Yasmin Weiß
Professor, Supervisory Board Member,
Author & Speaker
About me
I am a professor, expert for the topics "Future Skills", "Future of Work" as well as for Digital Education. I am also a multiple board member, keynote speaker, publicist and founder of the start-up Yoloa.
I investigate how our working world of the future will change and what the most important future skills are for employees and managers. In particular, I am interested in how artificial intelligence affects our human activities and job profiles, and how we can merge human intelligence with artificial intelligence to create effective augmented intelligence.
I am a member of the Supervisory Boards of United Internet AG, the Zeppelin Group and a member of the Advisory Board of Accenture DACH.
In 2014, I was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Innovation Steering Committee of the Federal Government and by Federal Minister of Economics Sigmar Gabriel to the Foreign Trade Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry of Economics.
In 2017, I was named one of the Top 40 under 40 in science and society by the business magazine Capital. According to the business magazine Strive, I am one of the top 10 female business influencers in the field of digitalization. In the business network LinkedIn, I am Top Voice for the German-speaking region.
My goals
I would like to help us positively shape the working world of the future in the age of digitalization and artificial intelligence. To do this, we need to better understand what (Future Skills) and how (Future Learning) we need to learn in order to be prepared for this working world, which will look fundamentally different from the present.
In my role as a mother, professor, entrepreneur and supervisory board member, I want to make an effective contribution to ensuring that we take the much-needed step forward in digital education.
"The best way to fall in love with the future is to create it. And for that, you need the right Future Skills."
Keynotes
I regularly give keynotes at companies and conferences on the following topics:
- Artificial intelligence in the world of work
- Future Skills and Future of Work
- Working world of the future
- Digital Leadership
- Leadership & Diversity Management
- Lifelong learning
- Digital education
- Success factors for German-Chinese cooperation
The keynotes can be requested in both German and English.
References
Accenture
ADAC
Airbus
Alliance
Ariane
Arvato
Asap
Audi
Avanade
Baden Württemberg
BMW
The Bavarian
Baywa
Bavarian State
Bechtle
Boehringer
Cisco
DA
dbb
DELL
Deloitte
German Bank
DSTG
DZ Bank
E
ESMT
FDP
Freudenberg
Fraport
Fraunhofer Institute
Sheaf
GEMA
Giga
Haleon
Handelsblatt
Hartmann AG
Hesse Metal
HIK
HRocks
HypoVereinsbank
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ISB
IWL AG
Braunschweig Clinic
Körber
Marsh
Medialine
Microsoft
MyTheresa
NTV
Oliver Wyman
Otto Group
Pfizer
Porsche
Porsche Con
Puma
REWE
Rhenish Post
RTL
Santander
SAP
Senacor
Siemens
Siemens Healthineers
S Oliver
Sontowski & Partner
Savings Bank
Telecom
TU Berlin
TUM
Union Investment
VDP
Cousin
Volksbanken
VW
Webasto
Zeppelin
Future personnel
360 Learning
4Flow
Aaeron
Projects
World's best education -
How we secure our digital future
Yasmin Weiß' new book will be published in fall 2022. In it, she shows what exactly is meant by the world's best education, how we as a German society can get there, and how each and every one of us can acquire the skills and learn throughout our lives to meet the challenges of the digitally networked age.
Jobs of the future -
Which jobs and activity profiles are emerging?
In the January issue of the business magazine Strive, Yasmin Weiß describes in the cover story how the future of the world of work is changing, which new jobs are emerging and, derived from this, which skills will become more important in the coming years. She creates transparency about what is "coming, going and staying" in the labor market of the future and how we can prepare for tomorrow today.
My blog
2024: How we need to start working differently now
2023 was the year in which we played around with GenAI, tried it out and set up experimental "sandbox projects" in the company to playfully explore the functionalities of this groundbreaking technology. 2024 is the year in which we should bring GenAI to application and scaling in selected areas in order to exploit the great potential of this technology. [...]
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What distinguishes human intelligence from artificial intelligence
How does our human intelligence retain its value in the age of artificial intelligence? What should we consciously strengthen in order to still be needed in the working world of the future? And how does augmented thinking succeed by merging our human thinking with machine thinking? [...]
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Upskilling and Reskilling in the Age of AI
We are facing what is probably the most fundamental change in the world of work that we have ever experienced. The age of artificial intelligence as an exponentially growing and omnipresent technology is only just gaining momentum and, with the launch of ChatGPT, DALL-E and co., has now tangibly arrived in our everyday lives and professional lives. The most intensive changes are still to come. [...]
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21 Skills for the 21st Century
How do you actually qualify people for a future that is developing dynamically and is difficult to imagine on the basis of technologies that are only just emerging? And are there any skills at all - central future skills - that are and remain reliably valuable despite this future ambiguity? [...]
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What social competencies are particularly important in the age of machine intelligence?
What makes us as humans truly unique compared to machines must always be re-evaluated; there are no rigid laws here that endure over the years. [...]
