Clemens Adam

For the third time in a row, our fellow GSA member Clemens Adam will put you into party mood right after the Gala banquet. Clemens is a trained sales expert with long years of working experience. Since the 1980s, he is also working as a DJ and radio host and turned his hobby into his profession in 1995. During the Soccer World Championship in 2006, he made 200.000 people dance and party in the HR3 Main Arena Frankfurt. On the top of his career, Clemens decided to focus on an alternative to fall back on, which should be his training abilities. He qualified as a master of sales training. Today, he is a sales trainer, speaker and lecturer, the music being his hobby again. On September 9, 2011 he revives his musical profession, passion and power for us.

Karen Christine Angermayer

Karen Christine Angermayer is an author, ghostwriter, and a 10-year professional trainer. Her work is characterized by the connection of specific areas of knowledge like creativity training, brain research, mental training, quantum physics and special intuition techniques. Among her clients are Asgodom Live, BMW, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, ministries, PRO7, publishing houses like Loewe and Random House, and advertising agencies. She is professional member of the GSA.

Kristin J. Arnold, MBA, CMC, CPF, CSP

Kristin J. Arnold, MBA, CMC, CPF, CSP is passionate about making meetings more engaging, interactive and collaborative. As a high stakes meeting facilitator, trainer and keynote speaker, Kristin has worked with thousands of senior executives, project managers and team leaders in Canada and the USA, challenging their traditional notions about teamwork. She is known for her concrete approach to teamwork and a treasure trove of practical concepts, tools and techniques her clients can apply immediately to see positive, substantive results. A wide range of companies depend on Kristin for insight into what works best for teams today: Marathon Oil Company, Caterpillar Inc., US Armed Forces, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Internal Revenue Service, International Maritime Organization, International Facilities Management Association...just to name a few. Kristin is President of the National Speakers Association of the United States 2010-2011.

Sabine Asgodom, CSP

Sabine Asgodom, CSP is a management trainer, top speaker and coach. As an author, with her bestselling book "self-praise is grace" she coined the term of personality PR in Germany. Numerous of her books have been translated, e.g. into Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Latvian, Chinese, and Corean. In 1999 former journalist Sabine founded her own enterprise "Asgodom live" in Munich: "Moving people, shaping business". She works as a trainer for DAX listed companies as well as for medium sized enterprises, she coaches managers from politics, economics and showbiz, and she performs as top-speaker at congresses and events mainly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She writes for a big Hamburg newspaper and is editor of the e-zine "Coaching heute". Since 2001, Sabine is a teacher for personality PR at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim. She is a founding member and Past President of the GSA and has been inducted into the German Speakers Hall of Fame.

Dr. Janelle Barlow, President GSF, CSP

Janelle Barlow, President GSF, CSP. Janelle is president of the customer experience consulting firm TMI US and the sales training organization, TACK-USA. Janelle has authored seven books including Branded Customer Service and the business best-seller A Complaint is a Gift, translated into more than 20 languages. Her PhD was earned at the University of California at Berkeley.

Ulrike Berlenbach

Ulrike Berlenbach is an expert for social media concepts, brand building and coaching based on neuroscience. She holds a diploma in business sciences, is a trained psychologist, speaker, trainer, coach and consultant with her focus on personality and brand bulding plus social media. Ulrike Berlenbach has a 20-year management experience in marketing, sales and management. She knows how to combine "old school marketing" with the client's existing markting mix creating a new quality of content communication, using web 2.0 channels with web 3.0 communication. She is professional member of the GSA and member of the German Association of Coaching and Training (dvct). www.brandingmedia.de

Markus Brand

Markus Brand is Diplom Psychologist. As certified Reiss Profile Master & Instructor he trains trainers, coaches and human resources developers to become Reiss Profile Masters. Furthermore he is qualified for the programs of Insights-Discovery, is specialized in systemic transaction analysis and solution-oriented communication. He also is a certified wing-wave trainer. In his management trainings, coachings and speeches he focuses on the individual components of motivation and behavior.

Shelle Rose Charvet, CSP

Shelle Rose Charvet, CSP, is the international expert on influencing and persuasion. She is a Certified Trainer of NLP, and the author of the international bestseller Words That Change Minds (in German Wort sie Dank). She helps organisations in Europe, Asia and North America understand, predict and influence the behaviour of their customers. She also runs an annual Train the Trainer in her techniques and has certified over 300 people world-wide to deliver highly specialized training and consulting. She speaks English, French and Spanish, sometimes not at the same time, and has been busy learning German. Warum nicht?

