LSF19
Speakers
AFTAB OMER, Ph.D.
Sociologist, Psychologist, Futurist
President of Meridian University
LSF19 Keynote Speaker
Building Transformative Communities of Practice
Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard, and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics
of transformative learning, cultural leadership, generative entrepreneurship and complexity capability. His work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative
potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
MARA CALLAERT
Businesswoman, Coach, Engineer
LSF19 Facilitator
An energetic and creative founder of Visuality. Passionate about people, visualisation, facilitation and positive change.
Visuality experiments with the new leadership paradigms in its own micro organisation (7 people core team, a broad network of freelancers). It's an ongoing journey with a lot of testing, failing and learning. Mara is passionate about the link with personal development and organizational culture.
Next to building and growing her business Mara initiated the emergence of European community of Visual Practitioner.
AFTAB OMER, Ph.D.
Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard, and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics
of transformative learning, cultural leadership, generative entrepreneurship and complexity capability. His work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative
potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
An energetic and creative founder of Visuality. Passionate about people, visualisation, facilitation and positive change.
Visuality experiments with the new leadership paradigms in its own micro organisation (7 people core team, a broad network of freelancers). It's an ongoing journey with a lot of testing, failing and learning. Mara is passionate about the link with personal development and organizational culture.
Next to building and growing her business Mara initiated the emergence of European community of Visual Practitioner.
Businesswoman, Coach, Engineer
LSF19 Facilitator
MARA CALLAERT
AFTAB OMER, Ph.D.
Sociologist, Psychologist, Futurist
President of Meridian University
LSF19 Keynote Speaker
Building Transformative Communities of Practice
Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard, and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics
of transformative learning, cultural leadership, generative entrepreneurship and complexity capability. His work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative
potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
MARA CALLAERT
Businesswoman, Coach, Engineer
LSF19 Facilitator
An energetic and creative founder of Visuality. Passionate about people, visualisation, facilitation and positive change.
Visuality experiments with the new leadership paradigms in its own micro organisation (7 people core team, a broad network of freelancers). It's an ongoing journey with a lot of testing, failing and learning. Mara is passionate about the link with personal development and organizational culture.
Next to building and growing her business Mara initiated the emergence of European community of Visual Practitioner.
AFTAB OMER, Ph.D.
Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard, and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics
of transformative learning, cultural leadership, generative entrepreneurship and complexity capability. His work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative
potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
MARA CALLAERT
Businesswoman, Coach, Engineer
LSF19 Facilitator
An energetic and creative founder of Visuality. Passionate about people, visualisation, facilitation and positive change.
Visuality experiments with the new leadership paradigms in its own micro organisation (7 people core team, a broad network of freelancers). It's an ongoing journey with a lot of testing, failing and learning. Mara is passionate about the link with personal development and organizational culture.
Next to building and growing her business Mara initiated the emergence of European community of Visual Practitioner.
Co-hosting Team
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A global collective creating the Leadership Festival 2019
AFTAB OMER, Ph.D.
Sociologist, Psychologist, Futurist
President of Meridian University
LSF19 Keynote Speaker
Building Transformative Communities of Practice
Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard, and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics
of transformative learning, cultural leadership, generative entrepreneurship and complexity capability. His work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative
potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
MARA CALLAERT
Businesswoman, Coach, Engineer
LSF19 Head Facilitator
An energetic and creative founder of Visuality. Passionate about people, visualisation, facilitation and positive change.
Visuality experiments with the new leadership paradigms in its own micro organisation (7 people core team, a broad network of freelancers). It's an ongoing journey with a lot of testing, failing and learning. Mara is passionate about the link with personal development and organizational culture.
Next to building and growing her business Mara initiated the emergence of European community of Visual Practitioner.
ALEKSANDRA SZWILING
Mindset Coach
Wisdom of aligned head, heart & gut
Specialised in working with high achievers who are ready to remove all the blocks to play at the next level.
Her superpower as a leader and coach involves helping people slow down, reconnect with themselves, see and accept who they truly are.
It enables people to connect to the source of their true power and create a future filled with fulfillment, purpose, connection, self-love, impact, joy and pleasure.
AMANDA DÄHLMANN
New Community Founder
New working & living spaces
Started to found community projects in Hamburg many years ago, connecting fantastic visions and economic reality.
She loves to discover synergies in natural way of life and to create high energetic spaces.
Above all, her special focus is on motherhood, from positive childbirth to caring parenting and free individual education in a village environment that she lives and embodies.
Inspired by the idea of appreciate co-working, co-family and co-living as one integral connection to leave our single existence, she supports groups and individuals on their exciting journey along mutuality and diversity to a fulfilled community life.
