Thiemo is an Austrian entrepreneur, digital leader, passionate maker and curious mind.
About
Having dropped out of high school at the age of 15, Thiemo is a true believer of life-long learning and a strong advocate of leading continuous change and driving innovation. Being a maker and doer at heart, he is a self-taught and highly motivated leader in digital business with a focus on building design-led companies. He has extensive experience in marketing communications and proven execution capabilities in managing high-performing, multi-cultural teams for over a decade. For his entrepreneurial work, Thiemo was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30.
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Thiemo is the co-founder of Fifteen Seconds, a global movement for personal growth, calling all curious minds to shape their path and our future. His entrepreneurial home is tenbynd, building bold businesses since 2010.
Want to work together? Reach out via mail@thiemo.com for consulting and speaking requests, interviews and press inquiries. Also, connect on LinkedIn and follow on Instagram and Twitter.
After opening his own creative studio as a teenager with his friend Joris in 2008, starting an award-winning human rights journalism project, two years of working as a user experience designer and three years leading marketing for a millennial yachting travel/leisure business, his entrepreneurial career led to co-founding a platform for like-minded individuals.
He started Fifteen Seconds alongside Stefan in 2012 as a global community gathering thinkers, makers and innovators at Europe’s leading festival to network, learn and get inspired. The annual conference has attracted tens of thousands of people exchanging ideas and hosts some of the world’s most successful individuals for a week in Austria. Leaders who joined as speakers from global brands include The New York Times, Harvard, Facebook, Netflix, Lufthansa, YouTube, Nasa, National Geographic, Condé Nast, Apple, GE and Walt Disney. Over the years, Fifteen Seconds has been working in collaboration with brands such as Google, Mercedes-Benz, MasterCard, Microsoft, RedBull and IKEA.
From 2017 until 2023, Thiemo was managing partner at moodley, where he built and led a diverse, high-performing team of consultants, engineers, and designers, helping the consultancy transform to become a leading design company at the intersection of brand strategy and digital business.
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Speaking
“Curiosity is something that we are all born with. We have to learn not to loose it along the way.”
Thiemo regularly shares his thoughts about entrepreneurship and leadership as a speaker on stage at conferences and universities. Topics his talks are covering include the importance of curiosity as an enabler for advancement and staying competitive in an increasingly complex world, building autonomous and empowering team cultures, and how to build your own business from scratch with a bold vision and a commitment to failure.