Female Leadership

During the expert session, Kerstin Plehwe engages the audience through storytelling, live demonstrations of courage and resilience, and interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app. She shares her personal experiences and interviews with successful female leaders to emphasize the importance of self-confidence, purpose, communication, adaptability, and teamwork in female leadership. The session concludes with thought-provoking questions on self-care through the Mentimeter app, encouraging participants to prioritize their health for peak performance and positive impact.

• Embracing Self-Confidence: Cultivating self-confidence is essential for achieving personal and professional success as female leaders, drawing inspiration from the experiences of influential women like Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton.
• Purposeful Leadership: Having a strong sense of purpose and vision in leadership enables effective communication and adaptability, as illustrated by the stories of courageous women like Afghan activist Zah Pagad and German Olympic athlete Berget Fisher.
• Overcoming Limits and Discovering Potential: Stepping out of comfort zones and embracing new experiences is crucial for personal growth and unlocking one's potential, as demonstrated through examples like Kerstin Plehwe's own journey to becoming a ranger in South Africa and founding Voice of Afghan Women.

In this expert session, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Kerstin Plehwe shares valuable insights into the topic of female leadership. The session begins with Kerstin expressing her passion for empowering women in all industries and reflecting on her encounters with influential female leaders such as Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton. She shares how their self-confidence and purpose have left a profound impact on her, inspiring her to embark on a mission to interview successful female leaders worldwide.

Throughout the session, Kerstin emphasizes the importance of self-confidence in achieving leadership goals. She draws from interviews with these women, who all stressed the significance of having faith in oneself and one's abilities. Kerstin also highlights the importance of having a strong sense of purpose and vision, using Afghan women's rights activist Zah Pagad as an example. Zah shares her inspiring story of standing up against gender inequality in Afghanistan and fighting for girls' education during the Taliban regime.

Courage is another essential quality Kerstin discusses in the context of female leadership. She encourages everyone to develop their self-confidence through personal practices, citing examples of women who have taken bold steps to overcome challenges and make a difference. Communication and adaptability are also crucial skills for effective leadership, which Kerstin illustrates using examples from various successful female leaders.

Kerstin's session includes a discussion on the importance of taking action swiftly and effectively as part of any successful leadership journey. She emphasizes teamwork and appreciation for those around us in achieving personal and professional excellence. Kerstin further encourages participants to step out of their comfort zones and discover their potential, drawing parallels from her own experiences of becoming a ranger in South Africa and climbing Mount Everest from both sides.

Throughout the session, Kerstin emphasizes the importance of having a clear personal purpose and vision in life and encourages audience members to identify their comfort zones and challenge themselves with new experiences that align with their values. She also discusses women and power, urging participants to redefine power positively and overcome limiting beliefs.

As the session comes to a close, Kerstin offers recommendations for inspirational biographies and personalities that can help inspire and lift one's spirits. She concludes by emphasizing the importance of prioritizing self-care and creating a life that gives energy rather than draining it. The session ends with an invitation for participants to reflect on their own self-care habits and invest in themselves to be at their best and make a positive impact on those around them.

It’s Ok not to be Ok: Personal Excellence and Mental Health Strategies

1 in 4 people will experience a mental health disorder during their lifetime and the numbers keep rising. In this interactive, insightful and inspiring talk, Kerstin shares her powerful learnings from her personal experience of healing and invites listeners to take a completely new look at mental wellbeing and prevention strategies. Get an authentic and highly practical view on how we can all protect ourselves and also support our colleagues and friends when our help is needed. Kerstin calls for collaboration, de-stigmatises mental health and inspires the audience to redesign their personal habits, lifestyle, and work rituals in order to maintain optimal health and happiness. Kerstin’s pathway to recovery and resilience is a powerful door opener to a new understanding of mental wellbeing and an action provoking call to jointly overcome stigma and to establish new, lasting levels of personal excellence and corporate wellbeing.

• Very inspiring conference with a good timing and a good energy.
• Very interesting and inspiring.
• Great presentation, smooth simple with a strong message.
• Very informative session and very practical inputs shared..
• It's so inspiring. Great time.