Cross Innovation Conference 02. - 04.12.2020 Fostering Collaboration with the Creative Industries
The Cross Innovation Conference is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Tanja Schindler

Tanja Schindler is a passionate futurist and has global experience in Strategic Foresight. She has double master degrees in Master of Business Administration and Master of Strategic Foresight from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Tanja has a broad knowledge of foresight methods and is experienced in scenario planning and undertaking foresight workshops. Before her post-graduate studies, Tanja worked for the Corporate Strategy department of Osram GmbH in Munich, Germany. Tanja also has a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering with a Major in Electrical Engineering that she completed while working at Siemens AG in Stuttgart, 
 
She has the exceptional quality of inspiring people around her through her positive and passionate way of connecting with the audience. Through her global experience in Foresight, she sees the world from different angles and enables her audience to gain new insights. Her focus in the futures field lies in highlighting the advantages of futures thinking in the areas of Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership and allowing her audience to explore Foresight as a holistic philosophy on how to lead a purposeful organization that creates impact in the world.
 
Together with the organization, she redefines strategic outlooks by understanding emerging social and technological developments and their impact on organizations. Through questioning current perspectives on strategy and innovation, she enables organizations to thrive for a purpose-driven pathway that inspires and empowers employees to drive change in the present proactively. By shaping the future into a direction where organizations can create real impact, she finally enlightens organizations on how our daily decisions can amplify change and transformation to reach desired goals in the future.