Alberto Gimeno
Alberto Gimeno is associate professor at Esade's department of general management and strategy. He has chosen to define the term 'social leader'

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Alberto Gimeno is associate professor in Esade’s Department of Strategy and General Management. He holds a PhD in Management Science (Esade-Universitat Ramon Llull), a degree in Business Sciences (UPC) and MBA (Esade). His research focuses on management complexity theory in family businesses and the creation of analytical models for managing such firms.

He is director of Esade’s International Family Business Lab and the Owner President Governance Programme (OPG). He is also academic director of the CEMS Master in International Management, permanent visiting professor at Wittener Institut für Familienunternehmen (WIFU, Germany), and has been director of Esade’s Advanced Management Programme (AMP).

Author of many papers and articles and co-author of the book Family Business Models (Palgrave-McMillan, 2010), Alberto Gimeno is also co-author of The Structural Risk Model and regularly advises family businesses and consulting companies in this field worldwide.

He is a partner, and one of the founding members, of the Family Business Knowledge (FBK) group. Prof Gimeno also served as member of the Expert Group in Family Business that advises the European Commission on such matters.

Prof Gimeno has chosen to define the term social leader

Why Prof Gimeno thinks the term social leader is important

“When thinking about the role of a social leader, it is important to understand the importance of smooth change in any organisation,” says Prof Gimeno. “The best sort of change is one that happens through consensus, and this cannot happen without social leaders,” he says.

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