Biography, some remarks

"Dr Weßel, you are optimistic!" stated a professor at the end of a talk I gave several years ago at Fulda University of Applied Sciences (blog 16 May 2012). The talk and our dialogue was about the challenges in health care even then. Since several decades we fight against skilled worker shortage and there is the conflict between market economy and supply of necessary services. "That's right. If I would not be optimistic I could stop right now and here. We will carry it off, because ...

the glas is half-full." The students and several other professors did likewise see half-full glasses. Appreciative Inquiry is based upon this perception (blog 21 Jan 2017). Each question is an intervention (Lewin) and thus causes und fosters change. The work with patients, students, clients, colleagues, managers and staff members led to the selection of my motto ... or was and is it just the other way round?

"If you want to build a ship,

don't drum up the men to gather wood,

divide the work and give orders.

Instead, teach them to yearn

for the vast and endless sea."

[attributed to Antoine de Saint Exupéry 1900-1944]

It is a joy to build together a "ship", in a shipyard, a hospital, a university, a school, a company, an agency and much more.

Curriculum vitae

1990 graduation as medical doctor (FU Berlin, D)
1990-1996 resident physician in Radiology and Pediatric Surgery (Berlin, D)
1997/1998 consultant in an international consulting company, topic: Health Care (Switzerland)
1999 Dr. med. – thesis (in German): Clinical Pathways as Tools for Quality Management (University of Basel, CH)
2000 Master of Public Health (MPH) – thesis (in German): User centred production of a practical guide to certification and quality awards using the example of ambulant medical rehabilitation. (TU Berlin, D) – Book (in German): Certification and quality awards – a guideline for health care providers.
2000/2001 quality manager and controller in hospitals (Munich and Delmenhorst, D)
since 2002 scientist, lecturer, coach: research, development and teaching in Medical Informatics (RWTH Aachen University, D), Occupational Health (University of Mainz, D), Public Health (HS Fulda, D), Business Informatics (BHT Berlin and DHBW Mannheim, D), Social Informatics (Hochschule Furtwangen University, D)
2010-2012 qualification as Systemic Consultant of Organizations (WSFB Wiesbaden, D) –Thesis (in German): Business Processes and Organizational Learning
since 2011 blog about organization development, social informatics (a.k.a socioinformatics), higher education ...
2012/2013 resident physician in surgery (Frankfurt am Main)
2015/2016 Gestalt education at the Gestalt-Institut Frankfurt am Main
2017 founder and CEO: Weidenborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (Weidenborn Press)
2020 Weidenborn Verlag moves to Rastede near Bremen
since October 2023 lecturer at City University of Applied Sciences Bremen, faculty 4 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
since March 2024 resident physician in psychiatry and psychotherapy at Karl-Jaspers-Klinik, Bad Zwischenahn

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