Elly Oldenbourg

Elly Oldenbourg does many things. She is a corporate manager at Google, a sidepreneur, a consultant, a writer, a TEDx speaker, an author, a philosophy salon host, and a guest lecturer at a university.

Likewise, she has become a public voice and change agent on topics such as the future of work, DEI, female leadership, flexible work models, and challenging our economic norms.

A proud Gen Y with a multicultural background, she has cross-industry experience in global companies in business development, sales, marketing and, more recently, HR. She pioneered job sharing at Google and inspires companies and individuals to embrace non-linearity, break down career ideals and contribute to society from different perspectives. Elly Oldenbourg walks her talk and has a very passionate and contagious character. She loves to inspire change for the positive – in how we work, how we use our time and how we create value.

Elly Oldenbourg Lecture Topics:

• New Work & Future of Work
• Diversity, Equality & Opportunity
• Female Leadership
• Non-linearity
• Job sharing & flexible working models
• Sidepreneurship
• Questioning our economic norms

Elly Oldenbourg is a jury member of the prestigious German Demography Award and volunteers with the female investor network encourageventures and the educational initiative #GermanDream. She has two children and lives in Hamburg, Germany.