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New thinking in the age of artificial intelligence
With the exponential development of generative artificial intelligence, we are experiencing a historic turning point that is fundamentally changing how we will work in the future. This means that the much-cited "turn of the times" has also arrived in the world of work. [...]
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New thinking in the age of artificial intelligence
Will our thinking have to change if an artificial intelligence will complement and extend human thinking in many ways? [...]
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Working world of the future
It has never been more important to learn the right thing at the right time in the shortest possible time and to take the time to do so in a busy workday. Most people no longer have a cognition problem here, but have not yet gotten around to implementing it. But now it is time for this. [...]
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10 core theses
Disruption is literally taking place right now: The (working) world will change faster and more profoundly in the coming years than most people currently realize. [...]
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What distinguishes true talent
What will actually remain of the human being when the machines take over? Which human skills will retain their value in the technologized world of work of the future and are therefore the essential future skills that matter more than ever? [...]
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What distinguishes true talent
Many knowledge workers, academics and creative professionals still believe that their jobs can hardly be replaced by new technologies such as artificial intelligence. Until now, the main assumption has been that machines and digital technologies can replace primarily physical or repetitive, less creative activities. However, this assumption is now completely outdated. [...]
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What distinguishes true talent
Having the right skills, especially the right #FutureSkills, is incredibly important for working successfully and helping to shape the digitally networked present and future. But the right skills without the right mindset are only half the battle. Or to put it another way: talent without the right mindset is like sailing without wind. [...]
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Let's build an ecosystem for lifelong learning
The most valuable renewable resource that Germany, as the world's fourth-largest economy, possesses in global competition are the "think tanks" in the minds of the people who live here. These must be built up and continuously upgraded by a functioning education system, with ongoing updates and a strategic view of the future. [...]
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Why beginner's mind should be considered sexy
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Plan your career with a start-up mentality: 5 concrete suggestions
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Corona and labor market crisis: conducting an opportunity-oriented debate
The unforeseen pandemic has thrown our society, economy and consequently our labor market into a state of emergency within a few weeks. The German economy is plunging into the worst recession in post-war history. Despite short-time working allowances and a billion-euro aid program, the corona crisis will destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs in Germany; [...]
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The digital age - The women's era
In many respects, Germany is still the country of untapped female labor potential. We can afford this less and less. Because if we look at the trend forecasts for the new decade up to 2030, Germany is getting older, poorer and shrinking overall. [...]
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"We are facing what is probably the most fundamental change in the world of work that we have ever seen."
Books & Co-authorship
Young people need digital skills to shape the society of tomorrow! This book explains how it is possible to give our young people the practical skills that will be really important later in their professional and personal lives. And how companies can contribute to this. Topicus publishing house, 2024.
This book is about courage, openness and the desire for new ideas - the drivers for innovation to make Germany fit for the future . A good-humored wake-up call to finally dare to initiate overdue changes and live a new culture of innovation. Haufe Verlag, 2022.
Yasmin Weiß is co-author of the Spiegel bestseller "Future Republic" and describes what the working world of the future will look like in 2030. Campus Verlag, 2021.
In the book "Strategic Talent Management in China", Yasmin Weiß describes the success factors for successful collaboration in German-Chinese teams and how successful human resources management can be achieved. Springer Verlag, 2018.
In the book "Auf der Erfolgswelle schwimmen" ("Swimming on the wave of success"), Yasmin Weiß (née Fargel), together with swimming world champion Thomas Lurz, describes what the basics are for personal success and achieving ambitious career goals. Gabal Verlag, 2008.
Interviews
"Be the missing piece of the puzzle!"
For a long time, supervisory board mandates were awarded by hand in closed groups of men. Today, appointments are made more professionally. But those who already sit on a board still have an advantage. So how do you get your first post? Interview.
"Education for All: How Do We Achieve Equal Opportunity?"
Education is an important key to professional success, personal self-realization and political, cultural and social participation. As recently as October 2022, the study by the Institute for Quality Development in Education (IQB) again revealed that the socioeconomic status of the parental home in particular has a major influence on the educational success of students. This is a trend that has been emerging - and growing - since 2011. Impulse paper.
"You can do any job creatively"
New technologies offer enormous opportunities for business and society. But to take advantage of them, says Yasmin Weiß, entrepreneur and professor, education and organizations must become much more flexible. Interview.
"I'm all about providing the best education for tomorrow's world".
How do we manage to bring everyone along in an increasingly digitized world and make them fit for the challenges of the present and the future? Yasmin Weiß, an expert in digital education, explains why we need lifelong learning and how this can be achieved. She spoke with campus.de about her new book, "World's Best Education." Interview.
Interview with digital work expert Prof. Dr. Yasmin Mei-Yee Weiß
In an interview, Yasmin Weiß explains what skills are important in an increasingly digitalized working world. Her thesis: The greater the degree of digitization, the more important it is to be a human being. Interview.
Life is too short to fill it with a job that makes you unhappy
"You won't become a manager with your doll face," one of her bosses scoffed. Today, Yasmin Mei-Yee Weiß is one of the youngest female business administration professors, a member of the supervisory board and long advised the chancellor. Interview.
