Michael Farley

Work at ZHAW

Position

www.zhaw.ch/en/sml/study/international/

Focus

• Business strategy and planning
• Organisational leadership and change management
• Marketing and communications
• Crisis planning and management

Teaching

• Senior Lecturer - Business Integration
• Senior Lecturer - Crisis Management

Experience

• Head of International Development & Projects
  ZHAW School of Management and Law
  11 / 2013 - today
• Program Head International Executive MBA
  ZHAW School of Management and Law
  02 / 2015 - 07 / 2021
• Director Department International Business, ad int.
  ZHAW School of Management and Law
  09 / 2019 - 02 / 2021
• Principal and CEO
  Tower Hamlets College, UK
  03 / 2009 - 04 / 2013
• Vice Principal Partnerships & Planning
  Uxbridge College, UK
  11 / 2003 - 03 / 2009
• Assistant Principal Development and Marketing
  College of West Anglia, UK
  05 / 2001 - 11 / 2003
• Director of Marketing and Business Devleopment
  South Nottingham College, UK
  05 / 1997 - 05 / 2001
• Marketing management and consultancy positions
  Various marketing, training and consultancy positions, UK and Australia
  09 / 1990 - 05 / 1997

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Masters of Business Administration / Masters of Business Administration
  Open University, UK
  09 / 1998 - 10 / 2001
• BA (Honours) / Business Administration (Tourism Studies)
  Bournemouth University, UK
  09 / 1986 - 06 / 1990

Continuing Education

• CAS Higher & Professional Education (Hochschuldidaktik)
  ZHAW School of Management and Law
  07 / 2016
• Certificate - Executive Leadership Development Programme
  Institute for Learning, Learning and Skills Improvement Service, UK
  10 / 2010
• Diploma in Marketing
  Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK
  07 / 1990

Publications

• Farley, Michael,

  2022.

  Mit Interdisziplinarität zur nachhaltigen Transformation – der neue MSc in Circular Economy Management der ZHAW.

  Competence.

  2022, pp. 38-39.

  Available from: https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/ueber-uns/sml-magazin-competence-2022.pdf

• Farley, Michael; Keller, Florian; Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt,

  2020.

  Schweizer Unternehmen in der Corona-Krise : Durchstehen statt Adaptieren.

  Ökonomenstimme.

  Available from: https://www.oekonomenstimme.org/artikel/2020/06/schweizer-unternehmen-in-der-corona-krise--durchstehen-statt-adaptieren/

• Gnehm, Greta; Farley, Michael,

  2023.

  Imagining study abroad and at home in the future.

  In:

  IRUAS Annual Conference 2023: Switzerland’s multicultural society: an opportunity, a challenge or both?, International Relations of the Universities of Applied Sciences (IRUAS), Winterthur, Switzerland, 26-27 January 2023.

• Nichols, Keisha; Farley, Michael; Björck, Albena,

  2020.

  Innovation through partnership.

  In:

  2020 AIEA Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA, 16-19 February 2020.

• Farley, Michael; Zulauf-Poli, Isabelle,

  2015.

  International relations marketing and networking.

  In:

  IRUAS Annual Conference 2015: The Power of Communication, International Relations of the Universities of Applied Sciences (IRUAS), Zurich, 22-23 January 2015.

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