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David Sauer

Profile

David Sauer Externe Fachperson

Contact

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Wirtschaft
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • Lecturer

  • Family Business and SME Research

  • Organisational Development and Transformation

  • Process Management

  • Organisational Identification

  • Ethical Decision-Making

Teaching

  • Master of Business Administration

  • Bachelor Betriebsökonomie

  • BHRM - Human Resource Management (Bachelor)

  • ORWA - Organisatorischer Wandel & Führung (Master)

Research

  • Family Business and SME Research

  • Organisational Identification

  • Business Ethics

  • Innovation in Family Firms

  • Business Incubators

  • Unethical Pro-Organisational Behaviour

CV

  • 2011–2014 Trainee tegut… gute Lebensmittel
  • 2014–2016 Project Manager, Process Optimisation tegut… gute Lebensmittel
  • 2015–2016 / 2018 Lecturer Fulda University of Applied Sciences
  • 2018–2022 Consultant / Senior Consultant KOPFSPRINGER GmbH
  • 2022–2024 Head of Consulting KOPFSPRINGER GmbH
  • 2023 / 2024 Visiting Lecturer University of St Andrews
  • 2025 Chief Operating Officer (Co-Founder) Bliks.io
  • 2011–2014 Bachelor of Arts in Logistics Management Fulda University of Applied Sciences
  • 2016–2017 Master of Letters in International Business University of St Andrews, UK
  • 2017–2018 Master of Science in Psychology (Conversion) University of St Andrews, UK
  • 2020–2025 PhD Candidate WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Awards

Best Research Video Award at the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), 2021.

Awarded by the University of St Andrews for outstanding academic achievement in the 2016/17 academic year (Deans’ List).

Awarded by the University of St Andrews for outstanding academic achievement in the 2016/17 academic year (Deans’ List).

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland