Initiative Co-founders
People who made it happen
Alexander Lüders
Co-founder
"Looks like we're blasting off again."
Christopher Stach
Co-founder
"Whenever you disagree with somebody just remember the dress and accept that you guys are SEEING two different things."
Philipp von Weinrich
Co-founder
"What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."
Nicolas Hofmann
Co-founder
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Isabella Mangei
Co-founder
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
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Former Board Members
Experts in everything
Simon Kleffner
Former Chairman
"Always make sure your grass is green but help others sow."
Lilyana Fileva
Former Co-Chairwoman
"Change is the only constant in life."
Alicia Stenzel
Former Co-chairwoman
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow"
Henrike Böllert
Former Chairwoman
"Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words."
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Former Heads
Experts in particular areas
Maxine Collet
Head of Finance
"Think and Wonder. Wonder and Think."
Alicia Stenzel
Head of Speaker-Relations
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow"
Minda Qian
Head of Marketing
"Alter what is changeable and accept what is mutable."
Constanze Franz
Former Co-chairwoman
"A smile is the universal welcome."
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Former Team Members
Linda Förster
Finance Team
"The best is yet to come!"
William Wei
Speaker-Relations
"We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths."
Omer Khan
Web Team
"Show a monkey how to start a fire and it will burn the whole world."
Malte Kutz
General Management
"Think big"
Berna Bostanci
Marketing
"Go find yourself!"
Santiago Rey-Sanchez Parodi
Finance Team
"Our lives beginn to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."
Isabella Gourevich
Finance Team
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
Anna-Sophia Schepp
Finance Team
"Life is 10 % what happens to you and 90 % how you react to it."
Charlotte Drechsel
General Management
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
Nicolas Coy
General Management
"Wheter you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right."
Yi Yin
Marketing
"There is always something to change."
Christina Neumayer
Alumni
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Maria Padishina
Speaker Team
"If you can dream it, you can do it" - Walt Disney
Luise Metzger
General Management
"When people get in your way, they are getting in the way of the good you can do for them."
Petra Vo
Speaker-Relations
"Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort."
Navin Suneej
Marketing Alumni
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
Jannis Perzlmeier
Speaker-Relations
"Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
Martyna Kasmauskaite
Web Team
"Life there is so much more than to find comfortable living, it is about finding comfort in soul" - My best friend Gabriele
Sebastian Schmidt
Marketing
"Creativity, precision and accuracy are all it needs to change the world. A lack of knowledge is not an obstacle, but a challenge!"
Jennifer Halser
Finance Team
"Everyone thinks about changing the world but no one thinks about changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
Eva Xhoxha
Web Team
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."