Ulrike is a social entrepreneur, connector, speaker and author whose work spans sports, business, digital culture, social innovation, and grassroots transformation. She studied business management at the University of Mannheim before embarking on a multifaceted career that moves fluidly across systems — corporate and informal, Western and Global South — translating complexity into lived, human experience. Rather than following a linear professional path, she has built a body of work rooted in presence, trust, and long-term relationships, working with companies, institutions, communities, and individuals across continents.
This is my humble attempt to describe how a reportage around Stephan Brückner and Wolwedans in Namibia took its very own way. I am writing this because I felt the process how this happened was almost flawless – and this might be a good example for young story hunters on how to get what you […]
The Nomad is a series of stories, fascinations, encounters, observations, experiences, joy of the moments by me, Ulrike Reinhard – all around my travels. Stay tuned! Ulrike Reinhard is The Nomad 🙂 Thula Thula is Zulu and means peace and tranquility. And in Zululand, in the province of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, Thula Thula is […]
Even after COVID, the increase in people with burnout symptoms and illnesses is not levelling off. On the contrary. Mark Lockwood knows how managers can protect themselves and their teams from burnout and at the same time increase their performance and satisfaction. I’ve spoken with the teacher of self-responsibility and spiritual transformation who founded an […]
In November 2022 I’ve held a Design Thinking Workshop in Imizamo Yethu, a townhip south of Capetown – and it was right there, during an evening walk that I decided to do this. Here is the first text which will soon become a podcast: Please understand this as work in progress. It’s early Sunday evening.I […]
On October 9 and 10 I was invited to hold a design thinking workshop in Imizamu Yethu, a township in Hout Bay, south of Cape Town. The goal was to bring various members of the skateboarding community together and find a common understanding of what they want to do with their skatepark. It was a […]
Dieser Beitrag wurde am 22.10.2022 in ManagerSeminare veröffentlicht. Hier ist der Originaltext: TitelFühre im Tempo des Vertrauens! VortextIn Kapstadt, Südafrika fand vom 12.-14.Oktober das dritte d.confestival statt. 350 Teilnehmer aus knapp 40 Ländern feierten Design Thinking (im folgenden DT) – ein Management-Werkzeug, das hilft, schneller, bessere Lösungen auszuführen. DT stellt den Menschen in den Mittelpunkt, […]
Think Quarterly is a unique communications tool that brings together some of the world’s leading minds to discuss the big issues facing businesses today. It was designed as an experiment and it started in 2011. I had the honour to contribute three articles to it – alongside editors from The Guardian and The New York […]
In the very early hours of April 1, 2021, I had the opportunity to interview 唐鳳 – Taiwans “digital minister”, a minister without portfolio. Audrey is deeply inspired by the early Internet and has carried the principles of radical transparency and co-creation right into her job as minister. When asked which color she would associate […]
On April 8th I was invited to give a talk at the HS Pforzheim. The topic was: How to drive longlasting (social) change (=sustainalbility). 80 students were watching online the Q&A – Benjamin Fritz, who has been to Janwaar for six weeks in 2019/2020, was asking the questions – it was fun!
Last week I was part of a Musterbrecher-workshop (online) “Unternehmertum” (Entrepreneurship), which they condicted for their client freenet, Hamburg, Germany. My role was to share my experiences with my social experiment in Janwaar and to draw parallels between my work in the village and my work as a consultant for companies. This might seem odd […]