About us

After 30 years of management experience at the highest levels in leading commercial enterprises, Klaus Weidner, a management consultant who has been self-employed for 20 years, offers strategic consulting, personnel and organizational development, relationship marketing and personal coaching for organizations, executives and artists.

„Even at school, I loved reading about Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie or the Rothschilds. Not as subject matter, but under the bank. In my day, dealing with economics was considered something disreputable, even indecent. Yet I could hardly imagine anything more exciting and educational. I even had to read the economics section of the FAZ in secret.”

Prof. Faltin established the Entrepreneurship Department at Freie Universität Berlin. 30 years ago, he founded the tea campaign - a success story - and today accompanies company founders as a business angel.

In 2001, he established the Entrepreneurship Foundation, which organizes the annual Entrepreneurship Summit in Berlin. In 2010, the German President awarded him the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as a pioneer of entrepreneurship. His book „Kopf schlägt Kapital” (Brains versus Capital) is a bestseller that has been translated into eight languages. Faltin lives and works in Berlin and Chiang Mai.

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Winterhager is professor emeritus of economics and initiated the tea campaign together with Prof. Günter Faltin.

Prof. Dr. Reza Asghari is the holder of the joint Chair of Entrepreneurship at the TU Braunschweig and the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. He is also the head of the Entrepreneurship Center at Ostfalia University. Prof. Asghari conducts research on e-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and on the socio-political consequences of entrepreneurship.

Prof. Dr. Heinz Klandt has held the first German Chair of Entrepreneurship at the EBS University for Business and Law, EUROPEAN BUSINESS SCHOOL, Wiesbaden, since 1997 (retired in 2012). He is director of the Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, managing director of the bifego Entrepreneurship Research Institute, honorary president of the FGF (Foerderkreis Gründungs-Forschung) and chairman of the jury of the Science4life Business Competition.

Professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Bielefeld and Schwerin and is co-editor of the Yearbook for Sustainable Economics. He is a consultant for political communication and takes care of the development of projects in the field of sustainable economy. He has founded free schools and was instrumental in founding the political Green Party in Baden-Württemberg.

Sven Ripsas is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Berlin MBA in Entrepreneurship. He leads the start-up activities of the Berlin School of Economics and Law. As a business angel, he accompanies several companies.