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Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Adickesallee 34
Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, 60322
Germany

Christoph Magnussen

Christoph Magnussen is a film maker, keynote speaker, podcaster and CEO of Blackboat, a company specialized in advising companies regarding New Work and change processes. Together with Michael Trautmann, he hosts the podcast on the way to New Work. Christoph’s mission is to inspire a new way of working and is passionate about inspiring his audiences about digitization and the roots of the New Work movement. He studied at St.Gallen University and has previously founded a mobile phone eCommerce business.

Daniel Nowack

Daniel Nowack is managing director for corporate initiatives at Yunus Social Business, a philanthropic venture fund for social businesses and a social venture builder for joint ventures with multinationals. Yunus Social Business was founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus and seeks to end poverty with the power of business. Daniel heads the corporate innovation department which guides multinationals to apply their competencies to tackle some of the greatest human challenges. Before joining Yunus Social Business in 2010, Daniel was active in the startup ecosystem in roles such as CEO, CFO or Head of Business Development and has previous work experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Today, he is product and finance mentor for Google LaunchpadX , Partner at Lumen Strategy Design and a lecturer for Lean Management at RheinMain university

Leon Windscheid

Leon Windscheid is a psychologist, keynote speaker, author and entrepreneur. Leon public awareness rose in 2015, when he was the eleventh winner in Germany of the TV show Who wants to be a millionaire?. With his prize money, he bought a boat in Münster which serves as an event location, and for which’s inauguration he invited the TV host Günther Jauch. He studied psychology in Münster, before he earned his doctorate in economics where he studied about gender diversity and women in leading positions.

Lia Marlen Schmökel

Lia Marlen Schmökel is visionary nutrition scientist, entrepreneur and speaker. Her expertise spans across multiple areas of nutrition, including preventing chronic diseases, developing alternatives to alcoholic beverages, and advocating a planet-conscious diet. Lia founded the herbal health startup NOURI as well as NUTRITION HUB, Europe’s largest community for credentialed nutrition experts. Berlin-based NUTRITION HUB connects nutrition specialists with the nutrition industry, startups and NGOs in order to foster innovation and spread knowledge based on scientific evidence - leading to a better informed, more empowered consumer. Lia believes that when consumers know better, they make better choices for themselves and the world around them.

Lisa-Sophie Laurent

Lisa Sophie Laurent is an author and youtuber with more than 300,000 followers. On her Youtube channel, she conducts self experiments and talks about topics such as veganism, fair fashion and body positivity. Lisa helps her followers to find their way around life a bit better. In her newest book, she writes about the inflated expectations in the daily life of our young generation and how to prevent burning out. Besides her public appearances , she studied psychology and politics. Before the parliamentary election in Germany in 2017, she interviewed SPD chancellor candidate Martin Schulz and German chancellor Angela Merkel in television.

Peter Steudtner

Peter Steudtner is a German Human Rights Defender, trainer and documentary filmmaker from Berlin. Focusing on holistic security and sustainable activism for activists and organizations, he works with social movements in Southern Africa, the Middle East and Europe. In July 2017, he was unlawfully arrested by Turkish security forces together with other Human Rights Defenders using a workshop for the Turkish Human Rights Platform. Although all of them were released in the end of October 2017, the judicial case on terrorism charges against the so-called #Istanbul10 is ongoing.

Valerie Mocker

Valerie Mocker’s mission is enabling more people to shape the future. She is an entrepreneur, tech-for-good investor and international speaker. Valerie enables organisations and people to shape the future by helping them use the digital transformation as a force for good. Her funds support new innovations and technologies that tackle pressing issues such as crumbling trust in democracy, unequal education opportunities, climate change or our ageing population. Valerie has worked in Germany, Spain, Peru and the UK, is part of the "40 under 40” leaders list by Capital and holds two degrees (both first class) from the University of Oxford. Valerie wants to make the rooms of power more diverse and open them up to more people - especially younger generations and women, who have too little control over how we fund and shape the future. In her talk "How you own the future", Valerie talks about her experiences being the youngest Director at one of Europe's leading innovation funds. She shares the key tips for getting into the rooms of power, which might surprise many: you need generosity, kindness and the power of Wingwomen and Wingmen.