Katharina Partyka ist die Gründerin des ethischen Modegeschäfts Kiss the Inuit und der gemeinnützigen Plattform für nachhaltigen Konsum Iglu gUG.

Mutig, engagiert und Vorreiterin für nachhaltigen Konsum - Katharina Partyka ist eine intuitive und sehr erfolgreiche Unternehmerin, die mit viel Herz, gesellschaftlichem Engagement und zugleich unprätentiös ihre Unternehmen führt.

In diesem Gespräch lernen Sie etwas über Gründergeist und unternehmerisches Handeln mit Optimismus.

My Podcast Guest today is Erik Wirsing, Vice President of Global Innovation at DB Schenker.

Erik is very passionate about the work he does and we had a fascinating conversation about Innovation. I learned a lot!

Together with his team, he is responsible for bringing new knowledge and ideas to many different areas of the business, as well as fostering a culture of innovation in the organisation.

We talked about passion, curiosity and diversity as drivers and innovation boosters. But also about how to keep the eyes open on what´s going on out there, and to stay up to date even after so many years in the same company.

He shares generously insights into how the company managed to navigate the business through the pandemic with even one of the best results of the last years. And how the home office situation brought him and his team even closer together, very human and touching.

Erik also shares his personal journey through his career and how he overcame stage nervousness.

I hope you enjoy this very inspiring exchange as much as I did!

Dr Nicole Meier ist Betriebsleiterin bei BASF im Werk in Ludwigshafen.

In diesem sehr offenen, facettenreichen und warmherzigen Gespräch erfahren Sie über Führung in der Produktion aus der Sicht einer Vorreiterin.

Wir sprechen über viele Themen: über Kulturveränderung in einem Produktionsbetrieb, über Produktion in Zeiten von Corona und Transformation, darüber wie sie als Frau in einer noch eher Männerdomäne mit wenig weiblichen Vorbildern, ihre Authentizität und ihren eigenen Führungsstill gefunden hat. Aber auch über wertschätzende Kommunikation und Trouble Shooting, über die Führung eines grossen Betriebes, als Mutter in Teilzeit, und über Ihr Engagement für mehr Frauen in der Produktion.

Mich haben auch beeindruck, wie es ihr gelungen ist, lange verankerte hierarchische betriebliche Verhaltensmuster mit viel Menschlichkeit und Klarheit in Richtung mehr Selbstverantwortung und bestmöglicher Nutzung der kollektiven Intelligenz zu bringen. Ein sehr schönes Beispiel von Kulturwandel.

Und natürlich, Ihre wunderbare Herzlichkeit: "Leading with Heart"!

Geniessen Sie dieses schöne Gespräch.

Vanessa Bauschatz is responsible for Marketing and HR at ZF Mobilty Solutions in Munich.

We had a wonderful conversation about being a successful young woman leader, her leadership principles, the importance of having and giving support and her fast learning curve.

We also talk about leadership and purpose, about start up and corporate, about namaste and empathy, being driven and self-confidence, learning and pushing the boundaries of our own comfort zone, about diversity etc...

Vanessa is also a Yoga Teacher. She shares with us what it gives her and how she combines her passion for teaching Yoga and her professional career.

Enjoy this lovely conversation!

Vivian Breucker, Schulleitung der OSK Schule in Köln.

In diesem Gespräch unterhalten wir uns über den Change Prozess der Gesellschaft und wie die Rolle von Schulleitung in der Welt von heute und in Zukunft sein könnte.

Sie erzählt über selbstorganisierte Führung und ihre Rolle in einem sehr agilen Leitungsteam, wo situative Führung entscheidend ist. Es geht auch um Soziokratie und um kollektive Entscheidungsprozesse.

Frau Breucker berichtet, wie sich die ganze Schulfamilie in Zeiten von Corona heute organisiert, aber auch wie sie die Situation jetzt schon nutzen, um die Zeit danach vorzubereiten: nach Corona aber auch die Vision der Schule in 15 Jahren.

Ein spannender Change Prozess, wo alle kreativ mitdenken und mitmachen. Eine der Fragestellungen ist: „hilft das was wir gerade machen, uns auf die Zukunft vorzubereiten oder sind das nur lieb gewonnene Gewohnheiten aus der Vergangenheit?“

Es sprühen Funken in der Schule. Alle lernen mit und probieren aus. Auch die Schulleiterin: „Ich kann nur gut leiten, wenn ich mich selber gut leiten kann“.

Und eine ganze Lehrkraft, die motiviert ist, „junge Menschen in Ihrer Sinnsuche zu unterstützen und ihren Platz in der Welt zu finden.“

Ein sehr spannendes Gespräch, das Sie unbedingt hören sollten, wenn Sie eine Inspiration für die Zukunft Ihrer Organisation suchen!

