All Leadership Sessions by Leqture

At Leqture, we specialize in live, online, interactive expert sessions designed to elevate your leaders. Join over 100 global companies that trust our sessions by expert leadership speakers to transform their leadership teams. From mastering high performance and navigating difficult conversations to fostering inclusive leadership and driving change, our expert-led sessions are tailored to educate and engage your leaders. Unlock their full potential with Leqture.

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A High Performing Brain

Daphne Feller
Speaker rated 4,5/5517 participants

Stress appears to be one of the greatest threats to society. What can neuroscience tell you about what happens in your brain when you're stressed? How does your brain work and how can you make stress work for you? If you learn to recognise stress for what it is, you can turn it to your advantage.

Daphne founded her company BrainExplainers in 2016. BrainExplainers provides knowledge about the human brain (neuroscience) and heart intelligence. Daphne has 12 years of (senior) corporate work experience.

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Advancing Gender Equity Through Inclusive Workplace Practices

Tash Koster-Thomas
Speaker rated 4,8/5193 participants

This session focuses on exploring the systemic barriers that contribute to gender disparities in the workplace. It emphasises the importance of creating inclusive policies and practices that ensure equal opportunities for all genders.

Tash Koster-Thomas (she/her) is an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker, and LGBTQ+ Activist who stands at the forefront of transformative conversations.

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AI Integration for Organisations

Fiona Passantino
Speaker rated 4,1/515 participants

No matter where your organization stands on the spectrum of AI understanding and adoption, the process of AI integration follows a fairly predictable path. Having a roadmap to shine a light on what needs to happen and when, is both calming and practical for a team of any size.

Fiona Passantino is an AI-Human keynote speaker, trainer, and facilitator. Her mission? To empower the non-technical Working Human to understand and use AI effectively, maximizing connection, engagement, and creativity for more joy and inspiration in the workplace.

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Assertive Communication: An Important Ally at the Workplace

Alessandra Patti
Speaker rated 4,6/575 participants

Clear communication is a core driver of psychological safety, performance, and wellbeing at work. Yet many professionals avoid difficult conversations, overcommit, or struggle to set boundaries — leading to stress, resentment, and inefficiency.

Alessandra Patti, is a professional trainer and consultant with a background in linguistics, psychology and marketing, and she has been nominated one of the top 15 coaches in Zurich for the year 2023.

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Attention is Your New KPI: The Competitive Advantage No One Is Training

Will Schneider
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Your people are smart, capable, and motivated — and they're still losing two hours every workday to a system engineered to steal their attention. This is a performance problem. And it's costing you a lot of money! “Attention Is Your New KPI” is an experiential training built to close that gap.

Will Schneider is the co-founder of Focus Now Training and brings over 19 years of experience teaching mindfulness, breathwork, yoga, meditation, and human optimization, proving that self-mastery is available to anyone willing to do the reps.

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Authentic Networking

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As organisations navigate hybrid work, rapid change, and increasing pressure on performance, one challenge consistently rises to the surface: employees are finding it harder to build meaningful professional relationships.

As organisations navigate hybrid work, rapid change, and increasing pressure on performance, one challenge consistently rises to the surface: employees are finding it harder to build meaningful professional relationships.

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Breaking The Pattern: Why Change Is Hard — and How to Make It Stick

Meg Mateer
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Most people and organisations genuinely want to change. We see what needs to improve, set strong intentions, and invest in development — yet familiar patterns quietly reassert themselves. The real challenge is rarely a lack of motivation or intelligence.

Meg Mateer is an organisational psychologist, keynote speaker, and leadership facilitator and the owner of Momentum Leadership Development. With over 15 years of experience, she has delivered transformation talks and leadership programmes for global organisations including Heineken, adidas, ABN AMRO, and Rituals.

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Building a Coaching Culture

Tanya McGinnity
Speaker rated 4,3/537 participants

The way we work has changed. In this highly interactive session, we will explore how coaching can help you thrive in this new world by improving the quality of your conversations, making it easier for you to support yourselves and those you work with, and developing the courage to be vulnerable.

Tanya has been a corporate facilitator since 1999, a Coach since 2009 and loves to coach teams. She is passionate about helping clients lighten up, wake up, get playful and tap into their inner resources to get more support.

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Building a Healthy Feedback Culture with Positive Psychology

Aurelie Litynski
Speaker rated 4,5/5433 participants

Giving constructive feedback is one of the most challenging skills to master, however, it is a crucial one for all employees. Participants will learn how to make constructive feedback part of the team’s culture and will adopt proven techniques which enhance positive communication during critical...

Aurelie Litynski is a TEDx speaker, author of the book 100 Ideas for a Positive Work Culture, as well as a certified Chief Happiness Officer and Chief Wellbeing Officer.

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Building Connections and Well-being

Rose Auyeung-Chen
Speaker rated 4,5/5251 participants

Despite the fact we are often surrounded by other humans on a daily basis (whether it be through technology or in person), many of us find it challenging to deepen and forge strong connections with others.

Rose specialises in mood disorders, vocational rehabilitation, crisis intervention, self-harm, emotion regulation, stress management, and conflict resolution. She is trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

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Building Healthier Teams

Roy Gluckman
Speaker rated 4,4/5208 participants

Mental health and workplace performance are interconnected. In this keynote I explore behavioural wellness, the intentional actions that foster connection, kindness, and belonging within teams.

Roy is a qualified attorney and a director at Run to the Monster, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) short-video training organisation. Roy speaks passionately on all matters relating to DEIB.

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Building High-Performance Teams with AI as Your Sparring Partner

Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
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Please note: This session is intended for managers and people leaders only. Leadership is a high-stakes balancing act. You are constantly seeking the equilibrium between the human touch and hard results. To build a true High-Performance Organization, neither can be allowed to falter.

Joris Merks-Benjaminsen bridges the gap between technological innovation and authentic leadership. He previously served as the Head of the Google Digital Academy and was recognized within Google as one of its highest-rated managers of all time.

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Business Innovation & Leadership

Rody Vonk
Speaker rated 4,6/534 participants

Many associate innovation with breakthrough technologies or major industry disruptions, but innovation starts with leadership and mindset. In a rapidly changing world, leaders must guide their teams to think beyond traditional boundaries and embrace new ways of solving challenges.

Rody Vonk (born 1973) is an internationally recognized trainer and facilitator specializing in innovation, creative thinking, and design thinking. He guides organizations through structured processes to develop new ideas and enhance existing products, services, and workflows.

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Change Management: Working Skillfully with the Inevitable

David Waters
Speaker rated 4,1/5103 participants

This practical and insightful talk draws on business psychology to explore how individuals experience and respond to change. David examines the dual nature of change as both exciting and disruptive, helping participants understand their own habitual reactions and assumptions.

David Waters is a business coach, psychotherapist, and corporate trainer with over fifteen years’ experience working with globally recognised organisations including Meta, NTT Data, Viacom, and the Southbank Centre. He has been a faculty member of The School of Life since 2010.

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Character & Culture in Corporate Ethics

Julian Baggini
Speaker rated 4,3/534 participants

Organisations are increasingly aware of the importance of values for both employees and clients. It is, however, very difficult to translate a statement of values into something the organisation truly displays.

Dr Julian Baggini is the author, co-author, or editor of over 20 books including The Godless Gospel, How The World Thinks, The Virtues of the Table, The Ego Trick (all Granta), and The Edge of Reason (Yale University Press).

