Speaking

🎤Popular Speaking Topics (virtual & onsite)🎤

 

💻 Remote & Hybrid Work and Leadership

Selected topics
  1. How to Build Trust and Accountability in Remote Teams
  2. Leading with Empathy: 4 Keys in a Digital World
  3. Designing a Hybrid Work Policy: 5 Essential Elements
  4. How to Keep Remote Teams Engaged and Productive
  5. Facilitating Virtual Collaboration: 3 Effective Strategies
  6. Navigating Cross-Cultural Teams: 7 Critical Insights
  7. Enhancing Remote Work: 4 Technological Advancements
  8. Creating Company Culture: 4 Strategies Across Distances
  9. Developing Digital Age Leadership: 5 Key Skills
  10. Optimizing Your Home Office: 3 Productivity Tips
  11. How to Balance Flexibility and Structure in a Hybrid Working Model
  12. How to drive Innovation in a Distributed Environment
  13. Preparing for the Future: 6 Aspects of Digital Transformation

🌈Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

Selected topics
  1. How to Cultivate an Inclusive Culture from the Top Down
  2. 5 Strategies for Navigating Bias in Hiring and Promotions
  3. Creating Belonging: 4 Key Practices for a Diverse Workplace
  4. How to Implement Equity Audits for Organizational Change
  5. 3 Pillars of Engaging Allies in the DEIB Journey
  6. Measuring Impact: 6 Steps to Assess Inclusion Initiatives
  7. How to Address Microaggressions Effectively
  8. 7 Ways to Create Safe Spaces for Difficult Conversations
  9. Building a DEIB Vision: 5 Steps for Strategy Development
  10. How to Build Inclusive Leadership at Every Level
  11. Integrating DEIB: 4 Strategies for Business Strategy
  12. Championing Accessibility: 5 Keys to Disability Inclusion
  13. Celebrating Cultural Differences: 6 Methods for Understanding
  14. Sustaining Momentum: 7 Tips for Ongoing DEIB Efforts

Selected Keynotes

October 2023 | Keynote at the L'oreal Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Conference "Dancing into Inclusive Leadership" (Spain)

Future of work Academy

October 2023 | Keynote at the Intrama Diversity & Inclusion Summit "Dancing into Inclusion" (Spain)

October 2023 | Keynote "Intergenerational Learning" at the Women in Law Conference (Austria)

September 2023 | Keynote at the Corporate Culture Jam "Dancing & Leadership" (Austria)

December 2023 | Keynote at the PTC Global Inclusive Leadership Conference (virtual)

June 2022 | Leadership Horizon Conference, "Dancing into hybrid Leadership" (Austria)

September 2022 | Keynote at the Helmholtz Leadership Summit "Dancing into leadership" (Germany)

October 2023 | Keynote "DEIB Strategien" at Personal Manager Online Konferenz (virtual)

April 2022 | Keynote Big & Growing New Work Festival "Lost in the cloud, or not? Hybride Teamkommunikation meistern, synchron & asynchron!"

Jan 2021 | Endicom Peru VIII Encuentro de Directores de Comunicación

August 2021 | European Forum Alpbach "Die Presse" Expert Panel Future of the Workforce"

August 2021 | Keynote Online Kongress "Pioniere der Prävention 2021": Erfolgskritische Faktoren für interaktive & unvergessliche virtuelle Präsentationen

September 2021 | Keynote Forum Personal / ÖPWZ "Was New Leadership mit Malen zu tun hat"

 

 

 

 

Short video with a reflection note about our discussion during the European Forum Alpbach. I had the pleasure to be invited to participate as an expert on a panel from "Die Presse" (Austrian Newspaper) with the aim of discussing the future of the workforce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb 2021 | XING Puls HR Wien | Tipps & Tricks für dein erfolgreiches virtuelles Karriere-Event" Read more

Feb 2021 | Keynote Webinar HR Inside Summit, "Lost in Connection? About the fundamental pillars of New Ways of Working" Read more

Feb 2021 | Keynote B2B Insider HR Software Day "New Ways of Working: Trust & Autonomy, Communication & Processes" Read more

Dec 2020 | Internal Talent Management Event @Axpo: Working successfully in an intercultural virtual context.