Gerhard Conzelmann

Gerhard Conzelmann is President of the International Shao Lin Institute. He studied physics, mathematics and business sciences and from 1972 until 1977 he lectured at the University of Tübingen. Since 1977, he primarily consults and trains international enterprises. His main focus in training and consulting is management, marketing/sales, event-management aswell as motivational, awareness and energy training. Since 1988, Gerhard Conzelmann is being trained at the Shao Lin monastery. In many of his trainings and seminars he uses the methods of the Shao Lin monks. He coaches several top managers.

Collin Croome

Collin Croome is an social media expert with his own online marketing agency "coma2 e-branding - agency for digital brand management". Since 1991, he implements ambitious multimedia solutions and is a speaker and trainer for digital marketing, new media, and apple technologies. Since 16 years he has been developing sophisticated online campaigns for well-known international concerns and premium brands. As an expert for web 2.0, social media, and facebook marketing, he holds seminars and training on a regular basis.

Gerriet Danz

Since more than 2 decades, Gerriet Danz is a sought-after expert for creativity and one of the most accredited communication coaches in Germany. His keynotes are as inspiring and special as the sum of his experiences. Gerriet started as creative director of the international advertising agency BBDO. There he supported global enterprises by thinking and acting "crosswise". His carreer no. 2 leads him to television: Gerriet developed new, innovative program formats, and hosted the quiz program „JEOPARDY“. With a good sense of humor, his motivating and vital presentations show how to inject some life into ideas, concepts and presentations. Gerriet is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and was being award with the CONGA award, the oscar of Germany's event industry.

Richard de Hoop

In his home country the Netherlands, Richard de Hoop is a sought-after Entert®ainer and keynote speaker for teambuilding, motivation and management and gives 100 sweeping presentations each year in Holland and Europe. He uses music as a metaphor and inspirational source for business companies. He compares the people's personalities with music instruments in order to show their diversity. Richard's message to the audience is to emphasize the strengths of every single one. He calls it the "revolution of strengths", because only if everyone is employed accordings to his specific skills, the enthusiasm and passion for their work can be triggered which leads to great and outstanding performance. Richard loves life, people and music and puts this attitude together on the platform to form a harmonious whole.

Roxanne Emmerich, CSP, CMC, CPAE

Roxanne Emmerich is America’s most sought-after workplace transformation expert. She is listed by Sales and Marketing Management magazine as one of the 12 most requested speakers in the country for her ability to transform negative workplace performance and environments into “bring it on” results-oriented cultures. Roxanne's new book "Thank God It's Monday" is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Amazon #1 bestseller. A three-time Entrepreneur of the Year and 2010 Philanthropist of the Year, Roxanne served Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson as a key advisor on reinventing state government and serves as Editor-In-Chief of Extraordinary Banker® Magazine. She is in demand for interviews by CNN, NPR, CBS, and other media outlets nationwide for her proven ability to help workplaces get unstuck and achieve radically improved results quickly.

Warren Evans, CSP, HoF Canada

Warren has been President of national Training and Development, and Professional Speaking associations, and is the Founding Chairman of our Global Speakers Federation. He was awarded his CSP in 1992, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, and has received numerous other awards and designations. He is recognized around the world not only as a masterful presenter, but as one of the most knowledgeable people in our business.

Tim Gard, CSP, CPAE

One of the USA's foremost authorities on stress reduction through humor, Tim Gard, CSP, CPAE is also a professional speaker, author and humor philosopher. In addition to sharing his fall-out-of-your-seat laughing Comic Vision seminars he also markets his own line of stress buster tools. During the last 12 years, Tim has delivered his entertaining, informative presentations nationally and internationally, speaking to government groups, professional associations, and corporations of every kind. Through his work he expands the understanding of humor skills as stress reduction tools. His development of easy-to-implement techniques has inspired action from conference attendees, publishers, television, and radio talk shows around the world. His methods and techniques are an effective way to deal with, diffuse, and even avoid intensely stressful encounters. A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) Tim is also a Hall of Fame member 2006 (Council of Peers Award of Excellence).