How to stand out from the crowd
There are people who receive a rejection for every job application. And there are those who are wooed by employers and are constantly offered interesting jobs. With these tips, you belong to the latter. Guest article by Yasmin Weiß.
Shaping the future with: Yasmin Mei-Yee Weiß
For our future to remain innovative and digital, knowledge must flow between business and science. This requires people like human resources manager, professor of business administration, multiple supervisory board member and publicist Yasmin Mei-Yee Weiß, who explains what skills we need to shape the future. Interview.
Podcasts
So techt Germany
"Generation Z is lazy, spoiled and disloyal. One or the other will certainly have heard this narrative more often. But there are also the following characteristics: young, qualified, willing to change. Yasmin Weiß can also confirm the latter. The expert for digital education and the future of work recently published a study on this topic. What makes our "digital rockets" tick? They have a high willingness to change jobs while at the same time being tolerant of frustration. But the laws on the labor market have also changed in favor of the younger generation, says Yasmin Weiß in this episode of "So techt Deutschland.
Road to 2030
"The podcast mobile is in full swing towards the future of the working world! What will it look like when AI and automation play an increasingly important role? Which job sectors will disappear or change? How can HR managers attract and retain digital leaders of tomorrow while developing existing employees and fostering new skills? That's what Christina and Maria talk about with Prof. Dr. Yasmin Weiß in the latest stage on the Road to 2030."
The future of education
"Yasmin Weiß discusses with Sascha Lobo concepts such as lifelong learning, the metaverse, and how education and work must mix and evolve in a networked world. And, for example, why young people prefer to search on TikTok instead of Googling. Bonus: She explains how schools and universities can deal with ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence that can write very good term papers with one click."
strive
"What do we need to learn today to be prepared for the world of tomorrow? That's what Prof. Dr.Yasmin Weiß explains to us in this episode of STRIVE up your life. In keeping with our current issue focus on jobs of the future, she will talk with STRIVE editor Katharina Wolff about what the job market of the future will look like, what has already changed in her job, and what we need to learn today to be prepared for the world of tomorrow."
Handelsblatt Disrupt
"Yasmin Weiß talks about the most important qualifications of the future: the ability to learn and the willingness to constantly question thought patterns. She calls for teaching to be linked more closely with the free economy, especially in the area of teaching new technologies. And she dispels a myth: 'Digital natives are not all digitally competent,' she says."
Campus Beats
""We should all ask ourselves: do I bring all the competencies to move responsibly in this world? And answer quite honestly in order to move forward... ." Yasmin Weiß sees it as the task of every individual to take care of education - at the same time, lifelong learning should be virtually part of the DNA in companies."
WDR 5
"Digital education makes people want to learn throughout their lives, says economist Yasmin Weiß. She examines the impact of digitization on the labor market and the job profiles of the future - and sees where AI reaches its limits."
Market & Medium-Sized Businesses
"After the economic miracle of the 20th century, Germany now needs an educational miracle. That is the thesis of Prof. Dr. Yasmin Weiß, which I share one hundred percent. Her book "World's Best Education" convinced me because it puts a focus on adult continuing education and advances diverse thoughts that you haven't read that often before."
Dancing in the Storm of Crisis with Metacompetencies
In this unusual and multi-faceted conversation, Yasmin gives us a deep insight into the important future skills and different ways to prepare young and older people for ongoing transformation and change in times of crisis. Since the future does not evolve in a linear fashion to the past, it is best to break new ground with a good feeling.
Startup Insider (#93)
In the 93rd episode of Startup Insider "read only" Benny Gerdes talks to Prof. Dr. Yasmin Weiß, professor, founder, multi-supervisor, about the book "World's Best Education! How to secure our digital future."
Seed (special episode)
"Most of you probably know Prof. Dr. Yasmin Weiß. The professor, board member, founder, and author has a new book coming out: WORLDBEST EDUCATION: How to Secure Our Digital Future. In this SAATKORN Podcast episode, Prof. Dr. Yasmin Weiß and I talk about her brand new book."
Hacker School (#10)
"Our CEO and host Julia talks to Yasmin about the potential technology has to solve the big issues of the day like climate change, renewable energy and resource scarcity. You can also learn which social skills Professor Dr. Yasmin Weiß believes are especially crucial today and why "being different" can be meant in a very positive way."
Seed (#164)
"Prof. Dr. Yasmin Weiß is an exceptional phenomenon. At just her early 40s, she is a professor, founder and multiple supervisory board member. Also LinkedIn Top Voice and honored as Top 40 under 40 by Capital. How do you do that?"
Your Digital Leadership Podcast (#8)
Intrinsic (#10.9)
Heart chamber on the ear (#12)
Contact
For general inquiries and to inquire about keynotes, please contact Rosina Löffler(rosina.loeffler@yoloa.de) or fill out the following contact form:
Press Kit
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Speaker Profile
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