Manuel Marquina is a writer, speaker and lecturer on all things Future of Work, Digital Transformation and Leadership. Leading teams for over 8 years.
Working as Head of Sales for the SMB Market of Zürich at Swisscom, lecturing at Universities, and being a boardmember at Unternehmerforum Zürichsee and the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce.
Father of three (🤷♂️), dilettante Philosopher, Trendhunter and Web3 (read: expensive jpgs) enthusiast.
(at least, that’s what he thinks)
Latest Publications
Overload Whitepaper
How to lead yourself and your team to avoid email overload, hurting productivity and motivation.
Download my latest Whitepaper below.
Digital Ethics
Toolkit
Apply Ethics to your work.
Jedes Set beinhaltet Fragen um unbeabsichtigte Folgen vorherzusehen. Nehmt diese auch zum nächsten Brainstorming oder Team-Meeting mit, um die Auswirkungen eurer Produkte besser zu verstehen.
I’m not here right now,
so i thought I'd leave you a note.
Everyone has a purpose or quest. Mine is this: We get used to shitty experiences. Let’s do them better.
We get used to it being hard to get around the city. We get used to repressive careers ladders and jobs. We get used to dysfunctional teams and non-agile leadership. We get used to unethical products. We get used to buying new things without purpose. We get used to status quo.
It takes new perspectives, ideas and teamwork to keep pushing on those things. Creating such perspectives is the quest I’m following.
I do this as a People Leader, Teambuilder, Sales Manager, Growth Hacker, Digital Ethicist and Lecturer.
Partner in crime with her to three boys, I live and work around Zürich, spending my day with my family, large amounts of Cappuccinos, reading books (currently this and this and this), and listening to my amateuresque vinyl collection, preferably from weird punk bands (but this, this or this does it too).
Apart from my family, my time is spent here:
At Swisscom, I'm leading the SMB (KMU) Market of the Zürich Region as head of sales with a wonderful team of customer experience champions, sales managers and ICT Experts. Writing the next chapter about new ways of working for the swiss economy. Helping companies envision new work ideals, mitigate IT challenges and making sense of the digital transformation. This, while focusing on my teammembers and their personal growth and learning journey.
I'm a University lecturer for "Self-Management and Leadership”, "New Work Cultures", "Digital Ethics" and “Storytelling” at various Universities in Switzerland. (ZHAW, HWZ and others)
Juror for the Mobile Business Award of the University of St. Gallen.
Think Tank Member at the Swiss British Chamber of Commerce
(Public Affairs Commission).In 2017, I Co-founded the fashion brand Pin Friends, creating small pieces of art, allowing people to express themselves. We introduce customers to exclusive collaborations with some of the most relevant independent artists and creatives.
I run my own Digital Magazine on work 4.0, culture, trends and how to stay productive, over at Volt & Gestalt. The Newsletter got featured by Mailchimp as “Out of the Ordinary”.
Talks i gave
- Digital Ethics @ World Usability Day 2018, UXSchweiz - Main Speech
- Digital Festival Zürich - Workshop: Productivity / New Way of Work
- Richmont Finance Directors Forum
- Creative Mornings
- KV Business School
- University Zürich
Latest
in Writing
More articles about technology, trends and society
can be found and read over at Volt / Gestalt
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