Cologne, November 2020 - Sven Ripper is the new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Greator. In this position, he will be responsible for the marketing strategy of Germany's leading coaching platform. With this appointment, Greator is bringing an experienced marketing expert onto the team to drive forward its international growth strategy.
Greator strengthens its management team with a new Head of Marketing: Sven Ripper takes over the management and strategic expansion of the marketing team as the new CMO at Greator with immediate effect. He has over 20 years of experience in the areas of marketing, internationalization and strategic corporate development.
2020 is a year of growth for the coaching company founded in 2012, despite Corona. Not only the renaming from Gedankentanken to Greator, the focus on a digital product strategy as well as another significant investment by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures - but also the recruitment of international top talent will drive the expansion of Greator as the world's leading coaching platform. And: a coaching app is to be launched in 2021. Sven Ripper will play a decisive role here and is looking forward to the new challenge: "Greator already accompanies hundreds of thousands of people on their way to a successful and happy life. Through the Greator app, we want to make our vision come true to become the world's leading app for personal development. This will make coaching tangible and affordable for more and more people. As CMO, I can't imagine a more exciting task."
Alexander Müller, CEO of Greator, says: "Our mission is to support people worldwide with our digital coaching offerings. We are happy to have Sven Ripper on board, an experienced marketing expert who will support the international Positioning of the company will help drive forward."
Prior to various positions in management consulting and as CMO, Sven Ripper worked for over 13 years at the global e-commerce company Vistaprint, most recently as Managing Director of Albumprinter.
About Greator
As Germany's largest platform for personal development, Greator delivers valuable content on the basis of which everyone can create a happy, successful and fulfilled life for themselves. Greator brings people into their full power - always committed to the maxim: "Grow beyond yourself and become the best version of yourself!" As a platform, we provide our community with the best coaches available. With our app, we enable our clients to integrate coaching into their everyday lives as easily as possible. We also train coaches and speakers in intensive online trainings. Once a year, our community comes together with tens of thousands of people at the Greator Festival. In total, Greator is followed by over 1.3 million people on social media channels alone - with a monthly reach of over 8 million (as of November 2020). Meanwhile, Greator employs over 140 people from more than 20 countries in Cologne.
Fitbit is expanding its offering in Germany with premium content in the area of health and mindfulness and is bringing Greator, the largest platform for personal development, on board for this. Greator produced exclusive content for the "Motivating Daily Impulses" section. With this, Fitbit wants to offer its customers an even more comprehensive service in their own health management.
Cologne, November 2020 - Greator, Germany's largest coaching platform for personal development, is the official cooperation partner for the launch of Fitbit Premium in Germany. With its new subscription service, Fitbit wants to offer its users additional video and audio content in the area of health, mindfulness and meditation. In addition, each user will receive individualized insights into their health data and tips tailored to them. The service is designed to help each of us sleep more soundly, increase our activity levels, and adopt lasting healthy and mindful behaviors.
Greator provides high-quality and exclusively produced content for the "Motivating Daily Impulses" section. The short, inspiring audio units were recorded by Greator founder Stefan Frädrich, among others, and are intended to provide motivating and positive impulses in between everyday activities, at the end of the day or to wake up.
Fitbit sees the decision to partner with Greator for its premium content as a shared purpose: Fitbit's mission is to make everyone in the world healthier. Greator wants to empower people to become the best version of themselves and take control of their lives - and their health. The CEO of Greator, Alexander Müller, also sees the collaboration as a perfect match: "Our mission is to use valuable content to help people live full and happy lives. The Corona pandemic has shown us that topics such as 'mental health' and 'personal development' are gaining in importance and that there is great potential in the area of online coaching. We are delighted that Fitbit is now expanding the content to include topics around Meditation and mindfulness exercises and we can make a significant contribution to this."
The collaboration extends to other areas as well. For example, Fitbit testimonial and fitness and motivational influencer Chrissi Joy recorded daily warm-up sequences for over 100,000 attendees at the Greator online festival in October.
Access to Greator Coaching Units for Fitbit Premium is available to users via the Fitbit app as an in-app purchase.
About Greator
As Germany's largest platform for personal development, Greator delivers valuable content on the basis of which everyone can create a happy, successful and fulfilled life for themselves. Greator brings people into their full power - always committed to the maxim: "Grow beyond yourself and become the best version of yourself!" As a platform, we offer our Community the best coaches available. With our app, we enable our clients to integrate coaching into their everyday lives as easily as possible.