Nov 2020 | Remote Learning Conference #IMPLUSION = impact & inclusion. How to design and facilitate impactful and inclusive virtual events?" Read more

Nov 2020 | Keynote  Personal Manager Online Expo "Remote Work Cultures. The HR Perspective" Read more

Nov 2020 | Keynote Management Club "Remote Leadership" Read more

October 2020 | Keynote Unicredit Diversity & Inclusion Week "Let's talk bias" Read more

July 2020 | Keynote Creative Mornings Valencia "UNDERDOG: about inclusion in the workspace!" Read more

Nov 2019 | ScienceSlamAustria "How do we deal with errors? Error Culture in our organisations", Vienna/Austria. Read more

July 2020 | Masterclass Academy for Diversity & Innovation "IMPLUSION Impact and Inclusion in the virtual space" Read more

June 2020 | Keynote People & Leadership Conference "LOST IN CONNECTION. Virtual Teams From One Day to Another!" Read more

Oct 2019 | Keynote “Successful Together - Age Diversity as Organisational Competence. Working together and learning from each other”, Diversity & Inclusion Week Bank Austria/Unicredit, Vienna/Austria. Read more

March 2020 | Keynote Virtual VGL Forum "LOST IN CONNECTION. Virtual Teams From One Day to Another!" Read more

Jan 2020 | Keynote VGL Forum "Dance your way into leadership: What we can learn from dancing for leadership in a complex world!" Read more

Nov 2019 | Keynote “In den Sand gesetzt! Oder doch nicht! Productive Error Culture/Failure Management”, CFO Studentenfutter, Bank Austria/Unicredit, Vienna/Austria.

Jan 2020 | Keynote “Neue Arbeitswelten: Zoniertes Arbeiten”, ORF Salzburg, Salzburg/Austria.

Jan 2020 | Keynote “New Ways of Working and Learning: Different generations - different expectations? ”, Annual Meeting of Austrian Dietologists, FH Campus, Vienna/Austria.

Nov 2019 | Keynote "About digitization and and a dynamic public administration: Rethinking work together", Kick off event for the project "Arbeit Neu Denken", Brita Football Stadium Wiesbaden/Germany.

Oct 2019 | Talk “Error Culture and the Role of Leadership in our Organisations” HR Inside Summit, Vienna/Austria. Read more

Oct 2019 | Keynote “New working environments, careers and age”, Demografietagung 2019, Vienna/Austria. Read more

Oct 2019 | Keynote “New Ways of Working and about managing employee expectations and collaboration”, Annual Forum of the woodworking industry, Gitschtal/Austria.

May 2019 | Keynote "About the digital world of VUCA and a dynamic public administration: What competencies do leaders and employee need?", 7. Zukunftskongress Staat & Verwaltung, Berlin/Germany.

Jan 2018 | Virtual Keynote “New Ways of Working in a Complex World”, 14th HR Development Conference in Teheran/Iran.

 

Selected Television Appearances

Expert commentator for the Austrian TV Channel ATV for the documentation “Generation Future”, exploring what distinguishes the young people in Austria.

Invitation as an expert commentator for the Austrian national public service broadcaster ORF/ZIB24 about “Generation Y and working time flexibilisation”.

Expert commentator for Spanish Television TVE about remote work, organisational culture & leadership and digital nomadism to Spain.

Radio & Podcast

Interview (Englisch language) with Drew Perkins, CEO from TeachThought (USA), about “Developing Virtual & Intercultural Skillsets

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Interview (English language) with Robin Petterd, CEO of Sproutlabs (Australia), about “What makes a virtual event memorable”

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Several interviews for the Science Talks of Radio NJOY 91.3 FM

Practitioner conferences: selected appearances

Workshop “Self-Learning Competence as an Organisational Competence for New Working Environments”, Austria’s Annual HR Developers Conference PersonalentwicklungPur “Find Them – Grow Them – Keep Them”, Langenlois/Austria.

Workshop „Remote workforce connected and sharing knowledge effectively“, Clustering Conference 2019: Human and Relational Resources, Valencia/Spain.

Intercultural Awareness Workshop for the Chamber of Commerce Austria during the “Latin America Day”, Vienna/Austria.

Workshop “Yesterday´s structures, today´s concepts and tomorrows challenges – are organisations fit for new working environments”, Annual HR Conference Tagung Personal Austria, Vienna/Austria.

Workshop “VIM! Virtual, Individual, Mobile: Continuing Vocational Training 3.0.” Conference PEp 2016, Vienna/Austria.

Workshop “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks? About the importance of continuous learning in today´s organisations” Conference Personal Austria, Vienna/Austria.

Workshop “Revolution in the organizations: Democratically elected leaders and work when and where you want – utopia or reality?” HR Conference Future of Work, Stegersbach/Austria.

