In a world where travel was my daily bread and conferences and airports became my natural habitat, I got lucky being the speaker after Chris Hadfield, at a conference in San Francisco. …

But not the way you might think. More in a way, David Attenborough would probably respond to this headline: observative, respectful, careful — but above everything else: unoffended by the monkeys behaviour. What does this even mean, you might ask yourself. …

You fueled us. But now its time to understand. “If we can do this, just imagine what you can do.” Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic climaxed 17 years of challenges and headwind in writing history. …

We have been talking a lot about failure, lately. In the past ten years, I would say, Europe has developed a weird failure fetish. Fail Fast, Fail Forward. We have heard this many many times, so we started to embrace failure. We embrace failure to the extend that we celebrate…

Alain de Botton once said, we think we own our success and we own our failure — and thats wrong. And as much as I love the humble talks of Alain de Botton, I warmly disagree. We DO own our successes and we do own our failures. The difference is…

Early March, I had a Laser eye surgery to correct my weak eyesight. I scheduled the surgery in the week before a virtual Silicon Valley Inspiration Tour, a program I am curating since 2012, to allow my body a few days of recovery. Little did I know: I could not…

We have to talk about how to convert administrations and politics to exponential thinkers. Their current linear mindset and decisionmaking process might lead us to a very shakey future. The main problem behind all the political response on covid lies within our culture of problemsolving. We are linear problemsolvers. An…

In the past 11 years, I have been working with over 1500 speakers, coaching them for their talks, watched over 3000 TED and TEDx talks (most of them live), spent a total of 500 days within average 10 people and up to 5 innovation meetings per day. …

This is a tough one because I know, some organizations might not love me for this list. In the past months, I had many many conversations with people about their jobs. Most of these conversations left me wondering, why none (!) of these people quit their jobs. There is a…