Alain Cardon is the CEO of Metasysteme, an internationally recognized Master Certified Coach, a Systemic Thinker, a Speaker and the Author of numerous books.

With his profound need for independence and his lifelong quest for personal development and expansion Alain has pushed the boundaries of the application of systemic thinking to his personal life, his teaching and his way of working with clients all over the world. He has impacted thousands of coaches and organisational clients. He shares with us his personal explorations, thinking and examples of client interventions.

For him the exploration around "What is the system behind systems?" is both a quantum and a spiritual question that he has been exploring further and further over decades. Following his intuition and his calling. You know you have a direction by looking back at the rear of the mirror he says.

Doubts are normal, it's about keeping the northern Star.. A crisis is a reshuffling. Don’t be environment or weather dependent! I always loved my independence, he says.

Enjoy this conversation with this inspiring thinker!

My guest in this podcast is Christiane Laibach who is Chairwoman of the Management Board of the DEG, a development finance institution that is part of the KFW Group.

In the first half of the interview we talk about her leadership journey and learnings from a long experience in the field, incl. leading in times of crises where being calm and emotionally stable were key to go successfully through the storm with a united team. In the second half of our conversation it is about her current leadership role and about change, and the chances and challenges of an organisation that is working in very fast moving emerging and developing markets.

Her beautiful final statement about leadership: "it is about people in its pure sense.. particularly in a finance institution.. this is what we have.. our values and what we stand for is in the heads and the hearts of our people."

Edith Wolf is CEO of the Vector Foundation, in the field of automotive electronics. In this very honest and lively conversation Edith brings us behind the scene of the foundation and her role as a CEO. I learned a lot about its function for the company and the society and was surprised how big this sector is.

Edith shares also the key moments of her professional career so far and the values that drive her actions and decisions not only as a human being who feels a strong sense of purpose in what she does but also as a woman leader in a very masculine environment.

(This Leadership Podcast conversation is in German)

Do other people exist?

Of course they do! Says a voice in my head. I can see them and hear them and touch them. Here they are in front my eyes, in front of me. Of course they exist. They say things I can hear, they write things I can read, they have their own lives, their personalities, their ideas. They can be friends or enemies I can relate to them and trust them, or not, they can relate to me or not. I feel their energy, their presence outside of me. They can be with me kind, loving, supportive and warm. But they can also be cold, say things that hurt, be mean or even dangerous. This is real, this happens, this happened, it’s not only in my head! So what do you mean do other people exist? Of course they do!

Hum.. But I don’t always think of them. Do they really exist when I don’t think of them? Does one person always behave the same way, do i always perceive them the same way? And.. by the way which “other people” are we talking about? The ones out there or the ones in my head?

I don’t know I think I am a bit confused now... I think I don’t see it so clearly anymore. Neither that they exist nor that they don’t.. hum

what if.. what if.. they were all a creations in my head? What if they didn’t exist on their own in a certain shape or form but would each time take only the shape and form that I give them, like the characters of a novel. Hum.. Really?

What if they were just like a reflection on a mirror? .. What mirror? .. my mirror! The reflection of parts of me.. What? Yes, all parts of me. What do you mean? It’s all so confusing. Yes, The beautiful and the less beautiful ones. Isn’t it so that I can also be all of that? Sometimes loving, sometimes hurting? Sometimes even both at the same time? Hum..

What if they were asking themselves the same questions as I do? What if they were feeling the separation sometimes and the connection some other times? What if they can be as scared as I can be? What if their souls were as beautiful as mine? What if they were no different than me?

Hum.. what if there was no them and me? Aren’t we all breathing the same air? Be burried somewhere.. What if we were actually all different parts of the same energy.

And who’s talking? Who’s asking the question? ..

Do other people exist?

How to speak about the magic of our human mind in a corporate environment? How to speak about it when the challenge your public is facing is real? When thousands of people are preparing mentally for a change they have not chosen, when they know it will have an impact on them and certainly on their work. An impact they cannot yet grasp. When in the room, there is not only lots of experience, expertise, positive attitude, chats and a beautiful sense of community but also of course maybe some kind of anxiety about the future.

This was the context of the presentation I am sharing with you with the permission of the client. I have been asked to say some words about change and emotions during an IT Architect event in the context of the eon-innogy deal.

There are so many ways I could have approached this issue that day, I have chosen not to beat around the bush. To address the subject directly, as I feel it. It has allowed for very open conversations during the day with various participants. I like it when the conversations are real!