Alice uses a variety of training and facilitation formats, from design dashes to simulation games, from world cafés to visioning exercises. She tailors all inputs - whether through keynotes or participatory workshop facilitation-- to client needs.
One of our most popular leadership workshop formats is the interactive En-ROADS climate action simulation led by Alice Schmidt, an MIT-certified climate ambassador. Participants co-create a global solution to the climate crisis and gain unique insights into how stakeholder preferences impact climate action and sustainable transformation, before delving into implications for organisational strategy development.

Selected speaking examples

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European Forum Alpbach, 2024
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Österreichischen Medientage 2023, Vienna
Green tech & digital humanism
  • "The AI Conundrum: Friend or Foe in Shaping a Sustainable Future?", Hummelnest Accelerator (2024)
  • Keynote "Tech for Tomorrow: Pioneering Sustainable Innovation", Hummelnest Accelerator (2024)
  • "Circular Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", Circular Economy Forum Austria (2023)
  • Keynote "Revitalising Tomorrow: an eco-social revolution through AI?"; Regenerative Dialogues, Impact Hub Vienna (2023)

Greenwashing Guard
  • Sustainable Symmetries: From Greenwashing to Systems Change, Beyond Green, Ljubljana (2024)
  • Keynote "Smart innovation vs. Greenwashing: fast forward to a sustainable future", Boehringer Ingelheim (2023)

Growth versus green?
  • The case for massive state interventions to prevent climate collapse, Squared Intelligence; European Forum Alpbach (2024)
  • Sustainability & ESG: why does it matter for Human Resource Management? Vienna Insurance Group. (2022)
  • 'Sustainable Supply Chains: An essential part of The Sustainability Puzzle'. (2022). WATCH
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Beyond Green, Ljubljana, 2024
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Austrian Startup Summit 2024, Vienna
Planetary Health Pioneers
  • 'Nature, business & other players: Solving the sustainability puzzle'; various clients and locations. (2022). WATCH example (Protect Our Winters)
  • 'Climate change, health and the services offered by Planet Earth: how climate action can pay for itself'; Creating the Future Together podcast. (2020). LISTEN

Impact Redefined
  • Keynote "Fast Forward in eine bessere Zukunft: nachhaltige Transformation oder Monopoly?". Digitaler Salon. (2023). WATCH
  • '1001 reasons why the sustainability puzzle is a unique opportunity'; Waste Water podcast. (2021). LISTEN

Sustainable Development Futures
  • Keynote "Vienna - City of the Future: from ART to SMART", PWC EMEA Region New Partners' Meeting SDG trade-offs for a global future 2.0 (2023)
  • Soziale Gerechtigkeit Neu Denken: NPO Kongress, Controller Institut Austria.
  • 'Sustainable Business in a post-COVID World: Let's not waste the crisis'; Business in Oxford Conference. (2020). WATCH
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Topics

Digital Humanism
Using digital tech and AI to maximise opprtunities for inclusion and regeneration while minimising societal risks

Impact Tracking Redefined
Measuring, optimizing and reporting your environmental and social impact
Greenwashing Guard
Future-proofing organizational strategies against the growing risk of greenwashing

Sustainable Development Futures
Navigating global challenges of tomorrow's businesses through ESG leadership and decoding complexity
Planetary Health Pioneers
Multisectoral collaboration for global health resilience by creating triple wins across people, planet and economics

Climate action simulation
Unveiling key levers for climate justice, environmental regeneration and social inclusion

Podcasts & live talks

Selected university teaching

Since 2021: 'Business & Society'; 'Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development'
Executive Master on Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology. Executive Academy, 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. Vienna Children's University (Kinderuni Wien)

Since 2012: 'Sustainable Business - Managing for Tomorrow’;
Several full courses per year for international BA and MBA students. Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Alice's course on Sustainable Business and Management for the Future have consistently received the highest ratings by students since 2012. Her courses focus on equipping students, entrepreneurs and managers to deal with current and future challenges in a complex, multi-crisis environment, such as climate change, rapid urban development and global inequity.
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