Ingo Beyer von Morgenstern
Enhancing strengths is more powerful than overcoming weaknesses.
Team Member Profile
Field hockey, golf, skiing - that was my life as a kid. My parents had difficulties pushing me through high school as I was least interested in it. My father, an engineering professor, urged me to study Mechanical/Process Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. It was too much work and unnecessarily limited my other interests, so I speeded it up and left for the US to explore the world. There, I discovered McKinsey & Company, which really caught my interest. After obtaining a PhD and an MBA, I joined the firm, first based in Munich and then Shanghai, and stayed for 30 years.
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How has being in Harbour.Space affected the way you look at education?
There are several forms of intelligence, analytical but also musical, social, linguistic, spatial, kinesthetic and more. One kind is not better than the other, and it is important to become excellent in one's own areas of intelligence.
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Why did you join Harbour.Space?
Because of Svetlana, the CEO. She, in her persuasive, intense and charming way, never accepting a no for an answer, enthused me to support her in developing a groundbreaking disruptive educational model that can contribute to overcoming the digital divide in the world.
