Beat Lauper

Beat Lauper is the Global Head Learning and Development at Zurich Insurance Group. As such, he is in charge of all mid-career and top-level learning interventions in the managerial/leadership space (from design to delivery), all professional skills training, and the entire field of learning innovation. Beat personally delivers programs for the top 500 leaders of the organization. With more than 30 years of experience as both, leader and trainer, Beat is passionate about organizational effectiveness through strong leadership performance. It is because of this, most of these programs have a strong experiential learning dimension aimed at supporting behavioral change. Beat was the Head Learning and Development for Deutsche Bank’s Risk Division based in London with similar responsibilities. Previous to his work with DB, Beat worked for ETH Zurich building and launching their Master of Advanced Studies in Security Policies and Crisis Management, a post graduate degree in cooperation with King’s College London and various partners in Washington D.C. He has spent 17 years in the Swiss Armed Forces, both in Switzerland and abroad, holding the rank of a Colonel General Staff. Beat started his professional career at Swissair.