Biography
Clemente Minonne has 36 years of practical experience in leadership and advisory roles. He is Professor of “Digital Work & Organisational Psychology” at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Business, conducts research and teaches in these areas, and is concerned with the question of how change can be brought about in socio-digital systems. He combines organisational theory, technology and psychology and understands his role as a researcher as that of a method developer in the context of digital business psychology.
Clemente Minonne is Founder and CEO of Minonne & Associates AG (www.minonne.org). As an organisational consultant and coach, he has been able, over more than two decades, to support organisations in accompanying “transformation processes” with regard to the consequences for socio-digital systems and has thus built up extensive experiential knowledge. Clemente Minonne is the author of various specialist articles and books which address different aspects of “digital work and organisational psychology”.
Clemente Minonne studied Electrical Engineering (BSc El Eng) from 1990 to 1995 at the ZHAW School of Engineering. After professional positions in international companies (including Ascom Telecommunications and Zurich Insurance Company), he studied Business Administration (Master of Business Administration) with a specialisation in “General Strategic Management” from 2000 to 2002 at the renowned Scottish University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. After further professional positions in management and management consulting (including Storage Technology and Hewlett Packard) and intensive research, he completed his doctorate on the topic of “Organisational Learning” in 2008 at the state University of South Australia in Adelaide. As part of his further education “CAS Philosophy and Management” (2020–2022) with a focus on leadership and self-leadership at the University of Lucerne, he engaged in depth with the topic of “trust as a success factor for the creation of successful interdisciplinary innovations”. Clemente Minonne has also completed a consecutive “Master of Arts (MA) in Work and Organisational Psychology” at the Bergische University of Wuppertal (2023–2024) and is also a “Certified Business Psychology Consultant (BUW)”.
Clemente Minonne has transformed over more than three decades from an engineer to a business economist and further to a work and organisational psychologist. This enables him today to be active in research, teaching and organisational consulting as a “bridge-builder” in the context of socio-digital systems.
He is currently intensively engaged with topics of psychology in the digital age and runs the podcast “Denkstoff kompakt – Kurzimpulse zu Psychologie im digitalen Wandel”: https://denkstoff-kompakt.podigee.io
Clemente Minonne has recently further trained in the field of didactics (2025–2026) and obtained the “CAS in eDidactis” from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI).
