Virginia Sea Grant Symposium 2024 connecting in all directions

Keynote Speaker

A Healthy Mind is Not a Crime...

Life Happens to the Best of Us!

Changing the world for the better while undergoing open heart surgery sounds like somewhat of a challenge. But hey, that is our zeitgeist and the least to be expected these days. Guess someone has to tackle it, so why not me? As we all know: What doesn’t kill me, makes me strong. Or might all of that be a misunderstanding? Should we possibly start to do open mind surgery instead and question the unquestionable? Science claims that in principle that approach could work. Let’s connect and create that better world together. Since failure is the seed for innovation, we have nothing to fear, right?

This keynote will touch topics like change, fear, innovation, mental health, perception, accountability and the human limitation behind eternity. I promise you will not learn anything you don’t already know. But maybe you will look at things differently afterwards.

Caution: An open mind is not an empty waste bin.

Basel-based author and speaker Fabian Schmid teaches graduate students  ‘survival skills for creative people’ and consults with companies on business strategy, change management and stress prevention. He coaches clients back into their ‘lightness of being’ and speaks publicly about personal attitude, contradiction, responsibility, courage, possibility and the impact they have on life and work. In doing so, he taps deeply into his track record as internationally-acclaimed entrepreneur, designer, stage performer and proven long-term human being with first hand burnout experience.

His credo: trust your smile!

Website: https://en.fabianschmid.info/

Photos by Olivier Schenk, courtesy of Fabian Schmid.

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Fabian Schmid
Speaker, Author,
Business Consultant and Coach

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