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Clear & Confident: Think Like the Best Leaders Do

Alyssa Dver
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Let’s be honest, leadership these days can feel like trying to steer a ship through a hurricane... while answering emails... on 4 hours of sleep. The best leaders? They don’t just weather the storm: they know how to navigate it with clarity, confidence, and maybe even a sense of humor.

Alyssa Dver is the go-to expert for building real confidence that drives leadership, coaching, and communication. As founder of the American Confidence Institute and ERG Leadership Alliance, she’s helped audiences at Amazon, The World Bank, Unilever, and MIT spark lasting cultural change.

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Coaching Culture

Raul Aparici
Speaker rated 4,3/553 participants

The way we work has changed. In this highly interactive session, we will explore how coaching can help you thrive in this new world by improving the quality of your conversations, making it easier for you to support yourselves and those you work with, and developing the courage to be vulnerable.

Raul Aparici is a London based speaker, coach and facilitator. He is the Head of Faculty at The School of Life, a global organisation teaching people how to lead calmer and more resilient lives.

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Coaching Skills for Leaders

Olga Labutina
Speaker rated 4,8/525 participants

Most leaders were promoted because they had answers. That's exactly what makes coaching hard. The higher you rise, the more your identity is built around being the expert in the room. Asking questions instead of giving answers can feel like admitting weakness.

Olga Labutina is an Executive & Leadership Coach who works with senior leaders from companies like Amazon, Stripe, Microsoft, LVMH and many more. She specialises in executive presence, strategic communication, and stakeholder management, helping high-performing leaders translate their expertise into influence,...

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Cognitive Dissonance

Sarah Stein Lubrano
Speaker rated 4,7/510 participants

Sarah explains one of the most important discoveries in psychology from the last 100 years: cognitive dissonance. It’s the mental discomfort we feel when we encounter a contradiction between our own beliefs and actions, part of what makes conspiracy theories so appealing, and part of what makes it...

Sarah Stein Lubrano is writer, a content strategist, and a researcher at Oxford University. Her academic research focuses on the role of emotion in political communication, and specifically cognitive dissonance. Sarah is the Head of Research for the Future Narratives Lab.

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Cognitive Flexibility

Rose Auyeung-Chen
Speaker rated 4,5/5251 participants

Have you ever wondered why eyewitness accounts at the scene of major events can vary so widely when everyone has witnessed the same event? In this session, Rose will take the participants through a fascinating exercise that will allow everyone to “flex their brain muscles”.

Rose specialises in mood disorders, vocational rehabilitation, crisis intervention, self-harm, emotion regulation, stress management, and conflict resolution. She is trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

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Cognitive Skills for Navigating Change

Pranay Sanklecha
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In this 60-minute interactive session, Pranay makes the compelling argument that successfully navigating change requires us to develop some specific cognitive skills: thinking deliberately, thinking differently, and thinking dangerously.

Dr. Pranay Sanklecha is a former professor of philosophy and the founder of a consultancy dedicated to helping businesses think better about the things that matter. With a career that spans academia, commodities trading, restaurant ownership, and corporate advising, Dr.

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Conflict Management and Resolution

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

Most workplace conflicts aren't about the surface disagreement; they're about unmet needs, unheard voices, and unequal power dynamics. This workshop explores how conflict shows up differently across diverse teams and why traditional resolution methods often fail marginalized employees.

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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Creating Work Creativity

David Chislett
Speaker rated 4,5/554 participants

We say we want creativity but we build systems for speed, predictability, and control. Then we blame people when good ideas don’t show up. Teams and organisations are struggling to adapt fast enough to how technology is reshaping our world.

David Chislett (1970) is a speaker, trainer and coach, specialised in helping people and teams optimise HOW they work in order to get more and better outcomes. He studied literature and philosophy in South Africa and has lived in Johannesburg, London, Cape Town and Amsterdam.

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Creativiteit

Irene Koel
Speaker rated 4,2/5336 participants

(Dutch Only) Irene shows how creativity and choosing a different perspective can have a huge impact. She also explains that it takes guts and, above all, perseverance to be truly creative.

Irene Koel started as an advertiser and brand builder at FHV/BBDO, where she worked for 16 years for clients such as Albert Heijn, Sara Lee, Pepsi, Libertel, Smiths Food Group, Gamma, Greenpeace and Artis. Founder and owner The Zooooo, speaker, moderator: at employee days, client days, MT meeting, heath days.

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Critical Thinking

Michelle Schechter
Speaker rated 4,7/530 participants

The World Economic Forum lists critical thinking as a top skill needed for professional success in today’s economy. Maybe that’s because this core thinking skill supports problem-solving, breaks down echo chambers, and helps sort fact from fiction.

Michelle Schechter is a certified Career Purpose Coach and founder of Vantage Point, dedicated to helping people and teams around the world find lasting fulfillment, meaning and balance in their professional lives.

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Critical Thinking

Brennan Jacoby
Speaker rated 4,4/5207 participants

The World Economic Forum lists critical thinking as a top skill needed for professional success in today’s economy. Maybe that’s because this core thinking skill supports problem-solving, breaks down echo chambers, and helps sort fact from fiction.

Dr. Brennan Jacoby is a philosopher and the founder of Philosophy at Work, a collective of philosophers, business psychologists, academics and authors helping businesses think their best. Brennan holds a B.A., M.A.

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Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Aurelie Litynski
Speaker rated 4,5/5433 participants

Participants will discover the transformative power of emotional intelligence in the workplace and will gain a deep understanding of the core principles and components of emotional intelligence.

Aurelie Litynski is a TEDx speaker, author of the book 100 Ideas for a Positive Work Culture, as well as a certified Chief Happiness Officer and Chief Wellbeing Officer.

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Dealing with Adversity

Bruce Hood
Speaker rated 4,4/5561 participants

In a world of uncertainty, we cannot always control all the bad things that happen to us, but we can control the way that we respond to them by regulating our emotions.

Bruce Hood is the Director of the Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol. He undertook his Ph.D. at Cambridge followed by appointments at MIT and Harvard. He delivered the prestigious Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, “Meet Your Brain” which were broadcast on the BBC.

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Dealing with Adversity: A Stoic Approach

Martin Ebeling
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Any life worth living will come with challenges. To avoid them would mean to run away from what gives our life meaning. But how do best approach the challenges we face? How should we respond when we fail to meet them?

Dr. Martin Ebeling is a philosopher, leadership expert and heads the business program of The School of Life in Germany. He has made a name for himself in the past by helping hundreds of leaders to develop their potential.

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Delivering Feedback Without Destroying Trust

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

What we'll cover: Why most feedback fails (and it's not the person receiving it) The psychology of receiving criticism - what actually happens in people's brains Power dynamics: How your position changes how feedback lands The difference between feedback, criticism, and coaching What to say:...

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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Developing a Growth Mindset in the Workplace

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

Growth mindset isn't just corporate buzzwords - it's the difference between people who see challenges as dead ends and those who see them as opportunities to develop.

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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Developing Cultural Agility

Anne Parker
Speaker rated 4,7/5496 participants

The topic of culture can sometimes seem dry or theoretical, however in reality we all have a natural ability to connect with people from different cultural backgrounds and we do this everyday unaware of the skills and tools we are using.

