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Dr. Martina Olbert is the Founder & Chief Economic Architect of Meaning Global, building the foundation of meaning and human values for the New Earth Economy. She is a visionary business leader, meaning architect, strategic brand advisor, social scientist, and a global keynote speaker represented by Chartwell Speakers in London. She is the world's primary expert on creating meaning in business, recognized by Forbes as "a preeminent authority on brand meaning", and a leading voice on Humanistic Capitalism and sustainable future-fit economics. Her focus is on reimagining business and brands to empower a future of complete synergy between Commerce and Humanity, where business is the driver of a new, meaningful human future. She reimagines how business can benefit humanity to maximize human sovereignty. 

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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. The new, meaningful foundation makes human sovereignty a logical output of the global economy. She realigns commerce with humanity so we see business in its true 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, leaders, and organizations make sense of the new world and reset their path for new possibilities, value creation, and growth as we move to a new world of 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, humanistic direction to maximize value creation and future equity. She has worked with a diverse range of clients across the industry: banking, finance, investment funds, asset management, VC/PE, 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 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.  She has been annually top-ranked on Thinkers360's list of global leaders and thinkers on Sustainability, Marketing, and Ecosystems to Follow since 2020.

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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 driven by advancing humanity, resetting the global economy, social progress, and elevating human consciousness as the key levers of the new human future.