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Silvia Wiesner    

Managing Director at Unilever & Positive Leadership Expert; Young Global Leader of the WEF

Silvia Wiesner began her career as management trainee at Unilever in 2005, where she experienced first hand how to lead a purpose-led business. After a number of Marketing and Sales Management roles in Vienna and Hamburg, she became Key Account Director in Germany, later General Manager and Vice President Marketing for the Foods DACH business, and Managing Director Belgium & Luxembourg. In 2021, she was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and she joined the Executive Committee of European Women on Boards in 2022.

Wiesner was shortlisted as Personality of the Year by the Belgian FMCG/Retail Organisation Gondola. She is also a member of the CMO Club, the LEAD Network, the Club of European Female Entrepreneurs, and The Corporate Governance Institute.

Wiesner is Mum of 3-year old Charlotte and lives with her family in Hamburg.

Speech Topics


Positive Leadership: The HOW of Change

Inspiration for your work as a leader based on scientific facts of positive psychology and brought to life by Silvia’s own experiences as a corporate and not-for-profit leader.

Bold Leadership

A call to action for courageous, innovative leadership making you hit P&L numbers and win with your teams.

How to Successfully Embed Sustainability in Your Company

Silvia, with Unilever since the introduction of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan under Paul Polman, shares her key leadership lessons when it comes to moving your company to a truly purpose-led business.

Gender Equality

Best Practices in driving gender equity in organizations, based on my corporate career in Unilever and my work with European Women on Boards.

Diversity and Inclusion in Marketing

How Marketeers can stand up for societal matters and help shape the world towards a better future.

Diversity and Inclusion in the Metaverse

How to ensure Diversity & Inclusion are not an afterthought of, but the starting point of Web3 and Metaverse creation. How Marketeers can have a meaningful contribution. Now.

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