Dietmar Dahmen
Motivate, inspire, inform and rock your customers, employees and guests with the king of change, transformation and future success Dietmar Dahmen.
Why you should book Dietmar Dahmen for your event
- With 20+ years as Creative and Executive Director, Dietmar transformed global brand strategies across New York, Munich, Vienna, LA, and Hamburg.
- Founder of BRAINKICKS GmbH, Dietmar delivers impactful keynotes and workshops blending strategic insight, creative energy, and proven results.
- Renowned worldwide for his stage presence and insight, Dietmar combines tech expertise, marketing mastery, and leadership vision in every keynote.
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Future-Proof Your Business with Creative Disruption
Unlock future success with global keynote speaker Dietmar Dahmen, an expert in change, innovation, and customer-centric growth. With decades of leadership experience at top marketing, tech, and advertising firms across global cities, Dietmar now delivers high-energy keynotes that transform disruption into competitive advantage. Through bold ideas and actionable insights, he empowers organizations to innovate, adapt, and lead with confidence in a rapidly evolving world.
Keynote speaker Dietmar Dahmen is an internationally recognized expert on change, innovation, disruptive technologies, and future-focused business transformation. With over two decades of leadership experience in global marketing, advertising, and digital strategy, spanning top roles in New York, Los Angeles, Munich, Hamburg, and Vienna, he brings real-world credibility and bold vision to every stage he steps on.
Known for his electrifying presence and dynamic style, Dietmar inspires organizations to rethink the status quo, embrace transformation, and lead with purpose in an age of rapid change. His keynotes deliver not just motivation, but also concrete tools and actionable frameworks that drive innovation, customer-centric growth, and future-readiness.
As the founder and managing director of BRAINKICKS GmbH, Dietmar delivers high-impact keynote speeches, workshops, and executive coaching that blend deep insight with high energy, leaving audiences informed, inspired, and ready to act. He previously served as Chief Innovation Officer at ecx.io, a role in which he helped the company grow and eventually be acquired by IBM.
Book Dietmar Dahmen for your event and equip your organization with the mindset and momentum to lead the future with confidence.
Keynotes
Keynote by Dietmar Dahmen:
Superheroes of Change
In "Superheroes of Change", Dietmar invites the audience to (if wanted literally) become "Superheroes of Change" themselves. Dietmar shows how heroes embrace the new, and constantly update their tech and their team to deliver the best possible results - even in hyper fluid environments.
This keynote focusses on the superpower of teams, the need of anticipating and accepting any challenges your team will encounter and the art of reinventing yourself and your team in order to constantly stay ahead of the market.
Filled with stunning best cases and valuable near future predictions Dietmar addresses both leaders and operational team-members alike. He gives insights on the latest trends and technology, AI driven organisations and marketing, and other topics the client might choose.
If wanted superhero masks can be given to the audience during the keynote, creating a great photo opportunity that will serve as a powerful reminder of your event and the power of teams.
Keynote by Dietmar Dahmen:
How to ride the sharks of change
This keynote informs , inspires and empowers the business- minded audience to embrace the new and "ride the sharks of change"
Change is often seen as dangerous. In “how to ride the sharks of change,” the fear of change attacking your “comfortable” status quo is embodied in an actual shark on stage, built on site and later often given to a charity of your choice.
Dietmar shows how you can't run away from this shark. You can't ignore it. You can't fight the change, either ... change is way too powerful. Dietmar then gets on top of the shark and rides it, demonstrating to the audience how riding the “sharks of change” is the best option to deal with change: It makes you faster, stronger, better, cooler.
Dietmar then deep-dives into the latest versions of the current "SHARKS OF CHANGE", such as up-to-date developments and best cases in AI , the Blockchain and other developments indicated by the client.
Dietmar makes the audience see the great power and huge opportunities of this change. He takes away the fear, encourages a "challenge" approach to the new and make it easy for the audience to see the need to be on top of the change in business and on top of latest tech.
he keynote uses easy to understand language and metaphors to address even highly complex concepts and topics, enabling the audience to fully embrace the new. And after the keynote, the audience can even ride the shark of change themselves…. literally.
A photo opportunity of the participants on the shark will serve as a powerful reminder of your event and to jump on top of the unknown and “ride it”.
Keynote by Dietmar Dahmen:
Business is Fight Club
Like an attack in the boxing ring, change in business often comes fast, unexpected and from the outside.
In "Business is Fight Club" Dietmar shows your audience great strategies how to constantly score, constantly adopt to the new rules of the game, how to avoid "business knock-outs", and how to constantly update and improve your own technique to join the "the Champions of Change Hall of Fame".
Filled with insights, best cases, great "training tips" and the "POWER GAP" reminder to 1)learn, 2)apply and 3)integrate the new into your daily business, this keynote is all about pioneering game changing solutions and actively leading the path to success.
If wanted by the client, Dietmar can integrate a "punching ball" into this keynote - in addition creating a fun "post keynote" experience and photo op for the audience.
Keynote by Dietmar Dahmen:
Let your Creativity Burn
New Tech enbales you to do the things: the Saxophine enabled Jazz, the eguitar Rock’n Roll, the sampler Hiphop. STILL we often we use new tech in Business to just replace the old. (Early business internet pages we often just like analog catalog)
In “LET YOUR CREATIVITY BURN" Dietmar shows your audience great strategies how to think in new opportunities, created by new tech (AI, Blockchain, Metaverse, Robots etc.)
Filled with insights, best cases this keynote is all about pioneering game changing solutions and actively leading the path to success.
If wanted by the client, Dietmar can integrate THE FIRE OF CREATIVITY into this keynote - a flamethower on stage and sparklers for the audience.
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