Dr. Martin Kiel
Field Networker Continuing Education & Regional Transfer
Consultant I Founder I Lecturer
Photo: the black frame. think tank.
As a field networker for the research group Work - Education - Digitalization at the FernUniversität in Hagen, I would like to inspire movements based on Karl Ernst Osthaus’ motto: “Change through culture, culture through change.” For us, this could mean, for example: “Transformation through education, education through transformation.”
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In the spirit of Leslie A. Fiedler’s postmodern paradigm “Cross the Border – Close the Gap,” Martin Kiel’s focus is on productive interplay and building bridges from economic to literary contexts, from conditional to unconditional space (J. Derrida). He has worked in various management roles (Thalia, Douglas, codecentric AG) and areas that were chiefly concerned with digitalization or transformations in processes and organizations. His teaching and research activities as a lecturer and visiting professor have taken him to Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, the Zollverein School of Management & Design Essen, Pepperdine University in Malibu, USA, Ruhr University Bochum, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and the German Summer School in Taos, New Mexico.
Martin Kiel currently heads the think tank ‘the black frame.’ He has been teaching communication theory and verbal communication at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2015.
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Since 2015: Founder of the black frame. think tank. www.theblackframe.com
Since 2015: Professorship/guest professorship (2015 - 2018), lecturer for communication theory and verbal communication, Berlin University of the Arts
2015 to 2019: Authorized signatory, codecentric AG, head of the Dortmund location
2015/2018/2019: Visiting professor, University of New Mexico USA, Taos Ski Valley, German Summer School of New Mexico
2009 to 2015: Managing Director, DOUGLAS Informatik & Service GmbH, responsible for strategy development, product management, marketing, innovation ecology, think tank and for the information management (data warehouse, data logistics, intranet, eLearning and portals), finance (planning & consolidation) and customer management (customer relationship management, data marketing and data mining) departments with a matrix organization and HR responsibility for 250 employees
2007 to 2009: Authorized signatory, DOUGLAS Informatik & Service GmbH, responsible for customer and information management, marketing
2006 to 2013: Chairman of Roundtable Marketing, European Trade Institute Cologne, focus: trend research & CRM; moderation: Marketing Forum Cologne
2006 to 2007: Lecturer, Zollverein School of Management & Design Essen, responsible for the module ‘Culture & Society’ in the MBA Executive Program
2005 to 2007: Head of department, DOUGLAS Informatik & Service GmbH, expansion of tasks to include the development of the Multichannel Marketing & Portals division
2002 to 2007: Advisory board member & lecturer, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, study program: Cultural Engineering, focus: investigative aesthetics, cultural hacking
2004 to 2005: Marketing Coordinator/Managing Director, THALIA University Bookstore, brand management, internationalization of the Thalia brand, classic marketing, multichannel