Anne Parker is a qualified L&D professional and uses her wealth of experience to enable companies to develop capabilities such as cultural agility, intercultural communication and self leadership.

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Embedding Peak Performance Habits

Abigail Ireland
Speaker rated 4,5/520 participants

Most of us have a strong desire to regain control of our days, but the reality is much more reactive. Life gets busy and suddenly we’re back to familiar yet ineffective routines and habits. Our good intentions become a distant memory.

Abi Ireland is the founder of Understanding Performance, a leadership and training consultancy specialising in peak performance. As a Peak Performance Strategist, she integrates psychology, physiology and productivity into her unique Performance Advantage Method that enables executives and teams to achieve excellence...

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Embracing Change with Resilience

Aurelie Litynski
Speaker rated 4,5/5433 participants

Change is the only constant in life, and this session is your guide to not just surviving but thriving amidst change. Explore the power of resilience and learn how to navigate change with confidence, adaptability, and a renewed sense of purpose.

Aurelie Litynski is a TEDx speaker, author of the book 100 Ideas for a Positive Work Culture, as well as a certified Chief Happiness Officer and Chief Wellbeing Officer.

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Emotional Intelligence for High-Performance Cultures

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

Emotional intelligence isn't a personality trait you either have or you don't. It's a practice shaped by the culture around you. You can have the highest EQ in the building, and it won't matter if your environment punishes vulnerability and rewards performance over people.

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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Empathie im Businessalltag

Matthias Mittelsten Scheid
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Können wir uns Empathie im Berufsalltag leisten? Dürfen wir es uns als Mitarbeiter erlauben, empathisch zu sein? Schwächt ein empathisches Auftreten Führungskräfte in ihrer Position? Was ist eigentlich Empathie und wofür in aller Welt soll das gut sein?

Matthias Mittelsten Scheid (*1980) ist seit über 10 Jahren in leitenden HR-Funktionen. Nach seiner Bankausbildung studierte er an der Universität Mannheim, der LSE in London/UK, der USBE in Umea/Schweden sowie der Quadriga in Berlin.

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Empathy at Work: The Underrated Skill

Anita Nowak
Speaker rated 4,6/5239 participants

Empathy has never been more important. New technologies like AI and VR are set to unleash astonishing opportunities and unbridled risks. They will also propel us to reconsider how society is organised and what it means to be human.

Anita is an empathy expert, author & speaker, award-winning educator, and social impact coach. A Montreal native, Anita holds a doctoral degree from McGill University where she was named Professor of the Year in 2014 and 2019.

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Ethical Decision-Making

Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie
Speaker rated 4,6/5105 participants

Ethical decision making is not reserved for compliance teams or senior leaders. Everyone in an organisation faces difficult dilemmas where the right choice is not always obvious.

Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie is Philosopher and Founder of Phicilitate Ltd., Ethics Manager at the FTSE100 company BAE Systems, and author. He takes great pride in challenging traditionally held norms and seeks to provoke alternative thought through his work on practical philosophy, authentic leadership, uncertainty and...

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Fearless & Female: Improve Executive Presence - Lead with Impact

Sarah Farmer
Speaker rated 4,3/528 participants

Highly capable women often hesitate at key moments at work, not due to a lack of ability or confidence, but because they are navigating multiple expectations, responsibilities, and pressures simultaneously.

Sarah Farmer is a Global Executive Coach, author, and founder of Bright & Brilliant Ltd., a leadership development firm specialising in supporting C-suite executives, leadership teams, emerging senior leaders, and business owners.

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Feedback

Rod Ben Zeev
Speaker rated 4,6/51.992 participants

How do you give and receive feedback? We often find it difficult to tell someone what we really think. And when we do, the receiver is not always open to it and in the end, nothing changes. What is the right way? Rod gives an interactive session full of insights about human behaviour.

Rod Ben Zeev is an experiential designer, facilitator, and host. He works with the THNK School of Creative Leadership and The School of Life, and has designed and facilitated programs globally across innovation, systems thinking, strategy, leadership, and storytelling.

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Feedback Across Cultures: How to Be Heard, Understood and Trusted

Anne Parker
Speaker rated 4,7/5496 participants

Feedback should help people grow, but too often it creates tension, confusion or defensiveness. In international and diverse workplaces, feedback becomes even more complex because people have different expectations around honesty, directness, hierarchy, politeness, respect, trust and psychological...

Anne Parker is a qualified L&D professional and uses her wealth of experience to enable companies to develop capabilities such as cultural agility, intercultural communication and self leadership.

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Female Leadership

Lynne Franklin
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Your organization is committed to promoting and supporting women and other diverse leaders. This session offers a frank discussion of three big challenges these people face: hiring a diverse staff, managing and motivating their people, and maintaining their personal power in stressful...

After a boy threatened to kill her with a machete, Lynne Franklin started learning all she could about persuasion. As a “neuroscience nerd”, she translates how the brain works into practical, easy-to-use communication tools. Lynne is a leadership communication coach, trainer and speaker.

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Female Leadership

Kerstin Plehwe
Speaker rated 4,5/5490 participants

Female Leadership is in high demand in organizations but numbers show that often women are still not present at the tables of power. In this talk Kerstin shares powerful insights into the careers and learnings of outstanding female leaders she has worked with, from Olympic athletes and top...

Kerstin Plehwe, award winning entrepreneur, tedX speaker and bestselling author is a passionate advocate of women empowerment and one of the few top rated female inspirational speakers. Plehwe has been advising companies, personalities and organizations for more than 20 years.

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Find your Funny - Unlocking your Sense of Humor at Work

Andrew Tarvin
Speaker rated 4,2/593 participants

As the world settles back into some form of this new normal, you may have noticed something is missing. Amidst all the Zoom calls, reply-to-all emails, and attempts at hybrid work environments, many workers have lost their sense of humor and the workplace has lost its sense of humanity.

Andrew Tarvin is the CEO of Humor That Works, a leadership development company that teaches professionals how to use humor to achieve better business results. He has partnered with top organizations - including IBM, the UN, and the FBI - to solve human challenges with humor solutions.

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Foundations of Trust & Psychological Safety

Elaine Broe
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

While Trust and Psychological Safety are definitely intertwined (and to a large extent one feeds the other), they are different concepts: think in terms of Trust being about “how much I believe others”, whereas Psychological Safety is about “how much slack I believe others will cut me”.

Elaine has worked in organizations for the better part of her career, leading teams, navigating politics and getting the work done. She spent 11 years of her career at the Banff Centre, eventually leading program design in the leadership development division.

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Gen Z - How Are They Going To Change The World?

Jos Ahlers
Speaker rated 4,3/5177 participants

Generation Z (born between 1996 and 2012) is growing up. Most Z’s are still in school, although some members are gradually starting their professional life. In this leqture, Jos Ahlers discusses the rise of this unstoppable generation of networkers.

Dr. Jos Ahlers (1963) started his career at the University of Amsterdam. After his PhD in Psychology, he left academia and made the switch to the business world. In his career as a strategist, he advised numerous companies and institutions on positioning and marketing-communication.

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Generative AI for the Modern Workplace

Rory Tol
Speaker rated 4,5/5532 participants

At this point, the integration of AI in the workplace seems inevitable as many professionals are using it daily. But are we using it safely without risking company or client data? And how should you write instructions so AI yields the best results? That's what we'll cover in this session.

