Dorothea Ernst

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT DOROTHEA ERNST

LIFE is a miracle. I appreciate it every day anew. Enabling good life through meaningful innovation and personal development inspires me. Today sustainability challenges are so complex and change happens so quickly that new ways of working are required. I am known for pioneering unknown territory and building bridges between the NEW and the FAMILIAR. This experience has shaped my motto “there is always a way; trust and intuition guide us there”. INNOVATION What is the only constant in life? Change! From problem definition to product improvement, from technology push via end-user driven to system transformation, from vision development to practical implementation, I worked on many aspects of innovation. I know about the differences between incremental, radical and disruptive innovation. I explored new innovation themes and led new business generation from idea stage to transfer to mainstream business units with big impact on longterm profitability. ARchitechTure Art is a means to describe, critique or envision the world around us. Often it is revealing and expressing deep meaning as science hidden structure. Writing poems taught me to grasp essences - an amazing interplay between intuition and intellect emerges. I have successfully used contemporary art to stimulate multi-stakeholder dialog about a common future. Architecture matters - it carries subconscious collective expectations shaping attitude and behavior. I facilitated impactful mind-set shifts being triggered by the spatial and material equivalents in the real world. SUSTAINABILITY I leverage sustainability as innovation driver since Al Gore put Climate Change on the global agenda. I have inspired and orchestrated purposeful minds. Together we co-created and successfully promoted corporate and public sustainability agendas, tools and KPIs. I see the UN-SDGs as big achievement as it allows business, municipalities, academia and civil society to align intention and action towards the common good.