Mandy & Ben Schobel – The power couple for real transformation
Mandy and Ben Schobel embody change, radical honesty and conscious growth. Their story is anything but ordinary: from professional sports to musical theatre to successful entrepreneurs and inspiring speakers. Driven by passion, discipline and genuine courage, they impressively demonstrate what it means to overcome setbacks, get back up again and again, and create powerful new beginnings out of crises.
Today, they help individuals, couples, teams and companies to forge genuine connections with themselves and others – for greater clarity, success and vitality in business and in life.
Their performances go far beyond traditional keynotes: in their unique keynote art performance, Mandy and Ben Schobel combine powerful words, emotional songs, lively scenes and impulses that have a lasting effect.
Mandy & Ben Schobel Lecture topics
- Humanity & connection – the underestimated success factor in modern companies
What if your team delivers – but feels no inner connection?
This Key Art is not a traditional lecture. It is not a show act. It is an honest moment. A reminder of what really matters. Genuine connection.
Through moving stories, moments of sound and short practical impulses, you will experience how humanity leads to motivation, trust and sustainable success. This experience opens up space for reflection, cultural change and leadership with heart – for companies that want to stay alive.
Duration: 20–90 minutes (recommended: 35 minutes deep dive followed by reflection)
Target group: Entrepreneurs, executives, leadership teams, decision-makers, HR managers, people with responsibility
More about the key art of humanity & connection in teams. – in german
- Scaling up to total crash – The art of staying true to yourself
From a 200-euro start to a million-euro business: Mandy and Ben show the dark side of rapid growth when scaling becomes a trap and people are left behind. They explain how clarity, values and a strong vision pave the way out of the hamster wheel of scaling – for leaders who want to grow with attitude.
- Relationships as a success booster
Whether it’s a romantic relationship, a business partnership or team dynamics – genuine connection is a powerful accelerator of success. Mandy and Ben convey how relationships can become a source of strength rather than drama, and how shared visions release energy.
- Man vs. woman – complementing instead of replacing, that’s powerful
Male and female qualities in interaction: here, role models are questioned, communication patterns are examined and it is shown how diversity creates strength – for couples, teams and organisations.
- Role models – between cliché and clarity
We all take on roles – as parents, partners or leaders. But old patterns often hold us back. Mandy and Ben humorously show how we can break down role models and decide for ourselves who we really want to be – for greater satisfaction and clarity.
Who are Mandy & Ben Schobel?
The story of Mandy and Ben is not a classic entrepreneurial story.
It is a life journey full of breaks, courage and radical honesty.
They start out in professional sports, later appearing together on the big musical stages – full of passion, discipline and joy in what they do. But life suddenly pulls them out of the spotlight. When their son is just seven months old, Ben has to undergo life-threatening heart surgery. No savings. No prospects. Mandy on parental leave. Two people at a turning point – and yet: together, they survive this too. And start afresh.
With nothing but 200 euros, an old laptop and a burning desire to take control of their own destiny, they found their first e-commerce company. They scale up to multimillions. Build a strong team. On the outside: success, applause, recognition. On the inside: emptiness, exhaustion, speechlessness.
They lose themselves – as individuals, as a couple, as human beings. The pressure mounts. Pill addiction. Alcohol. Mandy goes back to work two hours after giving birth to her second child – for fear of losing everything again. But what they had really lost was touch with themselves. Finally, the collapse follows: bankruptcy. Loss of control. The moment when many give up.
But they choose a different path.
They pack their children into an old camper van. And drive off. Without a plan. But with the courage to feel anew. To think anew. To live anew. They sleep in car parks. They argue about money, about fears, about everything that has been smouldering beneath the surface for years. And they talk again – not about to-do lists, but about dreams. About closeness. About what is really important to them.
They learn:
- Relationships are not a place of perfection. But of transformation.
- It is not the outside that heals you – but the honesty in your innermost being.
- It is not security that saves you – but the courage to show yourself. Without a mask. Without a role.
Today, they are not only more successful than ever before – as speakers, mentors and entrepreneurs. But above all, they are more conscious. More alive. More genuine. As a power couple. As parents. And as people who no longer have to shine, but are allowed to radiate.
They accompany people who are in the midst of life – with family, career, responsibility – and yet ask themselves: Is that all there is? People who function, perform, organise – but lose sight of themselves in the process. Who feel that they want more: more vitality, more closeness, more meaning.
What Mandy and Ben Schobel pass on is not a theoretical concept. It is lived life. With all its highs and lows. With real growth instead of obsession with optimisation. With space for feelings, visions, clarity – and the ability to rediscover oneself.
Not faster, higher, further. But more conscious, more honest, more alive.
Not either/or. But everything – as a person, as a couple, in everyday life.
Because life doesn’t become more perfect when we conform. But when we start to truly show ourselves.
Mandy & Ben Schobel are revolutionising classic lectures as keynote art performers. They combine keynote speeches, music, singing and acting into a profound experience that touches, inspires and transforms.