Knowing that it takes a village to raise a child, she accompanies the formation of new community projects and ecovillages all over the country.
JOANNA STANISZEWSKA
Entrepreneur, President of youll.be, Lecturer, Speaker, Writer
Marketing (as we know it) is over
Communication and HR adviser with >20 years of experience operating on international markets & promoting new media communication.
The mission of her team is to support customers’ development through practical linking of business objectives with universal values & to use this combination to work for the profit of the company. Her passion is to work in the spirit of participatory organizations, combining professionalism and effectiveness with the pursuit of proficiency in self-awareness. Inspiration, motivation and fulfillment of the collective objectives of the organization aligned with the higher purpose are most important to her. U.Lab MIT course graduate.
JULIANNE BECKER
Co-founder & CEO Coconat
Impact as business
Came all the way from Missouri/USA to rural Brandenburg. She is a trained artist and communications expert, she has made films in the past, been involved in nature conservation, worked in start-ups and organised major events. She has a wide range of connections in the cultural, tech and NGO scene. At Coconat, Julianne is responsible for communication and international cooperation.
NADINE LILIENTHAL, Ph.D.
Lawyer and humble human Blueprint of inclusive leadership
As leader she strives for inclusive leadership, which integrates counterparts, e.g. facts and values or critical thinking and harmony.
Global citizen, born in Germany. Enjoyed to work and live abroad in the Belgium, USA and Chile. Currently General Counsel & Authorized Officer of an international online-platform provider in Berlin with offices in 15 countries worldwide. Responsible for a team of seven. Since 2017 she built up and heads the legal department. Prior to that she worked during three years in Brussels and got to know EU politics in the heart of Europe. Before she practiced as a solicitor in an international law firm in Hamburg, Germany.
Passion to connect people & events.
Driven by how to unlock our full potential and live a life to match that as an active member of society.
RIK RIJNDERS
Thinker, builder & connector
10.000 buddy's: Towards a society without poverty
As a creative generalist Rik tries to grow by reinventing himself every 3 years. His current focus is to clear organizations from their barriers to allow people to feel safe and rewarded, learn from each other, work on matters that make sense and allow them to innovate.
DIE SCHLEIEREULEN: Fanny Langner, Simon Ehinger & Valerie Voggenreiter
Silence Hosters, Space Holders, Change Agents
Silence Space – undo, unwind, unfold
Silence might be one of the strongest principles to (re)connect, listen deeply inwards as well as outwards and to transform. With the implementation of their vision, the project Silence Space attempts to give Silence a home in the public space in order to make it heard. These consumption & technique free Spaces serve to remind on the potential, everybody carries inside - to discover the intrinsic motivation of living a sustainable life & to empower us to initiate the change that is needed today. The implementation of the Silence Spaces is carried out by the collective Schleiereule – like the silent barn owl, we as well try to bring Silence into the world. Our work benefits from various (academic) backgrounds, practices & interests from political, social and economic sciences, as well as philosophy, arts, ecology, global change management, healing, mindfulness & meditation practices.
TOBIAS TILL KEYE
Managing Director & Changemaker
Realignment of spaces for thought & nature - coming together in action
The Pomeranian Farm Community (Höfegemeinschaft Pommern HGP), is an association of five organic farms, promoting organic farming in the region. The central element around which everything revolves is the field. More precisely: the global field.
2000 m², which are available to each of us in the world in purely mathematical terms for the production of our food. In Rothenklempenow everyone can see how much land in the world is needed to grow what kind of food.
"Agriculture of the future is more than just business with land. Agriculture is the opportunity to connect to new leadership out of nature."
To make the transformation a little faster, the former actor from Düsseldorf & today's passionate changemaker has come up with something new: residenZ - time for future. Three people will be given the opportunity to rethink & try out the nutrition & agriculture of tomorrow in an interdisciplinary, creative and research-oriented way.
FREDERIK DENKENS
Founder and CEO of Skyscrapers
A leaders journey in introducing self-management in his remote organisation
Skyscrapers is a company helping out SaaS companies with innovation and cloud. We are a 100% remote company where transparency and self-management are the foundations.
JACOMO FRITZSCHE
Soulworking
Let’s lead before we’re lost: Finding your gift for the great turning
Since his burnout in 2010, Jacomo has been intensively working on the topics of mindfulness, stress management and empathy. In addition to extended meditation retreats in Europe and Asia, he has engaged in scientific research on the relationship between meditation and sustainable consumption behaviour. With his agency "Soulworking" he now trains employees and executives how to maintain their inner balance in a fast-moving and volatile working world and how to remain emotionally connected with themselves, their fellow human beings and the wonderful Planet Earth.
