Burkard Sievers is Professor Emeritus of Organization Development in the Schumpeter School for Business and Economics at Bergische University Wuppertal in Germany. In his research he focuses on unconscious dynamics in management and organization from a socio-analytic and systemic perspective. In 1995, he was awarded the price for participation by the HBK Bank in Antwerp, Belgium, for his book, "Work, Death and Life Itself: Essays on Management and Organisation". He is Past-President (2007-2009) of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO).