Michael Herzig

ZHAW School of Social Work
Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8037 Zürich

Work at ZHAW

Social work and social policy: low-threshold social work, harm reduction, addiction and addiction policy, sex work, multivulnerability, stigmatization and marginalization
Non-profit management: strategy and organizational change, error culture and learning organization, innovation and product development, business administration
Methodological focus: service user involvement, stakeholder orientation, self-determination, participation and co-production, storytelling, design thinking

Lecturer
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School for Social Work
01 / 2015 - today
Novelist: Fiction, Narrative Non-Fiction, Screenplays, Radio Plays
Self Employed
01 / 2007 - today
Business Unit Director, Vice Director
Zurich City Administration, Social Welfare Department, Social Facilities
01 / 2004 - 06 / 2014
Drug Policy Coordinator
Zurich City Administration, Social Welfare Department
08 / 1998 - 12 / 2003
Secretary of the Federal Commission for Family Policy, editor
Federal Office of Social Security
01 / 1994 - 08 / 1998
Journalist, Teacher, Musician, Vendor
Various
01 / 1984 - 12 / 1992

Executive Master of Business Administration EMBA HSG / Business Administration
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
01 / 2007 - 12 / 2008
Master Of Arts: History Public Law and Political Science / Humanities
University of Bern
01 / 1986 - 12 / 1994

Design Thinking Workshop
Denkmotor
12 / 2020
E-Didactic for Distance Learning
ZHAW School of Management and Law
12 / 2018
Certificate of University Didactic
Zurich University of Education
12 / 2016
Screenwriting
Migros School Zurich
12 / 2015
iStory - Basic patterns, structures and building blocks of a story in the digital age
Zurich University of the Arts
12 / 2015
General Management-Training
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
12 / 2002
Managing staff and projects
Personnel Office of the City of Zurich
12 / 2001
Project Management
Federal Office of Personnel
12 / 1998
Media handling certificate: training for information officers
MAZ Media Training Center Lucerne
12 / 1997
Process management: controlling and designing processes
Federal Office of Personnel
12 / 1997
Management of International organizations
Institut de hautes études en administration publique IDHEAP, Lausanne
12 / 1996
Rhetoric training: presentation and speeches
Federal Office of Personnel
12 / 1996
Combattre l'exclusion: Analyser les processus, améliorer les politiques
Université de Lausanne
12 / 1996