Munich Keynotes - Session Summary

We work hard to find inspiring and enlightening keynote addresses at the conference and this year, we were really delighted at the reactions our delegates had to our speakers.

The brilliant and irrepressible Frances Edmonds was back with us in Munich after a years’ sabbatical as she undertook her Fellowship at the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University in California.  In what has been an extraordinary year of learning, concentrated on her thesis on the changes in work and careers brought on by increasing longevity, she condensed her knowledge into a characteristically enlightening pneumonic of her alma mater, S-T-A-N-F-O-R-D.  You can watch her address on our YouTube Channel.

Frances tops our speaker evaluation scores each year but this year was very closely followed by our brilliant opener Philip Keil, a pilot and leading mind on the vital importance of team work in critical situations.  After a near-miss crash while piloting a jet with 189 passengers on board, he learned the value of pressing the TOGA button… it really is an amazing story and you can watch the entire presentation at on our YouTube Channel.

Our closer was the brilliant and very funny Mathew Hill, a renowned interculturalist and coach whose skill is to bring together multi-disciplinary approaches to working and living successfully together as individuals and teams.  His address, “From Difficult, to Different to Delightful – Dealing with Other Cultures”, had us all thinking, laughing and reflecting on our interactions.  The EuRA Conference is a massive intercultural experience and Matthew’s message was extremely apposite for such a group as ours!  You can catch his presentation on our YouTube Channel.

We video as much of our content as we can given the technical restrictions we face and it’s really worth checking out our YouTube Channel for much more of our conference content.  It’s all there, from this year and years past; it’s a great resource so check it out!