Brunhilde Schram is the Founder and Honorary President of the CSR Dialogue Forum, Association for the Promotion of Sustainable Business in Consultative Status with the United Nations. She is also the Managing Director of ECCOStandards & More KG, Austria. Her company specializes in sustainability management and is a strategic cooperation partner with Quality Austria, which is represented in 48 countries. They focus on the measurement and assessment of development measures for companies, enabling sustainability ratings for organizations that wish to see themselves as impact investors. An accredited member of the Club of Rome, she is also the founder of WIKOM, the Institute for Work, Culture and Learning, and the Implacement Foundation (a cooperation with the government and various companies and organizations). She has been part of Boardsearch, a platform for female supervisory board members, and the national spokeswoman of the CSR Experts Group/WKO for sustainable management.
A consummate community leader across a wide spectrum of interconnected fields, she is a founding member of the Human Health Development Institute for Organizational and Structural Health, as well as the Association for the Promotion of New Entrepreneurship. Her strengths lie in the combination and linking of process consulting, training, and expert consulting in developmental change and implementation projects. She is keenly focused on interdisciplinarity and the sustainability of change processes, utilizing methods from client-centered behavioral therapy/gestalt therapy, systemic management, and lean management. Her training and coaching revolve around intercultural leadership and team development within organizational contexts, training female employees with methods to promote behavioral change to increase problem-solving competence, and accompaniment with various instruments “on the way to a learning organization.” Her work has led to the development of the International Quality Seal for Excellence in Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility.
She has received the Prize for Adult Education for a project in the “Psycho-Social” field from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth, and Family, the Promotion Award of the Province of Upper Austria for extraordinary achievements in adult education, and the Award of the Pin of Honour of the Municipality of Gallneukirchen for special commitment in regional development, among others.