Your Institut
Do you know the feeling? When something feels just perfect. As though that’s the way it should be. If we, as people, focus on those things that are really important, because they give our life meaning, positive energy is generated. It’s literally a gravitational field that attracts people who complement each other. This leads to the development of an intrinsically motivated community as the hotbed for continuous further development and the shaping of the future.
In other words, everything clicks into place. You’re at the right time at the right place with the right people. This is exactly what best describes the development of Life Institut and its executive board.
No discovery is good or bad, per se. This also applies to the power of viewpoints. It always depends on the user’s intention. This is accompanied by a great deal of responsibility to ensure that this serves the well-being of people sustainably. It is with this understanding that we act internally and externally.
Hermann Ladner
Chief Executive Officer
The first years of my professional career were spent working with various international corporations. With my in-depth business management background and driven by an enthusiasm for the opportunities provided by technology, I was soon made responsible for major projects.
From the outset, I always focused on the desired effect of the respective project. I only considered the project successful if the effect was sustainable.
Hermann: I want to inspire people
This success was guaranteed when it was possible to activate the self-conviction of those involved. This mapped out the path to cognitive behavioral science and neuroscience. The game-changing findings of the last 20 years in particular not only fascinated me, they also opened new opportunities for me to link these with technological developments.
These findings allowed me to achieve a greater degree of effectiveness more quickly and sustainably with my clients.
Making these benefits available to a broader public, getting people excited about making their ideas reality through viewpoints, this is what drives me.
Oliver Baier
Chief Commercial Officer
I grew up as a cosmopolitan in a diplomatic environment and have lived and worked in quite a few very different countries. This environment drove me to quickly change my viewpoints, in order to empathize with and understand the standpoints of the people I was surrounded by.
Because of this, I became aware early on that people’s decisions are very much shaped by their perceptions and viewpoints. Both are closely linked to emotions and have a direct impact on the sphere of action and thus on the achieved results.
Oliver: I’d like to shape a better future, together
I have always been fascinated by how diverse people’s ways of seeing the same situation can be, depending on their individual viewpoints. The ability to appreciate others’ viewpoints allows me to build bridges for people so that they can achieve a common goal here and now.
In my role as a business person, this is the key to success.
For as long as I can remember, I have been active in the all-encompassing field of business development for all types of companies, from medium-sized businesses to international corporations, and I have founded diverse businesses in this context.
In my opinion, broadening viewpoints presents humanity with the revolutionary potential to shape a better future together.
Ana Paula Ladner
Chief Methodology Officer
If I were to describe myself, I would say that my personality is that of the passionate, tenacious researcher combined with my South American joie de vivre. I started by focusing on the field of molecular biological links in the brain (neuroscience). However, over time, I found myself missing the closer connection of using my knowledge for practical applications.
When I became aware that the processes of neural information exchange are nothing more than a form of unconscious communication, I recognized the opportunities that would emerge through dialog when applying this at the practical level.
Ana: I would like people to rethink through self-conviction
That is why I have been working with people’s viewpoints over the past few decades, and I am examining how we can resolve conflicts by broadening viewpoints and thereby enhancing our full potential.
Through the training and support I have provided to thousands of people around the globe, I have developed a simple but sustainable rethinking process, one that shows results in 8 hours and can be learned by everyone.
Through this process, people change their behavior through sheer self-conviction. Being able to experience this has increased my zest for life even more and continues to motivate me on a daily basis.
Nigam Patel
Chief Technology Officer
In my opinion – one shared by my colleagues – freedom is our most precious commodity. In order to be able to experience this freedom, it is essential that, first and foremost, we have the freedom to make our own decisions.
Our viewpoints play a key role here. If they limit us, they also limit our decision horizon and therefore also our scope of action.
My field of expertise is IT development. There the right mode of communication is a game changer. In my role I often act as an interpreter between the so-called users – that is, people! – and developers.
Nigam: I want technology that helps people
I often have to make it clear to developers that the most efficient process – from a technical perspective – does not necessarily correspond to human requirements. But on the other hand, I often have to tell users that they are imposing unnecessary barriers on themselves.
Through exploratory dialogs, we broaden viewpoints and thereby create noticeable added value for all those involved. Now that’s technology that helps people. Plus, it corresponds to my guiding creed.
Our advisory board
“Nothing else in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” This quote is by French author Victor Marie Hugo and wonderfully describes the appeal of people who have experienced the systematic broadening of viewpoints. In the blink of an eye, people who have just met each other become volunteer promoters of a game-changing idea.
Our advisory board members consider themselves close friends of the Life idea: Shaping a better future, together, with viewpoints. Close friends are characterized by the fact that they might sometimes critically question our behavior, but with the goal of helping us progress. Even in this context, we focus on the versatility of exploratory dialogs.
Richard P. de Laat
The past three decades of my professional career have been spent working with multinational corporations. Transformation is a regular component of the day-to-day in companies of this size. Here I was able to continuously expand my know-how in all current change management methods and concepts and, more specifically, apply this knowledge.
I always prioritize one question in particular: How do I turn those affected into those involved?. This way I not only stick to project plans, but also achieve the desired effect! The game changer here is broadening viewpoints.
Marcel Zuberbühler
Achieving sustainable solutions for complex business and organizational problems has always fascinated me. My main field of activity is primarily in the field of technologically-driven change and growth environments.
At the executive board level, this means that I need to create an environment in which individual interests and the common purpose are brought into alignment. For me, exploratory dialog is the most intelligent tool for discovering and releasing potential which is inherently present in organizations.