ABOUT THE FOUNDER

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Dr. Martina Olbert is a visionary thinker, humanist, futurist, global speaker, strategic/board advisor, sensemaker, and the world's leading expert on creating meaning in business, recognized by Forbes as "a preeminent authority on brand meaning". She is also an author, consumer psychologist, social scientist, and a leading voice on creating sustainable future-fit economics and humanistic capitalism. Her focus is on reimagining business and brands to empower a future of complete synergy between Commerce and Humanity, where business is the vehicle for a new, meaningful, and humanistic future. She explores how business can benefit humanity to maximize human flourishing.

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Her vision for the future of capitalism is to use the immense creative power of business as a catalyst for global social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental change to create a new, better human future. Her ultimate goal is to raise global human consciousness by first raising the consciousness in business, as it creates our shared global reality. This will lay out an entirely new economic landscape where choosing what benefits our lives and contributes to our human well-being becomes the core value of business. Her main effort is to realign business with humanity so that we can see business in a new light: as a social discipline of creating a new, elevated human reality instead of exploiting it.

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As the founder and CEO of Meaning Global, Martina helps brands and organizations make sense of the world and envision future possibilities for business reimagination, value creation, and growth as we move toward a new Humanistic Capitalism where aligning with our humanity is a must. She focuses on how societal and cultural shifts redefine our perception of value today and steers companies in a new, more humanistic direction to maximize value and growth. She has worked with a diverse range of clients across the industry: banking, finance, investment funds, asset management, private equity, VC, luxury houses, fashion brands, leisure, hospitality, social impact start-ups, NGOs, a presidential candidate, technology, telecommunications, media, professional services, education, medical, pharma, and consumer goods. 

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Martina is a global speaker represented by Chartwell Speakers in London. She spoke at conferences, client events, and business schools in Europe, North America, LatAm, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Her insights have been regularly published in global publications such as Forbes, BBC, Newsweek, WARC, Campaign, Vogue Business, Luxury Daily, Jing Daily, Branding Strategy Insider, and American Journal of Consumer Research. She is the author of Reimagining Consumerism As A Force For Good  and the globally acclaimed The Luxury Report: Redefining The Future Meaning Of Luxury. Thinkers360 called her the "Global Business Thinker on Sustainability, Marketing, and Ecosystems To Follow". She is a member of The Good Future Project, founded by the Swiss futurist Gerd Leonhard, focused on creating three new pillars for the good future: climate change, technology and humanity, and future-fit economics. She is on the Brainz. One-To-Watch list of future influential leaders, top entrepreneurs, and most innovative thinkers shaping the world.

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Her education includes The Science of Well-Being at Yale, Political Journalism and Political & Economic Systems at Georgetown University, and Media and Consumer Cultures at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She holds a doctorate in Media Studies from Charles University in Prague. She is interested in advancing humanity, spiritual growth, social progress, the human mind, and elevating human consciousness as a driver of positive global change.