Martin Kupiek works as an independent management consultant and Professor of Management. He holds a Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences from the TU Dortmund in Germany, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Vermont, USA and a PhD in Management from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He also belongs to the circle of Fulbright Alumni in Germany. He has published several books and chapter contributions in renowned publications. More than 30 years of professional experience as a consultant and manager enables him to provide consulting services in Organizational Change Management for large and international corporations. His research activities focus on emotions in organizations and their influence on employees and leaders. Bettina Marcinkowski holds a Master of Arts (MA) in American Studies and Organizational Psychology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Germany), and is an Adjunct Professor at the Kutaisi International University (Georgia). She received the ERASMUS scholarship for American Studies at the Université d'Orléans (France).

Over the last 25 years, she gained extensive Human Resource Management experience in renowned globally operating companies in various industries such as pharmaceutical, chemical, ICT, construction, and transportation. She is a leader of diverse, international, and cross-functional HR teams and won several Employer Awards. Her current research projects in Human Resources Management are on diversity and inclusion, gender studies, employer branding, talent acquisition, retention, selection methodologies, leadership styles, and new ways of working.