We also train coaches and speakers in intensive online training courses. Once a year, our community comes together with tens of thousands of people at the Greator Festival. In total, Greator is followed by over 1.3 million people on social media channels alone, with a monthly reach of over 8 million (as of November 2020). Meanwhile, Greator employs over 140 people from more than 20 countries in Cologne.
The Cologne-based coaching platform Greator hosted the world's largest online festival for coaching and personal development at the end of October. Over 100,000 people registered to attend talks and interviews by over 150 internationally renowned top speakers.
Cologne, 05 November 2020 - The Corona pandemic is not only forcing us to deal with new social and personal issues, but also with the way we communicate and absorb content. The fear of contact with online content and video communication is decreasing and so online coaching offers have also received a big boost due to the pandemic.
Greator, the largest online platform for coaching offers, went one step further this year: In addition to launching a digital coaching education, they hosted Europe's largest online festival on personal development. From October 25-31, participants could watch free video content from renowned speakers such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Tobias Beck, Miriam Höller, Sadhguru, Jochen Schweizer, Laura Malina Seiler and John Strelecky. There was the opportunity to share live online with the community about it and even be coached live. For seven days, topics such as personal growth, social change, professional success, crisis management and financial freedom picked up. For the recordings, Greator built two modern studios in the middle of Cologne... The online event was moderated by Susan Sideropoulos.
Through a chat function, participants were able to share their feedback directly about the festival and the contributions. One participant wrote: "I have never experienced anything like this before. You guys are so great. Please more of this!" But also the participating speakers expressed their enthusiasm: "Great! This is the new gold standard of online events!". praises the well-known memory trainer and speaker Markus Hofmannwho gave a talk at the Greator Online Festival on "Using the tricks of the memory world champions to become a mastermind".
"We are delighted that the Online Festival has been so well received. Our team has invested an enormous amount of work in putting together a high-quality online festival with real added value. The positive feedback from the participants shows that we have succeeded very well and that digital coaching works. This once again strengthens our conviction that the step towards the digital orientation of our company was the right one. Despite the Corona pandemic, the new online format has not only allowed us to reach many more people, but also to do so without barriers or travel costs for participants. This brings us closer to our goal of continuing to make the best content from top international speakers and coaching available to as many people as possible in an affordable way," said the Managing Director by Greator, Alexander Müller.
The next Greator Festival Online is already planned for the first half of 2021.
Event Video. https://youtu.be/9KUgRoChtuE
About Greator
As Germany's largest platform for personal development, Greator provides valuable content on the basis of which everyone can find a happy, successful and fulfilling life for yourself. Greator brings people into their full power - always committed to the maxim: "Grow beyond yourself and become the best version of yourself!" As a platform, we provide our community with the best coaches available. With our app, we enable our clients to, Coaching as easy as possible to integrate into everyday life.
We also train coaches and speakers in intensive online training courses. Once a year, our community comes together with tens of thousands of people at the Greator Festival. In total, Greator is followed by over 1.3 million people on social media channels alone, with a monthly reach of over 8 million (as of November 2020). Meanwhile, Greator employs over 140 people from more than 20 countries in Cologne.
The Cologne-based coaching platform Greator is hosting the world's largest online festival for coaching and personal development from October 25-31. Over 150 internationally renowned top speakers will give keynotes on topics such as growth, success and self-actualization over seven days. Over 100,000 participants have registered.
Cologne, October 22, 2020 - Gary Vaynerchuk, Tobias Beck, Jochen Schweizer, Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie, Sadhguru, Laura Malina Seiler, Miriam Höller and John Strelecky are just a few names of the online festival line-up of internationally renowned speakers. Two Greator studios were built in the middle of Cologne especially for this purpose. There, for seven days, the Lectures online broadcast. Participants can choose in advance from the agenda which presentations they want to watch and thus switch online between two livestreams. To reach the largest possible number of people, much of the content will also be streamed live on the social media platforms Facebook and YouTube.
Since its foundation in 2012, Greator has developed from an event series to the largest digital coaching platform in Germany. The company's focus is on digital e-learning products in the coaching and speaker area, but also on annual offline events. Here, Greator brings together tens of thousands of people and renowned speakers in the Lanxess Arena every year. Due to the Corona pandemic, almost no offline events will take place in 2020, but this year Greator is relying on a high-reach online solution as part of the online festival.
"Greator stands for helping people live a full and happy life. Especially in these challenging times like the current pandemic, we didn't want to miss out on providing valuable content to people. That's why we decided to host the biggest online personal development festival this year, bringing all the content directly to people's home screens - completely free of charge," says Alexander Müller, CEO of Greator.
