is Managing Director of the marketing agency werdewelt® and founder of the coaching and consulting company werdeweg®. Since his training as a coach he has also worked as a consultant and assistant of companies, non-profit-organisations and managers.

With his training and many years of experience in communication and graphic design and the combination of marketing, coaching as well as strategy and company development he is specialised in the following topics: development of visions, strategies, organisations and personality, crisis management, conflict management, change management, internal and external marketing, market communication, positioning, sharpening profiles, team development, potential analysis, change of perspectives, management competence and decision-making processes.

Benjamin Schulz is a qualified coach and mediator as well as experienced consultant and partner of people and organisations in all team processes, in projects or personal development.

(Born in 1972) Historian, education followed by editorial traineeship at the Südwest Rundfunk in Baden-Baden and further education to become a scientific documentarist at the Institute for Information and Documentation (IID) at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam; responsible for event management and online editor for the Messe GmbH of the Chamber of Crafts Koblenz; since 2001, online editor for the German BundeswehrVerband; since 2008, independent web designer/developer and consultant regarding websites and operational knowledge management. She is a specialist for Lotus Notes web CMS.

Graduate businesswoman and academic PR consultant, long-term professional and communication experience in the building, real-estate, and architecture industry and managing director and proxy in building and air-conditioning systems companies. She was mainly responsible for strategic marketing and internal and external corporate communications. Her customers include many renowned medium-sized companies. She is the owner of the agency "comm.pass Marketing & Kommunikation". Her consulting skills range from strategic public relations and issue management and lobbying to integrated communication in medium-sized companies. She completed a complementary apprenticeship as moderator at the Rationalisierungs-Kuratorium der deutschen Wirtschaft e.V. (RKW).

After her apprenticeship as printing plate producer, Andrea Petry studied Communication Design in Trier and was awarded an excellence degree in Typography (Red Dot for high design quality, design prize of the city of Essen) in 1999. For two years, she worked as an employed graphic designer with the Chamber of Crafts in Koblenz. In 2001, she became a freelance graphic designer in the Koblenz area.

At the end of 2007, Andrea Petry and her business partner, Milos Piperski, founded their own agency, "p&p - Agentur für Grafik & Design" which is specialised in individual and inventive design but which also covers the areas consulting, conception, layout, graphics, text, photography, print processing, and web design.

The graduate business economist started his career as branch manager at the Volksbank and later at the Commerzbank. In this role, he got acquainted with the views of entrepreneurs and enterprises and eventually "switched sides". In 1997, he created his own franchise system which by now has more than 130 partners in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As franchisor, he is specialised in corporate services, corporate communication, and marketing of franchise systems. In addition, Jens Wörmann is co-founder of the marketing network "q2b - quality to business".

(Born 1963 in Belgrade) From 1985 to 1995, he was a professional ice-hockey player and participated in several European and World Championships. Since 1996, the graduate graphic designer and painter and drawer (educated at the School of Arts in Belgrade) has been working as graphic designer in Germany. He has long-term experience as employed graphic designer and art director in different companies and publishing houses. These multi-faceted activities, his profound "old school" education and his academic knowledge in drawing (e.g. illustrations) have evolved into an unwavering feeling for visual, graphic, and typographic solutions. Since 2004, he has been working as a freelance graphic designer specialised in print media. At the end of 2007, he founded the agency "p&p" together with his business partner Andrea Petry.

Has been working in the PR and communications industry since 1982 – at first in Bucharest, Romania, and, since 1987, in Germany. Founder of "absolute media GmbH" in Siegen in 1998. He is specialised in programming internet-based communication solutions such as CM systems, online shops, and dialogue and direct marketing tools. He combines strategic, technical, and graphical elements to integrated solutions. He is also an expert for international marketing in foreign markets.

(Born in 1974) Graduate businessman, freelance brand consultant, and advertising specialist. His professional knowledge is based on his studies in Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. This was when he started being interested in marketing, consumer psychology, and brand management. The next stages in his career were the employment in three major international advertising networks and in owner-managed design and creative agencies. He worked as planner, customer consultant, and budget director for customers such as Gillette, Unilever, Nestle, Henkel, EIZO, and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. His core competencies are classical advertising, brand management, corporate design, online- and neuro-marketing, corporate foundation, and strategic agency consulting.

(Born 1952) Started her professional life as examined nurse; since 1982, she worked in a software and systems house where she was responsible for administration, contact management, and training and support. She completed numerous trainings in marketing and in media design before taking over management tasks in the marketing, development, and project management divisions of different companies. Since 1999, she has been a self-employed owner of an event agency for SMEs focusing on designing, planning, and managing events for 2 to 5000 people and ranging from seminars and meetings to congresses and major events. Her goal is adding a personal touch to each event.

(Born in 1968) Political scientist, became a freelance author, texter, and media consultant in 2007 after having worked in politics, in associations, and in the media. He consults and supports medium-sized companies and associations in Europe regarding their press and public relations work in the print and online area. His service portfolio covers the complete range of modern media work: from speeches of management boards, image texts, name articles, and essays to newsletters and annual reports. This portfolio is completed by his long-term experience in planning and implementing high-class events and symposiums of different kinds and sizes.

(Born in 1969) After his apprenticeship to become an advertising merchant, he worked as texter and conceptionist in agencies such as Ernst & Partner, BBDO, and FGK before he became a freelancer in this area in 1997. Since then, he has been consulting customers such as Microsoft, the Effizienz-Agentur NRW and the Provinzial Leben-Baubetreuungs-GmbH in all advertising and marketing aspects. For three years in a row, he planned and organised the Christina Rau charity event in Bellevue Castle in Berlin for and in collaboration with the agency "Labels PR"; an event which has raised more than one million Euros for children's charity projects in the entire world. In addition to text, consulting, translation and interpreting services in his second native language English, Thomas Eickhoff is currently working as a program director for a US-American tour company where he is responsible for river cruises in the Rhine-Main-Danube area.