Theresa Philippi, LL.M, MAS
Jurist
Motto
"Man needs love and work " (Sigmund Freud)
Biography
Theresa Philippi graduated in law at the University of Vienna. She holds a Master in European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and another postgraduate Master in IT-Law, from the University of Vienna. After a year as research assistant at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht she worked in the European Affairs unit of the Austrian Government for two years and then changed to the newly liberalised Telecommunications and IT sector.
Currently she is legal counsel at a company entrusted with implementing the electronic health record in Austria , where she focuses on legal questions of data protection and eHealth.
Theresa devotes parts of her private time to pro bono work, namely in women's organisations and as a trainer and mentor in the Robert Schuman Instititue's gender equality programme for emerging democracies. Her idea of a cyclic career design was nourished by many discussions on the reconciliation of private and work life during her time in the cabinet of the Minister for Gender Equality and from her own experiences in professional life.
Theresa Philippi: " The model has been adopted in political papers but must be a art of all future oriented businesses.
Currently, professional career models are linear, strict and hierarchical. They are based on the traditional stereotypes of partnership with one breadwinner and one who cares for the family. The workforce, however, feels an increasing need for individual, "tailor-made", career design which allows for phases of more and less intensive work."
The reasons are diverse: Reconciliation of work and family life such as raising small children or caring for an elder relative are the most common. Yet, there might be other reasons like the need for a sabbatical, time for additional education and many more.
The idea of a career design in cycles would allow a more flexible management of workload, pace and hierarchical positions. In a cyclic career, employees should have the chance to get top positions earlier in their life, be able to (temporarily) step down and be coming around in the next phase.
Expertise
Apart form her legal expertise Theresa Philippi is available to present the Life Cycle Career Model and support its' implementation.
Read the article "Lebensphasen-Modelle statt Rollenbilder", published in "Österreich 2050", Czernin Verlag 2005 here: DOWNLOAD.
Theresa Philippi speaks in German, English, French and Italian.
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