Background
Witzel grew up in Salmon Arm in the Canadian province of British Columbia, and received his Bachelor in History in 1982 and his Master of Arts in Renaissance History in 1984 both from the University of Victoria.
Witzel grew up in Salmon Arm in the Canadian province of British Columbia, and received his Bachelor in History in 1982 and his Master of Arts in Renaissance History in 1984 both from the University of Victoria.
University of Victoria.
Witzel had started as journalist at a Weekly newspaper in Salmon Armenian After graduation he started as independent researcher and writer, and started some research and publishing partnerships. In 1995 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he was lecturer at the London Business School from 1995 to 1999.
With Tim Ambler he participated in the Doing Business in China course on the Master of Business Administration Programme, which eventually also resulted in their 2008 book Early 2000s Witzel focussed on research, editing and writing books, among other for Continuum International Publishing Group, Routledge and Thomson Reuters.
He has been lecturer at other business schools, and consultant for many companies. Since 2011 he is Fellow at the University of Exeter Business School in the Centre for Leadership Studies.