d.confestival Südafrika – Eine Methode wird gefeiert

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, […]

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Think Quarterly – A Magazine by Google

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 […]

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5 Rules to make an impact

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!

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7 Rules to Disrupt Successfully

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 […]

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“Mein bestes Training: In London auf einer Bühne.“

time4you has published a well written article about me and my work in India. It is all around “LEARNING”. And it is in German 🙁 Same holds true for the interview above. Asha wäre schon längst eine junge, zwangsverheiratete Adivasi – eine kasten- und chancenlose Frau in Indien. Doch dank des Einsatzes von Ulrike Reinhard […]

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Re-thinking education

I am currently in Bombay, India at the MIT India Initiative. I was invited to talk about Re-thinking Education. Here is my talk – I hope there is something in it for you! That’s an audio file of my talk. When I went to school I always felt like an outsider.I never had many friends. […]

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Thank you for being there!

This text is more than eight years old – I can’t believe it’s that long. Time truly flies. It’s still a very important text for me. I would even go that far and say one of the best texts I’ve ever written. I just found it on my laptop – and coincidently I am right […]

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Design Thinking@Prakriti

On July 27, 2019 I conducted a design thinking workshop at Prakriti School in Noida. Prakriti is the partner and supporter of the Open School Project I run with the Rural Changemakers. So naturally the changemakers were part of the workshop. Not only did they participate in the sessions, they also facilitated two sessions. Important […]

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