About this podcast
Der Große Neustart is a global platform for long-form conversations on leadership, responsibility, and systemic change.
Ranked #1 in the US, Europe, and Asia, featured by Forbes, and named a Top 30 International Business Podcast 2025, the series is recognised as a leading global podcast on stakeholder capitalism and is listened to in 148 countries. It also spent 18 consecutive weeks at #1 in the US Non-Profit Podcast Charts.
With January 2026, the podcast enters its second series.
The platform was inaugurated in 2020 with Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Architect of the World Economic Forum, whose vision of stakeholder capitalism helped shape its intellectual foundation. The second series again begins with Klaus Schwab - this time acting as a compass for what he calls the Intelligent Age.
Independent and without advertising, the podcast is trusted for its depth, clarity, and integrity. Guests include leaders driving systemic transformation, including Dr. Rajiv Shah (Rockefeller Foundation), Sanda Ojambo (UN Global Compact), Emmanuel Faber (ISSB), Dr. Ismahane Elouafi (CGIAR), Emmanuel de Merode (Virunga), and many others across energy, finance, science, governance, and civil society.
Reflecting the spirit of a multi-stakeholder world, the platform also features pioneers working on the ground: from the world’s first Water Envoy and Chief Heat Officer to Earth Prize laureates and climate innovators.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 40 episodes
- Klaus Schwab: The Compass · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 1In this special episode of Der Große Neustart, Sibylle Barden speaks with Professor Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, about a new chapter in his life’s work…
- Feeding the Future: Ismahane Elouafi on Soil, Science, and Survival · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 39In this moving and timely episode, Der Große Neustart welcomes Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, Executive Managing Director of CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research…
- UNCCD’s Ibrahim Thiaw: Land, Power & the Race to Restore Our Future · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 38In this episode, Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), discusses the reality of land degradation—and the…
- Runa Ray: Stitching Together a Fashion Revolution · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 37"I think we need an entire revolution in the fashion industry," says Runa Ray, my first guest of 2025. And she is making it happen—as a designer, activist, and visionary. Her…
- Moët Hennessy: Transforming Luxury · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 36🎙️ How do you redefine luxury in a world of urgent environmental challenges? In this episode, I sit down with Philippe Schaus, Chairman and CEO of Moët Hennessy and member of the…
- We Mean Business Coalition: A Decade of Driving Climate Action · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 35María Mendiluce, CEO of the We Mean Business Coalition, is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders. As the Coalition celebrates its 10-year anniversary, María reflects…
- Volocopter: Revolution der Luftmobilität · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 34Volocopter ist DER Pionier der Luftmobilität. Bei den Olympischen Sommerspielen in Paris 2024 wird das deutsche Startup Geschichte schreiben: Dank der Unterstützung des…
- ISSB Chair Emmanuel Faber: Leading Sustainable Finance Transformation · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 33With endorsements from the G20, UN, World Bank, IOSCO, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) stands at the forefront of standard-setting efforts, shaping the…
- Alastair Campbell: Reshaping Political Debate · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 32Alastair Campbell, renowned as Britain's leading political master communicator, is pioneering the way in regaining control of the UK's political debate while also garnering a…
- Earthshot Laureate Florent Kaiser: The Andean Eco Revolutionary · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 31Florent Kaiser, CEO of Global Forest Generation and Earthshot Prize Winner, has unveiled the extraordinary accomplishments of Acción Andina. This grassroots initiative…
- Martin Wolf: Reshaping Capitalism · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 30Martin Wolf, the Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times and one of the world's top 100 global thinkers, delves deep into the core of our global economic and…
- UN Global Compact: SDGs - the North Star for Business · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 29🌐 Sanda Ojiambo, the Assistant Secretary-General and CEO of the United Nations Global Compact, shines a spotlight on the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative and…
- No Water, No Climate, No Survival: Special Envoy's Fight for Global Stability · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 28Henk Ovink is the pioneering Special Envoy for International Water Affairs. Discover how the Netherlands leads the way in sustainable water management through the First…
- Prince Albert II Foundation: Monaco's Green Revolution · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 27Monaco, the most densely-populated sovereign state in the world, smaller than New York's Central Park, has emerged as a powerful advocate for ocean and marine life conservation…
- Jim Hagemann Snabe: The Reinvention of Everything · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 26The FT called him one of Europe’s leading industrialists and transformational leaders - and transforming is exactly what he does. Transforming and reinventing companies, across…
- The Saami: Custodians of Our Planet · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 25Áslak Holmberg, President of the Saami Council, is a pioneering leader who fights for the rights of 80.000 Indigenous people in the Arctic - on the global stage. Speaking at the…
- nebenan.de: #1 Plattform für 2,5 Mio. Nachbarn in Deutschland · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 24Ina Remmers ist Gründerin und Geschäftsführerin von nebenan.de, Deutschlands größter Nachbarschafts-Plattform. 2015 in Berlin gegründet, zählt das Unternehmen heute 2,5 Millionen…
- Champalimaud Foundation: First Breast Cancer Surgery in the Metaverse · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 23The First Successful Breast Surgery in the Metaverse. Dr Pedro Gouveia, the Surgeon of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre in Lisbon, performed the first…
- Building Competent Boards: Stewards of the Future · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 22Helle Bank Jorgensen is the CEO of Competent Boards, which offers the much praised global online ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Designation Program, with a faculty of over…
- Destination Earth: Creating the Planet's Digital Twin · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 21Destination Earth is a high precision digital model of the Earth. It is the EU’s flagship initiative to create a digital replica of our entire planet. "This replica is a Digital…
