Insanely
Human
Thriving in the Age of AI
I help organizations build AI capability. With mind, body, and the right principles.
Steffi Kieffer
Book a KeynoteTalks that change how your audience shows up on Monday.
Most AI keynotes end with applause and open questions. Mine end with a plan. I talk about what keeps your audience awake at 2am: whether they're still relevant. Why more tools make the anxiety worse. And what happens when you stop imitating machines and start working radically human. As a keynote, interactive session or workshop — whatever fits your event.
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New tool every month. New headline every day. Your team just wants to know: what actually matters? This keynote cuts through the noise with a clear framework. Where are we? What capabilities do we actually need? And what mindset helps when everything moves faster than any strategy?
In almost every room I speak in, the same unspoken question is in the air: Am I still relevant? AI fails when people start questioning who they are. This keynote goes where it hurts, and shows why the answer lives in what only you bring to the table.
You start five things, finish zero. Generate more than you can process. By 6pm you're drained. From managing the work, more than from doing it. Research shows productivity drops once people juggle three or more AI tools. This is the talk that finally says what everyone is feeling.
A prompt here, a question there. That's how most people use AI, and it uses a fraction of what's possible. The real shift happens when AI stops being a chat window and becomes part of how you work. In this talk, I show live what that looks like: building your own workflows, assistants, and systems. Ready for Monday.
All keynotes are building blocks — combinable for half-day or full-day events. Available in German and English. A short conversation will reveal what fits your situation best.
AI & Future Skills Retreat
3 days in the Bavarian Alps. On Sunday evening you go home with a working AI system — not just notes. You build agentic workflows, learn to vibe-code, and assemble your personal AI team. 12 people. Mountains. Ice swimming. Campfire. Whether you're a beginner or advanced.
Lab
Build agents, automate workflows, vibe-code, set up your own AI system. Hands-on with real projects, not practice tasks.
Campfire
Learning alone is slow. Learning together is fast. Real conversations, real connection, real results.
Breathe
Nature, ice swimming, sport, breathwork. Because the best ideas don't come at a screen.
What participants say
"Nature, new AI knowledge, and you go straight into implementation. I can't imagine a better retreat."
"It didn't feel like learning — it felt like a real, flowing retreat."
"If you want to catch up to the peloton on AI fast, do this."
"Use-case sessions combined with ice swimming and campfire. Unique."
Philosopher-practitioner for the age of AI.
Curious Maker.
Insanely Human.
The most interesting question of the AI age isn't: which tool? It's: what happens to us when the machines get better?
I come from design. London, Barcelona, now the Ammersee. I built a chatbot for people with addiction before ChatGPT existed. Founded the AI & Future Skills Retreat. Built the Claude Code Meetup Munich. Started a podcast. I build things to understand them.
For 850+ days I've been swimming in ice water every morning. I'm training for my first marathon. Both interest me for the same reason: I want to know what happens inside a person when it gets uncomfortable. When the mind wants to stop and the body keeps going. Or the other way around. That's the same question that drives me about AI: what's really in us?
I think we've forgotten in recent decades what makes us human. We've functioned. Processed tasks. Behaved like machines. Now machines can do that — and suddenly many people ask: what am I then? That's exactly where Insanely Human begins. Understanding AI isn't enough. We also need to understand who we are again.
12 Principles for Human-AI Collaboration
Born from 20+ years of design work, 850 days of ice swimming, and one question: what makes humans strong when the machines get better?
Lived experience is un-AI-able.
Insanely
Human
AI changes everything. Sometimes it excites, sometimes it overwhelms. This is about AI experiments that work or fail, conversations with people who use AI in their own, often unexpected ways, and the question of how we stay mentally and physically strong when everything speeds up. Practical, honest, curious.
AI knowledge that lands in daily life
Let's
talk.
30 minutes. No pitch, no slide deck. Tell me about your event — we'll figure out the rest.
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