Prof. Dr. Kim Oliver Tokarski

Profile

Prof. Dr. Kim Oliver Tokarski Leiter Weiterbildung

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Abteilung Weiterbildung
    Schwarztorstrasse 48
    3007 Bern

Activities

  • Head of Continuing Education

  • Programme Director, Executive MBA in Digital Business

  • Co-Programme Director, Executive MBA in Excellence in Sports Management

  • Programme Director, Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Business Information Systems

  • Programme Director, Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) Programmes

  • Co-Programme Director, Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Data-Driven Organization

  • Module Coordinator: Master's Thesis

  • Master's Thesis Supervisor

  • Lecturer in Executive Education

  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  • Strategy & Business Development

  • Leadership

Teaching

  • CAS Business Administration

  • CAS Transformation & Change Management

  • CAS Innovation & Change Management (discontinued)

  • CAS Management in Healthcare Organisations (discontinued)

  • Continuing education programmes for organisations in Switzerland and Germany

  • Strategy & Business Development

  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship

  • Leadership

CV

  • Kim Oliver Tokarski is a lecturer in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Business Development, and Leadership. He serves as Head of Continuing Education at the Department of Business of the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH). In this role, he is a member of the Department's Executive Board and of the BFH Continuing Education Committee. He also directs several executive education programmes, including CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies), DAS (Diploma of Advanced Studies), EMBA (Executive Master of Business Administration), and MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) programmes.

    For many years, Kim Oliver Tokarski served as a Visiting Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE Bucharest), Romania.

    He is a board member of the Consulting Cluster Bern and bee-flat. At the Swiss Center for Design and Health (SCDH), he serves on the Transfer Board. He is also Vice-Chair of the Impartiality Committee of IQNet Ltd. Furthermore, he is a co-founder, former Advisory Board member, and now Ambassador of ROCK YOUR LIFE! Schweiz GmbH, a social venture supporting educational equity.

    Kim Oliver Tokarski serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (IJEV) and the International Journal of Applied Management Sciences and Engineering (IJAMSE). He also acts as an expert reviewer for the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA).

    His research, consulting, teaching, and publication activities focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, business development, and leadership.
  • 2018-Present Head of Continuing Education Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2019-Present Programme Director, Executive MBA Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2013-2017 Director of the Institute for Business Development Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2011-2012 Head of the Business Development Research Group Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2009-2017 Deputy Programme Director and Module Group Lead Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2008-Present Lecturer Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2005-2018 Guest Lecturer Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE Bucharest)
  • 2008 (Graduation) Dr. rer. oec University of Wuppertal

Publications

Memberships

Supervised theses

  • Supervisor Best Bachelor's Thesis 2021

  • Supervisor Best Bachelor's Thesis 2019

  • Supervisor Best Bachelor's Thesis 2018

  • Supervisor Best Bachelor's Thesis 2011

  • Supervisor Best Bachelor's Thesis 2009

  • Supervisor Best Masters's Thesis 2018

  • Supervisor Best Masters's Thesis 2016

  • Supervisor Best Masters's Thesis 2014

  • Supervisor Best Masters's Thesis 2013

  • 3rd Place Entrepreneur Award (The Entrepreneur Club) 2015

  • 3rd Place Entrepreneur Award (The Entrepreneur Club) 2014

  • 3. Place Entrepreneur Award (The Entrepreneur Club) 2012

  • 3. Place Entrepreneur Award (The Entrepreneur Club) 2011