TEDxFS 2021

Stefan Wachtel is a German executive modus coach based in Frankfurt. He practices one-on-one coachings as well as board „Executive Modus“ retreats. Stefan is a keynote speaker at several company strategies and leadership events. Author of ten books, current „The Reversed Pyramid“ - „Das Zielsatz Prinzip“. Stefan is an initiator of an award on speech performance of German-speaking managers -„Der beste Managerauftritt“, and host of the yearly Funnel-Conference in Cannes, France. As a former television moderator coach, he was working six years for ARD and ZDF, as well as three years as a trainer of Lufthansa pilots for their announcements. Professional free speaking is essential for the democracy, that´s Stefans Credo - he felt its absence painfully, at a young age he was half a year in prison for political reasons in Eastern Germany. Stefan Wachtel owns a PhD in speech science – at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Finally, he is one of the „Leading Coaches of the World“®.

As a university professor, executive coach, psychotherapist, book author and ex-single mother of three, she is considered an authentic expert on work-life balance, resilience and career-family compatibility. In her talk she shares her personal and scientific knowledge on how successful people get “it all” under one roof. Her first recommendation and title of her talk: “Forget the work-life balance, tailor your life!

Chris Surel is a former tennis player, Roland Berger strategy consultant, senior executive, and startup founder. During this time, he says he “did everything wrong you could possibly think of” with regard to his own health and wellbeing (which almost cost him his life). But he learned a lot from it. Today he is a performance recovery & sleep coach to CEO's, executives and entrepreneurs around the globe, in-demand keynote speaker, thought leader in the sustainable high-performance space, founder of The Sleep Genome Project, and creator of the Strategic Performance Recovery System. He is helping big corporates, the leading consulting companies, and fast-growing startups to upgrade and sustain their people's energy, performance, health & wellbeing.

Dr. Eva-Maria Hasenbeck is an ophthalmologist who is also a Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO), a member of the Deutsche Borreliose Gesellschaft and the author of the book The End of Uveitis and Macular Edema- How to Successfully Treat Your Rheumatoid Arthritis, Eye-Related Symptoms and More with Functional Medicine.After suffering from the symptoms of her Hashimoto's disease for over ten years herself, she was looking for ways to work on her health independently. In retrospect, that was when she became more or less "hooked" on Functional Medicine. Meanwhile, she is officially the first German physician certified by the Institute For Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol (Dr. Terry Wahls) and ReCODE 2.0 (Dr. Dale Bredesen). She has opened her own private practice for Functional Medicine in Northeim, Germany, the town where she lives with her husband Marc, their son Justus and the wirehaired "cashmere" dachshund lady Emma. When working with patients, she uses Functional Medicine lab testing on a deeper level, leveraging the lab results to achieve the best possible outcome for every single patient.

Pavol Sikula holds an MBA in International financial management from the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia, and MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Because he enjoys high-pace business environments he worked for 15 years in top management consulting (Roland Berger, Stern Stewart & Co.). The focus of his projects were business and support function optimizations, restructuring, and reorganizations. In parallel, he became a passionate triathlete finishing two Ironman races. Pavol Sikula started to deal with applied AI in 2017 by building Brian - an AI-powered digital assistant for management consultants and alike business professionals. Brian communicates via natural language and conducts multiple tasks previously performed by management consultants by integrating multiple data sources and AI-powered digital services. He is the Founder and CEO of AskBrian GmbH and speaker for applied AI. He is married and a proud father of his two sons.