Seminars & Talks
Talks and practical working formats for businesses facing change.
I am an entrepreneur and Interim Executive. In my talks and seminars, I work with owners, managing directors and leaders to get stalled work moving again: clarify the purpose, challenge outdated steps and turn decisions into delivery.
Three core topics
Refocus on the purpose of the business and customer value. Identify bottlenecks, stop outdated work and prepare a bounded restart.
Before automating, establish which work is needed at all. Simplify the process, define sources and human checks, and measure value and rework.
Separate facts from assumptions, clarify decision rights and establish when a decision has been checked sufficiently.
Available formats
30–45 minutes
A focused professional perspective for company events and industry forums; discussion by arrangement.
Scope by arrangement
Work on a concrete leadership or process question, for example through a Movement Audit, with an agreed working result.
4 hours including a 30-minute break
Case work for 8–16 participants. A bounded restart plan for their own area of responsibility.
Duration to suit the event
An operational perspective on leadership, change and AI. Topic, role and discussion questions are agreed in advance.
Current seminar programme
When work has stalled
4 hours including a 30-minute break
8–16 participants · In person with case work
Intended working resultA restart plan for the participant’s own case.
Understand the situation and make sound decisions
90 minutes with self-assessment and discussion
15–30 participants · In person or online
Intended working resultA diagnostic worksheet for the participant’s own area.
Rethink processes and demonstrate value
7 hours including 60 minutes of breaks
8–14 participants · In person · No programming knowledge required
Intended working resultA workflow map with an AI pilot proposal.
Talk
AI can already do much more than write text and automate routine tasks. Drawing on a practical example from subsurface geology, Paul Fritz Mendel shows how highly specialised knowledge can support AI-assisted analysis. The central question: which previously hard-to-imagine applications are becoming realistic for businesses, and what does it take to make them work?
The example is a screening of potential CO₂ storage formations in Germany. After four weeks of preparing public borehole data and internal information, the AI analysis took around ten minutes. Mendel estimates that comparable manual work would take a subject-matter expert about two working weeks. The talk explains the groundwork: prepared knowledge resources, a protected data environment, clearly defined tasks and expert review. These results depend on deliberate preparation and integration of specialist knowledge; they are not an immediately available standard chatbot capability.
Participants gain a concrete understanding of which demanding tasks in their own businesses might be suitable for AI, what foundations they need to establish and where human responsibility remains essential.
Seminar materials included. Fee, date and arrangements agreed individually. Each format is adapted to the audience and starting situation.
Seminar delivery: German. Delivery in English may be possible by individual arrangement. Seminars are not offered in French. The French website is for information.
Professional foundation
The formats connect entrepreneurial experience with Der 100-Tage-Momentum-Plan: 100 daily assignments, five phases and 36 prompt numbers. Selected working materials support case work. The workbook and its digital companion are initially planned in German; publication is in preparation. Full access to the practice area is not yet open.
For organisers
Paul Fritz Mendel is an entrepreneur, Interim Executive and author. Self-employed since 2018, he has built businesses and taken responsibility for commercial development, sales and organisation. He focuses on business development and operational change in companies with complex products and services. His seminars combine this experience with participants’ own practical cases.
The German-language speaker profile includes a short biography, core topics, formats and the seminar programme. The website portrait is available separately for an agreed event announcement.
Dates & appearances
No public dates are currently announced here. Once an appearance is confirmed and cleared for publication, this section will show the date, location, topic, my role and a registration link where available.
Your event
Tell me the occasion, preferred date, audience and format. We will then agree the subject, appropriate working format and practical arrangements.
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paul@paul-mendel.de