Inclusive Leadership: A Framework for the Global Era

This insightful management book introduces an inspirational new ethics-oriented approach to business and leadership for current and future leaders. It argues that the challenges of today's global era require a new, more holistic and ethical leadership approach than conventional concepts suggest. A framework for the concept of "inclusive leadership" is developed by linking leadership challenges and tasks to the transforming world. Based on over thirty years professional experience in various sectors of society and in both executive and advisory roles in business, the author offers practical suggestions on how to apply inclusive leadership in day-to-day activities. The book also emphasizes how ethics and virtues should influence and shape leadership, a link that is often absent in conventional leadership literature. Building a bridge between theory and practice, this book offers both practical and academic perspectives, with the ideas and concepts illustrated with many real-life examples.

About the Author

Peter Wuffli, born in 1957, currently holds leadership positions in both profit-oriented and nonprofit organizations. He is the Chairman of Partners Group and also chairs the Foundation and Supervisory Boards of IMD. In addition, he is the Founder and Chairman of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization. He likewise serves as Vice Chairman of the Zurich Opera House.

From 1984 to 1993, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, where he became a Partner in 1990. In 1994, he joined Swiss Bank Corporation as the CFO. Following the merger with Union Bank of Switzerland into today’s UBS in 1998, he continued to serve as CFO until 1999, when he became Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Asset Management. From 2001, he was President of the Group Executive Board of UBS, and from 2003 onwards, Group CEO of UBS, until his resignation in the summer of 2007. During this time, he also received several awards such as the “Best Bank CEO Europe Award” from Institutional Investor (2005 and 2006), the “European Banker of the Year Award” (2006), and the “BBC World Visionaries and Leaders Award” (2007).

Peter Wuffli obtained a PhD in economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland in 1984 with a dissertation on Swiss direct investments in Mexico.