Fahri Akdemir is a Turkish Project Manager and a PM Soft Skills trainer for over six years. He also designs, creates games and events for different purposes. He studied Systems Engineering in Turkey and had his master level degrees in the field of Strategic Project Management in UK, Italy and Sweden. He is inspired from “Human” in projects. He is feeding his knowledge from any kind of disciplines, dance, outdoor sports, photography, martial arts, social works, search and rescue, Sufism, etc.
In his trainings he is using mostly games and trying to create an environment for applicants to use, develop their soft skills via awareness. He continues his academic career in Germany by making a PhD in Cross Cultural Complex Projects Management program. He is also a member of Coaching for Development (www.coaching4development.org), coaching platform and co-founder and member of World of Workshops (www.worldofworkshops.org) and an active rescuer in AKUT search and rescue association.
Master in Business Administration (Dipl. Kauffrau)
Suraj Dahal is an active advocate of the profession of project management and has significant experience designing, implementing and evaluating development projects for the third sector in Nepal. He is an entrepreneur, student, volunteer, teacher, trainer, and a consultant. His work revolves around his passions, to create possibilities for a virtuous living for the disadvantaged by breaking the cycle of poverty and promoting the practice of project excellence.
Violetta Pleshakova studied Public Administration and Political Science at Moscow State M.V. Lomonosov University, Russia, and holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Germany. Currently she is working on her PhD focusing on communities of practice in the digital age. Her research interests are centered around the themes of network society, Web 2.0, knowledge sharing, project management and creativity. Violetta is based in Berlin and travels internationally. She practices life coaching based on Consciousness Coaching® methodology and is passionate about human development and transformation.
Steve Raue is an expert for organisational development, cultural analyses and change management. Since 2011 he is a consortial partner of the Systemic Excellence Group in Berlin and had also been consulting in the public sector before. Steve Raue holds a Master’s degree in Applied Cultural Analysis, Lund University, Sweden. He especially focused on combining culture analysis and business development by conducting several projects throughout his studies.
Since 2006 in Berlin. Studied in Bucharest (Bachelor of Laws), Frankfurt am Main (Master of Laws in Finance) and Berlin (Post Graduate Visual Arts and Master of Public Policy). Worked, among others, for the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Berlin International Film Festival. Wrote a Policy Recommendation Paper (Master Thesis) for the Berliner Festspiele, about arts policies of art halls in Europe. Fascinated by places and spaces which lost their initial function, as well as by every day urban poetry: filmed the abandoned Christmas trees of Berlin four winters in a row, to finally construct a site-specific video installation for an industrial hall out of it, end of 2010. One of the latest projects is an online storytelling of people met on the former Berlin Tempelhof airport - One Month, 31 Portraits. Website: www.site-specific-ideas.eu; Former airport project: www.tempelhof2011.tumblr.com.
Luísa Santos (b. 1980 in Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. Graduated in Communication design (BA + MA) at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa and MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, London, under the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2006, she is an independent curator and has curated exhibitions in London, Linz, Lisbon and Oporto. Guest curator at the OK-Centrum Linz for Linz European Capital of Culture 2009. She was awarded two times (2006-2008 and 2010) the Arts Support from Gulbenkian Foundation and the Young Curators in Residence program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2009). Guest lecturer since 2009 at IADE and ArCo, both in Lisbon. Supervisor for the MA thesis of Mafalda Especial in "Photography and Social Change". PhD candidate at the Viadrina Humboldt School of Governace, CCCPM PhD program, in Berlin.
Michaela Thoma is a sociological expert for the processes in organisations and projects. Well-experience in organisational research and project management, the emphasis of her work lies in the exploration, i.e. the intended capturing, of systems-specific conditions as starting point and prerequisite for the successful management of complex change processes.