Vita short: 

Stefanie Voss is an internationally successful keynote speaker, author, coach, and workshop facilitator. She founded her own company in 2009 – after a 15-year career with an international DAX-listed corporation and a 14-month circumnavigation as crew member on a sailing yacht. Her leadership experience, coaching expertise, and her unconventional, bold, and direct approach make her a sought-after sparring partner for organizations and executives across a wide range of industries.

Vita standard:

“The businesswoman with the pirate soul” – that’s how Stefanie Voss is often described. She is an internationally sought-after speaker, coach, workshop facilitator, and author – and she’s a round-the-world sailor. She has always forged her own path in an unconventional, spirited, and daring way. At 16, she was an exchange student in the U.S.; at 19, an intern in Paris; at 23, she moved to Argentina for her employer; and at 25, she signed up to circumnavigate the world as part of an international crew on a 66-foot sailing yacht. By the age of 31, she had already become a department head at a DAX-listed company. After 15 years of a successful corporate career, she founded her own company in 2009. Her areas of expertise include leadership and communication, the VUCA world, diversity, and agility. Born in 1974, she lives with her family near Düsseldorf.

Vita detailed:

Stefanie Voss is an internationally successful keynote speaker, leadership and team coach, and circumnavigator. She is often called „Mrs. Blackbeard – the businesswoman with the pirate soul“. At age 16, she went to the U.S. as an exchange student. At age 23, she moved to Argentina for her employer, and when she was 25, she signed on to a 66-foot sailing yacht to circumnavigate the world as part of an international crew. Her “explorer genes” turned her into a cosmopolitan at an early age. When she was 31, she had already become a department head at a DAX-listed company with comprehensive budget and personnel responsibility. After 15 years of a highly successful international corporate career, she changed course in 2009 and founded her own company. Stefanie Voss consistently demonstrates the courage to make bold and unconventional decisions far beyond what “one is supposed to do.” Her clients value her extraordinary sailing experience, her pragmatism and her business expertise, which stems from her international leadership and management experience in Europe, the U.S., and Latin America. Her unconventional keynotes on topics such as pirate strategy, VUCA, diversity, agility, leadership, and feedback are radically honest and thought-provoking, and they inspire people to take action. Stefanie’s interactive team and leadership development programs, alongside her highly goal-oriented coaching, inspire participants from a wide variety of professional backgrounds. She works with large corporations, SMEs, freelancers, and the social and public sectors. Her client list includes companies and organizations such as 3M, Bosch, BVMW, CSL Behring, Diakonie, Exxon, Fresenius, GEA, Mazda, MichaelPage, Nespresso, Oracle, Paypal, Pfizer, Roche, RWE, Stadt Köln, Thyssenkrupp, Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken, Zeiss, and many others. Stefanie Voss was born in 1974, is married, and lives with her husband and two sons in Mettmann nearby Düsseldorf.