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GÖTZ LEHMANN
Project manager MODEM, Arbeit und Leben e.V. Mecklenburg – Vorpommern
What leadership questions are we asking in rural area & should be asking in cities?
MODEM IS a model project for rural areas in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald. We are dealing with civil society in a changing region. We are looking for new formats & cooperation for a life beyond the cities. We are looking for a new relationship between city and country.
Civil society engagement can only develop, where provision of general interest is guaranteed. How can the conditions be created for this? In rural areas social issues, education, employment and culture are not perceived separately. How can the balance be lived to ensure a stable civil society?
When local sensitivities affect global effects, we need a functioning civil society.
DANIEL KRUSE
Entrepreneur and Activist, Founder of mærdavon
Let’s lead before we’re lost: Finding your gift for the great turning
Daniel founded Wigwam eG in 2009, a cooperative and communications agency with a focus on societal change and serving clients such as WWF, Oxfam or the Green Party. In 2015, prior to the Paris UN Climate Summit, he co-realized POC21, a 5-week transition camp with 300 participants to develop and exhibit 12 open-source products for the fossil free society. In the last 3 years he went through substantial personal losses and "fell into" Buddhism , now trying to include these learnings into his work for the rebellion we need.
CAROLINA GARIO
Policy Officer in the Directorate - General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
The power of social innovation
Carolina has a background in political science and economic development, with a focus on innovation policy.
Throughout her work experience at international & EU level she has supported others in embracing innovation, be it new technologies or approaches, to improve the world around them.
She notably contributed to develop and deliver training programmes for officials in Central America with the UN on topics such as sustainable tourism or sustainable port management. In the European Commission, she coordinated the implementation of the European innovation strategy & now works on the design of the future industrial policy and on social innovation, looking into new ways for businesses to deliver economic, societal & environmental value.
Co-hosting Team
A global collective creating the Leadership Festival 2019
KAROLINA IWA
Social Innovator
Facilitator, Consultant, Doer
LSF Co-founder
I support organisations and individuals in embracing complexity & creating deep connections. My aim is true commitment & excellent results, that benefit all. I am driven by curiosity to find the NEW of Work, Leadership, Home & Family.
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Superpower: Trailblazing
City: Berlin
MAJA MOJŠKERC
Community Manager, Youth Work Specialist, Change Agent
Diversity inspires me, vision of a different world drives me forward. Constantly playing and holding space for creative potential of young people to emerge, leading it towards creation of communities and movements.
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Superpower: Resilience
City: Ljubljana
ANJA HENCKEL
Educational Guide, Creative Director, Curator, Writer
I draw inspiration from a wide field of thought and enjoy challenging my perspective looking at a topic through the lens of historical, geopolitical, creative and critical practices. I enjoy thinking up collaborative and participatory processes, because I believe they truly enrich exchange, enlarge networks and support transformative thinking. The roots of my activities connect to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Superpower: Contagious Enthusiasm
City: Berlin
LEA KOVIČ
Path Finder, Designer, Facilitator
I strive for esthetics, be it in design, space or time. Looking for patterns, colors and shades in everyday life, inspires me to create more places for the new. Joy, attention to details and abundant perseverance, this is what i'm bringing to the table.
Superpower: ingenuity
City: Litija
NANCY DAVIS
Organizational Consultant, Mother, Urban Farmer
SEBASTIAN DANIEL MALL
Space Designer, Artist, Carpenter
I work in the field of beauty and space. As a cabinet maker and designer I create spaces with and for people. Spaces for dreamers and doers, to play and to stay.
As an entrepreneur I love co-creating with people, sharing knowledge and vision.
Super power: Primal Trust
City: Berlin
Conversation designer, thought partner, dialogue guide.
I design and facilitates mission-fulfilling conversations, retreats, meetings and other gatherings. I have repeatedly witnessed the power of effective facilitation in supporting teams and individuals to strengthen relationships, reach decisions, develop vision and build shared culture. I identify as a white, queer, cis-woman.
I examine my privilege, unlearn racism and explore how power and inequity show up.
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Superpower: Eye of the Hurricane
City: Portland
SYLWIA LEWANDOWSKA-AKHVLEDIANI
Business Influencer,
Cross-cultural Psychologists, Agile Mum
LSF Co-founder
Dreamer and doer. I serve business executives around the world to make their impact serve people, profit, planet, product, bringing all in balance. I act from different roles: facilitator, sparring partner, transformation guide, friend, consultant.
My focus is on daily leadership – as what we do daily matters most.
Superpower: Stakeholders Engagement
City: Warsaw