Link to event registration: https://greator.link/Presse-GFO
Link to Agenda: https://go.greator.com/festival-online-agenda/
About Greator
As Germany's largest platform for personal development, Greator delivers valuable content on the basis of which everyone can create a happy, successful and fulfilled life for themselves. Greator brings people into their full power - always committed to the maxim: "Grow beyond yourself and become the best version of yourself!" As a platform, we provide our community with the best coaches available. With our app, we enable our clients to integrate coaching into their everyday lives as easily as possible. We also train coaches and speakers in intensive online trainings. Once a year, our community comes together with tens of thousands of people at the Greator Festival.
In the meantime, Greator employs more than 140 people from over 20 countries in Cologne.
The coaching start-up, which changed its name from GEDANKENtanken to Greator in May, is pleased to announce a renewed investment by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures in the mid-seven-figure euro range. The second round of financing includes another well-known investor: media manager and former ProSiebenSat.1 Media CEO Thomas Ebeling. The company's valuation is now in the mid-eight-figure euro range.
Cologne, August 21, 2020 - The Cologne-based start-up Greator has raised a seven-figure sum in a current financing round. In addition to existing investor HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Thomas Ebeling has also been won as an investor. Ebeling was CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media for nine years, Global CEO of Novartis Pharma, General Manager Germany for Pepsi and is currently an advisor to Swedish private equity giant EQT.
Greator is Germany's largest coaching platform for personal development. The goal: to give everyone the opportunity to realize themselves. To this end, the start-up, which was founded in 2012 by Dr. Stefan Frädrich and has been led by Alexander Müller as CEO since 2015, connects coaches with people who support them in leading a fulfilled life. The funding will be used to further expand the coaching platform. To this end, the Greator app will be released soon. At the end of 2021, the Greator festival with 50,000 planned visitors is to take place in Cologne.
Greator CEO Alexander Müller is excited about the new opportunities: "Thanks to our focus on digital product strategy, we were able to exceed our goals with a great team effort during the Corona crisis, and with the new investment we now have the opportunity to address the internationalization and development of our tech platform Harmonie in a more focused way."
With the current financing round, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures reaffirms its confidence in the start-up. "We are very pleased with how Greator has developed since our first investment. The strong growth in the last months has shown how much potential digital coaching holds. Self-actualization and living a fulfilled life are two big topics of our time. We are therefore very pleased to continue to accompany the development of Greator," emphasizes David Kuczek, General Partner at HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. During the Corona crisis, Greator was able to completely forgo short-time work and even hire 25 new employees. The new investment will now also be used to bring more international top talent to Cologne. Especially the areas Content Creation, Business Intelligence, Software Engineering and Digital Product Management are being greatly expanded.
About Greator
As Germany's largest platform for personal development, Greator delivers valuable content on the basis of which everyone can create a happy, successful and fulfilled life for themselves. Greator brings people into their full power - always committed to the maxim: "Grow beyond yourself and become the best version of yourself!" As a platform, we provide our community with the best coaches available. With our app, we enable our clients to integrate coaching into their everyday lives as easily as possible. We also train coaches and speakers in intensive online trainings. Once a year, our community comes together with tens of thousands of people at the Greator Festival.
In the meantime, Greator employs more than 130 people from over 20 countries in Cologne.
About HV Holtzbrinck Ventures
Since 2000, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures has been investing in internet and technology companies via various generations of funds and is one of the most successful and financially strongest early-stage and growth investors in Europe. HV has already invested in more than 165 companies, including Zalando, Delivery Hero, FlixMobility and Scalable Capital. The total of all HV funds amounts to €1.05 billion. HV supports start-ups with capital between €500,000 and €50 million, making it one of the few venture capitalists in Europe that can finance start-ups across all growth phases.
The training company Greatorhas expanded its design team: With Gary Payn, the Cologne-based company has filled the position of Creative Director and brought a former Creative Director from Jung von Matt on board.
Cologne, June 12, 2020 - after Greator(formerly GEDANKENtanken) carried out a major brand relaunch a few weeks ago, transforming GEDANKENtanken into Greator, the team is also continuing to grow: With immediate effect, Gary Payn, the former Executive Digital Creative Director of the advertising agency Jung von Matt / Neckar GmbH, is heading the company's design department.
"We are very happy to have Gary join us for Greatorand we are looking forward to having our visions creatively implemented by his team", sharesGreator-CEO Alexander Müller with. The company had been looking for a creative director for several months - and found "the perfect person to fill the position" in Gary Payn, says Müller. Together, they now have big plans: With the brand start-up Greator, the medium-sized company continues to push for internationalization. Payn brings over 18 years of professional experience from numerous internationally successful advertising agencies, brands and digital products.
