Zurich.
Previously, she was the first Managing Director of digitalswitzerland, Switzerland’s largest cross-industry initiative on digital transformation, for which she was subsequently recognized as one of the “Top 50 Who is Who in Digital Switzerland” by the business newspaper Handelszeitung.
Sunnie J. Groeneveld – Expert in Digitization & Innovation
She is both a keynote speaker and moderator at national and international events, such as TEDx, WorldWebForum and the Digital Summit. Her talks focus on topics around innovation, leadership, employee engagement, digital transformation, entrepreneurship and the future of work. In the past she moderated the TV show “Kampf der Ideen – die Startup Challenge” on the TV channels ProSieben and SAT.1. Since 2020 she hosts the weekly show “On The Sunnie Side” on the digital TV-channel F15’ of Forbes.
Furthermore, Sunnie J. Groeneveld is an author of “Inspired at Work” (Versus Verlag), as well as co-author of “Conquering Digital Overload” (Palgrave Macmillan) and Fast Forward Files (Harriman House). Her columns have appeared in publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post, NZZ, HR Today, Schweiz am Wochenende and Handelszeitung.
She has been named as one of the “Top 100 Women in Business” for three consecutive years and appeared in the “30 under 30” list of the Forbes magazine for the German-speaking region. Sunnie J. Groeneveld holds a degree in Economics from Yale University in the USA.
Keynote topics Sunnie J. Groeneveld
- Digital Leadership – Rethinking the Link Between Leadership, Organisational Culture and Technology
- Ingredients for a Digital Company Culture
Digital transformation won’t happen without a cultural change. So what are the ingredients of a digital company culture? And how do you successfully scale a digital transformation process across the entire company?
Technology pervades organisations across all industries, yet leadership and organisational structures have – so far – transformed very little as a result. Organisational cultures, leadership and the employees’ experience remain comparatively unchanged. With technological advancements, however, come new responsibilities, especially as the relationship between humans and machines is evolving faster than ever before. The keynote explores how, to manage these effects, organisations need a new type of leader: the digital leader.
Leaders who are equally well-versed in leading technological change as they are in leading organisational change.