Matthias Garten

Matthias Garten holds a diploma in business computer science and is an expert for multi-media presentations in the German speaking countries. He is speaker, trainer, author, innovation manager, presentation consultant and organizer of a presentation conference. In 1993, he founded the presentation agency smavicon Best Business Presentations, which helped over 150 branches with over 10.000 presentations so far. He consults and supports companies like BASF, Union Investment, Stihl, KPMG and many more as well as speaker like Martin Limbeck, Pero Micic, and others, because they want to present in a more creative, innovative and effective way with state-of-the-art presentations.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Gitomer Defined (git-o-mer) n. 1. a creative, on-the-edge, writer and speaker whose expertise on sales, customer loyalty, and personal development is world renowned. 2. known for presentations, seminars and keynote addresses that are funny, insightful, and in your face. 3. real world. 4. off the wall. 5. on the money. 6. gives audiences information they can take out in the street one minute after the seminar is over and turn it into money. See also: salesman.

Gustav Gous, PhD, CSP

- Gustav was born in Windhoek, Namibia [Sud-West] (not too long ago!). - He is an experienced international speaker working the Africa, Europe, America and the Middle and Far East circuit. - The most important fact about him, is that he loves life passionately. - He acted as company counsellor for the petro-chemical company Sasol for 9 years. - He also acts as life coach for a number of senior executives. - He is married to Annelize and they have three daughters: Jana, Nandi & Mila. - He previously taught at two universities. - He is known for his transformational leadership programmes on Robben Island: Titled “The Short Walk to Freedom”. - He does consulting for international companies on Inter-Cultural Intelligence and is the founder President of the Diversity Intelligence Institute www.diviin.com. - He is the past President of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa. - He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).

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Gaby S. Graupner

Boris Grundl

Boris Grundl made his career as a manager and is now a management expert and charismatic speaker belonging to Europe's training elite. He is a management trainer, entrepreneur, author and owns the Grundl Leadership Academy. Boris Grundl is a perfectionist when it comes to managing himself and others. He is a sought-after speaker and visiting lecturer at several universities. His references show that with his authenticity and profundity he holds a special position among the top speakers. He is a plain speaker and gets to the point without losing his sense of humour. As a prominent expert, Boris Grundl is in demand for interviews with the most important national TV and broadcasting media. He speaks at schools, where he gives students incentives to live on their own responsibility. Boris Grundl is "the developer" (Harvard Business Manager).

Hans-Joachim Hahn

Hans-Joachim Hahn, a 30-years interpreter, has acted with and translated many top speakers on stage. He accompanied stars like Brian Tracy, Samy Molcho, Jörg Löhr, Sabine Asgodom, Billy Selekane, Nikolaus B. Enkelmann and many others. Hans-Joachim Hahn is also a keynote speaker in English and German, and he speeks at business events, at congresses and training events. In his speeches, he focuses on values as a factor for management and success, thereby adressing the crisis of values and providing practicable methods for value finding and positioning.

Siegfried Haider

Siegfried Haider, CEO of experts4events and founder of the German Speakers Association e.V. is an accredited expert for professional self marketing and easy attraction and retention of customers, especially with event marketing. His concepts and methods are simple and well proven. He gets his innovations from all over the world and adapts them for his clients and audiences in the German speaking area. He inspires by delivering rich content, which he presents well-structured and with a good sense of humor. Over the past 10 years, Sigi worked together successfully with many training organizations, sought-after experts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as with the market leaders of event management. Among his clients are DAX-listed companies and well-known experts.

Claudia Haider

Torsten Havener

Thorsten Havener is Germany's foremost mentalist and personality trainer. He is the man, who makes people totally bewildered. The BILD newspaper's headline read "Weird - he looks into people's brains!" So far, Thorsten Havener has been invited by almost all important broadcasting stations and appeared on all big national TV shows. He wrote two bestselling books about his skills: "Ich weiß was Du denkst" (I know what you are thinking of) and "Denken Sie nicht an einen blauen Elefanten (Don't think of a blue elephant). His speeches and workshops fascinated more than 10000 attendees, and today Thorsten Havener is a sought-after business speaker, delivering numerous speeches for big concerns.