Payn is also looking forward to the challenge of internationalization: "I look forward to all challenges, as these are the moments where we can grow and learn the most," says the new creative director. And his goals are clear: "I try, Greatorglobally through a conceptual and creative strategy, while continuing to develop the brand's core message across all user touch points and channels."
Previous stations of the creative head included digital full-service agencies in Cape Town or projects for KIA (Global), Hyundai (Global), Grundig (EU), EnBW (DE), DKB (DE) Goldwell (DE), Diageo (Africa) and Unilever (Africa). At Greator he will, among other things, head the creative department - and bring the internationalization of the company forward from a design perspective.
About Greator
In 2012, bestselling author, speaker and coach Dr. Stefan Frädrich had a vision: He wanted to fill the world with positive thoughts and bring the best speakers in the country on one stage to do so. And he has done it! Still under the name GEDANKENtanken, he founded a company that has already been enabling people to find their own power through valuable impulses for eight years. With the successful entrepreneur and visionary Alexander Müller, he got active support in 2015 to reach even more people. A lot has happened since then.
With Greator, a movement is born. The members of this community support each other to develop their full potential. Greator has a mission: It is about giving everyone the opportunity for self-realization. As Germany's largest platform for personal development, Greator provides valuable content on the basis of which everyone can create a happy, successful and fulfilled life for themselves. Greator brings people into their full power - always committed to the maxim: "Grow beyond yourself and become the best version of yourself!"
We live in challenging times. And it is precisely then that it is important not to lose sight of oneself. Because we are convinced that life is about unfolding your own potential. And you can do that when you dissolve old patterns, overcome blocking ways of thinking and break through inner limitations. This is what GEDANKENtanken stands for.
Now is the time to ask yourself the right questions. You may ask yourself what you stand for and which Values you really care about. By doing this, you're setting a unstoppable energy free that wants to be used - so that you can best version of yourself can be. Because if you really live out what's inside of you, you're guaranteed to be a happy, successful - and above all fulfilled life that was set.
In order to achieve this, it is up to all of us to be open to new things and to allow growth - inside and outside. For this you need The courage to change and the willingness to next steps to go. But these steps often cannot be planned in advance and arise along the way.
Because, in order to fully develop one's own potential to be able to do so, old things must give way. Only there can New and more beautiful arise. The same that applies to each person individually, also applies to Companies and organizations. We too may always develop - so that we too can fully develop their greatest potentials can.
And here we are at this moment. GEDANKENtanken may right now bold and important steps walk. This is how we create space so that great things - and perhaps Greater - can arise. This creates new horizons and new exciting possibilities.
We are resolutely taking a step towards the future:
GEDANKENtanken is now Greator!
This creates something really great! A movement is created in which we support each other to unfold our full potential.
For from "greatness" and "creator" becomes GreatorBecome the creator of your own great life!
You might be wondering what the new name and look of GEDANKENtanken will change for you. And we can promise you: We will stay true to our Purposeour Company purpose faithfully! The Self-realization of our community is our top priority - in everything we do.
As Greator we will provide you with already known and new offers inspire, your promote growthyou guide and with people Connectwho are like you.
Our goal is to get as many people as possible all over the world to achieve. We would like to enable everyone to be involved in their full force to come to self-actualize. With our own Greator App we will Bring personal development into your everyday life. This way you can always and everywhere distance yourself from the biggest coaches inspire let you valuable impulses for your Self-realization deliver - whenever you need it.
We would like a international community of people who are building each other's Strengthen back. The her realize one's full potential, who have their make dreams come true and a jubilant life lead. We want to empower you to live the life you want - and that you may not even know is out there waiting for you.
Watch the trailer here and dive into the new Greator world!
Right now, it's important that we support. Because that's how we can get our fully develop one's own potential - and then help others do the same. to grow beyond their limitations.
And that is exactly why we have developed our Greator Coach ...in the first place. We train coaches from now onwho come into their own strongest power to accompany other people on the way to a happy life.
Because of this, you now have the chance to make a positive difference in the lives of many people around you.
Become part of the movement and experience free webinar to learn more about how you too can Greator Become a coach can!
Become a coach yourself and come into your greatest power. Guide other people on the path to self-realization. All with the coach training of Greator.
We have a lot planned! Besides the release of the Greator App and the start of the Greator Coach Training, we organize in 2021 the the world's largest festival for personal development.
We bundle all our experience of the last years to a international event for your Self-realization. On the Greator Festival we celebrate together with the greatest coaches and top speakers the link between professional and personal development. Here you will be guaranteed about you grow out and set off for new horizons through a mix of moving keynotes, intensive workshops and an incredible community.
