He was a distinguished visiting professor at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei in 2006, at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur in 2007, and at IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro in 2009–10.

[citation needed][10] Since 1992, Zeleny constantly appears in the listings of Who's Who in Science and Engineering,[11] Who's Who in America (also in the East, in the World and of Professionals).

After the communist takeover in 1948, his father became a coal miner (in Kladno) and his uncle worked in the uranium mines of Jáchymov.

[15] Other areas of research include Games with multiple payoffs,[16] Integrated Process Management (IPM), Knowledge-based theory of fuzzy sets, Baťa System of Management,[17] High-technology management, Mass customization, Portfolio selection, Risk analysis, Measurement of consumer attitudes, Human intuition, Creativity and judgment, Simulation models of biological organization, Autopoiesis, Artificial life (AL), Osmotic growths and synthetic biology, Spontaneous social organizations and early computer modeling (via GPSS, APL, FORTRAN and BASIC).

[18] He also became active in consulting and later on in CEO coaching, while pursuing practical projects of Entrepreneurial University, Electro-mobility, Recycling and remanufacturing, and Integration of data, information, knowledge and wisdom into a coherent DIKW Management support.

From 1982, Zeleny served as professor of management systems at Fordham University at Lincoln Center,[20] New York City.