Markus Hofmann, CSP

To train our learning and memorizing skills is his passion: Markus Hofmann is one of the leading memory experts in Germany and is involved in a lively exchange of knowledge and experiences with neuroscientists, psychologists and scientific commitees. He is director of the Steinbeis Transfer Institute „Professional Speaker GSA“, visiting lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, lecturer at the ZfU International Business School in Thalwil (CH), member of the board of the German Speaker Association (GSA) and since 2010 he is Certified Speaking Professional. Speaking at corporate and public events aswell as at renowned institutes, Markus inspires his audiences with a mix of information and entertainment.

Christoph Illigens

Christoph Illigens works as a designer, illustrator and visual facilitator for the Kommunikationslotsen (communication pilots). The Kommunikationslotsen consult and support organizations, who want to improve their communication and team play. Communication in the sense of ideal understanding, true dialogues and agreements is a crucial factor for success - especially in change management. A team of facilitators und visual facilitators attends change projects, programs, single meetings and conferences with professional moderation and with pictures created live in the process, giving orientation and allowing successful communication.

Frauke Ion

Frauke Ion, this name is known for human resource development, business coach and Reiss Profile Master. She can look back on many years of experience in management in international companies including human resources management and general management. Her expertise is based on top quality trainer training in the USA and in Germany. She is certified for various communications and management training programs e.g. Insights, DISG and the FranklinCovey programs. Since 2005 she has run her own consultancy and training company ion international. Together with her business partner Markus Brand she also runs the “Institut für Lebensmotive”. Frauke Ion works both in English and German, develops customised people development concepts and moderates management events.

Dale Irvin, CSP, CPAE

Dale Irvin is one of a kind. He is an author, actor and widely televised comedian, but speaking is where he excels. Dale is the world's only Professional Summarizer. He attends your meeting, paying attention to every word spoken by every speaker and noticing every detail of the event. Then, throughout the day, he will "summarize" the event with a comedy monologue written on the spot. In addition to over 100 national TV appearances, Dale has appeared in concert with Jay Leno, Paul Anka, The Four Tops and The Temptations. Dale has received the two highest designations as presented by the National Speakers Association. In 1988, Dale earned the designation of CSP, (Certified Speaking Professional); and in 1995, Dale was given the highest award in the speaking industry, induction into the Speakers Hall of Fame. Dale is the author of eight books including "Laughter Doesn't Hurt" and publishes "Funny Business", a bi-monthly humor newsletter with international distribution.

Eberhard Jung

Eberhard Jung puts things in a nutshell. The keynote-speaker and CEO of persolog north america corp. is characterized by his knowledge of human nature and a manifold pool of experiences. He holds a degree in theology and has been working as an executive coach internationally since more than 15 years. Today, he lives with his family in Augsburg, Bavaria. Eberhard Jung challenges, confronts and inspires. Those who get involved in his charming and provocative nature, get clear and succinct arguments. Being a speaker with excellent rhetoric skills, he challenges his audience to change their lives.

Katja Kerschgens

Katja Kerschgens, M.A. - the speech tightener - runs trainings in rhethoric and quick wit since 2001. She trains a variety of target groups, and from this width she extracted the essence of speech tightening and her mission against the abuse of live time. She is author of the book "Reden straffen statt Zuhörer strafen" (Don't punish your audiences - tight your speeches). Katja studied German studies, linguistic sciences and phonetics in Cologne. For years, she worked as an editor, sharpening her awareness for what is relevant. With her communication service KKKom she offers trainings as well as textual work.

Claudia Kimich

Hans-Uwe L. Köhler, GSA HoF

"German International Training Award", " Award of Excellence in Communication", GSA Hall of Fame: Hans-Uwe L. Köhler is one of the leading salestrainer and has been valued for his positive communication. His performance, humour, creativity and professional ethics of 30 years as trainer, author or speaker, turn him into the "expert for emotional communication". Not only his wordplay, his fast game of ideas and thoughts, calmness, inconvinient books, implementation of originally projects, his career and amusement in all his action are characterizing him. Köhler puts you in a good mood - and more: he can motivate, moderate, philosophize and is good in social networking, writing and selling.

Michael Krebs

Michael Krebs studied classic music, jazz piano, German studies and Tibetan studies in hamburg and Bremen. With over 1000 live performances as a music humorist, he tours the German speaking countries since 2004. He is the recipient of numerous cabaret and comedy awards. You can see Michael Krebs on TV, being guest on the most successful German comedy shows.

