You drink - you learn‪.‬ Dirk Schülgen

My guest today, Charles Bahr, is quite a character. He started his professional journey at 14 founding his own agency, just to found another one before joining TikTok and the Serviceplan Bubble afterwards. What a journey. Charles shares some of his experiences consulting big brands on social media, but also shares his views on what he and his generations expect from workplaces today. A perfect set up to drink and learn.Some things I have learned in our session: ➡️ Companies need to ...

How about being a global fashion retailer and introducing a four day work week in the middle of the Pandemic? Not the first thing you would do? Well, check out the story of Desigual who just did this bold move. In todays episode I had the chance to reconnect with Guillem Gallego, CMO of Desigual. Guillem has many stories to share, from introducing the NFL to an European audience, to rocking at Nike and to become the Marketing leader of one of the most recognised Spanish brands. We ...

Everyone of us wants the best talent in their teams. People who can drive change, grow the business, make a difference, bring energy and solve the biggest challenges within the organisation. We call them unicorns - everyone is looking for them, but they are pretty hard to find. My guest today knows how to attract these talents, but more important she also knows how organizations need to change to keep them. Carolin Stokes is the author and TedTalk Speaker of „Elephants before Unicorns“, ...

During a career you go through a lot of trainings, some good and inspiring, others a waste of time and energy. One of the most impactful trainings in my career has been about negotiation with the GAP Partnership. Even after many years I still think about it. As I know that many people have difficulties with this topic, I have invited Jon Speichinger, a negotiation expert at the GAP. Jon shared his life story, but also a lot of insights about negotiations. Another one in German ...

Many of us grew up and built our careers in the corporate world with countless ups and downs on our way.My guest today from Hong Kong is definitely one of us - Andy Chiu. Andy experienced the culture of L'Oréal and Mercedes Benz before he learned that wearing a suit is not the definition of being successful. He followed his true passion and landed in the sports and lifestyle industry, worked at Adidas and Puma and Adidas again leading Originals in Japan. Andy is a true expert in building...

Todays guest is one of the leading trend researchers Peter Wippermann. Peter tells the story how he became a researcher who's job it is to model the future and shares a lot of findings out of his studies. I personally liked his view not focussing on single fast paced trends, but building baselines on five dimensions to measure developments over time and predict changes in our society. His five focus dimensions are:- social change- ageing demographics- technological developments- ec...