G100 Chapter Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Business, Germany 🇩🇪
Conscious Change. Collective Impact.
What happens when women stop waiting for change and simply create it?
The G100 : Mission Million – is a global movement led by Dr. Harbeen Arora, bringing together influential women leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and changemakers committed to creating a more equal, progressive and inclusive world.
Its global community spans a range of voices and experiences - from Nobel Laureates, entrepreneurs and former heads of state to advocates and grassroots change makers - united by a shared ambition: advancing gender equity, economic and social empowerment, and meaningful change worldwide. We are part of this global movement, with Global, Country, Regional & City Chairs around the world, working towards a future in which women have equal opportunities to lead, influence and thrive.
Our global chapter. Our mission in Germany.
At the heart of our work is Mission Millionaire, led by our global G100 Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Business Chair Dr. Hynd Bouhia. As part of this global chapter, we are building and growing the G100 Germany Club - bringing together female entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers who believe in the power of conscious change. Our focus is on innovation, creative problem-solving, and collective impact. We challenge the status quo, explore new solutions, and create opportunities for more sustainable, inclusive, and conscious entrepreneurship.
We believe meaningful change happens when people come together to imagine what's possible - and work on making it real.
Our mission: Conscious Change.
We bring together female trailblazers who don't just question the status quo - they create what comes next. Because networking isn't just about exchanging business cards. For us, it's about powerful, meaningful connections that spark growth, honest support and new possibilities. It's about opening doors for one another, sharing knowledge, amplifying voices, and creating opportunities we couldn't create alone. It's about women supporting women, learning from one another, and turning bold ideas into meaningful action.
Together, we don't just talk about change. We create it.
Our growing Germany team brings together inspiring women who lead with purpose, challenge conventions, and actively shape the future of business and society.
The Change Is Female.
Feel called to join a community of heart-centred innovators and changemakers?
Become part of the movement. Bring your ideas, your perspective, and your energy. Help us create the change we want to see.
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Hedi Schaefer
TEDx Speaker | Coach, Creator | Founder Impact Boutique
G100 Country 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.
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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 & founder of The Impact Boutique, a transformation ecosystem supporting leaders and entrepreneurs overcome the challenges of change.
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Creator of Human Intelligence At Work, supporting organisations 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
Impact Story:
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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.
Elisa Dreyer
City Chair Verden
Inside Flow und Barre Teacher | Co Founder and Chair Barre Verband Deutschland | Founder VER:connect
Impact Story:
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Mover and seeker of truth.
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Master of Arts in Sport Economics, uniting knowledge, embodiment, and leadership to create spaces where body and mind align — without pressure, without judgment.
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Inside Flow and Barré teacher, empowering through movement to build strength, release tension, and find balance — physically and mentally.
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Co-Founder and Chair of the Barré Verband Deutschland and founder of VER:connect in Verden, building communities that foster growth, clarity, and meaningful connection.
Bronwyn Elizabeth Laird
Women’s Health Coach | Creator of Feminine Flow Eating | Retreat Facilitator | Chemical Engineer
Swabia Region Chair
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Women’s Health Coach, founding Bloom Method and FFE - Feminine Flow Eating - a transformational framework helping women heal the deeper emotional and nervous system roots behind binge eating, food obsession, perfectionism, and returning to innate natural eating.
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Pilates Teacher and Somatic Coach, her Bloom Program bridges science and intuition, feminine flow and holistic sustainable health.
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7 years working as Chemical Engineer and Product Manager, supporting global corporations in digital transformation, customer experience, product innovation, and operational optimisation.
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Co-creator of Being Her Retreats — immersive wellness experiences focused on emotional & nervous system healing, feminine embodiment, creative expression, and reconnection to self.
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Angel Investor in Arable Grow agritech start-up in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Coach, creator, advocate for a more connected intentional way of living, and cat mom.
Stephanie Spithaler
City Chair Cologne
CEO „Kuchen & Köpfe | Marketing Manager & Coach
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Founder of "Kuchen & Köpfe“ ("Cake & Minds“), driven by the conviction that sustainable development grows from conscious reflection, inner attitude, and honest self-encounter – not from ever more knowledge. Almost three decades in communication, creativity, and the question of what truly moves people.
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20+ years in marketing, communication, and strategic concept development – with one red thread: reaching people, connecting them, and making development possible.
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Creator of the concept of the “creative emotional translation of development” – making complex change processes understandable, human, and tangible, so that development is not only understood, but also felt and lived.
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Building "Kuchen & Köpfe" ("Cake & Minds“) as a platform for conscious development: including the Deepcast podcast „Wenn der Kuchen spricht…“ (“When the Cake Speaks…”) and coaching, training, and DeepLab formats that create spaces for reflection without performance pressure.
