Founder & Managing Partner
Alexis Johann
Alexis Johann works at the intersection of behavioral economics, media and technology. He started out as a business journalist at the Austrian magazines trend and profil, headed the digital media of the daily WirtschaftsBlatt and was managing director of styria digital one and Styria Content Creation.
From 2018 to 2026 he was a partner at FehrAdvice & Partners in Zurich, one of the world’s leading consultancies for behavioral economics, and built up its Austrian business. During that time he was responsible for around 150 client projects in transformation, customer interaction and performance management – rated 9.2 out of 10 on average.
He is the lead author of the studies on the value of journalistic content for search, with academic supervision from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, and author of the book “Führung wirkt zwischen den Worten” (with Andrea Fehr, Carl-Auer 2026, in German).
He teaches at HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich – with the lecture series “Innovation in HR – Behavioral Economics” and “Behavioral Strategy for Digital Leadership”. He studied business administration, psychology and communication science in Vienna.