Dr. Anne Bäro
Anne is 34 years old and Operational Excellence Manager at the digital strategy consultancy OMMAX with a focus on organizational development, corporate culture as well as personal development and leadership excellence.
Previously she was Executive assistant to Dr. Arend Oetker at the Dr. Arend Oetker Holding GmbH & Co. KG, psychological consultant for personnel selection and management development at Deutsche Bahn and research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
Anne was the first research assistant to receive her doctorate at the Chair of Business Psychology and Leadership at HHL. Her dissertation, Psychological Perspectives on Public Value Creation, focuses on the interplay between individual purpose, public value and leadership. She completed her doctorate with a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Anne studied Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and at York University in Toronto, Canada.
She lives with her husband Sebastian, her son Leo (2), her daughter Fritzi (4 months) and her dog Emmi in Icking near Munich. She loves good food, the mountains and espresso.
Anne’s confessions
Q. DO YOU HAVE A ROLE MODEL OR LIFE MOTTO?
A. Believe in yourself and others will, too.
Q. WHAT EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE STANDS OUT IN YOUR MEMORY?
A. Learning to read and write with Ms. Mäuer made a lasting impression on me.
Q. WHAT CAN YOU NOT LAUGH ABOUT?
A. Child poverty.
Q. WHAT’s Something beautiful that you bought yourself recently?
A. A fridge magnet that reminds me of our fantastic vacation in Italy several times a day.
Q. WHAT BOOK WOULD YOU NEVER GIVE AWAY?
A. Currently the photo album that my mom gave to me. But I look forward to the day when I pass it on to my children.
Q. WHEN DO YOU FEEL MOST ALIVE?
A. When I can make a difference and change something (hopefully for the better).
Q. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?
A. Life after death.
Q. WHERE IS YOUR MOST PEACEFUL PLACE?
A. Wherever I am with my family.
Q. What was the last good deed you did?
A. I spontaneously bought a man some baby clothes for his newborn grandchild in Egypt.
Q. WHAT HAVE YOU RECENTLY DREAMED ABOUT?
A. That someone else feeds the baby at night.
Q. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC?
A. Traditional German Schlager and brass band music
Q. Beginning or finishing up? Which is harder to do?
A. Finishing up