Rory Tol is an AI expert and storyteller with an academic background in Artificial Intelligence and experience performing comedy onstage. He combines technical depth with humour to turn complex AI concepts into practical insights teams can start using tomorrow.

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Great Performance Conversations!

Esther Rouhard
Speaker rated 4,3/5105 participants

Would it not be fantastic if everyone in your company or organization would be looking forward to their performance conversation!? For only 50% of the people that is the actual case. Let’s raise that number.

Esther Rouhard (1970) is a Coach, Facilitator and Trainer. She studied Fashion Management and works with tools like NLP and Insights Discovery. She has worked with a number of international organizations on personal growth, team effectiveness and leadership development.

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Growth Mindset: Turning Challenge into Insight

David Waters
Speaker rated 4,1/5103 participants

Inspired by the work of psychologist Carol Dweck, this practical and transformational talk explores growth mindset as a lived skill. David focuses on developing key competencies around effort, challenge, setbacks, feedback and learning from others.

David Waters is a business coach, psychotherapist, and corporate trainer with over fifteen years’ experience working with globally recognised organisations including Meta, NTT Data, Viacom, and the Southbank Centre. He has been a faculty member of The School of Life since 2010.

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Habits of High-Visibility Leaders

Fiona Passantino
Speaker rated 4,1/515 participants

Simple steps towards increasing your authentic leadership impact and effectiveness. We humans believe in the things we see. When we see and feel the presence of leadership, we are swept up in the vision and mission of the company and our team.

Fiona Passantino is an AI-Human keynote speaker, trainer, and facilitator. Her mission? To empower the non-technical Working Human to understand and use AI effectively, maximizing connection, engagement, and creativity for more joy and inspiration in the workplace.

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How do we Choose our Leaders?

Richard Ronay
Speaker rated 3,9/5135 participants

Richard provides a deeper insight into the psychological mechanisms with which we choose our leaders. Knowledge about our (unconscious) behaviour offers opportunities to design more effective organisations.

Richard Ronay is an assistant professor and currently teaches on issues related to leadership, culture, social intelligence, and conflict resolution at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to relocating to Amsterdam he was based in New York City, where he taught negotiations at Columbia Business School.

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How Experience Shapes Your Perception Of The World

Surya Gayet
Speaker rated 4,3/529 participants

Isn’t it obvious, why don’t they SEE it? It can be frustrating when you are presenting your work or ideas to your colleagues or supervisor, but they just don’t seem to get it.

Dr. Surya Gayet (1984) is a cognitive neuroscientist and experimental psychologist, who studies human consciousness, attention, perception, and memory. Surya published more than 30 scientific papers in the last decade, measuring eye- movements, behavior, and brain activity (functional MRI and electroencephalography)...

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How Leaders Create Curious Organisations

Stefaan van Hooydonk
Speaker rated 4,3/551 participants

The shadow a manager casts on the team is one of the biggest drivers for productivity, engagement and the feeling of well-being of the team. Those managers who do this well, uplift the team. Those who don’t, stifle it. The key to effective task management and people leadership is curiosity.

After building a distinguished career as Chief Learning Officer, a learning innovator and strategist for multinational companies such as Philips, Agfa, Cognizant, Flipkart and Nokia, Stefaan van Hooydonk founded the Global Curiosity Institute where he and his team are supporting professionals, teams and organisations...

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How To Become a Leader of Distinction

Onyi Anyado
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The year 2020 birthed a new order of disruption across the world and across the workplace including yours. But, disruption isn't actually a bad thing. As a leader, more than ever before, it's critical to know, understand and apply the practicality of how to locate, leverage and lead with your...

Onyi Anyado is a UK based global Leadership Speaker, Futurist and Corporate Trainer. Onyi speaks around the world at different conferences, events and organisations on various topics such as future thinking, the future of work, leadership development and distinction and AI and the cutting edge tech leader.

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How To Boost Happiness At Work

Aurelie Litynski
Speaker rated 4,5/5433 participants

Most of us tend to take care of our happiness in our private lives but that’s not always a priority at work. Maybe because happiness in the workplace is not always seen as a serious topic? Although studies prove differently.

Aurelie Litynski is a TEDx speaker,author of the book 100 Ideas for a Positive Work Culture, as well as a certified Chief Happiness Officer and Chief Wellbeing Officer.

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How to Boost your Career with Intentional Curiosity

Stefaan van Hooydonk
Speaker rated 4,3/551 participants

Every person is born with a healthy dose of curiosity. Some people can maintain this level through adulthood, many however see its original strength diminish over time. Curiosity is like a muscle.

After building a distinguished career as Chief Learning Officer, a learning innovator and strategist for multinational companies such as Philips, Agfa, Cognizant, Flipkart and Nokia, Stefaan van Hooydonk founded the Global Curiosity Institute where he and his team are supporting professionals, teams and organisations...

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How to Build an Open and Safe Learning/Working Environment

Joriene Beks
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Have you ever experienced walking out of a meeting or closing it, thinking "Why didn’t I say this or ask that?” And then immediately rectified it in your head with: "The wrong moment" "They'll probably think I'm stupid" "It wouldn’t have added anything" and "Who am I to jeopardize a project's...

Joriene Beks studied Business Administration and majored in Strategic Management. In the role of consultant/coach/interim, she has guided countless organizations in developing self-learning capabilities for almost 20 years. Joriene is the author of two bestsellers on psychological safety.

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How to Build Trust in Teams: The Foundation of High Performance Success

David Waters
Speaker rated 4,1/5103 participants

Based on Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team , this practical and impactful talk explores trust as the cornerstone of high-functioning teams. David focuses on vulnerability, openness and psychological safety as essential conditions for collaboration and performance.

David Waters is a business coach, psychotherapist, and corporate trainer with over fifteen years’ experience working with globally recognised organisations including Meta, NTT Data, Viacom, and the Southbank Centre. He has been a faculty member of The School of Life since 2010.

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How to Foster Psychological Safety at Work

Mikela Fenech Pace
Speaker rated 4,4/574 participants

Have you ever had to drag yourself out of bed to go to work? Have you ever felt scared to face your boss? Have you ever felt you were not free to speak your mind at work? Explore where this comes from and understand how you can identify work environments that foster psychological safety.

Mikela is a visiting leqturer at the University of Malta and is passionate about people and their potential to thrive in open and safe environments. A diplomat by profession, Mikela has adapted her skill set to the transformation of HR departments and organizations.

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How to Make Decisions

Zoia Mahjoubi
Speaker rated 4,6/5448 participants

Life is full of decisions. Everyday we are being greeted by a barrage of decisions from the moment we open our eyes: what to eat, what to wear, which project to tackle first — the list is endless.

Zoia Mahjoubi is a Berlin-based psychologist, speaker, and facilitator specializing in mindfulness and self-leadership. Integrating insights from psychology, neuroscience, and contemplative practice, she helps individuals and organizations strengthen awareness, manage stress, and lead with clarity and purpose.

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Identity-Led Leadership: leading through uncertainty

Louise Southam
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In times of uncertainty, identity drives leadership far more than strategy. This session explores how uncertainty amplifies reactive leadership patterns and offers a path to move from unconscious survival responses into conscious, intentional leadership.

With over 15 years of experience building and developing a successful management career within the IT recruitment sector, Louise transitioned her career towards the world of people development and found alignment with her values and life's purpose.

