Many years ago, Michael von Kunhardt asked himself the question: "What do I really want, what is my calling?" Today, he is known as a mental expert on Sat1 breakfast television and for his weekly radio contributions on the subject of well-being and motivation, eg, on Radio RPR1. The mental coach of successful professional athletes, national teams, and Olympic champions is also an often-booked speaker and coach, providing inspiration and development for managers of numerous DAX 40 corporations and medium-sized companies. He is a winner of the German Speaker Slam, has been one of the top 100 speakers at Speakers Excellence for many years, and contributes his expertise as a jury member at national and international speaker competitions. Michael Von Kunhardt achieves his special authenticity through his own ongoing courageous and committed work. As a field hockey player, he is a multiple German champion, world runner-up with the over-45 national field hockey team, and winner of the world championship bronze as a player with the over-50 and over-55 national field hockey teams. The founder of the "von Kunhardt Academy" encourages people to take responsibility for themselves and to actively and gratefully shape their lives.
Karl H. Wesker is an artist and an illustrator. He has worked for many years on the visualization and didactic presentation of complex structures. He has developed new methods that produce highly detailed and yet esthetically fascinating images of human anatomy. These methods form the foundation of the three-volume atlas of anatomy Prometheus, which is being published by Thieme and for which he has created most of the illustrations.
Dr Luitgard G Wiest, Dermatologist and international lecturer, Munich, Germany
Henrike Wilkes, born in 1977, grew up in a small town between the Ruhr area and the Rhineland, Germany. After graduating from high school, she discovered her passion for people and communication during an au pair stay in Rome. This was followed by a 6-year professional career in the hotel industry in various regions of Germany and in Australia at the time of the Olympic Games. She also completed her two degrees in business administration partly abroad – with a semester at the Università Luigi Bocconi in Milan, and an MBA degree at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa. During her more than 12 years as an executive and manager in a DAX company in the insurance industry, she specialized in the development of managers and was particularly committed to the interests of women in business. She founded an internal women's network and made films to get more women interested in insurance sales. As she was particularly fascinated by the combination of coaching and leadership, Henrike Wilkes completed various coaching courses to enable her to develop her employees effectively. In addition to traditional coaching methods, she makes use of the unusual, using horses for coaching and in leadership seminars to sharpen participants' senses for non-verbal communication, effectiveness, and authenticity. Her everyday experience with her large and very dominant mare, Swari, shows her that you can learn a lot about leadership from horses. If you would like to find out more about the author, please visit her website at www.henrike-wilkes.de. You can also contact her personally there.
Dr. Winston is a physiatrist, and conducts research on spasticity, spinal cord and nerve injury, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome through the Victoria Peripheral Nerve and Spasticity Clinic he is also the Medical Director of Rehabilitation and Transitions at Island Health.
