Dr.Damir Matrljan

Swiss advisory practice for organisational development, change, leadership and people analytics (DACH and CEE). • Advise 10+ enterprise clients, reporting to C-suite and board. • +43% cross-functional collaboration; -29% high-performer turnover; +45% leadership effectiveness for 200+ managers. • Redesigned the HR operating model in 3 transformation programmes. • Built the Perceptium platform (Insights, Survey, Live, Academy, Advisory) with validated scales. AI-native.

Swiss company for executive search, strategy consulting and leadership coaching. • Advise the executive team on practice direction, investment and the consulting and placement offer. • Led executive search and placement for enterprise clients across DACH. • Led culture and organisational change projects for client executives, based on organisational behaviour research. • Delivered workforce-capacity and talent-pool analyses that shaped recruitment and succession decisions.

• Taught at DBA, MSc, BSc and CAP level: 11 Schools of Project Management (DBA), Strategic Leadership and Change, Human Resource Management, Sustainable HRM, Digital Marketing, Mathematical Tools for Business. • Built and delivered the 11 Schools of Project Management curriculum at DBA level. • Student feedback described by the Head of Faculty as overwhelmingly positive.

• Led the SBS research department and chaired the Research Advisory Board. • Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR). • Member of the Thesis and Dissertation Committee; supervised doctoral research. • Managed SBS working papers. • Contributed to the dual accreditation 2023/2024 (AAQ/SAC institutional and ACBSP programmatic).

Executive Board member responsible for technology strategy and product roadmap. • Designed the Culture Technology Platform: analytics, behavioural assessments and reporting for culture diagnostics and leadership programmes. • Built the data layer bringing culture mapping, assessments and organisational measures into one client dashboard. • Shipped the MVP within 6 months and validated it in 9 client engagements, leading product, engineering and consulting staff.

bob Finance, Valora's digital-financing company. • Established the Project Office reporting to the CEO (later CIO): master plans, governance, tools and templates. • Designed the first fully digital BNPL platform with Apple in DACH and owned it as product owner through launch and live operation. • Presented it at Apple HQ Cupertino (2020), recognised as a "worldwide best practice user experience". • Extended the platform to Breitling, Gübelin and Watchdreamer and integrated new B2B partners.

Valora: European convenience-retail group, 2,800+ outlets in 5 markets. • Directed a multi-million-franc digital and retail-integration portfolio across all 5 markets. • Owned the CAPEX investment-case process: budget targets, proposals for executive approval, KPI tracking. • Led integrations across SAP, POS, reporting, supplier and banking systems. • Built partnerships with SIX, Apple, Swisscom, Sunrise, Salt, Google, UBS, Corner Bank and Paysafe.

European hub of Afterpay (acquired by Block in 2022 for about USD 29 billion). • Directed a portfolio of payment and platform integrations across 9 European markets and 20,000+ retail locations. • Partnerships with Valora, Reitan, ONCE, Tobaccoland, UBS and Corner Bank. • Co-designed the ok.- prepaid Mastercard with Cornercard; rolled out 1,000+ payment terminals. • Led the European delivery team of 5 to 20 specialists across Europe, Asia and Australia.

Croatian ICT and business-consulting firm. • Led Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) implementations for pharmaceutical and public-sector organisations. • Advised executives on governance, portfolio optimisation, IT-business alignment and ISO management systems. • Trained 200+ professionals and prepared 50+ candidates for IPMA and PMI certification (MS Project, Project Server, Primavera P6).

Croatia's largest privately owned pharmaceutical company (60+ markets, 1,000+ employees). • Delivered enterprise projects in IT and engineering with manufacturing, R&D, regulatory and corporate functions. • As Enterprise PMO Officer, supervised all projects: methodology, portfolio governance, executive reporting. • Implemented MS Project Server and Primavera P6, saving USD 290k in operating costs. • Trained 350+ employees in project management.

Thesis: Effects of Individual Multilevel Perceptual Alignment in Organizations: A Compositional Approach. Research focus: organisational behaviour, leadership, culture and climate, psychological safety, engagement.

Research: multilevel cross-cultural analysis of perception alignment in workplace behaviour. Thesis: Evaluating the Impact of Demographic Variables on Social Perception Orientations in Business Organizations.

Research master at SBS; foundation for the DBA.

Specialisation: Project Management. Graduated with honours. Thesis: Enterprise Project Portfolio Management connects Strategic Planning to Projects: A Case Study of a Pharma Company.

Thesis: Implementation of ISO 9001 Quality Control to Pharma Company.