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Improving Concentration in a World Full of Distraction

Stefan van der Stigchel
Speaker rated 4,4/5443 participants

Emails, apps, banners, push notifications, trending topics and cat videos – today it's harder than ever to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time. Is that a problem? Yes, because concentration is indispensable to be able to work creatively and productively.

Attention expert and cognitive psychologist Stefan van der Stigchel helps you to emerge victorious from the battle for your attention. He shows how concentration works, makes clear how we sometimes misuse our working memory and explains the latest scientific insights.

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Inclusive Leadership: Succeeding Across Cultures

Tash Koster-Thomas
Speaker rated 4,8/5193 participants

This session equips leaders with the knowledge and tools to build strong, respectful relationships across cultural boundaries. Participants will explore cultural dimensions, communication styles, and leadership approaches that vary across global contexts.

Tash Koster-Thomas (she/her) is an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker, and LGBTQ+ Activist who stands at the forefront of transformative conversations.

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Influencing Without Authority

Meg Mateer
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In many organisations, influence rarely comes from formal authority alone. Decisions are shaped by trust, informal networks, competing interests, and invisible dynamics beneath the surface. When progress stalls, many professionals instinctively double down on logic, data, or persuasion.

Meg Mateer is an organisational psychologist, keynote speaker, and leadership facilitator and the owner of Momentum Leadership Development. With over 15 years of experience, she has delivered transformation talks and leadership programmes for global organisations including Heineken, adidas, ABN AMRO, and Rituals.

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Judgement & Decision-Making

Robert Rowland Smith
Speaker rated 4,3/5110 participants

Sometimes we make good decisions. Other times, we make really bad ones. What is it that creates the difference? The answer tends to polarise. On the one hand, it is thought that the way to good decision-making lies in pure reason. The more logical and objective we are, the better the decision.

Robert Rowland Smith was for 7 years a Prize Fellow at Oxford and is a consultant, leqturer and writer on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis. For years, he had a column in the Sunday Times on moral dilemmas and he contributes regularly to BBC TV and radio.

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Leading in Complexity

Robert Wolfe
Speaker rated 4,6/5749 participants

- Session available on-site only - Sometimes, the way we approach a problem becomes the problem itself, but we may not be aware of it. For instance, when we address complex situations with a linear mindset and find that our solutions have limited impact, it can be surprising.

Robert Wolfe is a leadership coach, storytelling trainer and innovation facilitator at the THNK School of Creative Leadership. Wolfe was born in Australia and educated in the Netherlands (studying business administration at Nyenrode and international politics at the UvA), lived in London where he wrote a book on...

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Leading Transformation

Roeland Dikker Hupkes
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The only constant is change. Maybe this is more true today then ever before. At the same time we still see that 70% of change initiatives in organizations don’t deliver the desired impact and managing transformations is becoming more and more complex every day.

Roeland has a master in organizational sciences (University of Utrecht) and a master in Political Sciences (University of Amsterdam). He spent the past 17 years working in the field of organizational development, leadership and change.

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Leading with Empathy and Humility

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

Leadership isn't about having all the answers; it's about creating space for everyone's brilliance to emerge. This workshop challenges the myth that vulnerability is weakness and explores how the strongest leaders admit what they don't know.

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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Leading with Positivity & Authenticity

Aurelie Litynski
Speaker rated 4,5/5433 participants

Studies clearly show that leaders have a huge influence on employees’ well-being and performance. This interactive session gives leaders the knowledge and hands-on tools they need to support their employees in being happier and more productive.

Aurelie Litynski is a TEDx speaker, author of the book 100 Ideas for a Positive Work Culture, as well as a certified Chief Happiness Officer and Chief Wellbeing Officer.

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Less Stressed (but more productive)

Dr. Tharaka
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Stress and Burnout are on the rise in the workplace now more than ever before. This attacks our wellbeing, performance and company profit. The post-lockdown working world seems to have turned up the dial on the demand in our lives - more message requests, too many tasks, not enough time, less ‘off’...

Dr. Tharaka ‘Dr T’ high performance expert and psychiatrist, is a three-times TEDx speaker, Podcaster and has recently appeared in the new celebrity TV series in the UK - "Can I Improve My Memory?" on Channel 4.

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Lessons In Leadership From The War Room

Marjolijn van Oordt
Speaker rated 4,2/582 participants

How we take decisions has a huge impact on the outcome of those decisions and the impact we make based on these decisions. The most difficult decision making takes place when the stakes are high and time is limited.

Marjolijn van Oordt is an international expert on crisis readiness. Throughout her career she has guided organizations through more than 200 crisis situations by de-escalating, solid decision making and strategic insight. She has the ability to discern patterns where others see clutter.

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Managing Gen-Z with Confidence

Roy Gluckman
Speaker rated 4,4/5208 participants

Many managers feel they’re "managing on eggshells" around Gen Z, wary of their directness and social awareness. But what if, instead of fearing this generation, we saw them as a catalyst for growth?

Roy is a qualified attorney and a director at Run to the Monster, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) short-video training organisation. Roy speaks passionately on all matters relating to DEIB.

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Mastering our Stress Level and Boosting Focus at Work

Aurelie Litynski
Speaker rated 4,5/5433 participants

In this interactive expert session, Aurelie Litynski shares practical strategies to help professionals manage stress, improve focus, and build sustainable wellbeing at work.

Aurelie Litynski is a TEDx speaker,author of the book 100 Ideas for a Positive Work Culture, as well as a certified Chief Happiness Officer and Chief Wellbeing Officer.

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Mastering Team Dynamics

Abigail Ireland
Speaker rated 4,5/520 participants

Every exceptional team exists because of the individuals within it. We’ve all heard the phrase, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and great teams are no exception. When we get our team composition and dynamics right, we can together take performance and culture to the next level.

Abi Ireland is the founder of Understanding Performance, a leadership and training consultancy specialising in peak performance. As a Peak Performance Strategist, she integrates psychology, physiology and productivity into her unique Performance Advantage Method that enables executives and teams to achieve excellence...

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Mastering The Art of Public Presentation

Dmitry Kopelyanskiy
Speaker rated 4,5/558 participants

In this expert session, Dmitry shares insights on effective public speaking and delivering engaging presentations with confidence. He begins by emphasizing the significance of clear communication in both personal and professional contexts.

Dmitry is a passionate speaker and science communicator dedicated to distilling complex concepts into clear and structured messages. Renowned for his exceptional skills in scientific storytelling and public speaking, he has earned multiple prestigious awards, including winning Famelab Switzerland 2018 and three-time...

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Microaggressions in the Workplace

Laura te Hennepe
Speaker rated 4,4/511 participants

Harvard professor and psychiatrist Dr. Chester Pierce faced a specific form of discrimination in the 1970s. He described it as ‘subtle, mind-boggling, often automatic, and nonverbal exchanges that ‘put black people down’.

Laura te Hennepe brings over 15 years of expertise as a systemic expert deeply connected to the social dynamics of the workplace. Formerly associated with FranklinCovey, she has transitioned into a role as the founder of The Third, a pioneering company offering both strategic D&I programs for companies and immersive...

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Mindful Communication

Zoia Mahjoubi
Speaker rated 4,6/5448 participants

Skillful communication and warm connection are needed today more than ever before — whether that be in your professional or personal life. Mindful communication combines effective communication with the principles of mindfulness, which include kind and non-judgmental awareness as well as genuine...

