Martina Olbert Keynote Speaker

Dr. Martina Olbert is a visionary thinker, humanist, futurist, strategic/board advisor, sensemaker, and the world’s leading expert on 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 sustainable future-fit economics and humanistic capitalism. She explores how business can benefit humanity to maximize human flourishing.

As Founder and CEO of Meaning Global, Martina helps leaders make sense of the world and envision future possibilities for reimagination, value creation and growth as we move toward a new Humanistic Capitalism, where aligning with our humanity is a must. Her focus is on reimagining how business and brands can empower a future of complete synergy between Commerce and Humanity. She helps clients capitalize on the large societal shifts and the rapid evolution of humanity to make new and more empowered meaning and create radically new, higher forms of value.

She is an inspiring speaker with a bold vision for the future of business. Her vision 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. She wants to use business to rebuild the core pillars of human value in society to regain the missing social fabric and value infrastructure that can maximize our collective human well-being as a result. If we can create a new economic foundation for our human flourishing, we can create a new global future for Humanity. This way, doing good becomes synonymous with doing business in the first place.

Martina spoke at conferences and business schools in Europe, North America, LatAm, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Her insights are regularly published in Forbes, BBC, Newsweek, WARC, and American Journal of Consumer Research. She is the author of ‘Reimagining Consumerism As A Force For Good’ and ‘The Luxury Report’. Thinkers360 annually calls her ‘Global Business Thinker on Ecosystems, Marketing, and Sustainability To Follow’. She studied The Science of Well-Being at Yale, Political Journalism and Political & Economic Systems at Georgetown University, and Media & Consumer Cultures at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She holds a doctorate in Media Studies from Charles University in Prague.