Roman Mesicek
Scholar Practitioner
For over 25 years, I have been working with companies, universities and organisations to embed sustainability strategically and operationally.
Services: Knowledge and Competence
Strategy Consulting
Evaluation of sustainability strategies with regard to the Green Deal, the Sustainable Development Goals and ESG reporting requirements. The goal is a sound assessment of sustainability performance on a scientific basis.
Training and Education
Development of training programmes on specialist topics such as sustainability reporting, circular economy or Responsible AI. Including lectures and teaching on sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.
Stakeholder Relations
Development and facilitation of stakeholder processes, guided by current standards for stakeholder engagement. Moderation of dialogue formats and materiality analyses using methods from quantitative research.
Current
AI & Sustainability
How is AI changing our environmental footprint, and how can it be part of the solution? Five questions, concrete answers. Keynotes, lectures and workshops on the AI sustainability paradox.
Field Excursions
Day trips to companies implementing sustainability in exemplary ways. Company visits, peer exchange and structured reflection.
Next date: 8 June 2026 at Bene, Waidhofen/Ybbs
About me
I studied process engineering with a focus on bio- and environmental technologies. Since then, I have been working in various roles in the field of sustainable development: in research, as a managing director, as a professor and as a consultant.
Leading Austrian and European research projects, primarily on sustainable information technologies. Co-founded the IT start-up Sustainability.TV as a SERI spin-off for live broadcasting of sustainability events.
Building and leading Austria's foremost business platform for CSR. Responsible for the TRIGOS award, the Austrian CSR Day and the stakeholder process for the guiding vision "Success with Responsibility".
Vienna-based music label. Responsible for financial management of productions and accounting of the non-profit association.
German-language magazine for social entrepreneurship and sustainable business.
Directing the Master's programme in Environmental and Sustainability Management with approximately 30 students per cohort. Sustainability coordinator of the institution, responsible for ISO 14001 and participation in the Times Higher Education Impact Ranking.
Continuing education for sustainable business. From sustainability reporting to storytelling.
Sustainability consulting with a network of 25+ experts, co-founded with Vera Pichler, Birgit Gahleitner and Andreas Hieger.
Pragmatic AI training for teams who want to use AI rather than just talk about it. Quickstart, workshop, and sparring formats.
Ventures & Initiatives
My own companies and formats, some of them running for many years, others just recently launched.
Sustainability consulting with a network of 25+ experts. ESG strategy, sustainability reporting, organisational development.
Continuing education for sustainable business. Courses on sustainability reporting, VSME for SMEs, storytelling and field excursions.
Austria's first barcamp on business and sustainability. Held annually at Impact Hub Vienna since 2024.
The German-language podcast on sustainable development and CSR. Since 2015, over 118 episodes. CSR knowledge presented in an engaging, accessible way, with a pinch of irony.
Teaching
Practice-oriented teaching at Austrian universities of applied sciences. Courses in German and English.
Sustainability & CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility · Stakeholder Management · Sustainability Reporting · Environmental Management Systems · Sustainable Business Models
IMC Krems, MA Environmental and Sustainability Management · FH Wiener Neustadt, MA Green Marketing & Sustainability Communication · FH Wiener Neustadt, BA Sustainable Production & Circular Economy · Hochschule Burgenland, BA International Sustainable Business · Ferdinand Porsche FernFH, MA Digital Health Management
Responsible AI
Sustainability and AI for Green · Applications of Responsible AI
IMC Krems, MA Engineering Responsible AI Systems
Innovation & Business
Social Business and Innovation · Sustainability and Ethics in Leadership · Sustainability
IMC Krems, BA Sustainability Management · IMC Krems, BA International Business Management · FH Upper Austria Campus Wels, MA Innovation and Product Management
Health & Sustainability
Sustainability Management · Environmental Management Systems and Quality Standards
Ferdinand Porsche FernFH, MA Digital Health Management
Tools & Open Source
I also build software myself. Most of these tools emerged from concrete needs in my teaching or consulting and are freely available.
Stakeholder Simulation
Web platform for multi-stakeholder negotiation simulations in the classroom. Participants negotiate in real time as different stakeholder groups.
LLM Green
Dashboard for measuring the CO₂, water and energy footprint of AI usage. Transparent methodology with adjustable coefficients.
ESG Maturity Agent
AI agent for automated corporate sustainability analysis based on the Ainsbury-Grayson maturity model. With integrated greenwashing detection.
Selected Publications
My writing moves between academic research and practical application. Currently, I am particularly focused on the interplay of AI and sustainability.
Von Management zur Partizipation
Mesicek, R. (2025). In Huber-Heim, K. & Weder, F. (Eds.), Praxishandbuch Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation. Linde Verlag.
Das Beste aus zwei Welten: Design Thinking und Service Learning
Pferzinger, M., Mesicek, R. H. & Bachner, C. (2022). In Schmidberger, I., Wippermann, S., Stricker, T. & Müller, U. (Eds.), Design Thinking im Bildungsmanagement. Springer VS.
Verantwortung für Stakeholdereinbindung
Mesicek, R. H. (2016). In Altenburger, R. & Mesicek, R. H. (Eds.), CSR und Stakeholdermanagement: Strategische Herausforderungen und Chancen der Stakeholdereinbindung. Springer-Verlag.
More publications
Mesicek, R. (2026). SCOPE: A Decision Framework for Evaluating the Sustainability and Ethics of AI Adoption. SocArXiv Preprints. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/anjt9_v1
Wersun, A. et al. (2019). An exploration of student learning for sustainability through the WikiRate student engagement project. The International Journal of Management Education, 17(3).
Perkiss, S. et al. (2019). Learning Experientially for Corporate Contribution to Global Sustainable Development. In The Palgrave Handbook of Learning and Teaching International Business and Management.
Spangenberg, J. H., Mesicek, R., Metzner, A., & Luks, F. (2002). Sustainability Indicators for the Knowledge-based Society. Futura, 2, 86-96.
Schneider, F., Hinterberger, F., Mesicek, R., & Luks, F. (2001). Eco-info-society: Strategies for an Ecological Information Society. In Sustainability in the Information Society. Metropolis.
Contact
I look forward to hearing from you.