Toto Wolff becomes a professor at Oxford: he will train the business leaders of the future

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff will teach at Oxford University’s Said Business School until October 2023. The Austrian will talk about topics such as high performance culture, leadership and personal effectiveness from the Formula circuits. 1

A new role in addition to that in Formula 1. Because the Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, is a new professor at the prestigious Said Business School, belonging to the University of Oxford. The school has appointed him as a new ‘Associate Fellow’, with the aim of preparing the business leaders of the future. The Austrian manager will talk about topics such as high performance and leadership culture. But also on the other, given that the 49-year-old manager also boasts experience as an investor, after having founded one of the first companies in venture capital in Europe focused on technology.

Some lessons already held in 2020

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Toto had already given several lectures last year, working closely with the management professor, Michael Smets. The Austrian had then brought his knowledge on topics such as the importance of mental health, the dynamics of managing high potential talents and the new challenges to reinvent the organizations and industries of the future. “Becoming an Associate Fellow at Oxford Said is a pride – the Austrian commented in a note released on the school and Mercedes websites – Sharing the experience, all my energy and motivation with the students, is richly rewarding. I am grateful for the opportunity so that I can combine my passions for entrepreneurship, leadership and culture with high performance. “

He will teach until October 2023

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Also in 2020, the Mercedes team principal had also talked about a theme such as ‘Leadership in extraordinary times’: or how to continue to maintain success in adversity, which arrived with the arrival in Europe of the pandemic. The Austrian’s lessons at Said Business School will last until October 2023: “Toto is welcome – commented the director of the school, Sue Dopson – we look forward to collaborating with him on many of the issues that are his concern. at heart and which are the center of the school’s mission, such as the drive for greater diversity, the defense of well-being and mental health and the expansion of access to higher education ”.