Mid of April, I received an email by the Handelsblatt offering fee spots at its leadership conference to women thanks to Tina Müller, CEO of Douglas. All I had to do was telling why I want to take part:
My TOP five:
To grow out of my comfort zone
To discuss about leadership: success, ethics, how do we want to lead?, how do we want to be led?
To make it an equal opportunity conference
To exchange ideas that broaden the horizon
To network across industries
A week before the conference I was accepted and booked my train to Berlin and my flight back home.
The conference started with an evening get2gether and an exchange in different fields: HR & Admin, Marketing & Sales, IT and Finance. The evening concluded with music by Leslie Clio and a DJ.
After a night at the Motel One Potsdamer Platz, the event continued at the Tempodrome with live talks with Handelsblatt correspondents in Washington D.C., Beijing, Paris and Istanbul. They gave insights on current topics and their assessment on the political and economic situation.
This intro was followed by sessions on pioneering journey, meaning, nudging, exponential future, truth and authenticity that were introduced by the CEO of the different sponsoring companies and continued by experts in the area.
Especially interesting, I found Clare Jones from What3Words and Symone Sanders, press speaker for Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign.
Clare introduced us to a new way of mapping and addressing the world. Her company divided the world by 3m by 3m squares and gave every square a unique 3 word address using more than 40,000 words. As our address systems usually dates back 300-400 years and is not always adequate in finding a certain spot, this helps to bring medical assistance to expecting mothers in townships / slums in South Africa, help drones/ humans to deliver goods to exactly the right place and hopefully my guests to find the entrance door to my house: ///racked.view.codes.
More info you can find on www.what3words.com.
We also had presentations on artificial intelligence with a robot, on cyber security telling us how unsafe our devices are and about the future of work where we are turning more to freelancing than employed workforce.
Key learnings from the conference:
My TOP five:
To grow out of my comfort zone
To discuss about leadership: success, ethics, how do we want to lead?, how do we want to be led?
To make it an equal opportunity conference
To exchange ideas that broaden the horizon
To network across industries
A week before the conference I was accepted and booked my train to Berlin and my flight back home.
The conference started with an evening get2gether and an exchange in different fields: HR & Admin, Marketing & Sales, IT and Finance. The evening concluded with music by Leslie Clio and a DJ.
After a night at the Motel One Potsdamer Platz, the event continued at the Tempodrome with live talks with Handelsblatt correspondents in Washington D.C., Beijing, Paris and Istanbul. They gave insights on current topics and their assessment on the political and economic situation.
This intro was followed by sessions on pioneering journey, meaning, nudging, exponential future, truth and authenticity that were introduced by the CEO of the different sponsoring companies and continued by experts in the area.
Especially interesting, I found Clare Jones from What3Words and Symone Sanders, press speaker for Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign.
Clare introduced us to a new way of mapping and addressing the world. Her company divided the world by 3m by 3m squares and gave every square a unique 3 word address using more than 40,000 words. As our address systems usually dates back 300-400 years and is not always adequate in finding a certain spot, this helps to bring medical assistance to expecting mothers in townships / slums in South Africa, help drones/ humans to deliver goods to exactly the right place and hopefully my guests to find the entrance door to my house: ///racked.view.codes.
More info you can find on www.what3words.com.
We also had presentations on artificial intelligence with a robot, on cyber security telling us how unsafe our devices are and about the future of work where we are turning more to freelancing than employed workforce.
Key learnings from the conference:
- Showcase positive behaviors by clients, employees, ... We usually overestimate bad behavior in others.
- Be yourself, be authentic
- Embrace the future
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