With an eye for design, as well as a peace of mind cultivated over many years, Kai’s expertise as a teacher is rooted in meditation, creativity, and life itself.

Between time spent sitting at his laptop and time spent sitting on a meditation cushion, he has come to understand all weathers of the human mind over the past 20 years, and he’s now on hand to accompany you on your Headspace journey. In a talented career, Kai has worked internationally as a freelance graphic designer, serving customers in both the corporate and publishing worlds. In that career, he knew the stresses of work and deadlines. He understood the spaciousness of mind that creativity requires.

What he didn’t know was how to look after his mind, especially when, around 2010, a series of challenges led to depression and burnout. That was when he began to explore meditation, inspired by a lecture on MSBR (Meditation-Based Stress Reduction). Kai put down a lifelong resistance to incense sticks and the idea of gurus, and he instead opened his mind to the possibilities of meditation and mindfulness. He devoured literature on the topic, educated himself through lectures, and attended silent retreats. In 2016, he completed his MBSR teacher training with a desire to deepen and share his practice.

Today, his knowledge, insight, and guidance has helped an untold number of people — in the private sector, universities, and finance — to feel happier and healthier within themselves.

As the German voice in the Headspace app, Kai now lends his experience to people all over the world, helping them to calm their minds, understand their emotions, manage stress/anxiety, and sleep better. As he says, he’s here “to provide more peace of mind and more space in the heart.”

Yacout El Glaoui-Madrisotti, Chief Marketing Officer for Parfums Givenchy since March 1st , 2020 has been managing the whole marketing development and communication team (PR and Digital). Since December 2nd , 2020 she’s been as well in charge of the Architecture and Visual Merchandising Departments.

A graduate from EM Lyon Business School, Yacout started her career in L’Oreal in 2000 holding marketing development positions in Beauty in Biotherm, and then Lancôme as Group Manager Skincare. As of 2007, she became France General Manager Shu Uemura before going back to Lancôme as VP Global marketing Make Up in 2010. In 2013 she joined Burberry as Global Marketing and Retail VP in order to develop the Beauty new category, where she created their make-up and skin care ranges, before taking over a Global Marketing responsibility on Ready-To-Wear business. Since January 2018, she was International Marketing Director at Piaget within Richemont Group.

Rachael is a highly experienced behavioural scientist and internationally recognised subject matter expert in coaching. She is the scientific lead for technology-forward service evolutions within Headspace. She has deep expertise in technology-delivered health coaching interventions and workplace-related behaviour change.

Prior to her current role, Rachael led the Health Coaching team at Headspace and supported business operations in preparing to scale a coaching service in North America. Before joining Headspace, Rachael was an academic at the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she led the MSc in Occupational Psychology and PGCert in Coaching programmes. She also has extensive commercial experience as a business consultant with clients from industries across the private, public, and charity sectors. Rachael is a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Centre for Evidence Based Management.

Specialities: coaching psychology, digital health, employee wellbeing and performance, talent development, psychometric assessment, leadership development, career management and organisational behaviour.

Skills include: design and delivery of coaching interventions, coaching supervision, research design, delivery of commercial projects and relationship management.

Donya-Florence Amer was born on 6 June 1972.

After a banking apprenticeship, she completed the studies of business administration with a focus on finance and HR at the University of Cologne and the University of Berkeley. She is also an alumna of the Singularity University in Palo Alto. Amer started her career in 1999 at IBM and over the next 17 years took on various national and international leadership positions, including in the areas of digital transformation and business analytics. In 2017, she joined Bosch and worked there for 5 years – first as Executive Vice President and member of the CIO Management Board, and later as co-founder and CEO of Bosch Climate Solutions. Amer has lived and worked in different countries and cultures, including the UK, USA and China. She is a member of the Hansgrohe Innovation Board.

Donya-Florence Amer was appointed to the Executive Board of Hapag-Lloyd AG as of 11 November 2021, and she is Chief Information Officer (CIO) since 1 February 2022. From 1 May 2022 she was additionally appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).

Constanze Osei is an accomplished expert in the field of Technology, Digital Policy and Social Impact Partnerships. She heads the Society & Innovation Policy team at Meta for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this role, she oversees the socio-political dialogue and strategic projects around new technologies such as AR/VR and AI. Previously, she worked as the Head of Division for Economic and Innovation Policy at the digital association Bitkom, in the German Bundestag and at SAP AG.

At Meta, Constanze Osei is part of the Women@EMEA Leadership Team. She is involved both inside and outside the company in various initiatives against discrimination, racism and for inclusion. She’s part of the 2Hearts Management team, Germany’s largest initiative promoting more diversity in technology and VC.

Marc is a Venture Capitalist with more than 15 years of international experience, and a strong network within the start-up and VC ecosystem. Before he joined Henkel as Head of Henkel dx Ventures in April 2022, he took on an active role in the world economy at brands like Sony where he filled several positions in Business/Corporate Development, Strategy and Venture Capital. He worked for CVCs and Financial VCs with a focus on Platforms, Gaming, Industry 4.0, Synthetic Reality, Mobility, HealthTech, AdTech and Social Commerce. Marc is a professional in Blockchain, Web 3.0 and Metaverse. He is a strong believer in future business models enabled by the new technologies driving Synthetic Reality forward.

Karl combines pre-digital experience at FMCG companies, such as P&G and Coca-Cola with digital experience through leading positions at eBay, Google and several start-ups. Ten years ago he founded the Reinvention Consultancy Gedankenfabrik. Karl is the author of “The Educated Decision-Maker”, TEDx speaker and the founder of the “1000Vordenker” network. He regularly travels to China, Israel and the USA, to analyze innovations, emerging technologies and consumer behavior that could impact the future of intelligent transformation. His mantra: Lifelong learning is the key to reinvention.

Flavio works at Clearstream (part of Deutsche Börse) where looks at the application of new technologies (such as blockchain) for capital markets infrastructure. Prior to this, Flavio worked for a number of tech firms such as Intel and HTC, as well as co-founding a startup.

Proven track record from strategy to business design and digital product creation to execution in startups and corporate environments.

• Associated Partner, Head of immersive Experiences MHP
  Strategy, Business Development, Project delivery & execution
• Vice President VR/AR Technologies, Mackevision GmbH
  Strategy, Business Development, Project delivery & execution
• Head of Business Development & Consulting, Wiredminds AG
  Business Consulting, Business Development, Product Management
• Co-Founder / Managing Director, Steuerberater.net
  Strategy, Business Development, Product & Operations
  Acquired by anwalt.de Services AG, Nürnberg, Germany

Fernanda Parente is a curator, lecturer and co-founder of studio for digitality Rosy DX. Her work gravitates around ideas at the intersection of art, culture & technology. She is interested in the power of immersive content and in innovative ways of artistic production and audience engagement. Fernanda has previously curated for re:publica, Future Affairs, Martin Roth Symposium, Goethe Institute, 48hrs Neukölln among others. Since 2018, she has been lecturing on topics such as Extended Realities and Speculative Futures at universities such as Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft (Berlin-DE), Institut HyperWerk (Basel-CH) and Universität für angewandte Kunst (Vienna-AT). In 2019, she co-founded the studio for digitality Rosy DX, which operates in Berlin and Düsseldorf.