Ralf Rangnick

Sports Director

Team manager of the Austrian national team and a visionary of football.
 
He himself played actively for SV Unterweissach, his home club FC Victoria Backnang, VfB Stuttgart, VfR Heilbronn and SSV Ulm 1846, and dedicated himself entirely to professional sport after completing his teaching degree (sport and English studies).
 
Together with his mentor Helmut Gross, he developed the doctrine of ‘ball-oriented spatial coverage’, an active style of play focused on the collective hunt for the ball, which revolutionised the game in Germany and still has a lasting influence today.
 
As a coach, Rangnick worked at Manchester United, Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, SSV Ulm and Hannover 96, among others, but it was as a ‘club builder’ at TSG Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig that he left his biggest mark.
 
With his conceptual work, expertise and passion, he led both clubs from the lowlands of the amateur leagues to the German and international top flight.
 
Rangnick, who was also successful as sports director of RB Salzburg, shares his 40 years of experience in an anecdotal and captivating way, and not just for fans of the well-rounded leader: managers, decision-makers and employees in business and politics also draw great inspiration from his key topics of corporate identity, leadership and continuous optimisation.

Marc Gassert

Lecturer

 
Marc Gassert has spent a large part of his life in different cultures on various continents and learnt Asian martial arts from renowned grandmasters.
 
Today he holds master degrees (black belts) in Karate, Taekwondo and Shaolin Kung Fu. He studied Communication Science and Intercultural Communication in Munich and Japanese Studies in Tokyo.
 
As a lecturer, Marc Gassert offers the transfer of knowledge
between Far Eastern and Western culture.

With his interactive presentations, he is a regular guest at top events organised by international companies.
 
(Whether it’s about discipline, change, resilience or courage for the future – talks with Marc are great entertainment)

Wolfgang Jenewein

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jenewein is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Gallen and Managing Director of Jenewein AG. Before joining the University of St. Gallen in February 2011, he was a Full Professor of Human Resources Management and Continuing Education at RWTH Aachen University.
 
In his research and teaching, Wolfgang Jenewein focuses on positive leadership, the cultural transformation of organizations, and the leadership of high-performance teams in business and sports.
 
He lectures at the University of St. Gallen, the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto), and RWTH Aachen University and has received numerous awards for his work – including the “Credit Suisse Best Teaching Award” from the University of St. Gallen in May 2016 and the “Best Teacher Worldwide of the Academic Year 2018 Award” from the renowned international CEMS program in October 2018.
 
His publication list includes numerous books and academic articles in leading journals and magazines. Wolfgang also writes a weekly column called “New Leadership” in Harvard Business Manager.
 
Wolfgang Jenewein advises and coaches major international corporations at the board level and has worked with, among others, the German national soccer team, the Alinghi sailing team, and various clubs in the German Bundesliga. In spring 2016, he was named one of the five most influential leadership coaches in Germany by “Focus” magazine.
 
He coaches top athletes from a wide variety of sports and is himself a top 30 CrossFit athlete 55+ worldwide. His greatest successes include three titles at the Austrian Championships and one title at the German Championships in his respective age group.

Marcel Reif

Sports Journalist

 
“Be a human being”
 
Marcel Reif impressed the public with this sentence during his speech in the German Bundestag on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day.
He is the face of sport.
 
His commentaries on the world’s sporting events are legendary because they are well-founded and always differentiated. Many consider him to be the best football commentator of all time. In his long career, he has presented and commented on countless sports broadcasts on various television channels. Winner of many top-class awards, he is one of the most sought-after presenters.
 
As a presenter of gala or corporate events as well as sports and business talks, Marcel Reif also inspires with his eloquence, spontaneity and unmistakable humor.

Bernhard Wolff

Speaker and moderator

“The backwards speaker”
 
Bernhard Wolff is an expert in creativity. As a “backwards speaker”, he has been a guest on over 50 TV shows. With his entertaining keynote speech “Switch on your brain, change direction”, he motivates people to break habits, network, look for new ideas and make an optimistic start into the future. Bernhard Wolff garnished his presentations with ingenious examples of his word acrobatics.
 
Bernhard Wolff’s list of references is impressive and ranges from innovation congresses and events organized by large companies to TED conferences. The qualified business educator and trained advertising manager and copywriter is the author of specialist books on creativity and numerous specialist articles. He also passes on his knowledge as a lecturer and consultant.
 
Bernhard Wolff is not only used as a speaker. The stage professional can also be booked as a presenter for your event. Bernhard Wolff has helped organize over 400 conferences. His presentations incorporate lecture elements and entertainment – a real added value for any event!

Markus Hofmann

Keynote Speaker

Markus Hofmann is a professional memory trainer, multiple award-winning keynote speaker, lecturer and author on the topics of memory training and the brain.
 
He is a lecturer at Steinbeis University Berlin and the Management University of St. Gallen. He lectures on brain and memory training at the ZfU International Business School in Switzerland. He is a member of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF) and a member of the board of the German Speakers Association (GSA).
 
Hofmann is also Director of the STI – Steinbeis Transfer Institute “Professional Speaker GSA”.
 
In 2009, he wrote the bestseller “Gehirn in Topform” on the subject of memory training.
 
He has been one of the top 100 speakers in Germany since 2010.