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Dr. Martina Olbert spoke at events around the world, including leading industry conferences, client events, professional associations, podcasts, radio shows, and held academic lectures at business schools across Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. Some of the clients, organizations, and conferences include:
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Knowledge is Power. The right knowledge at the right time saves millions of dollars and allows brands and organizations to reorient themselves on the right trajectory of change just in time. What comes out of this reset is meaning: the most valuable currency and the core building block of the New Earth Economy. Investing in knowledge saves future money and time and equips leaders with the know-how to create new value and advance human lives.
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 advisor, social scientist, author, and 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. She reimagines how business can benefit humanity to maximize human sovereignty.
Her focus is on reimagining capitalism to empower a future of complete synergy between Commerce and Humanity, where business is the driver of a new, meaningful human future.
Martina is a trusted advisor to many of the world's most influential brands and organizations on meaning creation, strategy, leadership, future-proofing, strategic foresight, societal and cultural shifts, humanistic innovation, and building meaningful futures. Some of her clients include LVMH, Facebook, Estée Lauder, Rolls-Royce, Unilever, Heineken, Barclays Private Bank, KBC, and Kantar. In her career, she has worked with clients across all sectors and industries.
Martina is an inspiring speaker with a bold vision for the future of business and the new world economy. She views commerce as the most powerful force for positive change in society and
the driver of a more meaningful, sustainable, and humanistic future. She works with brand and business leaders to reimagine brands and organizations from the humanistic perspective and
use the immense social power of business as a force for good –
to benefit our humanity and the planet.
With her talks and client engagements, she helps brand and business leaders future-proof for what is coming and understand what all the recent changes in the world, given the rapid evolution and ascension of humanity, mean for the future of business.
This aligns their future strategies with where humanity is evolving and going next to maximize meaning-based value creation that contributes to total human flourishing.
She spoke globally at conferences, business schools, and events across North America, LatAm, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia. Her speaking experiences include EXPO Dubai Global Sustainability Goals Week with the UN, King’s Business School in London, Brand Week Istanbul, FashionTech Week Milan, Luxury Week, Quadriga Internal Communications Conference in Berlin, Consumer Insighting Conference in Manila, the What is Luxury? panel at Atlantis in the Bahamas, and more.
What the clients have said:
"Eye-opening and invaluable experience"
"She is reframing and refocusing worldviews for a better understanding"
"Martina is a true visionary so far ahead of the curve, she is able to see and think way beyond what is conventional"
"Dr. Olbert is one of the very few who can see the shift we are in with a steely-eyed brilliance"
"She presents a clear roadmap forward and can clearly see the future of meaning for consumers.
The thought leader we need for the '20s and beyond."
"A revolutionary thought leader in a world where thought leadership is oftentimes merely an opinion"
"A thought-provoking clarity"
"One of the marketing leaders shaping a better world through brand"
"What Martina offers is a quake under our feet to put us on firmer ground. Exceptional view."
"Fiercely intelligent, deeply spiritual, and possessing a 360-degree view of humans"
"Martina is an alchemist of the highest order with a magic so rare it transcends business into the realm of the entirety of the human endeavor."
"Her comments, ideas, and insights are one of the few sources that actually matter"
"Martina is the rare person in the business capable of seeing beyond the problems of today to grasp the underlying thematic issues that have led to the development of those problems in the first place."
"Astonishingly valuable"
Speaking topics for the New World
For speaking and booking availability, contact me at hello@meaning.global. For more information, you can visit Chartwell Speakers or contact my agent, Toby Mossop.
Human Sovereignty
Humanity is moving on the upward evolutionary trajectory back to Sovereignty, Ownership, and Meaning. What does this mean for value creation and architecting new macro systems that govern society?
During Covid, Humanity had encountered a turning point that ushered in a paradigm shift that permanently ended history and created a new precedent for the entire global human colective to start moving back inward: to retrieving our lost humanity, our lost power and human agency, and with it, the power to create our own based based in health, wealth, sovereignty, true meaningful human connection, and creative expression. In different words, the collective global precedent ushered in the need for the Sovereign Hexagon™ as the new building block for the New Earth Economy, to build back the economy on the true foundation of meaning and human value. Book this talk to find out what this collective human trajectory of evolution means for your business and future strategy.
