Every keynote tailored to the room.
From simulation games to motivational keynotes, Alice tailors every talk, lecture and workshop to what your audience actually needs.
CORE TOPICS
Topics Alice talks about
Future-Fit Leadership
Leading organisations through uncertainty, complexity and accelerating change.
Measuring Impact
Maximising positive impact through evidence, evaluation and learning.
Responsible AI & Digital Humanism
Harnessing technology responsibly to strengthen people, organisations and society.
Sustainable Transformation
Moving beyond compliance to create resilient organisations and lasting impact.
Systems Thinking
Understanding interconnected challenges and designing solutions that work acrossboundaries.
Planetary Health
Connecting human wellbeing, environmental resilience and long-term prosperity.
SPEAKING EXAMPLES
Selected speaking examples
Technology with Purpose: How responsible AI and Tech4Good can accelerate sustainable and inclusive futures.
- Keynote "Beyond Bias: The Power of Women in AI", HerBizz International
- "The AI Conundrum: Friend or Foe in Shaping a Sustainable Future?", Hummelnest Accelerator
- Keynote "Freund oder Feind? Die Role von KI in der ökosozialen Transformation", Austrian Fundraising Congress 2024
- Keynote "Tech for Tomorrow: Pioneering Sustainable Innovation", Hummelnest Accelerator
- "Circular Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", Circular Economy Forum Austria
- Keynote "Revitalising Tomorrow: an eco-social revolution through AI?"; Regenerative Dialogues, Impact Hub Vienna
Leading Through Complexity: From sustainability to resilience, systems thinking and strategic foresight.
- Keynote "Kompetenzen für eine klimafitte Wirtschaft", klimaaktiv Jahreskonferenz 2026
- Green Means Go: Sustainability as a Driver for Resilience & Competitiveness, Austrian Chamber of Commerce; Export Day 2025
- Building bridges: a case for massive state interventions to prevent climate collapse?, Squared Intelligence; European Forum Alpbach 2024
- Sustainable Symmetries: From Greenwashing to Systems Change, Beyond Green, Ljubljana
- Keynote "Smart innovation vs. Greenwashing: fast forward to a sustainable future", Boehringer Ingelheim
- Keynote "Fast Forward in eine bessere Zukunft: nachhaltige Transformation oder Monopoly?". Digitaler Salon.
- Sustainability & ESG: why does it matter for Human Resource Management? Vienna Insurance Group.
- 'Sustainable Supply Chains: An essential part of The Sustainability Puzzle'
- 'Nature, business & other players: Solving the sustainability puzzle'; various clients and locations
Shaping Future Societies: Exploring the societal transformations that will define the next decade.
- Keynote "Vienna - City of the Future: from ART to SMART", PWC EMEA Region New Partners' Meeting SDG trade-offs for a global future 2.0
- Soziale Gerechtigkeit Neu Denken: NPO Kongress, Controller Institut Austria.
- 'Sustainable Business in a post-COVID World: Let's not waste the crisis'; Business in Oxford Conference.
PODCASTS
Podcasts and live talks
LECTURING
Selected university teaching
Since 2023: 'Managing for Tomorrow: Solving the Sustainability Puzzle'
University of Illinois @ Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Sustainability Programme
Since 2021: 'Business & Society'; 'Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development'
Executive Master on Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology. Executive Academy, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Since 2017: 'Mensch, Umwelt, Wirtschaft - Wie passt das zusammen?'
University lectures on the reconciliation of human, environmental and economic needs for 7 to 13 year olds. Vienna Children's University (Kinderuni Wien)
Since 2012: 'Sustainable Business - Managing for Tomorrow’;
Several full courses per year for international BA and MBA students. Vienna University of Economics and Business.
TRAINING
En-ROADS climate action workshop
One of our most popular leadership workshop formats is the interactive En-ROADS climate action simulation led by Alice Schmidt, an MIT-certified climate ambassador. Participants co-create a global solution to the climate crisis and gain unique insights into how stakeholder preferences impact climate action and sustainable transformation, before delving into implications for organisational strategy development.