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“Generation Jobless? is a wonderful read and primer for anyone who cares to make a difference. Truly the best work I have read on the youth labor market crisis – and a personal invitation to each and everyone of us to take part in solving the crisis for our children.” Carsten Sudhoff, Founder and CEO Circular Society AG

“Just as there is no shortage of work, there is equally no shortage of ideas. This book is full of them, and Peter Vogel’s display of them is impressive. The reader, at least this reader, left hopeful and solution-oriented, rather than wringing his hands, wondering whether anything could be done to turn generation jobless into generation jobfull”. Dr. Duncan Campbell, Director Global Mega-Trends Team, International Labour Organization

“How might we best prepare students for the world of work in the 21st century? This thorough and timely book about the youth unemployment crisis describes interesting possibilities from around the world.” Charles Fadel, co-author of “21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times” and visiting practitioner, Harvard University

"Dr. Peter Vogel's work on tackling youth unemployment around the world is inspiring and an excellent read. His mission is mine, to lay out a blueprint for those with aspirations and great ideas, so that they can become job creators, wealth creators, and in certain cases, go from unemployed to self-employed." John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE

“The world of work is transforming at a furious, unprecedented pace, and young people are the ones that are hit hardest. This is a truly powerful book that gives us hope that it is not too late to avoid a generation jobless.” Mike Johnson, Chairman & Founder of the Futurework Forum and author of “The Worldwide Workplace: Solving the Global Talent Equation”

“Unemployment is casting a shadow over the lives of millions of young people around the world and solutions are complex, requiring the aligned action by multiple stakeholders. In this important and fascinating book Peter Vogel takes a positive and uplifting view of what it takes for a crisis to become an opportunity. Drawing on examples from across the world, he shows how education, government and employees can each play their part.” Prof. Dr. Lynda Gratton, London Business School and author of the book 'The Shift'

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Strategy Consulting

I help governments establish long-term strategies to foster entrepreneurship. Unemployment is one of the most fundamental problems many emerging and developing countries face, resulting in poverty, crime and health-related issues. We tackle this issue on a large scale by helping local governments establish structures to support individuals realize their business ideas and lift themselves and their peers out of poverty, foster job creation and economic development.

By collaborating with professors, technology transfer offices, entrepreneurship centers, seedfund and student organizations, I aim at promoting entrepreneurship among scientists and young scholars. Oftentimes scientists have great inventions but lack the skills to commercialize these or are simply not interested in it. On the one hand I help those scientists who are keen on learning the business basics to get the bootcamp training they need and on the other hand help those that want to stay in academia in finding collaborators to exploit these opportunities.

Selected Clients

Speaking Engagements

I frequently attend large-scale conferences as a keynote speaker. The talks are typically centered around one of the following topics: entrepreneurship, innovation, global change, demographic change, the labor market, workplace of the future, recruiting solutions of the future.

Selected Past Engagements:

Writing

I not only enjoy writing scientific articles and blog posts, but also professional books and book sections. I am currently working on the following two books:

Interim-Entrepreneur

I occasionally join startups in their early stage and help them go through the most critical phase of their growth path. This phase of the entrepreneurial journey is characterized by elements such as developing a viable prototype, initial customer engagement, setting up a legal structure and obtaining sufficient IP protection, raising a series A investment, develop a marketing and sales strategy and hire the right team. Having gone through these various activities before, I help novice entrepreneurs in establishing their new businesses by joining their team for a limited period of time. 

Teaching (Graduate and Executive)

Universities and schools oftentimes do not have enough resources to establish an entrepreneurship on a full-time basis or want to have special courses and bootcamp trainings organized for their students. I come in and organize an entire entrepreneurial syllabus or specialized courses on request which are tailored to the need of the students and faculty.

Selected Executive Courses:
  • IIMC EPFL Executive Training about the Swiss Innovation Ecosystem, 2012, 2013 and 2014
  • CAINTRA EPFL Swiss MedTech Innovation Ecosystem Workshop, 2013
  • KAUST EPFL Entrepreneurial Bootcamps 2011 and 2012
  • ZfU Intrapreneurship Training 2013
  • Lorange Institute Intrapreneurship Training 2011, 2012, 2013

Investments

If I come across some highly motivated individuals with a great idea, I occasionally also do some minor investments in the earliest stages of their ventures. Typically, I then also get actively involved to help the founders build a strong company.