Ideas that turn disagreement into progress
Keynotes with Marietta Gädeke
Interactive keynotes on debate, persuasion, leadership and strategic empathy: well-founded, engaging and close to practice.
Marietta reviews every request personally and confirms the date and format.
Focus
Knowledge that becomes confident action.
The course combines academically grounded models with realistic exercises. Participants work on their own cases, receive precise feedback and develop solutions they can apply directly.
Who it is for
Communication for people with responsibility.
Related programmes
Learning objectives
What participants develop
Open new perspectives
Engage the audience actively
Transfer learning into daily life
Charming & intelligent—women’s power on stage. Lilit founder Marietta Gädeke delivers keynote speeches for your major event as a leading speaker. The German debating champion knows what it takes to captivate your audience. Vividly, compellingly and with just the right amount of charm, she shares expert insights into challenges and findings relating to communication, culture and female leadership.
Speaker on female leadership:
- Women moving forward: networking & social media for your career
- Leading with strategic empathy—how managers can use emotions
- Female leadership—leadership strategies for women
- My path to the top—what debating as a sport taught me
The debating champion in action:
- Arguing is a skill to learn! Communicating successfully with the debating method (The talk accompanying the book—new to the programme in 2019!)
- Fast and slow decisions—how behavioural economics helps you find the best arguments
- The debating champion reveals the nasty tricks of rhetoric
- Self-marketing online—social media dos & don’ts for entrepreneurs and leaders
- How we are fooled every day—unconscious manipulation in sales & client acquisition
- Networking at work: how to make yourself and your ideas known!
Keynotes on diversity & intercultural competence:
- Intercultural competence—5 rules for your international relationships
- Germany & Israel—a difficult legacy and new opportunities
- Incredible India—working and living in the land of extremes
- United Kingdom—doing business with the British
- Middle East powder keg—intercultural factors in the conflict
A live clash of arguments: book a showcase debate!
- Book a showcase debate and see your industry topic in a blaze of arguments!
- In a rhetorical exchange of arguments for and against, featuring 6 trained top speakers, your audience experiences persuasive power and wit up close.
- Tired of discussion panels where everyone agrees? With a showcase debate you experience a genuine exchange of differing opinions at the highest parliamentary level!
Looking for a speaker for your event? Then contact us for personalised topic suggestions. We will gladly put you in touch with our keynote speaker and other leading speakers and debaters from our network throughout Germany! 
Charming, quick-witted and well-informed: keynote speaker Marietta Gädeke. ©WUDC Berlin 2013 // Henrik Maedler “I thought the talk was awesome, and your story and passion for communication were really great! Thank you for that.” Get advice now
Didactic structure
Analyse. Practise. Transfer.
- Clarify the situationGoals, roles and communication dynamics become visible.
- Test strategiesRealistic exercises create space for precise feedback.
- Secure transferConcrete next steps connect the course with daily work.
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