Motivational Keynote Speaker for Conferences

Michael’s adventures build an important part of his motivational background. When he delivers keynotes on leadership, motivation, sales, or change management at a conference or convention, the motivational speaker always refers back to one of his challenges. Clients can choose if they want How to Travel the World for Free, Trade Up Around the World, or any other challenge to be the focus of attention.

His challenge-4-change programs offer corporate clients the opportunity to select a specific topic and background. This could mean that the conference keynote speaker gives a speech on sales success with the background of Trade Up Around the World. A client could also request a leadership keynote based on How to Travel the World for Free.

Wigge’s corporate workshops additionally focus on stress management, time management, resilience, motivation, change management, and burnout prevention. Although these one and two-day workshops heavily focus on group work, methods, and tools to improve those soft skills, the motivational conference speaker joins his own experiences with these topics.

After Trade Up Around the World – Bartering an Apple to a House in Hawaii, Wigge experienced a burnout after such an incredible and energy-draining challenge. However, the adventurer learned how to overcome this quickly and set his boundaries better to avoid such heavy stress symptoms in the future. He created his challenge-4-change corporate program from his strategies to overcome and prevent severe stress symptoms.

During his How to Travel the World for Free challenge, the conference keynote speaker had to learn to constantly embrace change due to the nature of not using any money in a continually changing environment. Often, he would have to quickly change from a creative, communicative, and outgoing person to a highly entertaining comedian within minutes.

Wigge approached about 50 strangers with an incredible set of ideas daily. These ideas included humorous bartering services like pillow fighting for food or working as a British butler for wealthy people to get free accommodation. The motivational speaker for conferences and conventions describes himself during his half-year traveling worldwide as having acted ‘like a chameleon’ regarding his change management.

Keynote Speaker in Berlin:

1. Gabor Steingart: Journalist und Bestsellerautor, spezialisiert auf Wirtschafts- und Politikthemen.
2. Dr. Auma Obama: Expertin für internationale Entwicklung, Bildung und Frauenempowerment.
3. Philipp Riederle: Digital Native und Experte für die Herausforderungen der Generation Y.
4. Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther: Neurobiologe und Vordenker zu Themen wie Motivation und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung.
5. Margot Friedländer: Zeitzeugin des Holocausts und engagierte Rednerin zu den Themen Toleranz und Menschenrechte.

1. Sven Gábor Jánszky: Zukunftsforscher und Experte für Innovation und digitale Transformation.
2. Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen: Arzt, Kabarettist und Redner zu Themen wie Gesundheit, Glück und Kommunikation.
3. Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan: Politikwissenschaftlerin und ehemalige Kandidatin für das Amt des Bundespräsidenten.
4. Dr. Leon Windscheid: Gedächtnisweltmeister und Experte für mentale Stärke und Erfolg.
5. Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen: Expertin für Medizinethik und digitale Gesundheit.

Wigge has received many testimonials from clients and celebrities, and some of them are rather entertaining. Katy Perry called him ‘a cheap date‘ while meeting the top conference speaker on The Tonight Show. Years earlier, when the convention motivational speaker was working as an MTV comedy reporter in Germany, he met Angelina Jolie, who called him ‘a strange but fantastic man‘.

Additionally, the L.A. Times called Wigge ‘The Ultimate Budget Traveler‘. The keynote speaker has met many other celebrities in his career, like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and many others. Upon client request, Michael can create a keynote on his outrageous celebrity experiences if this should suit your conference and convention. Great keynote speakers usually create unforgettable events!

Often event planners book speakers through speaking bureaus or agents. Michael decided years ago to go another way and be booked directly online, with no agent fee or middleman.

This decision helps the client and the speaker in many ways

1. No agent fee
2. direct communication
3.  easy contract sent out directly by Michael
4. phone availability with the speaker before the event if needed

The contract is usually part of a written offer he sends out after your initial contact. After agreeing to or possibly adjusting the offer, you can sign this document. That’s the contract! Michael’s speaking fee usually gets paid 50% after signing the offer and 50% on the event day.

You also have to option to order for your audience books of ‘How to Travel the World for Free‘ to be signed by Michael at the event. The book signing appears to be an interesting giveaway for many clients as a validation of their audience members.

Feel free to contact Wigge through the contact form to begin the communication!

You may find conference keynote speakers from 0$ to $30,000, but professional speakers start at $5,000.

There are way more speakers than Tony Robbins and Brian Tracy. Feel free to check out conference keynote speaker profiles at BigSpeak and Leading Authorities. Michael qualifies in the top speaker circle due to his diversity in topics, background, and languages he speaks. More on

• Change Management Speaker
• Top Speaker in German

Practice with Toastmasters International as much as possible and build up a speaker platform with videos and testimonials for your marketing. More on Michael’s how-to-guide for conference keynote speakers:

• motivational keynote speaker
• speaker in German

Further links: Business motivational speaker, motivational video speaker

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