Franziska Brandmeier – The “5 Premium Speakers Questions”
Franziska Brandmeier is a mental health expert, futurologist, and neuroscientist. She combines neuroscience and psychology (including King’s College London) with experience in finance, capital markets, and business development—environments in which mental stability, clear communication, and resilient decision-making are crucial.
In her keynotes, she shows how mental stability is becoming a key leadership and future skill for decision-making quality, performance, trust, and collaboration. Her content is scientifically sound, clearly structured, and directly transferable to leadership, culture, and organization.
Franziska Brandmeier will soon begin her PhD at the University of Groningen in cooperation with Harvard, working on the connection between human and artificial intelligence. On stage, she impresses with her clarity, warmth, and precision—supported by her strong presence and depth.
Interview with Franziska Brandmeier:
1. What are the core subjects of your keynote speeches?
My keynotes revolve around seven closely related fields:
- Mental stability as a leadership and decision-making skill
- The NeuroWay as a clear, applicable model (State → Behavior → Interaction → Culture → Outcomes)
- Mental health as a social and organizational system issue
- Generation Anxious and the new baseline of constant input and comparison
- Meritocracy 2.0 (ambition without burnout)
- High performance as architecture (rhythm, standards, boundaries, regeneration)
- Emotion & empathy as the basis for trust, feedback, and conflict management skills
2. Which audience or which branch do you reach with your speech?
My talks are designed for people who need to create orientation while the underlying conditions are shifting: C-level executives, senior leaders, HR/People & Culture, Strategy, Innovation, and Communications.
They are particularly relevant in environments defined by high complexity and pace—finance/capital markets, technology, industry and mobility, professional services—anywhere decisions have to be made quickly, yet carry long-term consequences. Educational organisations and institutions across the wider education ecosystem also benefit from my keynotes and workshops.
3. Are you a PREMIUM SPEAKER? Where do you get your insights from?
I bring together three perspectives that are rarely integrated in a single voice:
- Scientific grounding: Neuroscience and Psychology (King’s College London) and the preparation of my PhD—bringing a precise lens on underlying mental mechanisms, not just symptoms.
- Field reality: Business development and collaboration with demanding stakeholders, including publicly listed environments—where narratives, decisions, and pressure are real.
- Presence and storytelling: As a keynote speaker and actress (I worked with Judi Dench), I know how ideas land and how people are moved—analytically sharp and emotionally resonant.
4. What will be in the future? Does «time» play an important role in your work?
We are moving into a future where many things are accelerating and that is precisely why something else becomes more valuable: stability. Time matters, but not as “ever faster”; rather as the ability to stay coherent at speed.
I see two parallel movements:
- Acceleration driven by AI, markets, and communication.
- A return to consistency as a success factor: culture, trust, and mental health cannot be sprinted; they are built through repetition, rhythm, and reliable patterns.
The organisations that will be future-ready are the ones that can integrate both.
5. Tell us your life motto? What do you want to give your listeners to take with them?
Work hard. Be Human.