New Presidium at Perikom
The general assembly of the Perikom association elected Cyril Meier as its new president on March 19. As a long-standing member of the board, he succeeds Matthias Mölleney, who has chaired the association since its founding in 2011.
Perikom, the professional association for human resources management and internal communication, unanimously elected Cyril Meier as its new president at its general meeting on March 19, 2019. He replaces Matthias Mölleney, Managing Director PeopleXpert, President ZGP and Head of the Center for Human Resources Management & Leadership at the HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich. The board thanked Matthias Mölleney, who remains on the board, for his great services as founding president of Perikom. Dr. Barbara Aeschlimann, Managing Director of ZGP Zurich Society for Human Resources Management, was also elected as a new member of the Board.
Cyril Meier, the new Perikom President, has been working at the HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich since 2003, today as Head of Special Projects, and before that as a member of the Executive Board until 2017. During this time, he built up the Center for Communications with its more than 700 students, including the Bachelor's degree program in Communications as well as the Master of Advanced Studies in Business Communications, and also initiated the university's first digital continuing education courses, among other things. Before moving into education, Meier was, among other things, Chief Communications Officer (CCO) of the Sulzer Group as well as a consultant and team leader at Farner Consulting. Thus, he knows from practice and teaching the challenges of goal-oriented collaboration across functional boundaries.
"Any organization cannot survive the digital transformation without strategies and technologies," says Meier. But it certainly can't happen without a coherent culture, and certainly not without employees. To this end, Perikom intends to continue making valuable interdisciplinary and practice-oriented contributions." The Perikom association regularly organizes events for communication and HR experts. Other areas of activity include the development of continuing education programs, the initiation and support of research and studies on the topic of internal communications, and an annual Swiss HR/Internal Communications Conference. The next time on May 23, 2019, on the topic of "Leadership and communication: difficult new world".
