SPEAK LIKE A CEO

Do you want to be a thought leader in your industry? You have to own your space! Digital thought leadership is an important catalyst for growth. Our hosts, Oliver Aust and Lena Carlson, dive in to how can you better position your start-up in ten clear steps. Tune in for another extra episode of How to Speak Like a CEO.

Do you ever get the feeling that only the most noisy and problematic people are getting attention on the internet? Do you want to make your voice heard and feel like your opinions matter? Cornelius Frey is working to make that a reality. He is the CEO and co-founder of the online opinion-sharing platform and marketing tool Opinary. With a background in business and banking, Cornelius was frustrate...

Nitzan Gal, who is a Forbes 30 under 30, certainly believes so. As the co-founder and CEO of Clique. AI, a knowledge and skill sharing platform for professional communities, she’s seen first hand that people who provide value get much more out of business. Nitzan's company Clique.ai embodies the idea that communities and networks will be the future force of society. No person alone will achieve or...

Every year in Berlin, people spend 154 hours stuck in traffic. In Paris? 237. In Rome? 254! Traffic is undeniably a major issue for cities and is only expected to get worse as more people (and more cars) migrate towards urban centres. So today we’re skipping the traffic and getting from A to B with Tom Kirschbaum, CEO and founder of Door-to-door, finding smart solutions for the future of transport...

Building a community is harder than it looks - just ask Orlie Dahan, the executive director of EcoMotion. With over 8000 members, Ecomotion aims to foster innovation by building a community comprised of individuals dedicated to improving smart transportation. For Orlie, business is done human to human, not logo to logo. But how can you keep communication personalised when your community is growing...

Getting people’s attention is hard. Everyone is vying for our attention across traditional and digital media. Back on 9th May, we brought together a diverse panel of experts to share what established business can learn from startups and non-profits, about how to make an impact with campaigning - just in time for the European elections. You can listen to the live recording here. Enjoy!

Keep your ideas weird and wild. That’s what today’s guest Jörg Rheinboldt, founding CEO of APX, the joint accelerator programme of Axel Springer and Porsche, learned to do from childhood. Jörg was previously CEO of the Axel Springer Plug and Play accelerator, which invested in more than 100 companies including N26. He is a verifiable ideas man whose edge lies in his ability to take dreams and make...

Sometimes, it feels like to be a thought leader you have be present at every single event. Our guest today tells us why this isn’t the case! Elena Poughia knows all there is to know about what makes a successful event. She is the managing director of Dataconomy and the founder & head curator of Data Natives, Europe’s largest data science conference. Data Natives has taken place twice in Tel Aviv a...

Welcome back to Speak Like a CEO! On today's podcast we take you to Israel, with an episode recorded straight from Tel Aviv. Our guest is Chedva Kleinhandler, the CEO and Founder of Emerj, an app that connects employees and mentors. Chedva started her first business at 21. At that time she thought she was the only person in the world who needed a mentor. After her second business succeeded, more a...

Ever been in a situation where you really wished you knew what the other person was thinking? Well, we aren’t talking to any psychics today, but we’ve got the next best thing. Today we are joined with Germany’s mindreader, Gerrit Richter CEO and founder of leading opinion poll tech company Civey. Civey has over 1 million active participants per month, and with the European parliamentary elections...

Today we are talking straight from the heart with Dr. Johannes Keienburg, CEO of HitFox Group and co-Managing Director of Heartbeat Labs - a digital health platform aiming to bring patient-centric solutions to the market. Drawing on his experience working in journalism, consultancy and in the start-up world, Johannes shares his insights into communications as an essential component of good leaders...

Ever wondered what pitching your start-up and folk music have in common? Today our guest is Henric Hungerhoff, managing director of the APX startup accelerator, a collaboration by Axel Spring and Porsche. Not only is he an entrepreneur himself but he’s also a startup enthusiast, an investor, a lawyer and plays in his own Americana band (and if you listen closely to the episode, you can catch some...

