Matthias Burkard, a graduate engineer and trained daily newspaper editor, is a German expert in crisis and change communication. He has been working in public relations for companies in the energy, transportation and logistics sectors since 1999. He specializes in preparing companies and managers for difficult communication tasks in crisis situations. As an interim crisis manager, he supports existing communications teams with his many years of experience.

After the Germanwings disaster in 2015, where he was one of the leading figures in the airline's crisis team, Matthias Burkard began to focus in depth on the topic of resilience in the workplace under extreme stress.

Since 2017, he has lectured on crisis communication at the Institute of Communication Sciences at LMU Munich and at the International University of Cooperative Education (iba). In his lectures, workshops and consultations, Matthias Burkard succeeds in taking his participants into the world of successful crisis management in a very emotional and at the same time confident manner, true to his motto "shit happens! Make something of it!"