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Visionary of a culture of conscious development in which people understand themselves more deeply, take responsibility for their actions, and experience change as an opportunity for growth, connection, and co-creation – so that development begins where people feel seen and dare to meet themselves anew.
Dea Dantas Tiedemann
Advisory Council Innovative Product Development
Impact Story:
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Co-Founder of bovii, a brand designing, producing and distributing user-centered pill boxes. The idea grew out of years spent accompanying her parents through illness, where she kept running into the same unresolved gaps in everyday healthcare. With bovii, Dea could pour all her years of experience as a human-centered designer into finally bringing good design to products that good design had long overlooked.
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As a passionate design thinker with a deep belief in the power of teamwork, she founded Dea Dantas Collective. A network of experienced female design thinking coaches who together deliver innovation coaching, talks, workshops and teams-guidance into corporate structures.
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13+ years co-creating with corporates and mid-sized companies to identify concepts and develop products and services that truly work for the people they're made for. Across industries, always with a particular love for healthcare topics.
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Diploma-holding, award-winning Communication Design graduate (FHP) and practicing service designer who sees good design as a general mindset, not bound to any single medium or structure. She is an enthusiastic though terrible karaoke singer, a (hopefully fun) mom and Pokémon player.
Ana Hansel
City Chair Hanover
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Founder & CEO of HistaFood, a brand developing foods and supplements for a low-histamine diet. The idea grew from her own long journey with histamine intolerance and the lack of practical solutions and understanding around it.
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Long-time entrepreneur, author, speaker and host of Der Histamin Podcast, using her platforms to bring more visibility and understanding to histamine intolerance.
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Built HistaFood into an established brand while creating a large digital histamine community and connecting people through podcasts, live events and educational formats.
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Author of a histamine cookbook and guide, and passionate advocate for female entrepreneurship, leadership and building stronger communities around often overlooked health challenges.
Beatrace Oola
City Chair Hamburg
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Founder of Fashion Africa Now and CEO of APYA Productions. She launched Africa Fashion Day Berlin in 2013, relaunching it as Fashion Africa Now in 2016. What began as an idea became an international platform connecting African and Afrodiasporic creatives with institutions, brands and markets across Africa and Europe.
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A cultural strategist, interdisciplinary curator and creative producer working at the intersection of fashion, culture and innovation. Through Fashion Africa Now, she challenges stereotypes, makes marginalized perspectives visible and creates space for African and Afrodiasporic voices.
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10+ years working across fashion and the creative economy through strategy, curation, storytelling, consulting, talks and collaborations. Her partners and institutions include UNESCO, Zalando, Mastercard, Goethe-Institut, Berlin Fashion Week and Kunsthalle Bremen. She also lectures internationally, including at UdK Berlin and HfK Bremen.
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Before founding her own platforms, Beatrace worked as a fashion stylist and creative producer for brands including Montblanc, About You, smart, Fila, Dior and ARTE. Fashion Africa Now received the German Federal Government’s Kultur- und Kreativpilotinnen Award in 2022. She believes belonging is not a soft add-on, but something that needs to be designed in from the start.
Janine Kirchhof
City Chair Stuttgart
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After 15 years in Learning, Talent and Organizational Development, my own corporate exit at Mercedes-Benz became a turning point: I decided not just to navigate transformation, but to create new spaces for others to grow through it.
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With the Bold Exit Club, I’m building a community for people in professional transition, creating connection, orientation and peer support so that a corporate exit can become the beginning of a bold new chapter.
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With Bold Babe, I’m taking that mission further by bringing together human potential, female reinvention, transformation and AI to help people understand their strengths, make courageous choices and actively shape work and life on their own terms.
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My mission is to turn transformation into opportunity and empower people to become active designers of their own future.
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With a Magister degree in Education and Sociology and 15 years of experience in Learning, Talent and Organizational Development, I combine a strong academic foundation with certifications as a Working Out Loud Coach, Bikablo Visual Facilitator, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, Design Thinking Coach and Work-Life-Romance Certified Life Design Coach.
Sophia Klees
Advisory Council Innovation Lighting Design
CEO · Partner · Creative Director | jack be nimble | Lighting | Design | Innovation
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Co-Founder of jack be nimble, a Berlin-based studio for Lighting Design, Design & Innovation that sees light as a strategic and emotional tool for shaping spaces.
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Award-winning Lighting Designer, recognized as “Lighting Designer of the Year 2025” and recipient of multiple German Lighting Design Awards.
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Designs lighting concepts across culture, education, workplace, hospitality, public spaces and light art, collaborating with renowned architects and international project partners.
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Combines architecture, light, function and emotion to create spaces that provide orientation, shape atmosphere and create meaningful experiences.