Help! Sometimes you need somebody! Not just anybody...Sometime you need the right person, or right mentor, to guide you in the right direction! Today on the show we have Berlin start-up original and friend of the show Christoph Raethke as well as Anne Riechert, the Joan of Arc of social entrepreneurship and CEO and co-founder of the ReDi School of Digital Integration, teaching coding skills to ref...

Ever wonder what Obama thinks about tourism? Today’s guest is Toby Nicol, the executive director of Uniting Travel: a coalition of the world's major Travel & Tourism organisations dedicated to ensuring that the sector speaks with 'One Voice’. And that’s exactly what we are going to talk about today. In an increasingly interconnected world, how does one make sure that everyone not only has a voice,...

This week the team is in sunny sunny Tel Aviv recording some very special episodes so stay tuned for that. So this week we have a great throwback bonus episode for you! Back in November, Oliver and Lena chatted to friend of the show Lyanne Alfaro from NASDAQ about the art of storytelling how it changes depending on the medium. They talk all about the role social media is playing in the up and comi...

This week, Oliver gives us his top 5 tips for presenting with impact (warning, it includes at least 5 "P"s)! Make sure to check out our full episode with Bettina Hausmann for even more insight! Enjoy!

From coaching buddhist monks in Africa to senior business leaders in San Francisco, our guest today Bettina Hausmann has seen it all. Bettina is a good friend of the show and has been advising high-level corporate and public clients in communications for 20 years now. Today on episode 13 of Speak like a CEO, she tells us all about what it takes to go from good to great, what executives can learn f...

On this week's bonus episode we answer your Instagram questions about space after recording our latest episode with BDLI managing director Volker Thum! We even wore our NASA shirts for the occasion! Enjoy!

The year, 2019. It's been 50 years since man landed on the moon, and today the universe seems full of possibilities. From science done on the International Space Station to travelling to Mars, our guest today, Volker Thum, knows everything there is to know about space. He's the CEO of the German Aerospace Industries Association. In his role, he has to talk about some very technical and complicated...

What do you get when you talk numbers over drinks? Drumbers! Today we are talking to Doreen Huber, CEO of LemonCat, the company with the mission to radically change the way businesses think about catering by bringing better food to your office. With LemonCat being her fourth startup Doreen tells us about the secret, or rather the science behind sales, her attitude towards founding the right compan...

Ever wonder what George Clooney and gentrification have in common? They both love Berlin. Today we talk to the man behind Berlin’s personal branding, Burkhard Kieker, CEO of Visit Berlin, the city’s very own cultural sector marketing agency. He tells us all about Berlin’s history, how it’s grown to allow it’s citizens the freedom to chose and develop their own lifestyles. But Berlin has its own ch...

Meet no-bullshit CEO Sophie Chung. She’s the founder behind Qunomedical and this week, she tells us all about journey into making healthcare digital and more accessible for all. Besides being an avid climber and black-belt martial artist, Sophie is passionate about spreading and gaining knowledge about digitalization and how it can better our lives, both on and offline. She tells us all about her...

Wouldn’t we all love to have a virtual concierge? Olga Heuser, CEO and founder of DialogShift, started her company to fill the communication gap between hotels and their customers. We talk to her about customer experience, AI, bots and the future of communications. Although Olga herself doesn’t keep much of an online presence (she tells us why she made the choice), she talks us through the shift t...

Can you be a CEO while working 9 to 5? Georgiana Ghiciuc, CEO of both blockchain magazine Occurency and digital marketing agency Beaglecat, shows us that it can be done! Georgiana gives us a deep dive into the Berlin blockchain scene and the difficulties behind communicating what can be perceived as such a complicated topic. We talk to Georgiana on how to create “WOW content”, how to stand out in...

Today we talk to jack-of-all-trades Christoph Raethke, a Berlin start-up original, on the genesis of the culture, the power a good pitch, how to found the “right thing” and much more. Christoph is the CEO of Berlin Startup Academy, and has been a startup founder, investor, writer, speaker, and mentor for almost 20 years. Tune in to hear about his latest sobering experience in California and why he...