Gerd Kulhavy

Gerd Kulhavy is the founder and CEO of Speakers Excellence, member of the International Association of Speakers Bureaus. For more than 15 years, Gerd Kulhavy studied the recipes for success of the most prominent international trainers and speakers. Encounters and talks with Kenneth Blanchard, Peter Lowe, Brian Tracy, Prof. Dr. Michio Kaku, Siegfried & Roy, Klaus J. Fink, Jürgen Höller, Bodo Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Lothar Seiwert, Jörg Löhr und Andreas Ackermann, just to name a few, left a deep and lasting impression on him. Before entering the speaker market, Gerd Kulhavy gained substantial hands-on experience while working as a sales manager for a big insurance company, co-founder of "Friends & Business", and Managing Director of INLINE AG. Gerd Kulhavy has outstanding business instincts, and helps top-speakers from marketing, education, politics, and sports with developing their brand.

Martin Laschkolnig

Mag. Michaela Leithner, MA

Mag. Michaela Leithner MA is managing director of the Network SMILE-Translations and offers long years of experience in interpreting, translating, and organizing translation teams and events to her customers. SMILE-Translations is a one stop shop for interpreting, translating, organization and technics. It is a network of interpreters and translators with various language combinations, who have been trained at national and international universities and have long lasting international experiences. The network can offer nearly all languages and language combinations for conferences, talks, seminars, trainings, press conferences etc. With customer liasion and support we are making the difference. Our profession is our passion...we gonna make you SMILE!

Ilona Lindenau

Ilona Lindenau is an experienced commnuication and motivation expert and comes right to the point. In her speeches, talks, moderations and trainings she motivates her audience with her professional and inspiring presentation style. Her goal: to motivate people effectively and to make their personalities shine. Her secret of success: Knowledge, experience and a lot of charme.

Dinnerjazz-Sängerin Maggie Jane

Kristine Pogge

Ulrike Ramsauer

Ulrike Ramsauer, born 1955 in Munich, holds a degree in communication sciences, theater sciences and ethnology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She was head of PR at the publishing houses Goldmann, List-Süddeutscher Verlag-Südwest, and Econ. She worked as director of ballet at the Hamburgische Staatsoper for one season, founded the Arbeitskreis der Verlagspressesprecher, a working committee of spokespersons of publishing companies, co-authored the book „PR im Buchverlag“ and established and managed the Econ speaker bureau for the Econ publishing group. After the Econ group has been selled, Ulrike founded her own speaker bureau Ramsauer & Guillot, which since 2007 has two branches: one in Fuchstal (near Munich), one in Berlin.

Kirsten Reinhold

Kirsten Reinhold is an illustrator, graphic designer and visual facilitator and works for the Kommunikationslotsen (communication pilots). The Kommunikationslotsen consult and support organizations, who want to improve their communication and team play. Communication in the sense of ideal understanding, true dialogues and agreements is a crucial factor for success - especially in change management. A team of facilitators und visual facilitators attends change projects, programs, single meetings and conferences with professional moderation and with pictures created live in the process, giving orientation and allowing successful communication.

Dr. Mag. Imre Marton Reményi, MAS MSc

Naomi Rhode, RDH, CSP, CPAE Speak

Naomi Rhode, RDH, CSP, CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame®, a graduate and alumni of the year of the University of Minnesota, has spoken before thousands of health care professionals and their team members, corporations and non-profit organizations, sharing her expertise on leadership, team building, life balance and interpersonal relationships. She is a member of Speaker's Roundtable, a recipient of the prestigious Cavett Award and past president of the Arizona State Dental Hygienists Association and the National Speakers Association. For the multitudes that have heard her, Naomi's warmth, enthusiasm and unique insight into the dynamics of person-to-person relationships have made her a "Remembered Experience". Each year she speaks extensively at seminars, association meetings, corporations and conventions, stimulating her audience to achieve new levels of professional and personal growth. She has spoken in all 50 states and 15 foreign countries.

Joachim Sauer

Peter Sawtschenko

Holger Scholz

Holger Scholz ist Certified Professional Facilitator (Int. Association of Facilitators) und Associate of the Kommunikationslotsen (communication pilots). The Kommunikationslotsen consult and support organizations, who want to improve their communication and team play. Communication in the sense of ideal understanding, true dialogues and agreements is a crucial factor for success - especially in change management. A team of facilitators und visual facilitators attends change projects, programs, single meetings and conferences with professional moderation and with pictures created live in the process, giving orientation and allowing successful communication.

