Dietmar Winzker has gained extensive technical and managerial experience over more than 20 years in the design, development and management of complex, high tech engineering systems. He worked in a large (27 000 employees) SA Corporation charged with Acquisition and Development of Home-Grown Defense Systems where he became a senior manager. Initially he contributed on missile & rocket technology, later he was in charge of the technical integrity of diverse and major Defense Systems. He also led technical & management teams in “catastrophic failure” investigations from time to time. With this solid background, from 1990 onwards, based in Munich, Germany, he started off as an international business facilitator and consultant for multi-disciplinary teams in diverse industry sectors, specialising in areas such as system engineering, business transformation, human capacity development and business leadership, working on four Continents.
Dietmar initially studied electronics and later aeronautical engineering. He holds a number of engineering degrees which culminated in a PhD in engineering in 1988. In recognition of his extensive experience in development, technology management and business leadership, he was appointed Professor Extraordinary by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pretoria, Department of Engineering and Technology Management during 1995. With his interest and experience in senior management he worked on a second doctorate in Engineering & Technology Management which was conferred to him by the University of Johannesburg in 2005. He teaches post-graduate short-courses regularly at a number of South African universities and at a German University in subjects as diverse as Systems Engineering, Development of Strategic Intent, Personal Competencies for Management Development, Intercultural Management & Marketing, System Health Methodology (a management topic) and Business Leadership Development. Dietmar facilitates in-house workshops and seminars in diverse companies internationally (mainly Europe & USA but also South Africa) and is a sought-after speaker at conventions and conferences. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in Technology Management and presented them at international Conferences.[1]
Motivating people, especially professionals, by enabling them to reach their true potential and hence make their organisations globally competitive, are Dietmar‘s major objectives. His challenging talks, workshops and inter-active programs are designed for achieving maximum learning rather than “teaching“. These provide an excellent learning opportunity for a complex, highly turbulent, digital and fast-moving globalised world. Dietmar encourages critical thinking, thinking side-ways, living out ethical values especially in business and he believes in balancing the demands made by a stressful business environment and the needs of a successful personal life. Yet Dietmar is very practical when it comes to implementing difficult and complex concepts. His workshops & seminars are of high intellectual content, pragmatic, (i.e. not purely academic) and considered FUN as well! This is expressed by his excellent sense of humour and the feed-back from participants of all cultures all over the world.
Dietmar has developed a range of high-impact outcome-based Programs which enable participants to grow individually in personal, business & management competencies so as to lead and to make their organisations globally competitive and as Individuals to lead Lives of Significance. These courses, seminars and regular webinars on a diversity of topics are always adjusted to the participants/client’s specific needs or requirements prior to the event.
Many of these programs have now been made available in the non-accredited T-Shirt University. There is, for example, the Flagship Program Getting Ready for the Future, which consists of 12 individual courses, broken down into around 200 modules. A brief Notebook with pertinent and thought provoking questions on each module are included, to encourage digital research and self-learning.
Dietmar‘s broad international experience gained through various projects in many countries on four continents over the past 30 years partially explains his holistic mind-set, cultural sensitivity, pragmatism and insight into the “business of life” in a global context. A truly global citizen through his extensive travels, he is happily married to his first wife Suzannie since 1974 and they spend most of their time in Cape Town and alternately in Hannover, Germany. They have three adult children. In his free time he enjoys private motor-flying, gyrocopter flying as well as soaring, listening to music (Beatles, Bach, Blues) and he loves reading on a diversity of topics, fiction as well as non-fiction.
[1] IAMOT '06, 08, 15, 16 PICMET ’99, 03, 05, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12, 14, 15 IEMC, '05 ICEE/ICEER '09 ISPIM '09 DMD2010
Dietmar initially studied electronics and later aeronautical engineering. He holds a number of engineering degrees which culminated in a PhD in engineering in 1988. In recognition of his extensive experience in development, technology management and business leadership, he was appointed Professor Extraordinary by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pretoria, Department of Engineering and Technology Management during 1995. With his interest and experience in senior management he worked on a second doctorate in Engineering & Technology Management which was conferred to him by the University of Johannesburg in 2005. He teaches post-graduate short-courses regularly at a number of South African universities and at a German University in subjects as diverse as Systems Engineering, Development of Strategic Intent, Personal Competencies for Management Development, Intercultural Management & Marketing, System Health Methodology (a management topic) and Business Leadership Development. Dietmar facilitates in-house workshops and seminars in diverse companies internationally (mainly Europe & USA but also South Africa) and is a sought-after speaker at conventions and conferences. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in Technology Management and presented them at international Conferences.[1]
Motivating people, especially professionals, by enabling them to reach their true potential and hence make their organisations globally competitive, are Dietmar‘s major objectives. His challenging talks, workshops and inter-active programs are designed for achieving maximum learning rather than “teaching“. These provide an excellent learning opportunity for a complex, highly turbulent, digital and fast-moving globalised world. Dietmar encourages critical thinking, thinking side-ways, living out ethical values especially in business and he believes in balancing the demands made by a stressful business environment and the needs of a successful personal life. Yet Dietmar is very practical when it comes to implementing difficult and complex concepts. His workshops & seminars are of high intellectual content, pragmatic, (i.e. not purely academic) and considered FUN as well! This is expressed by his excellent sense of humour and the feed-back from participants of all cultures all over the world.
Dietmar has developed a range of high-impact outcome-based Programs which enable participants to grow individually in personal, business & management competencies so as to lead and to make their organisations globally competitive and as Individuals to lead Lives of Significance. These courses, seminars and regular webinars on a diversity of topics are always adjusted to the participants/client’s specific needs or requirements prior to the event.
Many of these programs have now been made available in the non-accredited T-Shirt University. There is, for example, the Flagship Program Getting Ready for the Future, which consists of 12 individual courses, broken down into around 200 modules. A brief Notebook with pertinent and thought provoking questions on each module are included, to encourage digital research and self-learning.
Dietmar‘s broad international experience gained through various projects in many countries on four continents over the past 30 years partially explains his holistic mind-set, cultural sensitivity, pragmatism and insight into the “business of life” in a global context. A truly global citizen through his extensive travels, he is happily married to his first wife Suzannie since 1974 and they spend most of their time in Cape Town and alternately in Hannover, Germany. They have three adult children. In his free time he enjoys private motor-flying, gyrocopter flying as well as soaring, listening to music (Beatles, Bach, Blues) and he loves reading on a diversity of topics, fiction as well as non-fiction.
[1] IAMOT '06, 08, 15, 16 PICMET ’99, 03, 05, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12, 14, 15 IEMC, '05 ICEE/ICEER '09 ISPIM '09 DMD2010
