Franziska Brandmeier is a Futurologist, Neuroscientist and Mental Health Expert.
Franziska Brandmeier speaks about mental strength where it actually matters: under pressure, in complexity, and in real decisions. She combines training in Neuroscience & Psychology (King’s College London) with hands-on experience in finance/capital markets and business development – environments where communication, narratives, and performance are not “nice to have,” but business-critical.
Franziska Brandmeier Keynote topics
Her keynotes revolve around seven tightly connected themes:
- The New Mindset: Mental Stability as a Core Steering Skill
Mental stability is not a wellbeing add-on, it is a core capability in high-speed environments. It determines decision quality, conflict competence, and relational intelligence. Those who can regulate their internal state lead with greater clarity and make performance reliable rather than nervous.
- The NeuroWay: Mental Infrastructure That Works
Neuroscience expertise is translated into an actionable framework – beyond coaching clichés: State → Behaviour → Interaction → Culture → Outcomes. The value is operational: understanding why people and teams tip, and which levers bring them back to clarity, focus, and effective action.
- Mental Health in Society: From Side Topic to Strategic Location Factor
Mental health has become a systemic issue: it shapes productivity, retention, innovation, and social cohesion. The critical shift is moving away from individualisation (“you just need to be more resilient”) toward responsibility embedded in structures: work, education, technology, and culture. The keynote frames mental health not as a deficit narrative, but as a future capability – for people and organisations.
- Generation Anxious: A New Baseline of Pressure, Comparison, and Constant Input
Not “everyone is ill” – but baseline tension is noticeably higher. This changes motivation, commitment, feedback dynamics, and performance. The keynote offers orientation without pathologising: context, language, and conditions that create stability – so high performance becomes possible again.
- Performance Society 2.0: A Mindset Shift Without Human Backlash
Ambition stays – but the logic behind it must change. Away from overdrive (“more, always more”) toward focus, standards, decision pathways, and regeneration as a productivity factor. Away from control and toward responsibility.
- Work Hard. Stay Human. – High Performance by Design
High performance is not a push problem, it is a design problem. The keynote shows performance architectures that are ambitious and sustainable: rhythm instead of constant fire-fighting, boundaries instead of grey zones, standards instead of heroics, recovery as part of the system. The outcome: performance that scales – without consuming people.
- Emotion & Empathy: Trust as the Operating System of Collaboration
Emotions are not a disruption, they are control data. Trust is not built by “being nice,” but through repeatable behaviour: clear expectations, clean communication, conflict competence, and repair after tension. Empathy is not sold as a soft skill, but as a performance lever: less escalation, stronger collaboration, and higher-quality decisions and feedback.
Franziska Brandmeier will soon begin her PhD at the University of Groningen in cooperation with Harvard. Her research focuses on how consciousness, stability, and decision capacity change as intelligence, human and artificial, reorganises. This is what makes her work so widely relevant: it is scientifically grounded, yet immediately translatable into leadership, culture, and collaboration.
Franziska Brandmeier speaks to decision-makers across business, policy, and the wider education ecosystem about the interplay between human and artificial intelligence.
In her presentations on stage, Franziska Brandmeier is clear, warm and precise. As an actress, she brings presence and depth – delivering ideas in a way that lands, resonates, and stays with people.