Anne M. Schüller

Anne M. Schüller is a management consultant and one of the leading experts in loyality marketing. For more than 20 years she worked as a sales and marketing manager in the international service industry and has been awarded several times. She holds a degree in business sciences and is a 10 times bestselling author. Today, she is a speaker, business trainer and lecturer at several colleges and universities. Her book "Kundennähe in der Chefetage" was awarded with the Swiss Business Book Prize 2008. The elite of Germany's, Austria's and Switzerlands business world are part of her clientele.

Benjamin Schulz

Dr. Torsten Schwarz

Dipl.-Ing. Brigitte Seibold

Prof. Dr. Lothar Seiwert, CSP, GSA HoF

Prof. Dr. Lothar Seiwert, GSA HoF, is Europe's leading expert in the field of time and life management. A much sought-after speaker and best-selling author (whose books have sold over 4 million copies in 30 languages), his work has been recognized with numerous prizes and honors. In 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Training and Development Federations and was inducted into the German Speakers Hall of Fame® (HoF). As managing director of the Heidelberg-based Seiwert Keynote-Speaker Ltd., Dr. Seiwert specializes in the fields of time management, Life Leadership® and work/life balance. He is the President of the German Speakers Association (GSA) and is a member of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF) for Professional Speakers.

Joe Sherren, CSP, HoF

Joe Sherren, is the President of Ethos Enterprises and CEO of the newly formed Gateway Leadership Inc.. He is a speaker, trainer, executive coach and National Bestselling Author who has been motivating and building skills with leaders and managers for over 25 years. Joe works with leading organizations from around the world to maximize performance in the areas of leadership, management skills, customer loyalty, team development, communication skills, ethics and strategic planning. He is past-president of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, past-president of the Global Speakers Federation, and has been inducted into the Canadian Speakers’ Hall of Fame.

Joachim Skambraks

Joachim Skambraks defines the standards for professional sales performance with his concept of elevator pitch, a fact which is confirmed by numerous articles, podcasts, TV appearances and his book. Apprenticeship at the Bertelsmann AG, more than 10 years of experience as a sales and marketing manager in diverse medium-sized enterprises - Joachim Skambraks has gathered plenty of hands-on-experience in the sales business. In 1999 he set up his own company, InTu Training, a training business company for "Better results in customer contact". His motto: "Life is to short to be a bad salesman." Those who don't attend his trainings, can read Skambraks: He is author of 10 management books. He belongs to Germany's keynote speakers.

Patricia Staniek

Patricia Staniek is a consultant, coach, trainer and keynote speaker with long-time experience. As a business consultant she supports and accompanies medium-sized companies and business concerns on strategic paths, as a coach she helps teams to perform. She is a personality and executive coach, working with top politicians, athletes and managers aswell as with many celebrities. She leads trainings for business coaching and project management. Patricia Staniek only teaches what she can practice herself. She is real, straight, and has a great sense of humour.

Michael Stöcker

Michael Stöcker , born in 1977, is network solutions manager. In 2007, he set up his own company, malX Media. After 11 years work experience in the engineering department of one of the biggest companies in Berlin, the BVG, he successfully completed his studies in engineering with focus on electronic data processing and network engineering including communication technology. At the same time, Michael Stöcker finished his studies as an IT application specialist and has been certified as MCSE.

Mag. Gerhard J. Vater

Mag. Gerhard J. Vater inspires people to extract new joy from their old work. He is an expert for hands-on customer focus. Working with his clients, Gerhard follows the principle "client focus needs joy at work". Since over 30 years, he works as a management consultant and trainer. He is an author, lecturer at Vienna University of Economics and Business, at the bfi Academy Vienna, and member of the working group "Initiative for cultural change" of the Economic Chamber of Austria.

Dagmar Wöhrl

Dagmar Wöhrl is a German laywer, entrepreneur and politician. Since 1994, Dagmar Wöhrl is an elected member of the German parliament, the Bundestag. Since 2009, she is chairwoman of the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development. Besides that, Dagmar Wöhrl holds numerous offices and honorary positions in her party, the CSU, in business and society.