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Online Masterclass: Decision-Making Biases: Understanding Their Impact and Lessons for Managers

13-03-2025

On Thursday, 13 March 2025 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm (CET), Patrick Martens will conduct the online masterclass Decision-Making Biases: Understanding Their Impact and Lessons for Managers.

About the online masterclass

Cognitive biases play a significant role in international negotiations and geopolitics at the global level as well as organisational management, including international management, cross-cultural management and mergers and acquisitions. These biases can influence leadership styles, decision-making processes, perceptions, and interactions between countries. Understanding and mitigating these cognitive biases is crucial not only for effective diplomacy and international relations.

By attending the online masterclass you will learn that by being aware of these biases, you as a negotiator, policymaker or manager can strive to make more rational and informed decisions that better reflect the complexities of global interactions.

At the end of the masterclass you will have the opportunity to ask your questions.

Date Thursday, 13 March 2025
Time 3:00 - 4:00pm (CET)
Interested to join? Register here!

After registration, you will receive the login link to join the masterclass.
We will not issue a certificate for attending the online masterclass.

About Patrick Martens
Patrick D. Martens is Senior Project Consultant and Lecturer at Maastricht School of Management. His areas of specializations are Institutional Development, International Trade (Developing Country Issues), Organizational Behavior, Conflict Handling and Negotiations, Managing Cultural Diversity, Environmental Education and Project Management.

Mr. Martens holds a Master’s degree in Management from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, an MSc in Development Education from the South Bank University London, UK, and a bachelor’s degree in Social Science from Rhodes University, South Africa.

He was also team leader in an EU project capacity building program for CARIFORUM countries and institutional capacity building expert for the EU-funded TradeCom II Program Management Unit. His consultancy work has covered all African, Caribbean and Pacific countries as a number of other Asia, Middle Eastern and East European countries.