Daniel Michels is Director of Custom Programmes at the Executive School of Management, Technology & Law at the University of St.Gallen (ES-HSG). In this role, he supports and advises interna-tional companies in the development and design of tailor-made top management development programs.

Before joining the ES-HSG, he worked as a top management consultant for more than 20 years, providing hands-on support to international companies in M&A, PMI and business transformations.

Daniel Michels has proven expertise of corporate management and or-ganization. Thanks to his numerous international client projects in vari-ous industries, he has profound competencies from corporate strategy development to operational execution – also including the functional implications.

After completing his master’s degree in International Economics at the University of Maastricht (NL) and the Université de Rennes (F), he held various management positions at Arthur Andersen, Deutsche Post, PwC and Deloitte.

His passion is to manage the complexity of bringing together financial strategic goals, operational challenges, and differences in corporate cul-tures; and helping to deliver the desired success to a company under-going a business transformation.