Celebrate with us! 3 days at the world's biggest festival for personal development. #growtogether
It comes extremely exciting times towards us! You are a part of it. We will continue to inspire you and provide you with the impulses you need for your happy and satisfied life - and that on the next level.
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With a new name the Cologne training further enterprise goes the next step: From "GEDANKENtanken" becomes Greator. Other planned events include the imminent launch of the Greator App, your own Greator Coach training and in 2021 the world's largest festival for personal development.
Cologne, May 12, 2020 - As a leading training company, "GEDANKENtanken" has supported thousands of people in German-speaking countries in recent years with top-class speaker nights, online seminars, its own YouTube channel with hundreds of motivational videos as well as a comprehensive podcast offering for sustainable professional and personal development. Now, the Cologne-based professionals for e-learning and personal development are consistently taking the next step towards internationalization: "GEDANKENtanken" becomes Greator.
"We have celebrated tremendous success under the label 'GEDANKENtanken', but now it is time to let go of the old and reach a new level," emphasizes Greator-CEO Alexander Müller. "With our new name, we are resolutely taking the next step towards the future: 'Greator' makes it clear that we are talking about something big here. We have created a really great offer that supports the people in our community in self-realization, i.e. the best possible development of their respective personal potential. In addition, we are sending an important signal for our internationalization strategy with the renaming. The goal here is to reach as many people around the world as possible, so that we can really give everyone the chance to become the best version of themselves with the right tools."
Among the company's latest projects, which will begin in spring 2019 with the Germany appearance of former U.S. President Barack Obama in Cologne made headlines, belongs to its own app. With this innovative and literally groundbreaking Greator App individual personality development can be easily anchored in the users' everyday lives. This service will be launched shortly. Professionalizing with its own coaching academy Greator Furthermore, the coach training in Germany. Finally, the world's largest festival for personal development is planned for next year 2021 in Cologne. In an inspiring mix of gripping keynotes, effective workshops and authentic festival atmosphere, top-class coaches and international top speakers will appear here to give all participants intensive and unforgettable impulses for a happy and satisfied private and professional life. But already now Greator has become active. To better manage the current Corona crisis and its consequences, the Greatorteam has compiled exclusive and selected content from its comprehensive portfolio on the website https://greator.com/wachsen-in-der-krise; some of the contributions are available free of charge for the first time.
In 2012, bestselling author, speaker and coach Dr. Stefan Frädrich had a vision: He wanted to fill the world with positive thoughts and bring the best speakers in the country on one stage to do so. And he has done it! Still under the name THOUGHTFUEL he founded a company that has already been enabling people to find their own power through valuable impulses for eight years.
In 2015, he enlisted the help of successful entrepreneur and visionary Alexander Müller to reach even more people. A lot has happened since then.
With Greator a movement is born. The members of this community support each other to develop their full potential. Greator has a mission: It is about giving every person the opportunity for self-realization. As Germany's largest platform for personality development, we deliver Greator valuable content on the basis of which everyone can create a happy, successful and fulfilled life for themselves. Greator Brings people into their full power - always committed to the maxim: "Grow beyond yourself and become the best version of yourself!"
Dream it, own it, grow it. We live and breathe these core values in everything we do here at GEDANKENtanken. Committed to further revolutionizing the world of personal and professional development, we offer unique, high-quality, online and offline platforms with training, support and events for everyone who wants to take themselves to the next level. GEDANKENtankler are a unique group of professionals, digital natives and passionates that love to learn and are hungry to grow. Watch the video and see how we live our extraordinary culture.
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The Rednernächte of GEDANKENtanken will be over from November. Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions. And stop when it's at its best. That's what we've done! Yes, it's true - we stop. Therefore: celebrate the LAST Rednernacht with us! We are incredibly grateful for this magical time and are now looking forward to the upcoming last Rednernacht on 23 November 2019 at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. We have invited the absolute crème de la crème of the speaker scene to make this evening very special!
The GEDANKENtanken OMClub has demolished Hall Tor 2! 4000 OMClubbers danced, drank and celebrated as if there was no tomorrow. Prohibition ends here was the motto for the party! Our CEO Alexander Müller and Founder Dr. Stefan Frädrich gave the crowd a short keynote and all guests got a free personality test as a gift!
GEDANKENtanken organizes the world's largest festival for your personal development. From 27 to 29 May 2021, with over 50,000 visitors. On 40,000 square meters of festival grounds. With the best international speakers. In the middle of Cologne's city centre. We have rented the LANXESS arena and the Cologne exhibition grounds for you for 3 days!
