For the fourth consecutive year, Professor Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic has been voted one of the world’s HR Most Influential Thinkers. The prestigious top 30 international list, in which Professor Hlupic is ranked 9th this year was compiled by HR Magazine and announced during a ceremony last night at Claridges in London.
Vlatka Hlupic is Professor of Business and Management at the University of Westminster, Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, CEO of The Management Shift Consulting Ltd, and Founder and CEO of the Drucker Society London. She is the author of “The Management Shift: How to Harness the Power of People and Transform Your Organization for Sustainable Success”, an award-winning best-seller and one of Forbes’ top eight business books 2014.
She has also written a new book, to be launched next month, called “Humane Capital: How to Create a Management Shift to Transform Performance and Profit”. It will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 18 October 2018.
In Humane Capital, Prof Hlupic opens the door to the 4th Industrial Revolution, explaining how companies can do well by doing good – how they can maintain profitability while benefiting the world around them.
Drawing on over 20 years of research, she presents a critique of the reasons why companies still approach this idea with skepticism, despite proven research that demonstrates long-term gains for companies that work hard to proactively promote goodwill internally and externally – between stakeholders, employees, customers and society.
The book’s content is supported by insights from interviews with 58 CEOs, Chairmen and other senior leaders of industry and professional bodies, and argues for a radical reassessment of current business models. Using stories from managers within the private and public sectors who have been effective in making the transition, Prof Hlupic shows how successful leaders have moved their organisations from a controlled and orderly to an enthusiastic and collaborative culture – and shows how current leaders and managers can do the same. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written the foreword for this book.
A Humane Capital board game is being launched at the same time to help organisations put ideas from the book into practice. Details are available at: http://www.themanagementshift.com/humane-capital-book-2/
Prof Hlupic is also a renowned professional keynote and TEDx speaker and has appeared on more than 50 public platforms in since 2015. She has presented at events at the Houses of Parliament, European Commission, Home Office, the Economist and Financial Times. She has published over 250 articles in journals, business publications, books and conference proceedings, and has won several awards for her contributions. She is also an associate editor, guest editor and a member of editorial boards for a number of international journals, and her expert comments have appeared in many business publications and newspapers.
Commenting on the award, she said: “I am delighted and very humbled to have my work recognised in this way for the fourth consecutive year. I feel extremely proud to be part of this prestigious HR community of thinkers.
“Helping individuals, companies and society to do well by doing good and create happier, more purposeful and successful workplaces is my passion – it’s my life purpose. It gives me drive, energy and motivation, and it’s hugely satisfying to see the practical impact of my ideas.
“What I have seen in many companies are over-controlling management styles and systems that employees find stifling and demotivating. Companies need a better understanding of human psychology and motivation. I call it humanising management – treating people with respect, and distributing power and decision-making. The results, in terms of performance and success, can be astonishing. This is why I have written my books, The Management Shift and Humane Capital.”
Through her consultancy, The Management Shift Consulting Ltd, Vlatka and her team are helping various organisations in the public and private sectors to shift their performance to a higher level, using the tools and methods she developed over more than 20 years of her academic and consulting career.
Contact
Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic
vlatka@themanagementshift.com
Notes for editors
The HR Most Influential Thinkers awards are based on a combination of nominations from HR Directors and practitioners for the work that had inspired and had the most impact on how they approach their role; research conducted by Ashridge Business School, and input from an expert panel of executive head-hunters and HR Directors. The nominated candidates were judged according to the practical relevance and commercial impact of their work; visibility and sharing of their ideas; significance of published works; degree of challenge and originality of ideas, and level of personal influence in the past year. The 30 winners included practitioners and academics from some of the world’s leading universities, business and management schools. Full information on the HR Most Influential Awards can be found at www.hrmagazine.co.uk.
Professor Hlupic’s awards include the Axiom Business Books Award 2015, CMI Management Articles of the Year Award 2015, the Croatian Woman of Influence Award 2016 and the Honorary Award from the Leadership Awards 2016. She has been shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year Award, and nominated for FT & McKinsey Business Book Award, Thinkers50 list, Guru Radar and “Ideas to Practice” Award.
Education: Dipl Econ (BSc Hons) (Zagreb, Croatia), MSc Management and Information Science (Zagreb, Croatia), PhD (London School of Economics), CMC, MNLP, FORS, FBCS CITP, Eur Ing, CEng, MHEA, FInsCPD, NLPP.
Further information about Prof Hlupic’s roles and contributions can be found at: www.themanagementshift.com, https://vlatkahlupic.com, www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/hlupic-professor-vlatka and http://www.bbk.ac.uk/orgpsych/staff/teaching-fellows/hlupic-vlatka/biography.