{"id":117507,"date":"2025-11-12T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=117507"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:13:55","slug":"marianne-heiss","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/premium-speakers.com\/en\/speaker-presenter\/marianne-heiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Heiss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>At a time when supervisory boards and management committees need to provide guidance more than ever, Marianne Heiss has a clear message: the future is a management task.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is one of Europe&#8217;s most influential supervisory board members \u2013 a personality who combines operational excellence with strategic vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For almost three decades, female speaker Marianne Heiss shaped the international economy in key positions at BBDO worldwide: first as CFO Europe, responsible for 18 countries, and later as the first woman at the helm of BBDO Group Germany as CEO. Under her leadership, the group achieved top rankings in the communications industry, increased customer satisfaction by 30% and raised the proportion of women in top management from 10% to 45%. In addition, under her leadership, BBDO achieved the best results in the company&#8217;s history and received multiple awards for innovation and ESG excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today, Marianne Heiss is a top supervisory board member and strategic advisor to international corporations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2018, she has been a member of the supervisory boards of Audi AG and Porsche SE (where she serves as an ESG expert), as well as a member of the committees of Paysafe, PALFINGER AG and the advisory board of Ritter Sport. Previously, she was chair of the audit committee at Flix SE and, until 2025, a member of the supervisory board and audit committee of Volkswagen AG. As Honorary Representative for Philanthropy and Partnerships at UNICEF, she is committed to ensuring that business, society and politics take joint responsibility for sustainable change and a future worth living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Marianne Heiss is in demand as a speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marianne Heiss doesn&#8217;t just talk about transformation \u2013 she has shaped it herself. As a speaker, she offers guidance, provides precise analyses and points out practical ways forward. Companies and supervisory boards value her ability to make complex developments understandable and translate them into concrete options for action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-marianne-heiss-lecture-topics\">Marianne Heiss lecture topics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Value-adding supervisory board work<\/strong> in times of crisis and change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Leadership &amp; change<\/strong> in times of ongoing geopolitical crises<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>ESG &amp; diversity<\/strong> as drivers of value and growth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Transformation into a new world order<\/strong> through technological, economic and geopolitical shifts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rituals and brands<\/strong> as points of reference in uncertain times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thought leader &amp; author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her supervisory board work, Marianne Heiss is the <strong>author of several books<\/strong>, including <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/485XUrD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018YES SHE CAN \u2013 Die Zukunft des Managements ist weiblich\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (YES SHE CAN \u2013 The Future of Management is Female) and <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4oyNqXr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018Strategisches Kostenmanagement in der Praxis\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (Strategic Cost Management in Practice). Since 2024, she has been hosting the business podcast <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voices.fm\/de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VOICES<\/a><\/strong>, in which she discusses future issues with key leaders from business, politics, art and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personality &amp; Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Austria, she studied economics and management with a focus on corporate accounting and auditing. She is considered a thought leader in sustainability, diversity and modern corporate governance. Marianne Heiss has been voted one of the <strong>top 100 women in German and Austrian business<\/strong> several times, and the Handelsblatt newspaper has described her as one of the most powerful supervisory board members in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Her keynotes provide an effective and extraordinary toolkit for the future: well-founded, inspiring and consistently practical.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when supervisory boards and management committees need to provide guidance more than ever, Marianne Heiss has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":117477,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[16874,17141,17142,17140,17139,16863,17143],"speaker-category":[16607,16604,16590,16593,16594,16591],"speaker-topic":[16660,16637,16616,16942,16626,16630,16632,16623,16624],"speaker-type":[16667,16665],"speaker-gender":[16669],"speaker-language":[16572,16571],"class_list":["post-117507","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-esg-2","tag-growth","tag-growth-drivers","tag-new-world-order","tag-supervisory-board","tag-transformation-2","tag-value-creation","speaker-category-economy-politics","speaker-category-entrepreneurship","speaker-category-finance","speaker-category-globalisation","speaker-category-innovations-mega-trends-future","speaker-category-leadership","speaker-topic-change-management","speaker-topic-crisis-management","speaker-topic-digital-transformation-digital-disruption","speaker-topic-diversity-inclusion","speaker-topic-global-trends","speaker-topic-industry-4-0","speaker-topic-innovations","speaker-topic-leadership-4-0","speaker-topic-society","speaker-type-interview-guest","speaker-type-keynote-speaker","speaker-gender-woman","speaker-language-english","speaker-language-german"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marianne Heiss - Leadership expert | Premium Speakers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marianne Heiss is a leading supervisory board member and one of the best female speakers on transformation and leadership. 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