Isabelle Odermatt has been a project staff member at CHESS since summer 2021 and in this role supports the CHESS team in the area of continuing education. She contributes her expertise in the area of personnel development and leadership and supports the CHESS in the development and design of attractive and target group-oriented continuing education programs for professors.

Isabelle Odermatt studied psychology and minored in business administration at the University of Zurich and subsequently earned her doctorate at the Department of Psychology of the University of Zurich (2013). In her PhD, she focused on team processes (communication processes, leadership in teams). Since her PhD, she has been working as a research associate at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology and has thus been able to acquire a diverse expertise in various topics related to personnel psychology (e.g., personnel selection, personnel development and training, leadership). In addition, she has repeatedly worked as a subject matter expert in practice (e.g. certifications of assessment centers in collaboration with Swiss Assessment and SQS). Currently, in addition to her position at CHESS, she continues to work as a research project staff member at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology. There she is co-responsible for the implementation of the project «Berufungsverfahren: Interview zur Einschätzung von Führungskompetenzen und Bereitschaft für ein Engagement in der akademischen Selbstverwaltung». This project addresses the professionalization of selection interviews in appointment procedures.

• Leadership and leadership development
• Personnel development, e.g. continuing education for professors
• Personnel selection, e.g. professionalization of selection interviews in appointment procedures

Odermatt, I., König, C., Kleinmann, M., Bachmann, M., Röder, H., & Schmitz, P. (2018). Incivility in Meetings: Predictors and Outcomes. Journal of Business and Psychology, 33, 263–282. doi: 10.1007/s10869-017-9490-0.

Odermatt, I., König, C. J., Kleinmann, M., Nussbaumer, R., Rosenbaum, A., Olien, J. L., & Rogelberg, S. G. (2017). On leading meetings: Linking meeting outcomes to leadership styles. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 24, 189–200. doi:10.1177/1548051816655992

Odermatt, I., König, C. J., Kleinmann, M. (2016). Development and Validation of the Zurich Meeting Questionnaire (ZMQ). European Review of Applied Psychology, 66, 219-232. Doi:10.1016/j.erap.2016.06.003

Odermatt, I., König, C. J., & Kleinmann, M. (2015). Meeting preparation and design characteristics. In J. A. Allen, N. Lehmann-Willenbrock & S. G. Rogelberg (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of meeting science. (pp. 49-68). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.