The Wiener Institut für Sinnkultur was founded to take seriously a question that organisational practice often pushes aside. What actually keeps people and organisations capable of action? Not efficiency gains, not better processes, but the ability to recognise meaning in what one does.

Vienna is not an accidental location. The city produced, through existential analysis and logotherapy, a psychological and philosophical tradition that understands the human being not as an object of optimisation, but as a meaning-oriented subject. The WIFS transfers this tradition into the present and into organisational contexts.

Robert Kiesinger, Founder

Robert Kiesinger is a management consultant, organisational developer and trained existential analyst. He holds two MBAs and has extensive international leadership experience, including in China and Russia. His work connects economic thinking with the depth of Viennese existential analysis. The WIFS is the institutional foundation of that connection.

What Guides Us

We work at the intersection of research, strategic consulting and education. Our aim is not to convey meaning. Our aim is to describe and create the conditions under which meaning can arise. That is a conceptual distinction that matters considerably in practice.

We work with organisations that are prepared to take this question seriously.

Contact

Wiener Institut für Sinnkultur
Stuckgasse 12/16
1070 Vienna, Austria

kontakt@wifs.at