Excellence Talks Podcast Series

In this Excellence Talks edition, we welcome one of the best content creators on LinkedIn and International Influencer Of The Year 2022, Ahmad Imam.   
In our latest episode, Ahmad Imam shared his secrets to creating a community on social media as well as tips on how to add value to our community through our posts.  

Ahmad Imam states that reflecting and spreading kindness and self-love is one of his main goals, and he also uses social media as a way to do this.    Ahmad Imam answered the following questions:

 ✅ Was being an influencer his dream when he was younger?  
✅ What are his three key success factors?
✅Why does he mainly share content about “kindness”?  
✅ What are the synergies between being both a content creator and an Ambassador to the Royal Office UAE?  
✅ What are his next ambitious goals?

In this episode, we welcomed Maria Garcia Salmones, Design Thinking Strategist driving transformations to come with true human-centered solutions and Luis Vidaechea Benito Scrum Master & Agile Lead in Santander Global Tech.

Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydın welcomed Murat Evgin, 1st Turkish film composer on Netflix USA, an Award-winning film composer & singer.

Murat has been composing all of the instrumental music and the songs for Turkish Drama Series since 2004, including the longest running Turkish Drama “Arka Sokaklar (15 seasons) on the leading channel Kanal D. His TV drama music is broadcasted in more than 40 countries.

In this episode, Dr. Christian Forstner welcomed John Otto Magee, who is the founder of understand-culture.com, formerly known as contrastingcultures.com. He successfully helps global companies with cross-border collaboration.

Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydin welcomed Fabrice Le Garrec, the founder of OSICS, a successful senior executive and people leader with 25 years experience in product development and manufacturing transformations.

Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydin welcomed Harrie Lamers, who is a Growth Expert, LinkedIn Jedi and Trainer, Public Speaker and Business Coach and Consultant. As a public speaker, trainer and advisor; he enjoys making a difference and creating long-term relationships.

Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydin welcomed Paul Stannard, a highly creative leader who is the chairman of World Nano Foundation and World Science Aid, a keynote speaker at Davos, the chairman of Vector Innovation Alternative Investment Fund for Pandemic Protection with deep knowledge of future healthcare & enabling technologies.

In this Excellence Talks edition, Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydin welcomed Barbara Vercruysse, a successful Mentor and Personal Growth Coach with 25+ years of business experience, a role model on how to become resilient with grace after overcoming multiple challenges, surviving a stage 4 cancer being one of them. Happily married for more than 20 years, mom of 3 wonderful young adults, she strongly believes in leading by example.

One of her clients is a group of BMW-dealerships where she operates as a Quality Officer and Business Coach, she is responsible for screening all business processes and guiding people to perform optimally in their job. She has been part of the management team for several years there.  

Her personal coaching clients are business owners, entrepreneurs and corporate leaders who are dynamic, positive, open for change and always looking to grow and expand.

In this Excellence Talks edition, Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydin welcomed Michael Jansen, Chairman and CEO of Cityzenith, providing the world’s leading data visualization platform software and applications for IoT and Smart Cities.  An impassioned architect, urbanist, and entrepreneur, Michael has founded and led high-growth companies in the U.S. and Asia for more than two decades. Having studied architecture at Yale and Cambridge, and earned a Fulbright Scholarship, he worked as an architect in India and China for several years, leading the Asia practices of two major U.S. international architecture firms.

In this Excellence Talks edition, Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydin welcomed Alan Lim, an insightful Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer with over 25 years of extensive and diverse financial and operating experience. He was the CFO and COO of Sunway Trading Group of Companies with annual turnover of $300M.