Gernot Schiefer

As head of the Competence Centre for Qualitative Research Gernot Schiefer pursues a hermeneutic, qualitative-methodological research approach. Among other things, he investigates post-heroic leadership concepts and integrates psychoanalytical perspectives and methods. Since 2020, Schiefer has been a member of the DBVC German Federal Coaching Association as a scientific expert for coaching and works there on the scientific foundation of coaching processes.

Since 2012, Schiefer has been a professor of business psychology with a focus on human resources and management at the FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management in Mannheim.

In 2006, Schiefer completed his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich under the supervision of Lutz von Rosenstiel and graduated with a dissertation at the Technical University of Munich with the degree of Dr. oec.

From 1995 to 2014, Schiefer was, together with a partner, managing director of an internationally active marketing consultancy and market research company, which mainly conducted market and advertising psychology research.

During his psychology studies at University of Cologne, he focused on psychological morphology as a student of Wilhelm Salber. After graduating in 1991, he was licensed as a psychological psychotherapist for adults in 1999. In 2003, as a student of Rainer Krause among others, he completed training as a psychoanalyst at the Saarland Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (SIPP) in Saarbrücken.

Gernot Schiefer (born 1964 in Düsseldorf) is a German psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a professor of business psychology and head of the Competence Center for Qualitative Research at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Mannheim.