University of Stuttgart Lunch Talk "Fü(h)r divers!"
Topic: Gender, diversity & inclusion, New at the University of Stuttgart Provider: uniqUS
In this compact, approximately 45-minute lunch format, you will gain practical insights into diversity-sensitive leadership. We invite you to explore strategies that promote and shape diversity in your own work environment. As part of our Lunch Talk series, participants explore various diversity-conscious leadership styles and reflect on the role diversity plays in effective leadership. For this session, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Ksenia Keplinger, Independent Research Group Leader for Organizational Leadership & Diversity at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She will present her latest research on “Diversity in Scientific Teams.” Her study demonstrates that diverse and inclusive teams are not only a moral imperative but also a powerful catalyst for scientific excellence, particularly in the field of robotics. Based on an extensive literature review, citation analysis, and expert interviews, Dr. Keplinger identifies seven key benefits of diversity and inclusion and outlines a leadership framework to help scientists harness these advantages. Event Link: https://www.beschaeftigte.uni-stuttgart.de/en/news/event/Lunch-Talk-Fuehr-divers/
Speaker Biography
Dr. Ksenia Keplinger (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Research Group Leader
Since August 2020, Ksenia Keplinger leads the newly established independent research group “Organizational Leadership & Diversity” at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. Prior to this, she first was a postdoctoral researcher and then a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Studies at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, in 2016, completed a Master’s degree in Finance and Managerial Accounting at the same university in 2010, and received a Bachelor’s degree in International Economics in 2007 at the Higher School of Economics in Russia. During her studies, she worked for several tech companies, and these experiences motivated her to pursue fundamental interdisciplinary research at the intersection of leadership, diversity, and artificial intelligence. The overarching research goal of her "Organizational Leadership & Diversity” group is to support organizational leaders in using artificial intelligence to unleash the true potential of diversity and inclusion. In particular, her research group uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the nature of leadership in the artificial intelligence age and to develop ways to mitigate bias in human-machine partnership. On a larger scale, her research aims to help leaders and organizations clarify how they can contribute to a more tolerant, diverse, and inclusive society. Ksenia Keplinger’s research has been featured in leading peer-reviewed outlets, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Business Ethics Quarterly, and PLoS One.
