Here we are, last episode of this first season! We have the pleasure to receive an Alumnus, Philipp Brandt. Philipp was the local committee president in Hannover a few years ago and is now working at Hannoverimpuls in Hannover as a startup consultant. Before that, Philipp founded “Journey Stamps” which has the mission of connecting travelers and telling travel stories to create new perspectives. Today, we are talking about starting a business with someone who founded his startup and consults now people on creating their own.     Some book resources´ recommendations from Philipp ..read more

Pauliina Hallama is a trainer, coach, and team coach with her roots deep in social psychology. Her mission is to build a world where everyone is a coach, to themselves and to each other. Pauliina has been training thousands of people in organizations and public settings worldwide, spanning all the way from industrial workers to management teams. In the last years, she has been busy supporting leaders and professionals in developing their coaching identity by training them and deepening their insights through individual coaching, and supporting diverse teams through team coaching. Pauliina is a ..read more

With us is someone who was in the Youth Leadership Day organized by AIESEC in Germany the last spring. He gave a wonderful keynote about value-based leadership. Then, he was interviewed again by AIESEC in Germany during the Leadership for tomorrow campaign about world citizenship. He was nearly 20 years ago leading AIESEC in Jena, Germany, also on the national board as a vice president of sales. Then, he worked for several years in HR and is now leading the businesses of the SR Group in continental Europe. He is also currently on the AIESEC Alumni Europe Board.  Today, we are having a tal ..read more

Graham has a career of over 40 years in several fields. As a consultant, as a project manager, as a life coach, as a Business transformation coach, and many more. He is now a Life Purpose and career coach, helping individuals to find and develop their life purpose and to live a purposeful life.  What we are talking about today is a marriage between coaching and design thinking. Graham uses design thinking in coaching individuals to pursue their life purpose and we will know everything about this approach with him today.  Book recommendations from Graham:  Designing your Life ..read more

David Jüngling has been in AIESEC in Braunschweig for quite some time as a local president and also in the national trainer's team of our entity. He was training young people to be trainers themselves. He is now working in Deloitte Greenhouse as a trainer and doing his master thesis around smartphones for his master's in Business Psychology in Berlin.   We are addressing a highly important topic: smartphone use in today's society. Smartphones are nowadays definitely the device we use most during the day. We will be talking about statistics, addiction, general use, and also tips on reasona ..read more

Mika has been for long years in AIESEC in Germany as a local president, trainer, vice president, and also president of the organization for a year. He is now the head of organizational development at DEGiS, the german association for international student GmbH. Before that, he has also done a bachelor's in social and cultural anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. We can't think of another person than Mika to talk with us about volunteering, for the countless experiences he has. That's why we will be addressing the topic of volunteering during your studies and all the personal and profe ..read more

Susanne works mainly as a business, agile and personal coach.  You can find and book her personal and business coaching services via her site coachingforenterprises.com. This is for enterprises of all sizes and all people.  Our talk goes in the direction of professional self-awareness. How to find the right career? How can self-awareness or professional self-awareness help in finding the right career? How can knowing yourself better help you to create a fulfilling career?   We will be covering those questions with Susanne today.  ..read more

Robert is a Hobby Poet, systemic Coach after work, and employee in Business Administration. He has countless experiences as a member of several finance teams in Berlin and on a national level of AIESEC in Germany. He has been a vice president at AIESEC Alumni Germany but is also an experienced trainer. He organized the Nalds and other personal development conferences and is now still regularly training workshops. Robert is also a poet, he has written a few poems and will perform one for us during this episode. We are talking about art and how you can reveal your artist. The talk goes in the d ..read more

Melanie Müller was on the national Board of AIESEC in Germany in 2008.  She is now a manager of strategic development digital at MSD Germany but is doing much more than what her job description says. What we are talking about today is the fact of being a specialist vs. being a generalist.  Whether at work or during your studies, you will always be confronted with this question. Are you rather someone who wants to be an expert in one domain, or do several things at a time and be more polyvalent? Let´s find out what Melanie thinks of that.  At the end of the talk, Melanie gave u ..read more

Johannes was the vice president of marketing and then the president of AIESEC in Germany a couple of years ago. He is now the Lead Product Marketing Manager at Facelift, a leading social media management tool.   In this episode, we are talking about failure and success and the fine line between them. Einstein says "Failure is success in progress". Scott Fitzgerald says "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat". We wanted to see what Johannes says about that. We talk also about goal setting, productivity, and how not to be discouraged by failure, and consider it as success in pro ..read more