Local: Coming Home to Yourself – Arriving in your inner territory
• – • Manyone
About the speaker
Hi, I am Heiko! I spent 15 years in business consulting – working with NielsenIQ/GfK, Bertelsmann and NTT Data. I moved between projects, cities and systems, always chasing the next thing. Performance first. Humanity later. At some point I realized the rules of the game weren’t just broken – they were costing us our connection to ourselves. You can be physically everywhere and internally nowhere.
Today I work with leaders who refuse to choose between high performance and being human. I combine neuroscience, somatic practice and systemic coaching – not as a feel-good method, but as serious work for people who want to lead without losing themselves in the noise.
Local partners
Manyone fuels forward-thinking businesses to accelerate game-changing strategies, products, and services. To solve the challenges at hand and maximise opportunity, the world needs new ways of thinking, creating, and collaborating that connect and organise people and technologies. That’s why we’ve built a new type of consultancy. One tailored to the world at large, the speed of this era, and the changing needs of businesses. We’re an international team of teams and experienced design executives who merge a global mindset with Nordic design roots. From our offices across the world, we help businesses develop sustainable value into tomorrow and beyond.
Additional details
We live in an era of permanent expansion. More speed. More tools. More optimization. And a growing inner emptiness. The CEO of Anthropic recently said: „A AI tsunami is coming – and society is dangerously unprepared.“ Elon Musk asks the harder question: „If AI takes every job – what gives life its purpose?”
This talk is about the answer. And it doesn’t lie out there. Drawing on my own story – fleeing to Australia only to discover you always take yourself with you – I explore what it actually means to arrive. Not in a new city. In your own body. LOCAL is not a geographic concept. It is a decision. Perhaps the most courageous one we can make right now.
What will be the main takeaways?
LOCAL is a choice – not a place. In a world of permanent transformation, arriving in yourself is an act of courage
You don’t learn this – you remember it – resilience, empathy, and self-awareness are not new skills to acquire. They are already in you, buried under the noise
The body comes first – a dysregulated nervous system repeats old patterns. A regulated one creates new connections. Creativity needs landing, not more focus
Presence is the rarest resource – not your opinion, not your solution. Your full attention. That is what moves people
One practice, one question – breath, movement, stillness. And: Am I here right now?
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