Zoia Mahjoubi is a Berlin-based psychologist, speaker, and facilitator specializing in mindfulness and self-leadership. Integrating insights from psychology, neuroscience, and contemplative practice, she helps individuals and organizations strengthen awareness, manage stress, and lead with clarity and purpose.

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Mindset for Collaboration

Rod Ben Zeev
Speaker rated 4,6/51.992 participants

In a few interactive, playful exercises Rod shows people how to switch from ‘Yes, but’ to ‘Yes, and’. Learn how to use active listening techniques to better communicate with others and build on each others ideas.

Rod Ben Zeev is an experiential designer, facilitator, and host. He works with the THNK School of Creative Leadership and The School of Life, and has designed and facilitated programs globally across innovation, systems thinking, strategy, leadership, and storytelling.

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Moving Procrastinations into Focus

Raul Aparici
Speaker rated 4,3/553 participants

In busy times we all tend to put off choices. Procrastination is therefore recognizable for everyone. But where does it come from and why do we do it? In this highly practical, interactive and experiential session, we will discover: -Why do our brains like to procrastinate-What drives our...

Raul Aparici is a London based speaker, coach and facilitator. He is the Head of Faculty at The School of Life, a global organisation teaching people how to lead calmer and more resilient lives.

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Navigating Challenging Conversations

Meg Mateer
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Every meaningful piece of work eventually runs into tension — different priorities, unspoken frustrations, and conversations we postpone because they feel risky or emotionally charged. Many professionals either avoid the real issue in the name of harmony, or push too hard and create resistance.

Meg Mateer is an organisational psychologist, keynote speaker, and leadership facilitator and the owner of Momentum Leadership Development. With over 15 years of experience, she has delivered transformation talks and leadership programmes for global organisations including Heineken, adidas, ABN AMRO, and Rituals.

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Negotiations

Eduard Beltran
Speaker rated 4,1/592 participants

Negotiation is everywhere and negotiation is part of our lives. In this interactive leqture, Eduard will explain why negotiations can be so complex sometimes and what are the key tips to keep in mind to be successful in your negotiations from a very complex business deal to a friendly negotiation...

Eduard Beltran is a lawyer, lecturer, consultant, and expert speaker on negotiation. In recent years, he has trained over 10,000 professionals from all over the world.

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Overcoming Your Inner Critic

Inbal Lori
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This session offers insight into how fear shapes behavior, and how reducing self-censorship can unlock originality, boldness, and play. Research shows that between 30–40% of women report holding back and censoring themselves in public expression.

Inbal Lori is a graduate of an Art High School (1994) and the Nisan Nativ acting studio (2000). Since then, She wrote and played for television and theater and has won prizes and scholarships for her acting and writing.

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Positive Psychology

Spencer Heijnen
Speaker rated 4,4/5337 participants

What is the theory of happiness and what are your opportunities to become happier? Should you believe in karma or take matters into your own hands? Why are ivy league universities’ most popular courses about wellbeing and happiness. What is so interesting about positive psychology?

Prior to becoming a trainer and consultant, Spencer studied as a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford. He teaches positive psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Spencer is also a member of the Dutch National ThinkTank.

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Positive Psychology

Björn Atterstam
Speaker rated 4,2/5105 participants

What makes you really happy and what do you value most in life? Positive psychology is the scientific study of how people and organisations are enabled to realise their potential optimally. If our brains are in a positive state, we are more productive and accurate.

Björn Atterstam is a psychologist, he is a pioneer in human-driven innovations and personal development. For more than 20 years he has been working with large organisations across the world to create novel and impactful approaches for developing strategy, organisations and individuals.

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Practical Psychological Safety

Dr. Tharaka
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Psychological Safety is a well documented driver of high performance in teams and organisations. It is the climate of openness between people that allows the freedom to speak up, ask questions and safely challenge perspectives in a constrictive way that weed out risk and drive better results.

Dr. Tharaka ‘Dr T’ high performance expert and psychiatrist, is a three-times TEDx speaker, Podcaster and has recently appeared in the new celebrity TV series in the UK - "Can I Improve My Memory?" on Channel 4.

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Problem Solving: A Practical Framework

Steven Campbell-Harris
Speaker rated 4,3/531 participants

Many of us think of our ‘problems’ in a very limiting way- as things that are broken which need to be fixed. Yet considered more broadly, a problem is just anything in our lives that could be better than it currently is.

As a philosopher, facilitator, and writer, Steven specialises in helping businesses and professionals unlock their full potential by improving how they think. At The School of Life and Philosophy at Work, he empowers individuals and teams to solve problems more effectively, make better decisions, and work more...

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Public Speaking

Michael Diederich
Speaker rated 4,6/5263 participants

Public speaking is nerve-racking for most people and is often named as the one thing people fear most. Michael Diederich knows how to take your (online) presentation skills to the next level.

Transforming how businesses think through improvisation, Michael Diederich helps teams and individuals improve themselves, making them better at their jobs, and better colleagues. He teaches people techniques that belong to everyone's skill set.

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Saying Yes And... The Fundamentals Of Comedy In Business

Monika Smith
Speaker rated 4,1/535 participants

Success in business is dependent upon collaboration and innovation, and a lack of vulnerability amongst team members causes many new ideas to be squashed before they can flourish.

Monika is an actor and screenwriter with more than 40 television credits. She has performed, directed, and taught improv and sketch writing at some of the most renowned comedy institutions including Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Second City, and Nerdist.

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Stakeholder Management: Getting Noticed and Getting Buy-In Without Begging

Olga Labutina
Speaker rated 4,8/525 participants

You can be the most competent person in the room and still lose the budget, the headcount, the promotion. Not because your work wasn't good. Because the decision was already made in a conversation you weren't part of. That's not politics. That's how organizations actually work.

Olga Labutina is an Executive & Leadership Coach who works with senior leaders from companies like Amazon, Stripe, Microsoft, LVMH and many more. She specialises in executive presence, strategic communication, and stakeholder management, helping high-performing leaders translate their expertise into influence,...

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Strategic Storytelling for Career Visibility: From Informing to Influencing

Olga Labutina
Speaker rated 4,8/525 participants

You spend weeks building rigorous analysis. Leadership thanks you and moves on. A colleague presents half the data with a strong narrative and gets a decision. That is not unfair. That is how brains and organizations work. People do not remember information.

Olga Labutina is an Executive & Leadership Coach who works with senior leaders from companies like Amazon, Stripe, Microsoft, LVMH and many more. She specialises in executive presence, strategic communication, and stakeholder management, helping high-performing leaders translate their expertise into influence,...

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Strategic Thinking for Leaders Who Are Still Too Deep in the Weeds

Olga Labutina
Speaker rated 4,8/525 participants

Most organizations can identify their strongest executors. Fewer can identify who among them is ready to think like a strategist. This session closes that gap.

Olga Labutina is an Executive & Leadership Coach who works with senior leaders from companies like Amazon, Stripe, Microsoft, LVMH and many more. She specialises in executive presence, strategic communication, and stakeholder management, helping high-performing leaders translate their expertise into influence,...

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Stress & Decision Making

Tobias Kalenscher
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Despite the still frequently made assumption that humans are consistent, sophisticated, and selfish decision-makers, decades of research in the behavioral sciences suggest that individuals are often much less rational and egoistic than originally assumed.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Kalenscher has a diploma in psychology. He received a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Ruhr-University Bochum in 2005. He went to the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for a post-doc position in systems biology and, later, an independent researcher position on a VENI grant.