Past bookings: King's Business School in London, EXPO Dubai Global Sustainability Goals Week with the United Nations
New Earth Economy
The Rise of New, Conscious, Humanistic Capitalism: How is Human Sovereignty permanently changing the global business landscape and the new world economy?
The future of the global economic landscape is evolving back to Meaning and Humanity. The very foundation of business in the New Earth Economy is changing from the Debt-Based Corporate Extraction System to the Human-Based Meaning Flow of Creative Expression. This means that the very role of business in the new global economy and its inner logic of functioning and raison d'être need to shift from energy exploitation to meaning creation. This shifts the dynamic of business itself from using people as consumers to serve businesses to businesses serving people as value creators and service providers to fundamentally elevate and augment human lives, leading to sovereignty, increased agency, and human flourishing. Book this talk to find out how this can be done and achieved as the new default state of global reality.
Past bookings: King's Business School in London, EXPO Dubai Global Sustainability Goals Week with the United Nations
Humanistic Brands
The Relationship and power dynamic between Brands and Humanity are changing for good. How can Brands and Organizations maximize Human Flourishing and help humans evolve towards sovereignty and agency?
The reason brands exist in the new world is to awaken, elevate, and empower human lives back to their full potential, as we move on the collective human trajectory toward regaining meaning, human power and agency, sovereignty, true connection, and creative self-expression to make the most of our lives. Brands, when used to their full potential, are powerful vehicles of value creation and social change, serving to solidify the foundation of human life on Earth. They can fundamentally rewrite the global landscape of our culture and society for the better. That is, if and when brands use their immense creative power to serve people, create new meaning, and reconstitute our collective global reality consciously. How can brands use this creative power they hold most effectively and efficiently to create real human meaning, profit, and drive positive global change in the New Earth Economy – for the stakeholders, humanity, and the planet? Book this talk to build anew.
Past bookings: EXPO Dubai 2020 Global Sustainability Goals Week with the UN, King's Business School in London, Thought Leadership Leverage, Evolve To Succeed Podcast
The New Luxury
The Future of Luxury is about empowering Humanity to awaken all its senses and flourish. How can Luxury Brands create new strategies to elevate humanity and unlock the True Meaning and Power of Luxury?
Luxury is moving from ostentatious forms and objects to what was always Real: the five human senses and the metaphysical space that brings us back to our Humanity. Things like time, movement, freedom, space, breath, quiet, comfort, connection, reconnecting with our inner selves, and with something larger beyond us are now becoming the New Luxury. The New Luxury is not an extra; it is essential. It is our own Humanity awakening. As our humanity is awakening to its true essence today, seeking authenticity and self-expression, the very meaning of luxury is changing from tangibles to intangibles. We don't crave material objects of desire anymore as much as we crave the New Luxury: time, space, peace, serenity, true identity, human connection, transformation, transcendence, and meaningful and unique experiences. How can Luxury, Hospitality, Leisure, Premium, and Consumer Brands tap into this infinite reservoir of new human meaning? Book this talk to illuminate a new path.
Past bookings: BOND 5* luxury hospitality conference at Atlantis, Bahamas, FashionTech Week Milan, Luxury Week, Frame Awards
TESTIMONIALS
What the clients and audiences have said.
"Martina had a lecture on The Future of Brands for my students at the King's Business School in London. She presents a clear roadmap for how brands can ensure they are not engaging in purpose-washing, but rather authentically engage with consumers as humans. The thought leader we need for the '20s and beyond."
Professor of Marketing at King's Business School, King's College London
Speaking at Past Events Around the World
The Future of Players: How Cultural Disruption Impacts Planning & Innovation, Gaming Convention, London
EXPO Dubai 2020 Global Sustainability Goals Week with the UN: How Brands Can Accelerate The Transition To A More Sustainable Future, co-created with Ogilvy
The Meaning Of Luxury at the Frame Awards, with Marcel Wanders, Peter Cole, and Caroline Cundall, Amsterdam
The Future of Brands: Reimagining Consumerism As A Force For Good lecture for graduate marketing students at King's College London, UK
Evolve To Succeed podcast with Warren Munson on the future of business: "Not Consumers But Humans", UK
Designing The Future: The Future of Brands: Lead With Meaning At The Core. Brand Week Istanbul, Türkiye
Leveraging Thought Leadership podcast with Peter Winick on Purpose versus Meaning in Brands, New York
How Cultural Disruption and Symbolic Codes Impact Brand Success, Marketing, and Innovation, Manila
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