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Dr. Beatrix Palt has achieved something that is relatively rare in Germany: she was an educational scientist and a woman from the FOM University for economics and management Professorin vocation.

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Exception in the university landscape

Statistically speaking, Palt is an exception: only 17 percent of the chairs at German universities are included Women occupied. The higher the career ladder leads, the fewer women there are.

"I wouldn't be where I am if I'd always listened to the people telling me what wasn't going to happen," says Palt. “Especially for women, there are no magic formulas on the way to management positions, apart from this Courageto go your own way,” said the 41-year-old.

Study of educational science

As a graduate of a Catholic girls' gymnasium, she first studied educational science and wrote her doctoral thesis at the Hamburg University of the Bundeswehr.

At the same time, she worked as a consultant for a popular family magazine at Axel Springer Verlag. There she grew into the field of project management before being recruited by a management consultancy.

Consultant for corporations and medium-sized companies

Today Palt advises corporations and medium-sized companies Companies. “The ability to look beyond one's own profession and think outside the box is essential for organizations to be able to successfully implement projects.”

The director of 2003 is currently training 300 engineers from its established Institute for Sustainable Project Management.

Career wife and mother

Now Palt lectures on Turnaround Management, Project Management, Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance at the FOM in Hamburg.

Next to it stays Mother There is still enough room for a daughter for her entrepreneurial activities, because the seminars and lectures take place on weekends and in the evenings, since it is mainly employed people and trainees who study at the FOM.