As part of the leadership course with Prof. Dr. Peter Mudra, the students of the bachelor's degree program International Human Resource Management and Organization (IPO) deal very distinctly with the connection of scientific theories and models on the one hand and their implementation and practical experience on the other. Accordingly, experienced managers from the field are always invited to exchange ideas with the students in their final semester of study.
In the summer semester of 2023, Michael Cordier, the long-standing managing director of the Ludwigshafener Kongress- und Marketinggesellschaft (LUKOM) and the Marketingverein Ludwigshafen e.V., was a guest. Due to the long-standing cooperation, he is very familiar with the university. In 2020, Michael Cordier, who has been nicknamed "Mister Ludwigshafen" because of his outstanding commitment to his hometown, was honored with the University Medal of the HWG Ludwigshafen for his special services with regard to the integration of the university into the urban society.
As guest speaker, Michael Cordier first took the students on a journey of his career and in particular his various leadership roles. The fact that he had managed a medium-sized retail company in Ludwigshafen for several decades before joining LUKOM provided an ideal starting point for the aspects of "leadership development" and "leadership success". With the students, he actively collected the many points on which "good leadership" can be determined and gave numerous hints from his "box of experience". His central point, that leadership is a question of attitude and the image of man, he clarified at the end of the event with his favorite poem "Success" by Stevenson.
That the students were very taken with this "lesson" with Michael Cordier was shown not only by their very active participation, but also by an outstandingly positive evaluation in the course of the usual event evaluation.
