SPEAK LIKE A CEO

A society of innovators makes the world a better place. That’s according to David Rhotert, the CEO and founder of Companisto. 

Based in Berlin, Companisto has pioneered digital angel investing at scale. They have already facilitated the investment of over 150 million Euros in startups. 

David and his team achieved this by building a tech company and at the same time building one of the largest networks of Angel investors anywhere in the world. 

We talk about how they created a community of 150,000, how they managed to get a law changed to allow for digital angel investing, and his mission to bring about an “innovation society”.

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One of Oliver’s predictions has been that your own story and unique voice become even more valuable this year because of AI. 

We already see more “social CEOs” and “creator CEOs” – business leaders who become thought leaders thanks to content creation, social media and podcasts.

That’s why we invited Laura Lewandowski, founder of SmartChiefs, and top CEO advisor Julius Bachmann to talk about career sovereignty, creator practices and how CEOs can integrate creation and creativity into their busy lives. 

As writers, podcasters, musicians and entrepreneurs, the two friends and co-creators live at the intersection of creativity and entrepreneurship. 

Our main take-away: In a world of unbelievable complexity, those who combine creativity and entrepreneurship will write the break-out success stories of tomorrow. 

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Julian Treasure is a world-renowned expert on speaking and listening and a bestselling author. His 5 TED talks have amassed over 150 million views worldwide.

His talk "How to speak so that people want to listen" on powerful speaking alone has garnered 100 million views, making it the 6th most popular TED talk of all time.

As the author of “Sound Business” and founder of The Sound Agency, he is also one of the world’s leading thinkers on audio branding. 

In this wide-ranging conversation, Julian shares the secrets of a viral TED speaker, the four foundations of powerful speaking, and The Seven Deadly Sins of Speaking.  

We also get into how companies should sound, why listening is the sound of democracy, and whether introverts or extroverts are better at speaking and listening. 

On a more personal level, Julian also shares how holding one of the most popular TED talks of all time has changed his life.   

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The world suffers from a human energy crisis. Meet the man who brings back the energy. 

Simon Alexander Ong is a celebrated author, speaker and award-winning life coach. His 2022 debut book, Energize, became an instant bestseller. 

In this wide-ranging episode, we discuss how you shift your own energy and the energy of your team towards a more positive state, how to deal with energy vampires, and how energy management, not time management, is the key to productivity.

He shares how you can develop “charisma on tap”, why CEOs are really Chief Energy Officers, how vulnerability is the path to connection, what role stories play in energizing a room, and how to keep the energy up on video calls. 

On a more personal level, Simon shares how living the wrong life led him to dedicate his life to energizing teams and audiences around the world. 

Enjoy this episode packed with life-changing advice from the leading voice on one of the most relevant topics of our time. 

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Netflix has “No Rules Rules”. Caroline Kroll has “Nø Rules”. 

Caroline is the impressive young founder and CEO of Nø Cosmetics, a disruptor in the clean beauty realm that is taking the retail world by storm. 

In her very first podcast interview in English, Caroline shares why Nø Cosmetics breaks the rules of branding and marketing. 

We go deep on her social media strategy, especially Instagram and TikTok, which Nø Cosmetics use for community building, market research, and even the co-creation of new products.

Caroline tells us why she has a "behind the scenes channel“ on Instagram (that is both genius marketing and next generation CEO communications), why they close shop on Black Friday, and why she doesn’t believe in influencer marketing.

We also talk about how she communicates with her co-founders — her sister and her parents — and what it takes to be successful in a tough retail environment.

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Lubomila Jordanova is an Obama Leader, MIT Under 35 Innovator and the CEO & founder of Plan A. She is also the co-founder of the Greentech Alliance.

Together with her team, she helps 1500 businesses including many global brands become more sustainable.

Expect to learn how to create 100x partnerships, how companies can become more sustainable and avoid accusations of greenwashing, and what kind of storytelling can be a catalyst for change.

At a more personal level, we also talk about humor and leadership, the books she recommends to her team, and what surprising thing Barack Obama said to her at their first meeting.

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What’s the future of advertising, branding and performance marketing? 

To answer these questions, Dimitri Gärtner kicks off the year on Speak Like a CEO. Dimitri is the founder and CEO of Framen, a fast-growing media tech scale-up based in Berlin that is rapidly becoming one of the major players in advertising and creating communities around the world. 

Dimitri’s insights into the future of advertising and marketing are particularly valuable right now. Customer acquisition costs keep rising and we tune out of the thousands of ads we get bombarded with on our phones every day.

Dimitri and I are also getting personal. We discuss why "you can't outsource your personality“, whether Dimitri writes his own social media posts, what role AI plays in content, and what his plans for Framen are.

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2024 will be the year AI gets real for many businesses. It is also the biggest election year ever as the US, the EU, the UK, India and many other countries head to the polls. 

Against this meta backdrop, I am sharing my 10 Predictions for 2024. They cover AI, memes, video, deep fakes, what happens to CEO communications, the state of marketing and mission-driven companies.  

I will be right on some and wrong on others, but it does help me to enter the new year with a clear hypothesis of where we are heading. 

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Based in Berlin, born in India, and educated at Harvard – Naren Shaam is a unicorn founder once rejected as a call center agent. 

The CEO of global tech & travel company Omio has two superpowers: patience, and not recognizing a 'no' for a 'no'. 

He moved to Berlin after graduating from Harvard, not knowing anyone, and without speaking the language, determined to pursue his mission to make world travel seamless for everyone. 

Naren has a talent for active listening and understanding the needs of his audience. These skills have enabled his company to scale and grow from a small startup to 300 employees hailing from more than 50 countries based in Berlin, Prague, London and New York. 

That’s despite the fact that the Covid pandemic brought the travel industry to a halt during Omio’s growth phase.

Listen to the episode for more advice from Naren on how to build and maintain a global brand, how to approach rebranding (Omio was originally called GoEuro), and how to anchor diversity in a business from the start. 

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“The human species thinks in metaphors, and learns through stories.” 

Mary Catherine Bateson

The best leaders and companies in the world use metaphors deliberately. Think Apple and Amazon – a nourishing fruit and the world’s longest river respectively. 

Metaphors are a crucial part of the language of leadership, yet few of us use them deliberately. 

Stories appeal to the emotional brain, which is why they are so effective. 

But metaphors appeal to the instinctive brain – the oldest and most powerful part. They plant ideas deep in the instinctive mind. They affect attitudes, values, and behaviors. 

That’s why metaphors give you superpowers of persuasion. In this podcast, I want to give you the blueprint to the language of leadership and how to build metaphors with intention. 

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