Jasmin Wölke gives keynotes in Duisburg, in German and English: on leadership, transformation and AI in everyday work. Her examples come from more than ten corporate years at Bosch, SAP and Volkswagen, not from borrowed slide decks.
Change here is daily business, not a buzzword
Duisburg experiences change where it becomes measurable. In the port, data sets the rhythm of supply chains. In steel production, new processes are reshaping entire job profiles. In administration, software is taking over routine steps. Speaking about transformation in front of this audience means addressing the control room, the dispatch desk and the office at the same time. And this audience tests every sentence against its own shift. That is why Jasmin opens with situations instead of theses: how decisions actually get made in large organisations, why projects get stuck between departments and the board, and what leadership really carries in such phases. She spent those years herself in development and sales. You can hear that in every example, and it is exactly what separates a real impulse from a trend deck.
Stages between CityPalais and Kraftzentrale
Typical occasions are the annual kick-off in the Mercatorhalle, a leadership day in a conference hotel at the Innenhafen, or a strategy day on the company's own premises. An evening impulse in the Kraftzentrale of the Landschaftspark works as well, if tone and length suit the hall: short sentences, clear images, pauses for the room. Jasmin adjusts the altitude to the occasion, from 20 minutes as an opener to 45 minutes as the centrepiece of the morning. Every keynote is built fresh after the briefing, using the company's own terms, projects and tensions. At the Digital Transformation Conference, a corporate reference with more than 600 participants and over 20 speakers, she was part of the programme herself.
The impulse stays when the same voice carries on
Many organisers book the keynote together with the moderation of the day. The morning then provides the language for the afternoon: the impulse turns into questions for panels and working sessions, and the moderator brings every discussion back to the common thread instead of searching for a new one. For the organising team, one interface remains: one briefing, one contract, one person responsible for stage and content. The article keynote or moderation explains when an impulse is enough and when the day needs continuous moderation.
Request your keynote in Duisburg
Send the occasion, the audience and your preferred topic through the contact form. After the briefing you receive an outline for approval and an offer with a fixed price; travel and accommodation are listed transparently. Duisburg is around 420 kilometres from Ludwigsburg, so for morning slots Jasmin travels the day before. The hub page keynote speaker has more on the format, and the Duisburg city page collects all pages for the city.