Wolfgang Lalouschek is a specialist in Neurology, Corporate Consultant and Executive Coach. He studied Medicine and Biology at the University of Vienna, worked for several years in hospitals, specialised in cerebrovascular diseases and eating disorders. Since 2016 Wolfgang Lalouschek is head of the faculty of psychosomatics at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna, since 2018 he is the founder and coordinator of the planetYES initiative for healthy social, ecological and economic development. He is CEO of The Tree Consulting and founder of MY21, Fit for the Future in 21 days. Wolfgang Lalouschek also offers executive coaching and keynote speeches. His favorite topics for seminars are neuroleadership, healthy leadership, effective collaboration and leadership in the new world of work, stress-regulation and burnout-prevention.

Aljoscha Neubauer, born in 1960, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Graz. He is also the head of the Institute for Differential Psychology and has been investigating individual differences in cognitive, social and creative talents and their neuroscientific basis for 30 years. He was president of different scientific societies like ISIR, ISSID, Austrian Psychology Soc. Aljoscha Neubauer is co-editor and editorial board member of several international journals, e.g. Intelligence, Personality and Individual Differences. He wrote more than 250 publications in peer reviewed journals, science-to-public contributions, articles, interviews etc., 30 book chapters, several books and psychological tests. His most recent book is called: „Mach was du kannst – warum wir unseren Begabungen folgen sollten, und nicht nur unseren Interessen“, in German language only.

Reinhard Lindner offers individual leadership coaching. He studied business administration with a focus on Japanese Management, Chinese language and received his doctoral degree in International Management. His offers are based on the principles of the Japanese martial arts Budo, which he learned in the form of traditional karate from top masters worldwide, especially from Hidetaka Nishiyama, who is called "The Last Samurai”. Reinhard Lindner won four European Cup tournaments, both individually and in team competitions, and led the Austrian Junior National Team to the European Championship title. In his book "The Samurai Manager® - with intuition to success" he wrote about the connection between Samurai traditions and successful management. Reinhard Lindner builds a bridge between western and far eastern management.

Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Al-Rifai was born in Baghdad and spent her childhood in Iraq and Lebanon. Her grandmother initiated her into the culture and traditions of the Middle East where belly-dancing played a major part as an expression of the world of the feminine. Fawzia Al-Rawi holds a PhD in Islamic studies. She completed her Arabic, Islamic and ethnological studies at the Universities of Vienna and Cairo. She then spent 12 years in Jerusalem where she brought up her children and worked at the Institute for the Promotion of Palestinian Agriculture and at the University of Jerusalem, while deepening both her theoretical and practical knowledge of Sufism under the guidance of Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Al-Rifai. She has been living in Vienna with her husband and their three children since 2001. Fawzia Al-Rawi has been teaching Sufism for over 20 years. She holds workshops in various countries and works particularly with women. She has published several books in Arabic, German, English and French.

As an author, speaker and wisdom teacher, Vivian Dittmar has been committed to fostering the holistic development of people, society, business and consciousness for two decades. During her childhood and youth she lived on three continents: Europe, the United States and Asia, where she witnessed poverty and luxury. To learn more about human nature Vivian Dittmar travelled through India, Indonesia, Central and South America and finally returned to Europe in 2003 to contribute to a change in consciousness. In Germany, where she lives with her two sons and her family today, she founded the “Be the Change”- Foundation for Cultural Change. The development of society as a whole became the focus of her work. Vivian Dittmar wrote several books. Best known are “Your Inner GPS”, 2019 and “True Prosperity”, 2021. Some of her books are available in German and English.

Andreas Bierwirth, born in 1971, was CEO of Magenta Telekom with 2400 employees for ten years before moving to Erste Bank Group in the fall of 2022. In 2019, he was named Manager of the Year in Austria. Bierwirth has always been fascinated by flying, holds a commercial pilot license and a valid C525 type rating. He originally began his career as a banker, then studied business administration at the University of Münster and earned a doctorate in marketing. He began his management career in 2002 with the establishment of Germanwings as a low-cost airline within the Lufthansa Group. After taking over the management of Lufthansa's Miles & More program, he joined the Executive Board of Austrian Airlines in 2008 and later became CEO of Magenta Telekom. He is also involved as a board member of Easyjet and Do&Co and is part of the team of the European Forum Alpbach, which promotes ideas for a self-determined and democratic Europe and brings together young people, scientists, business leaders and politicians.

