Theme: Stories Worth Telling

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

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

Chris Surel

Performance recovery & sleep coach

Chris Surel is a former tennis player, Roland Berger strategy consultant, senior executive and startup founder. During this time, he says he “did everything wrong you could possibly think of” with regard to his own health and wellbeing (which almost cost him his life). But he learned a lot from it. Today he is a performance recovery & sleep coach to CEO's, executives and entrepreneurs around the globe, in-demand keynote speaker, thought leader in the sustainable high performance space, founder of The Sleep Genome Project and creator of the Strategic Performance Recovery System. He is helping big corporates, the leading consulting companies and fast growing startups to upgrade and sustain their people's energy, performance, health & wellbeing.

Dr. Eva-Maria Hasenbeck

Medical Doctor

Dr. Eva-Maria Hasenbeck is an ophthalmologist and Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO), a member of the Deutsche Borreliose Gesellschaft. After suffering from the symptoms of her Hashimoto's disease for over ten years herself, she was looking for ways to work on her health independently. In retrospect, that was when she became more or less "hooked" on Functional Medicine. Meanwhile, she is officially the first German physician certified by the Institute For Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol (Dr. Terry Wahls) and ReCODE 2.0 (Dr. Dale Bredesen). She has also written a Book on the topic of functional medicine in her field of study. She has opened her own private practice for Functional Medicine in Northeim, Germany, the town where she lives with her family. When working with patients, she uses Functional Medicine lab testing on a deeper level, leveraging the lab results to achieve the best possible outcome for every single patient.

Dr. Stefan Wachtel

Executive Coach + Keynote Speaker + Author

Dr. Stefan Wachtel is the author of “Reversed Pyramid. The Funnel Principle in Speech Answer and Text.” (2021), and one of the “Leading Coaches of the World®”. He is a German executive coach for top European managers, including board members of 15 of the DAX30 companies. The TEDx Speaker develops topic settings and accompanies presentations, keynotes and TED talks. For six years, Stefan worked as a moderators coach with the German television ARD/ZDF, and spent three years training with Lufthansa’s pilots making announcements more effective. Stefan Wachtel is the host of the annual Funnel Conference in Cannes, France. Following “Die Kunst des Authentischen” the “Reversed Pyramid (2021) is his tenth book (German: “Das Zielsatz Prinzip”, 2020). His TEDx Talk explains how to reverse our usual information pyramid.

Pavol Sikula

AI Expert, Founder, CEO

Pavol Sikula holds an MBA in International financial management from the University of economics in Bratislava, Slovakia and MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Because he enjoys high-pace business environments he worked for 15 years in top management consulting (Roland Berger, Stern Stewart & Co.). The focus of his projects were business and support function optimizations, restructuring and reorganizations. In parallel he became a passionate triathlete finishing two Ironman races. Pavol Sikula started to deal with applied AI in 2017 by building Brian - an AI-powered digital assistant for management consultants and alike business professionals. Brian communicates via natural language and conducts multiple tasks previously performed by management consultants by integrating multiple data sources and AI-powered digital services. He is Founder and CEO of AskBrian GmbH and speaker for applied AI. He is married and a proud father of his two sons.

Prof. Dr. Daniela Elsner

Professor of Didactics/ Teaching and Learning Research

As a university professor, executive coach, psychotherapist, book author and ex-single mother of three, she is considered an authentic expert on work-life balance, resilience and career-family compatibility. In her talk she shares her personal and scientific knowledge on how successful people get “it all” under one roof.