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Stress In Teams

Kilian Wawoe
Speaker rated 4,4/5407 participants

We are suddenly driven into a rapidly changing world. The uncertainty, the changes in everyone's work / life balance, the workload and the personal challenges have significantly increased the stress we encounter as individuals and in our teams. But how do you deal with stress in a team?

Kilian Wawoe is an organisational psychologist who has held several top HR positions, lastly as vice-president for West- and Southern-Europe within ABN AMRO. He researched the impact of bonuses on bankers and works as a professor HR Management as well as a consultant and public speaker.

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Sustain Your Edge: Prevent burnout and build a sustainable lifestyle

Basma Aziz
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This lecture by Basma Aziz is a science-backed, actionable session designed for professionals and organizations to maintain peak performance without compromising wellbeing.

Basma Aziz is a wellbeing consultant and strategist who helps organizations build healthier, more resilient workplaces. She equips HR and leaders to spot stress early, support employees effectively, and embed wellbeing as a driver of performance and growth.

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The Art of Asking Better Questions

Steven Campbell-Harris
Speaker rated 4,3/531 participants

We often think innovation begins with a brilliant idea, but the real breakthrough usually comes earlier. As Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, put it: ‘What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question’.

As a philosopher, facilitator, and writer, Steven specialises in helping businesses and professionals unlock their full potential by improving how they think. At The School of Life and Philosophy at Work, he empowers individuals and teams to solve problems more effectively, make better decisions, and work more...

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The Art of Storytelling

Lauren Maxwell
Speaker rated 4,6/592 participants

Lauren lets you experience how you can use a story from your own life to convey a message and convince the people around you to follow you. A leadership skill that has garnered a lot of attention in the past decade and has proven to be crucial for business leaders.

Lauren Maxwell is an Amsterdam-based storyteller, producer, and performer with over 30 years of on/off experience in theatre and comedy, both in the U.S. and Europe. She has performed extensively in the Netherlands in storytelling and theatre productions, although only recently making it her professional career.

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The Art of Storytelling

Robert Wolfe
Speaker rated 4,6/5749 participants

Robert Wolfe lets you experience how you can use a story from your own life to convey a message and convince the people around you to follow you. A leadership skill that has garnered a lot of attention in the past decade and has proven to be crucial for business leaders.

Limited Availability. The Art of Storytelling with Lauren Maxwell is also available.

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The Art of Strategic Visibility From High Performer to Visible Leader

Olga Labutina
Speaker rated 4,8/525 participants

You're doing the work. Someone else is getting the promotion. If you've been told you're "reliable," "detail-oriented," or that you "always deliver"—and then passed over for advancement—you're experiencing what I call the Reliable Paradox.

Olga Labutina is an Executive & Leadership Coach who works with senior leaders from companies like Amazon, Stripe, Microsoft, LVMH and many more. She specialises in executive presence, strategic communication, and stakeholder management, helping high-performing leaders translate their expertise into influence,...

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The Competitive Advantage of Disability Confident Leadership

Lesa Bradshaw
Speaker rated 4,7/566 participants

What ‘disables’ you? An odd question on the face of it, but a pertinent one when we consider that we bring with us to business a diverse range of abilities, potentials and lived experiences which, context depending, may be fully unleashed, or restricted.

Lesa is a strategic advisor to multi-national, national and local employers, public and private institutions, and an internationally acclaimed Disability Confidence Champion with 28 years of leadership experience across developed and developing economies.

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The Creative Mindset At Work

Monica McCarthy
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Creativity is often misunderstood as a rare talent reserved for artists, while in reality it is a practical and learnable skill that lies at the heart of effective problem solving. In this session, Monica McCarthy challenges participants to rethink creativity as a mindset rather than a gift.

Monica is an interdisciplinary communications and storytelling expert with over a decade of experience helping organizations strengthen emotional intelligence, collaboration, and creativity.

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The Feedback Dilemma

Alessandra Patti
Speaker rated 4,6/575 participants

Feedback is considered essential in modern organizations — yet it is often poorly delivered, misunderstood, or emotionally charged. This session challenges traditional feedback models (including the “feedback sandwich”) and explores why feedback frequently fails to improve performance.

Alessandra Patti, is a professional trainer and consultant with a background in linguistics, psychology and marketing, and she has been nominated one of the top 15 coaches in Zurich for the year 2023.

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The Growth Mindset

Rod Ben Zeev
Speaker rated 4,6/51.992 participants

In this 60 minute interactive session, Rod makes the case that the success or failure of everything we do depends on only one factor: being in the growth mindset.

Rod Ben Zeev is an experiential designer, facilitator, and host. He works with the THNK School of Creative Leadership and The School of Life, and has designed and facilitated programs globally across innovation, systems thinking, strategy, leadership, and storytelling.

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The Hospitality Mindset

Sander Allegro
Speaker rated 4,4/590 participants

High Tech calls for High Touch! In a world where technology plays an ever-increasing role, the importance the of real personal contact is increasing and so is the value of it.

Sander Allegro brings his passion for service excellence and hospitality into practice from various roles. He is chairman of Quality Lodgings, a collection of 116 exceptional top hotels in 9 countries, is owner/consultant at strategic consultancy Allegro Innovations and is visiting full professor of service excellence...

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The Human Advantage for Stronger, High-Performing Teams

Kat Thorne
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AI is changing the tools we use. Your habits determine the results you achieve. In this engaging and interactive session, positive habits expert Kat Thorne explores why your habits are the operating system behind every decision, and action you take - and why they are becoming your greatest...

Kat Thorne is an international keynote speaker, behaviour change expert and creator of the Positive Habits Podcast. Following a life-changing burnout that forced her to rebuild her life from scratch, Kat has dedicated her life to understanding how small daily habits create extraordinary personal and professional...

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The Human Advantage: Protecting Wellbeing in the Age of AI

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

In this session, Abi Adamson explores the quiet ways AI is reshaping how people feel at work: the pressure to keep pace with constant change, the creeping sense of being less capable than the machine, anxiety about the future, and the slow erosion of genuine human connection.

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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The Human Advantage: What AI Cannot Copy About Culture

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

Most workplaces are getting AI wrong. Not because they are investing too much in the technology, but because they are forgetting to invest in the humans who have to use it.

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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The Importance of Cognitive Diversity

Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie
Speaker rated 4,6/5105 participants

While diversity is a priority for many organizations, Ben delves deeper into the concept, specifically focusing on cognitive diversity. Organizational challenges are plenty, such as promoting workplace equity, fostering inclusivity, building sustainable businesses, and adapting to evolving employee...

Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie is Philosopher and Founder of Phicilitate Ltd., Ethics Manager at the FTSE100 company BAE Systems, and author. He takes great pride in challenging traditionally held norms and seeks to provoke alternative thought through his work on practical philosophy, authentic leadership, uncertainty and...

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The Power of Thoughts

Daphne Feller
Speaker rated 4,5/5517 participants

How you navigate through life and how you feel largely depends on your thoughts. Your thoughts are immensely powerful. They determine how you feel, your decisions and your actions. There will always be events and circumstances that you cannot control.

Daphne founded her company BrainExplainers in 2016. BrainExplainers provides knowledge about the human brain (neuroscience) and heart intelligence. Daphne has 12 years of (senior) corporate work experience.