Christian Winkel started his career as a Croupier in a Casino. During the last 25 years he worked as an Airline-Captain, Flight Instructor and Examiner. Parallel to his work in the cockpit he became a Mental Coach and trains aviation related core issues as leadership skills, cooperative performance, decision making processes and team development with his clients. He offers training in Mediation (conflict solving) and (Business-) Coaching. “We all have mostly negative paradigms stored in our belief system”, says Christian, ”consisting of the fear to fail, self-dismissive projections and an attitude of inadequacy”. His conviction is that anyone can eliminate these adverse thoughts and create an appreciative and confident attitude instead.

Barbara Süss was born in 1974. She is the mother of a grown up son, a yoga teacher and photographer. She is authorized by Sharath Jois to teach traditional Ashtanga Yoga and founded her Studio Mysore Vienna in 2016. After two decades of traveling around the world as a flight attendant, she started the journey to herself, she says. The core of Ashtanga, coming back to the mat every day, experiencing and accepting your mental and physical limits, are - according to Barbara - aspects that shape you. Barbara Süß firmly believes in the therapeutic potential of yoga and her teaching is based on her own experience, in-depth training and knowledge, which she expands through constant further education and her daily practice.

Gregor Ludick worked as a flight attendant for nearly two decades. Then he decided to quit his job and became a teacher for mathematics and sports. In his spare time he trains pupils in the martial arts discipline Jiu Jitsu. Gregor still loves to travel the world, plays handball with his friends twice a week and enjoys spending time with his family. Gregor Ludick is a father of three children and lives in lower Austria.

Christoff Schneider was born in 1967 and worked as a flight attendant for a few years before becoming an Airline Pilot. He finished his flying career as a Captain of Corporate Jets a decade ago. Today he teaches Permaculture in Europe and Asia. Christoff Schneider has practiced Meditation for years. He and his team offer courses in planning and implementing Permaculture in private gardens. Christoff Schneider is also an expert in flood protection, composting, medicinal plants and humus formation. He lives with his wife in Austria and India, but organizes workshops around the world.

Born in Austria, Sonja was drawn early to music and dance. As a child she experienced a special flow state while dancing, which laid the foundations for her lifelong search and passion. Still a teenager, she worked as an instructor for hip hop, modern and jazz dance. Later she participated in dance shows, teaching in studios and at university. She studied Art History and became a teacher for Sports and English. Sonja also spent some years abroad, she lived in France and Texas, where she got in touch with Yoga and did her Yoga Teacher Training with David Swenson. Later she founded her own Yoga Studio, „Perform“ in Vienna and continued to experiment with dance and sound therapy. "For as long as I can remember, I have been a mover, an "embodier“, she says, "living reality fully through the experience of my body. Thankful for my teachers, the beautiful souls of my students and the continuous learning that comes with it.

Paul Pietsch is currently studying Education in Sports and Science at the University of Vienna. After receiving his bachelor degree, he will be a teacher for kids between 10 and 18 years old. Martial arts have been a constant throughout his life, starting out with the Korean martial art Taekwondo at the age of nine. After four years he switched to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Since 2017 Paul Pietsch has been a member of the Austrian National Team and won the state championships three times in a row. During his Jiu Jitsu scholarships in the USA, Paul Pietsch realized that it is not just competing, but also teaching that brings him great joy. Since 2019 Paul Pietsch teaches group classes for kids and adults, as well as private lessons.

Tho Ha Vinh is the retired Program Director of the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan and became widely known as the “Minister of Happiness”. He is an international speaker on Gross National Happiness, happiness and well-being. In fact, Bhutan is the only country in the world which includes the “happiness” of its citizens in the gross domestic product. Qualities like self-reflection, mindfulness and being kind to each other are considered to be equally important as economic growth. Tho Ha Vinh grew up as the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and lived in New York, Paris and Vienna before becoming the head of training, learning and development at the International Committee of the Red Cross. He trained humanitarian professionals to work in war zones and emergency response in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Tho Ha Vinh is a Buddhist teacher in Vietnamese Zen Tradition and has published several books. His teacher and friend was the famous Buddhist Monk Thitch Nhat Hanh.

Ian Hobday is currently working as an “Expert in Residence” at Imperial College in London. He continues to mentor and coach early-stage businesses. He holds a degree in International Marketing and an MBA. Ian Hobday is Co-founder and CEO of the company Start Up Gurus. Born in England, Ian has lived and worked in England, Australia, France, USA and Italy. He spent 16 years with BASF initially in Marketing, before taking on the role of a turnaround or restructuring specialist, working in several of their businesses across a number of countries. He is an Angel Investor and coaches startups with a focus on Renewables and Energy Storage and shares his time between homes in Austria and the UK.