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Extensive international experience, including working as a Lighting Designer in London, alongside long-standing teaching positions at TU Graz, FH Potsdam and FH Wismar.
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Design Thinking Coach and mentor, supporting creative processes and empowering the next generation of designers to think innovatively and across disciplines.
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15+ years of experience at the intersection of lighting design, architecture, design and innovation — with a strong focus on using light to transform spaces, create new experiences and positively influence how people perceive and interact with their environment.
Lisa Kießling
Founder of Animal A.C.T. | creator of the Holistic Equi Mentor
Saxony Region Chair
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18 years of working with people, particularly through times of change – from children’s hospice care and psychotherapy to leadership, bodywork and intensive 1:1 work. Always where understanding alone is not enough and change needs to become an experience – and ultimately embodied.
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Founder of Animal A.C.T. and creator of the Holistic Equi Mentor – bringing together psychology, holistic bodywork, nature and horses. Training professionals not only to apply methods, but to perceive more deeply, embody their own work and understand the whole person through presence, resonance and embodied experience.
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Experiential leadership work for leaders and teams – focusing on body awareness, presence and non-verbal dynamics. Because leadership and responsibility begin long before a word is spoken.
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Put life as it was on pause for two years – including six months travelling across Europe alone with a child, two dogs and a campervan. Leaving routines and familiar certainties behind for experience, nature and the question of what life is actually meant to look and feel like.
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Creating a small private retreat on an own farm with extensive woodland in the heart of a UNESCO biosphere reserve – an exclusive space for intensive 1:1 work, bodywork, horses, professional training and retreat. Surrounded by nature, with forest, sauna and hot tub. A place to step out of everyday life and find the way back to oneself.
HeiDe Nagel
Advisory Council Innovation Artist Management
CEO • Artist Management | International Artist Support for Europe | Music & Label Management |Connector | Creative Thinker | Agile Coach | Berlin & Seoul — Founder, Artful Mind
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With 25+ years in the music industry, she today manages artists Yvonne Catterfeld andNavea, and provides international artist support for independent Korean artists (includingJUNHEE/Park Junhee), connecting the European and Korean markets
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Previously VP Marketing & Finance at Jive Germany/Sony, with full P&L and personnelresponsibility
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Earlier artist management & record label career at major labels including Universal Musicand Warner Music, working with artists such as Bruno Mars, Jason Derulo, Nina Chuba, TimBendzko, and many more
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Numerous gold and platinum certifications for various artists over the course of her career
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Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), PAL I, and Design Thinking practitioner —brings agile methodology into a traditionally non-agile industry
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Holds a certification in horse-assisted leadership coaching
Sunshine Lampert
City Chair Düsseldorf
Co-Founder / Operations & Growth Lead at Rocketree | L&D & ESG Strategist
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20+ years turning learning into measurable business impact across EMEA and APAC, where L&D, ESG, and business growth meet.
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Co-Founder of Rocketree, an AI-powered action and decision platform that makes ESG practical at scale, fueled by a community of experts and thought leaders. Building a social-impact startup is not a career move but a calling. The mission is to leave a lasting footprint by turning knowledge into change that stays.
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Rocketree's momentum: Gründungsstipendium.NRW (2025), Go-to-Market Gutschein from the NRW Ministry of Economic Affairs, co-funded by the EU (2025), TechHub.K67 Stipendium (2026), and the Audience Award for "Best Pitch" at the NEXT Award Düsseldorf (2025).
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Award-winning L&D leader, with two GE awards (HR Award, Money Direct Business Award) at GE Capital.
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Committed to three things: SMEs that act on ESG, experts whose knowledge reaches further, and female founders who are building what matters.
Jana Marie Bald
City Chair Munster
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Founder of Ørth – The Slowmad Travel Network. Building a Münster-based platform for conscious, slow travel that connects Nomads with each other and with responsible places to stay.
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Mission: travel that connects and gives back. Making sustainable travel the easier, more attractive choice, with fewer checklist trips, longer stays and a lighter footprint.
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Focus on social sustainability. Treating community as the core of sustainable tourism, so travelers find real connection and hosts and local communities benefit beyond the high season.
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Current project: workations for digital nomads and entrepreneurs. Partnering with nomad-friendly properties to fill shoulder-season stays with curated groups, turning empty off-season weeks into shared, low-impact travel experiences.
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Background in agricultural science (economics focus). Brings a grounded understanding of land, resources and rural economies to the question of what sustainable tourism means in practice.
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Four years of corporate marketing experience. Led marketing, events and e-commerce at an agricultural company before leaving a secure position to build Ørth full-time.
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Voice for slow & conscious travel. Shares the founder journey and perspectives on more conscious travel on LinkedIn and Instagram.
