Dr. Franziska Frank works as visiting lecturer at Germany's number 1 business school ESMT Berlin. She has been teaching executives worldwide for more than 15 years on all elements of influencing, in particular, on how humility influences others indirectly via acting as a role model.
Franziska was educated at an UK boarding school, read history at Cambridge (BA and MA) and has a top-class law degree plus PhD from Munich University. After working as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group for six years she joined ESMT Berlin. In 2016 she turned free-lance to have more time to write books, while continuing to support companies in their quest to develop effective leaders for our day and age.

She published the German version of her book on humility with Springer Gabler in 2021 which has been downloaded more than 16,000 times. A new and extended edition is coming out in 2022. An article by her has appeared in the January edition of the German Harvard Business Review [...] She has also been quoted in different German newspapers. She is connected to more than 3.000 managers worldwide on LinkedIn and engages in active discussions with them about humility.

Introduction Chapter 1: The image of humility today Chapter 2: Defining and measuring humility for everyday business Chapter 3: The status of humility in companies in our day and age Chapter 4: The benefits of humility Chapter 5: Willingness to recognize own strengths and weaknesses (and to show them where it makes sense) Chapter 6: Appreciating others Chapter 7: Ability to learn or openness to new ideas and feedback Chapter 8: See the bigger picture Chapter 9: Different nationalities, ages and the topic of gender revisited Chapter 10: The limits and disadvantages of humility Chapter 11: Humility in politics Chapter 12: Examples of humility as an inspiration Chapter 13: How to implement humility in your company and a glance into the future Appendix A: FAQs