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The Secrets to Meaningful Productivity

Robbie Swale
Speaker rated 4,3/5113 participants

Robbie Swale, executive coach and author of the 12-Minute Method series, shares his blueprint for meaningful productivity, moving from busyness to impact.

Robbie Swale is a leadership coach, author and podcaster whose work focuses on creativity, leading with honour and the craft of coaching. Alongside his direct client work, he has run coaching, training and facilitation for organisations including Moonpig, the Royal Opera House, Deutsche Bank and the University of...

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The Value of Conflict in Organizations

Nina Blussé
Speaker rated 4,0/575 participants

This session, led by expert speaker Nina Blussé, explores conflict in the workplace, its underlying mechanisms, and how teams and organizations can harness it for growth, collaboration, and innovation.

Nina Blussé is a social psychologist/trainer. She worked as a manager of IMC Weekendschool in Amsterdam and was co-developer and senior lecturer of the Applied Psychology program at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

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The Way To A Coaching Culture

Martin Ebeling
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Coaching is a crucial skill to develop the potential of individual employees and to inspire a culture of learning and growth in an organization. In this session, we will explore the difference in attitude and practice between managing and coaching someone, explore what lies at the foundation of the...

Dr. Martin Ebeling is a philosopher, leadership expert and heads the business program of The School of Life in Germany. He has made a name for himself in the past by helping hundreds of leaders to develop their potential.

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The Wellbeing Of Your Employees - A Strategic Imperative

Geoff McDonald
Speaker rated 4,5/5301 participants

Geoff shares his own powerful story of mental ill health and makes the link between wellbeing and organisational performance. He makes the case for wellbeing to be a strategic priority within the Exec team/Board room.

Geoff is a global advocate, campaigner and consultant in addressing the stigma of mental ill-health in the workplace. He inspires and provokes organisations globally to put purpose and wellbeing at the centre of everything they do by motivating people to take action in creating workplaces that enhance the lives of...

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Thinking Like a Brand And Amplifying Your Professional Persona

Jonathan A.J. Wilson
Speaker rated 4,4/567 participants

The trend of professionals who control their public narrative, engage with authenticity, and do so by creating a personal brand is seeing increasing rewards – both for them and the organisations they work for. Professor Jonathan A.J.

Professor Wilson is an award-winning branding practitioner and academic with two doctorates. He has worked with governments, organizations, and people on branding countries, products, services, and people.

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Thinking with AI

Steven Campbell-Harris
Speaker rated 4,3/531 participants

Generative AI is transforming knowledge work. But while the technology feels revolutionary, the underlying challenge is not new. Throughout history, every major cognitive tool- from writing and the printing press to calculators and the Internet- has extended human capability while changing the way...

As a philosopher, facilitator, and writer, Steven specialises in helping businesses and professionals unlock their full potential by improving how they think. At The School of Life and Philosophy at Work, he empowers individuals and teams to solve problems more effectively, make better decisions, and work more...

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Train the Trainer

Rod Ben Zeev
Speaker rated 4,6/51.992 participants

Rod Ben Zeev discusses the nuances of online facilitation, focusing on the importance of psychological safety and understanding diverse communication styles. He emphasizes that creating trust within teams enhances participation and productivity.

Rod is an experiential designer, facilitator and host. He works with the THNK School of Creative Leadership and has designed and facilitated hundreds of programs around the world in innovation, system's thinking, leadership and storytelling for custom programs and the Executive Leadership Program.

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Transferable Skills: Elevating Your Potential

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After this session, your organization will: Increase workforce adaptability: Equip employees to thrive in evolving roles and changing business priorities. Boost internal mobility: Empower employees to see how their skills translate across teams and functions.

During the expert session, Michelle Schechter engages participants through a series of interactive activities.

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Transform Your Team’s Mindset: Unreasonable Hospitality Workshop

Rod Ben Zeev
Speaker rated 4,6/51.992 participants

"People will forget what you said... but people will never forget how you made them feel," - Maya Angelou This hands-on workshop translates the principles of Unreasonable Hospitality into real business impact—teaching teams to build authentic connection, practice radical presence, and tailor every...

Rod Ben Zeev is an experiential designer, facilitator, and host. He works with the THNK School of Creative Leadership and The School of Life, and has designed and facilitated programs globally across innovation, systems thinking, strategy, leadership, and storytelling.

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Unlock Your Strengths at Work

Nele Clüver
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What if your greatest potential isn’t hidden in fixing your weaknesses, but in amplifying what already makes you great? In this inspiring and interactive session, strengths coach and facilitator Nele Clüver invites participants to shift their perspective from what’s missing to what’s working.

Nele Clüver is a seasoned facilitator and strengths-based leadership coach who helps professionals shift from “fixing weaknesses” to truly amplifying what already makes them great.

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Unpacking Psychological Safety: To Feel Safe is to Thrive

Roy Gluckman
Speaker rated 4,4/5208 participants

Psychological safety exists within authentic relationships. Creating authentic relationships takes time, effort and emotional vulnerability - three things that are missing from our organisational spaces today.

Roy is a qualified attorney and a director at Run to the Monster, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) short-video training organisation. Roy speaks passionately on all matters relating to DEIB.

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What Does Masculinity Mean to You?

Roy Gluckman
Speaker rated 4,4/5208 participants

This keynote invites all genders to explore the complex role of masculinity in today’s workplace. The session unpacks how traditional ideas of manhood affect gender dynamics, leadership styles, and men’s ability to access mental health support.

Roy is a qualified attorney and a director at Run to the Monster, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) short-video training organisation. Roy speaks passionately on all matters relating to DEIB.

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Wisdom of the Stoics

Martin Ebeling
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The ancient philosophy of stoicism has experienced a huge comeback in recent years. The reason is simple: Stoic philosophers knew a variety of techniques that they used to face the vagaries of life and overcome crises.

Dr. Martin Ebeling is a philosopher, leadership expert and heads the business program of The School of Life in Germany. He has made a name for himself in the past by helping hundreds of leaders to develop their potential.

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Working Across Generations: Beyond the Stereotypes

Abi Adamson
Speaker rated 4,6/560 participants

Five generations in one workplace, and we're still pretending the tension is about work ethic or technology. This workshop exposes how ageism flows in all directions and why generational conflict is often about power, respect, and whose experience counts as expertise.

Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing...

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You CAN improve your memory

Dr. Tharaka
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"What’s their name again? Why did I walk into this room? What were my 4 actions from that last team meeting? Where did I put my car keys?! Aaaargh!” We all have ‘memory’ but we all seem to want to improve it. But how?

Dr. Tharaka ‘Dr T’ high performance expert and psychiatrist, is a three-times TEDx speaker, Podcaster and has recently appeared in the new celebrity TV series in the UK - "Can I Improve My Memory?" on Channel 4.

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Zeitmanagement Vortrag: Vom Getriebenen zur treibenden Kraft

Jörn Steinz
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In this session you will receive 10 inspiring and practical impulses for better self-organization. This includes recommendations for your daily planning, weekly planning and general prioritization and organization of your tasks. You will learn how to act more and react more appropriately.

Jörn Steinz is an experienced time management trainer who has been experimenting with all kinds of time management methods for years. Based on his productivity experiments, Jörn Steinz shows in his time management lecture how everyone can become more productive, relaxed and self-determined using simple systems and...

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