G100 Chair Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Business, Germany 🇩🇪
Networking isn’t just exchanging business cards — for us changemakers, it’s about powerful and deep connections that spark growth, honest support and leveling up. Together. It’s how we challenge norms, create opportunities, and shape the future we want to see. That’s exactly what G100 stands for: a global platform of women leaders — Nobel Laureates, entrepreneurs, former heads of state, and advocates — working together to drive gender equity and real impact across the world.
Below you find the growing G100 representatives for Germany: Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Business. An incredible team of female trailblazers who don’t just question the status quo… but create it.
Feel like you want to become part of this club of heart centered innovators? Send your application here.
Hedi Schaefer
G100 Chair Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Business Germany
Impact Story:
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Culture manager and assistant, founding RITA - Resonance In The Arts. Working for visionaries like Christoph Schlingensief and Herbert Grönemeyer, at the Salzburg Festival, Cape Town Opera, and realizing the original Piano City.
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15+ years supporting Fortune 500s to start ups, NGOs, major cultural institutions, and Schools of Design Thinking across the globe shaping transformation, human centered innovations. Coaching high profile leaders and students in innovation mindset and new leadership. Founding Hedi’s Innovationgym.
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Creator of the 3Cs of Change™ framework, the formula for lasting personal change & Impact Boutique App supporting high achieving women rewire into a power identity, reinvent their purpose driven path, and rise into aligned, sustainable creationship.
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Creator of HI: The Human Intelligence Advantage, supporting people to reshape outdated systems and design the future of work through self-leadership, consciousness, and creativity.
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Speaker - represented by Premium Speakers Management, award-winning coach, author, multi passionate creator & mom.
Dr. Moritz Gekeler
Denim Partner
Facilitator, Coach, Mediator
Founder dolaborate Gmbh | Co-Founder | mermaid & broccoli Gmbh
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Nearly 20 years facilitating co-creation across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Helping NGOs, corporations, and cultural institutions design solutions to systemic challenges and strengthen participatory leadership.
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Founder of dolaborate, shaping innovation processes with a strong focus on social impact, justice, and equity; including work with feminist civil-society partners across Asia to advance gender equality through creative interventions.
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Co-Creator of the mermaid & broccoli learning portal, with a methodbox and engaging journeys that enable leaders and their teams to work effectively across cultural, professional and organizational boundaries and to build resilient, collaborative work cultures.
Carol Campbell
Advisory Council 🎭 Innovation in Performing Arts
Presenter - Actress - Yoga Instructor - Systemic Constellation Facilitator
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Actress since the early 90s in renowned TV formats and leading roles of her own
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Former solo dancer at the legendary Lido and Moulin Rouge in Paris
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Founder of Radically Aligned Performing Arts, a movement dedicated to empowering artists to express with truth, embodiment, and unapologetic creative freedom.
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Yoga teacher and sound bath facilitator
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Systemic constellations work for all personal areas of interest and mapping for organizations and teams.
Frederike Beha
Founder Spark Ventures IO | Active At Home | Venture & Resilience Strategist | COO/CFO Advisor
Advisory Council 💸 Venture Resilience
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Founder of Spark Ventures IO and Active At Home, creating low-threshold digital access to social connection, movement, and wellbeing for older adults — designed to empower participation regardless of technical confidence.
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Former COO at a Berlin-based Venture Capital fund, and CDO / CFO of the KulturKaufhaus, with deep expertise in operations, finance, change management and strategic clarity.
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Strong CFO/COO competence: structuring for execution, securing financial viability, and fostering positive, solution-oriented leadership.
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15+ years building and restructuring organizations across sectors, always with a focus on reducing complexity, creating systems that work, and enabling people to thrive.
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Advisor to startups and impact-driven organizations, supporting operational resilience, resource allocation, and the meaningful integration of technology.
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Dedicated to designing environments where social connection, clarity, and stability become catalysts for long-term impact.
Julia Porath
Advisory Council ⚽️ Innovation in Sports
Founder | Sportseltern United e.V. | Coach and Trainer For Footballers` Parents, Players and Clubs
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20+ years shaping young football talent — from village pitches to Bundesliga debuts, supporting over 25 players now competing across German and European 1st–3rd league clubs.
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Former Boarding School Director at Borussia Dortmund (BVB) and employed at Hamburger SV (HSV), guiding players and parents through the realities, pressures, and decisions of elite youth football.
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Coach, mentor, author of “Volltreffer!”, and “Chosen To Play” and mom to Finn Porath (Schalke 04) who has lived the full journey from hopeful beginnings to professional contracts.
Mieke Woelky
Advisory Council 📚 Innovation in Culture
Founder of the independent Berlin bookstore Odradek | Co-owner of bookstores Kohlhaas & Co and Thaer
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Founder of odradek (2018) — a uniquely designed, bilingual bookstore for all ages, centered on diversity, feminism, and political literature. Host of numerous readings and book launches with local and international authors. Recipient of the Deutscher Buchhandlungspreis 2023.
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Co-owner of Kohlhaas & Co (since 2022) — the renowned bookstore housed within Berlin’s Literaturhaus, one of the city’s most respected literary venues.
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Co-owner of Buchhandlung Thaer (since 2024) — a historic neighborhood bookstore in Berlin-Friedenau, the first new bookstore to open after WWII. Founded in 1945 by two women and proudly women-owned ever since.
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PhD in Cultural Studies, and consultant supporting women on their founding journey and mother of three.
Ulrike Lettermann
City Chair Berlin
Founder | Versa Vista Coaching | CYClead Leadership
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15+ years in film production — from Academy Award–nominated Never Look Away to high-level creative coordination and leadership. Artist management and Project Manager & PA to actors Iris Berben and Sebastian Koch.
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Founder of VersaVista Coaching, creator of CYClead cyclical leadership framework, and developer of multilingual Leadership Academies and Executive Coaching programs.
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Co-author of Punk As Fck, contributing to cultural conversations on inequality and systemic change.
Clair HM Holt
City Chair Potsdam
Founder Hestia Heritage| Sensory Integration Coach | Experiential Facilitator
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25+ years of facilitation, consulting, and experiential education blended into a unique practice rooted in the intelligence of the senses. Beginning her career in outdoor and experiential learning, she saw early on that transformation happens when people feel something—when insight leaves a sensory imprint.
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Founding Hestia Heritage, an exclusive smudging brand and Five Senses Coaching in 2015 to bring this truth into leadership, personal development, and organisational culture. Working with aromatic plants, woods, and resins, guiding people back into their inner hearth—helping them reconnect to the emotional fire that fuels clarity, purpose, and authentic action.
Antonia von Behr
Co-Founder The Midwife Talk | Creator of Nona & Niko Elíki | Senior Associate at Manor Estate Stellichte
City Chair Soltau/Lüneburg Heath
Impact Story:
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Midwife and mother of three.
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Senior Associate at Manor Estate Stellichte, the cherished place where I spent my childhood and came to appreciate tradition.
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Co-Founder of The Midwife Talk, which I established together with my sister and children’s nurse to share my knowledge — after all, wisdom is meant to be passed on.
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Creator of Nona & Niko Elíki, an olive oil brand, inspired by my faith in nature’s gentle power selling high qualitative olive oil and handmade soap. and by the importance of honouring one’s origins.
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Ambassador for LaVita and actively involved in local politics, believing that only those who step forward themselves can truly inspire change.
