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Concept developer, business accelerator, advisor, and people motivator with over 25 years of cross-continent and cross-industry expertise in Europe and US in IT, corporate ethics, and customer loyalty (trust).
In Paris, Katja started her professional career at the world leading strategic planning with Young & Rubicam, and later with Hill & Knowlton (PR-WPP). For 6 years, she was the manager of the first ever centralized relational database at Booz Allen & Hamilton in NYC. Participating in designing internal knowledge management infrastructures and loyalty programs for Fortune 500 clients, Katja soon became the European Liaison for high-profile strategic programs.
Back in Europe, she integrated a leading IT company in Paris as director of strategy. Helping start-ups to develop concepts and competitive business models by transitioning to novel IT systems.
In 2000, Katja led brick-and mortar leaders like Cartier, Lafuma, Intermarché, Facom or pharmaceutical powerhouses and banking groupings like the BEAC (Banque des États de l’Afrique Centrale) through the digital transformation.
For 12 years, and simultaneous to her international business career, Katja has been a professor of Information Systems and Business Linguistics at the Master in Logistics, Marketing & Distribution at the Sorbonne Management School. She directed over hundred final dissertations. As of 2016, she started teaching MBA classes at the Paris School of Business, and as a First, initiated specialized “Data Ethics” courses in France as part of the Data Analytics Master’s Program.
In 1995 she was a teaching assistant at Tulane University in New Orleans, where she was also pursuing MBA classes at the A.B. Freeman School of Business in New Orleans (final paper “Charisma in Leadership: Collective Orchestration – case study on conductor Leonard Bernstein.”).
Katja speaks fluently five languages (Lu, Fr, De, It, En). From her Alma Mater, the Sorbonne University in Paris, she holds post-graduate diplomas in 19th century literature, linguistics, digital marketing, and publishing.
Katja authored six books, and landed 3 bestsellers; the latest book “Serendipity ou Algorithme” (2019, Karà éditions) was the first ever book in Luxembourg to feature illustrations generated by AI.
In 2021, she founded The House of Ethics™, which gained quick international reputation for its novel, original and interdisciplinary perspectives on AI ethics.
With Daniele Proverbio, she has been co-authoring developing Swarm Ethics™ to fill a practical gap in modern digital business ethics. Katja’s articles on ethics, AI, and dataethics are published at www.houseofethics.lu.