In May 2021, LC and WHU hosted their fourth virtual conference: The Open University featuring among other speakers Prof. Dr. Heike Bruch from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. In her keynote, she emphasizes the need to fundamentally renew the way we work and highlights opportunities and pitfalls of this modernization. Organizational energy is named as an important asset in this change process – and Heike Bruch points out the importance of keeping comfortable and productive energy in balance to create a healthy high performance culture.