Presentation “Organisations on their way into the future: flexible or not flexible – that’s the question!” WIFI Unternehmensentwicklung Business Breakfast, Wien/Austria.

Workshop “HR Competencies – a new model” for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, TANOSZT, Budapest/Hungary.

Keynote “Age Stereotypes & Life Phase Orientation in HRM during 8. NESTORGOLD Vernetzungsdialog, Ministry of Social Affairs, Vienna/Austria.

Workshop “HR Competencies for the future.” for the HRClub Brno, Brno/Czech Republic.

Presentation “Life Phase Orientation”, HR Inside Summit, Vienna/Austria.

Expert Panel about „Leading and developing different generations: Challenge and Opportunity” HRCircle, Vienna/Austria.

Workshop “Diversity Management”, Annual HR Conference Netzwerk Human Ressourcen, Wels/Austria.

Talk “Demographic change and the challenges for organisations” during the Summer University of FHWien der WKW FHWien der WKW Sommerhochschule, Vienna/Austria.

 Selected Webinars & Virtual Live Sessions

Welcome to a world where learning is engaging, impactful, and succinct. As a seasoned webinar presenter and microlearning expert, I am dedicated to transforming the virtual learning experience. My webinars are more than just presentations; they are dynamic, interactive journeys tailored to meet the needs of diverse audiences. With each session, I bring a wealth of knowledge, an engaging presentation style, and a deep commitment to participant engagement.

Event / conference moderator, Master of Ceremony

Barbara excels as an emcee for EXTRAordinary onsite and virtual events, having graced stages for leading organizations and captivated audiences up to 1,000 people. With her extensive experience, Barbara has become a trusted figure in orchestrating memorable events for top-tier companies, seamlessly blending insight and engagement.

Leveraging her vast experience in creating hundreds of virtual events, Barbara collaborates closely with HR, communication departments and event planners to transition and elevate events into the digital realm. She offers comprehensive support, from planning and promotion to production, ensuring every aspect of the event shines online. Her expertise extends to run-of-show organization, tech platform selection, speaker coaching, and infusing interactive elements to keep the audience engaged.

Barbara even offers to create a closing keynote written DURING the event, that closes the show with key takeaways and lessons for the audience.

She can easily pull double or triple duty at your event (keynote + emcee + panel moderator).

Barbara is an exceptional emcee who brings both meticulous preparation and spontaneous energy to every event. She collaborated closely with us to deeply understand the nuances of each speaker’s presentation and overall event themes. Yet, it’s her ability to connect those thematic dots on the fly, with a natural charm and unscripted wit, that truly sets her apart.

Her dynamic presence kept the event flowing seamlessly and engaged the audience at every turn. Barbara’s adaptability and keen sense of audience engagement are truly invaluable and memorable for everyone involved.

Sandra Bellinger

HR & Marketing Communication, Möller Ltd.

5 REASONS YOU’LL BE THRILLED TO COLLABORATE WITH BARBARA:

1️⃣PROVEN RESULTS, NOT JUST PROMISES. Barbara doesn’t just theorize; she actualizes. With a rich background in remote workplaces, digital transformation, and distributed work, she brings to the table real-life success stories from a spectrum of industries. Expect to hear how her innovative strategies have revolutionized both burgeoning businesses and established brands.

2️⃣COMMITTED TO YOUR LONG-TERM SUCCESS. Beyond delivering inspiring talks, Barbara is dedicated to your enduring success. Understanding that true value extends beyond the stage, she collaborates closely with leaders to tailor her insights to your specific goals, ensuring that every piece of advice is actionable and aligned with your vision.

3️⃣A PARTNER, NOT JUST A SPEAKER. Barbara believes in building relationships, not just making appearances. From engaging in pre-event promotions to post-event follow-ups, she’s there every step of the way. Expect her to be a part of your journey, engaging with attendees, and continuing the conversation long after the applause.

4️⃣RESOURCES THAT RESONATE. Every keynote Barbara delivers is accompanied by a comprehensive curated library of videos, audios and articles for the participants. These resources are designed to help attendees implement the strategies discussed, ensuring that the inspiration from the event translates into real-world success.

5️⃣BRINGING JOY TO THE JOURNEY. Expect a healthy dose of fun when working with Barbara! Known for her engaging and dynamic approach, she believes that a joyful environment is key to learning and growth. It’s no wonder that her sessions are often the source of repeat engagements and referrals.

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