Prof. Meisiek is Associate Professor of Leadership at Copenhagen Business School. He is also a visiting professor at Nova SBE, Portugal, at Macquarie University, Australia, and at St. Petersburg GSOM, Russia. Further, he has been a visiting scholar in the US at Stanford (Calif.), MIT Sloan (Boston), NYU Stern (Manhattan), and ESADE business school in Barcelona, Spain. Besides NORDAKADEMIE he also has visiting appointments at the Business and Design Lab, Gothenburg University, and at Laics, Danish Pedagogical University.

Prof. Meisiek teaches leadership, entrepreneurship, and creative enterprise design. During his career, he has taught courses at the Bachelor, Masters, MBA, and Ph.D. level. He has held classes in English, Spanish, Swedish, and German.

His research interests concern mainly entrepreneurial reasoning, the art of leadership, and design-based approaches to problem solving and organizing. He is currently developing the Creative Enterprise Design platform at Copenhagen Business School. It is a cross-disciplinary, applied research organization that brings corporations and academics together around business-in-society problems.

He has received research grants from the Portuguese Science Foundation, Egide, the Walander and Hedelius Foundation, and he has also been a Marie Curie Fellow of the European Commission. In 2007 the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and the Imagination Lab Foundation awarded Prof. Meisiek the Imagination Lab Award for Creative Scholarship. He is the author and editor of two books, has published several articles in “Organization Studies”, “Leadership”, and “Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry”, and contributed a number of chapters to various books.

Over the years, Prof. Meisiek has worked with companies to address problems of enterprise design. Most notably he has worked with Link Consulting, AllDreams, Energia de Portugal (EDP), Outsystems, and Svenska Jaernhandel. Presently, he is working with the Danish tax ministry Skat on implementing a space and process to solve organizational problems that the present hierarchy has failed repetitively to solve.

He received his Ph.D. in Management from the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, and his Dipl.-Kfm. from the Freie Universität in Berlin.