Istvan Szilagyi studied Business Informatics and Art History. During his studies he worked as a freelancer for advertising agencies and subsequently founded his digital communication agency Treat. The agency, which has twelve employees, is responsible for imparting art, culture and knowledge and, in addition to numerous galleries such as LAYR, Jahn und Jahn, Art Basel and the Austrian National Library. Treat develops strategies, websites, social media campaigns and video productions. During the Corona Pandemic, the agency helped to organize a series of online art weeks with over 150 galleries from five continents and the hybrid fair interconti.wien.

Eva Snijders is an expert in the fields of Communications, Public Relations and Creativity. Of Dutch origin, she lived in different countries and has resided in Spain for the past 25 years. She studied Design, both interior and graphic, in Barcelona and holds a postgraduate degree in Illustration. Later she trained in Coaching, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), theater and Storytelling. Five years ago Eva Snijders decided to add a BA in Anthropology to the list. She leads GENETIKOMM, a Business Development, Marketing and Communications consultancy specialising in building a future for organisations that is consistent with their history. She is also an international speaker, startup mentor and university teacher. Eva Snijders is a polyglot, she speaks seven languages, and in her spare time she likes to practice calligraphy, watercolor, poetry, writing and music.

Martina Gleissenebner-Teskey has worked as an international Trainer and Coach for companies and individuals since 1996. After completing her studies of Ecology, Psychology and Communication Science she worked as a fashion model and model trainer. Thereafter she became engaged in several sustainability programs and traveled the world as a spokesperson for Austrian NGOs. She observed how people change through the simple change of their body posture and clothes and found out what a difference it makes when humans are driven by a purpose. That was the time when she decided to change her career again. In 1996 she developed her Charisma Concept and became a trainer.

Anne Schreiter is Executive Director of the German Scholars Organization (GSO), an independent nonprofit in Berlin that advises, connects, promotes, and funds researchers who want to build a career in Germany – a workforce with similar challenges to flight crews when it comes to career transitions. Anne studied Social and Business Communications and Sociology in Berlin and Chinese Language in Nanjing, China. After receiving her PhD in Organizational Sociology from the University of St. Gallen, she spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, USA. In 2015, she transitioned from academia to the nonprofit sector. She offers individual sparring sessions or customized workshops on topics such as identifying transferable skills and values or leveraging LinkedIn for your job search.

Claudia Lorber worked in HR-Management as a recruiter for many years and offered training for employee-branding and personal development. She studied Mass Communication & Media and Human Resources Management. Today Claudia Lorber offers workshops for companies, writes books and the blog „The recruiting insider community“ about recruiting praxis. She also produces interviews and videos for her YouTube channel Recruiting -TV. This work connects her favourite topics marketing and recruiting, Claudia Lorber says. She loves to read magazines about economy and human resources and Scandinavian thrillers. Claudia is Co-author of the books „Playbook-Recruiting“ and „Rethink HR“.

Marion A. Schiller is an expert and trainer for personal impact and supports people in optimizing their impact and communication for various professional areas (pitches, job applications, internal company communication, etc.). After creative work in the 1990s as a theatre director at various Austrian theatres and a year working for television, she switched to the field of marketing and advertising and was, among other things, Marketing Manager of a big company. At the same time she completed a three-year coaching program and team supervision training, then became self-employed and has now been a trainer for personal impact and effective communication for more than 20 years. Book her workshops and coaching sessions at our store.

Karin Arning was born in Asuncion, Paraguay. Her family roots are linked to Austria. Karin´s mother worked as a flight attendant, that´s why Karin got in touch with the “flying spirit” early and decided to take her PPL exam in the United States. She is type rated on the A320/321 and A380 and flew as a First Officer out of Dubai on the A380. She was made redundant at the beginning of the Pandemic. Karin Arning lives in the Emirates, speaks six languages, wants to continue flying and used the past year to get an EASA licence. In spring 2022 she was reemployed as co-pilot.

Born in Austria in 1973, Michael studied History, Philosophy and Literature in Vienna and Santiago de Chile. He became a journalist in the 1990s and worked for international newspapers, Radio and TV stations before jobbing two years as a Divemaster in Mexico and Kenya. At 30 years of age he started a new career as a pilot and became a Captain of a corporate business jet, flying celebrities and business leaders all around the world. Michael is married to the former news presenter and psychotherapist Tiba Marchetti and is the father of two grown up girls. He loves to be out in nature. Together with his wife Tiba he walked the whole length of the 3000km Te Araroa Trail in New Zealand.