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Speaking & training

 Selected lectures and speaking engagements - online and offline

Alice Schmidt sustainability speaker
  • Since 2012: ‘Sustainable Business - Managing for Tomorrow’; several full courses per year for international BA and MBA students at Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • Since 2017: 'Mensch, Umwelt, Wirtschaft - Wie passt das zusammen?' University lectures on the reconciliation of human, environmental and economic needs for 7 to 13 year olds as part of the Austrian Children's University programme (Kinderuni Wien)

  • 2021 'Sustainability in a post-Covid world: how to future-proof your brand?'; BrandFit podcast series. LISTEN
  • 2020 'Green economy: From global to local.' #EUvsVirus Hackathon & Matchathon Summit; WATCH panel discussion here.
  • 2020 'Climate change, health and the services offered by Planet Earth: how climate action can pay for itself'; Creating the Future Together podcast. LISTEN
  • 2020 'Protecting the Environment = Protecting your Health' - what a forest city may look like'; Green Party community information event.
  • 2020 'COVID-19 als Chance for eine bessere Welt'; Keynote speech at Fundraising Congress Austria; WATCH
  • 2020 'Sustainable Business in a post-COVID World: Let's not Waste this Crisis'; Business in Oxford Conference 2020; WATCH
  • 2020 'The Planet Calls' podcast on surviving and thriving in a COVID-world. LISTEN
  • 2020 'Let's not waste the COVID-19 crisis: opportunities for climate action'; Optimist Café International
  • 2020, several sessions: 'Getting to below 2 Degrees: Climate Policy and System Dynamics to Avoid the Worst Impacts of Climate Change'; WU Vienna, Hera General Assembly, Optimist Café
  • 2019   ‘Multisectoral Approaches for Human Development’; EU DEVCO Global Health Thematic Seminar, Brussels
  • 2019  'Sustainable Development and Stakeholder Engagement in Africa'; Guest lecture at Vienna University of Economics  and Business
  • 2018   ‘Urbanisation, health and the urban poor’; EU DEVCO Global Health Thematic Seminar, Brussels
  • 2018     Happiness & Wellbeing in a Global Health and Development Context; Women's Forum, Soroptimist International, Austria
  • 2017     'Innovative and appropriate inclusive business solutions in the energy sector'; Keynote speech at Global Forum on Sustainable Energy, Vienna
  • 2016     'Rules and standards for happiness: the socio-political perspective'; Wiener Achse, MuseumsQuartier Vienna
  • 2015     ‘Social Innovation and Research'; CorporAID Conference for Business & Development Cooperation (Vienna)
  • 2015     'Intercultural Communication in Practice: Experiences from Africa and Beyond'; University of Salzburg, Austria
  • 2013 to date 'Bottom of the Pyramid Consumers and Producers  - Marketing, Ethics and Sustainability'; Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • 2013     ‘Politics & Happiness: Measuring Societal Wellbeing’; Institute for Happiness Research in Europe, Vienna 
  • 2013     ‘Megatrends: The Global Emerging Middle Class’; Institute for Development Cooperation, Vienna
  • 2012     ‘Social Impact Assessment – What, Why, How’; SchumBeta Conference on ideas and innovation for sustainability, Vienna
  • 2011: ‘Poverty, Conflict and Violence in Africa and Asia’; full course for postgraduate students at Alpe-Adria University, Institute for Peace Research
  • 2011, 2012 ‘Business & Ethics in Asia and Africa’; Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • 2009: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics’; interdisciplinary course for Master’s students at Augsburg University & Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen
  • 2008     ‘The International Development System’; Queen Mary University College London

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Other speaking topics

PictureFundraising Verband Austria Keynote
  • Climate change: understanding the impacts of climate action and systems dynamics using the En-ROADS simulator
  • COVID-19 and the climate crisis: parallels, opportunities and lessons learned
  • Multisolving: creating double opportunities and triple wins across the social, environmental and economic spheres
  • Planetary Health: how climate change makes us sick and how climate action can pay for itself
  • Social Impact: analysing and maximising societal impact by integrating micro and macro perspectives
  • Sustainable Development: SDG trade-offs and the roles & responsibilities of public and private actors in addressing them
  • Happiness: Beyond GDP - real measures for societal progress and wellbeing
  • Sustainable Business and CSR: managing for tomorrow by addressing global challenges of today
  • Climate triggers: understanding key levers to pull for the climate while keeping equity considerations in mind
  • Africa: doing business in Africa through inclusive innovation and meaningful stakeholder engagement
  • Global Health: multisectoral risks in need of multisectoral collaboration and health in all policies

Alice Schmidt sustainability speaker
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: MANAGING FOR TOMORROW
Alice's course ‘Sustainable Business: Managing for Tomorrow’ has consistently received the highest ratings by students since 2012. In 2014, a dedicated MBA course was added for graduate students from business universities around the world. The courses focus on equipping business students and managers to deal with current and future challenges in the social, environmental and economic spheres, such as climate change, population growth, rapid urban development and global inequity.

Training facilitation

Alice Schmidt climate speaker
  • 2020         En-ROADS World Climate Simulation; Vienna, Austria
  • 2016         Multisectoral Partnerships for Social Safety and Sustainability; Milan and Venice
  • 2016         Advocacy Capacity, M&E and Strategy Development; Ethiopia
  • 2014         Advocacy Capacity, M&E and Strategy Development; Malawi
  • 2013         Public-Private Partnerships for Health in Mining; Ghana, Mozambique
  • 2013         Global Advocacy Strategy Development; UK
  • 2008         Coalition Advocacy; Zambia
  • 2008         HIV in the Workplace; UK
  • 2007         Advocacy Capacity Assessment and Training; China, Liberia
  • 2005         HIV in the Workplace; Viet Nam
  • 2004         HIV prevention for youth; Viet Nam
  • 2004         Advocacy and Negotiation with Ministries; Kazakhstan
  • 2004         Stakeholder Analysis; Malaysia
  • 2003/04  HIV & Education Advocacy Capacity and Toolkit Development; Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam
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