As AI reshapes everything from talent acquisition to employee engagement and performance management, HR leaders face both opportunities and challenges.
In this session we will explore the role HR leaders have in modernizing employee selection, training and performance, while leveraging both artificial intelligence and human intelligence to maximize effectiveness.
Markus Baer, PhD
Professor of Organizational Behavior
Vice Dean of Executive Education
Markus Baer, Ph.D. (baer@wustl.edu) is an award-winning scholar and teacher and a thought leader in the field of creativity. Currently, he is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis where he also serves as Vice Dean of Executive Education. He earned his M.A. in Psychology from the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he was part of the founding team of a consulting start-up.
Markus studies innovation and all its related activities—problem formulation, idea generation, solution selection, and idea implementation. His research has been published in leading management journals and has been featured, among others, in Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Freakonomics Radio, Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, World Economic Forum, and newspaper outlets around the world.
He is an acclaimed teacher and has received accolades for his teaching from the Olin Business School, where he won consecutive teaching awards, and internationally as one of the world’s top 40 business professors under 40. He has taught a world-wide audience of students and executives. Internationally, he has given more than 50 invited research presentations both in university and non-university settings, and he is a frequent presenter and panelist at international research conferences.
