Speaker, Trainer & Presenter

Sabine Altena

Impact counts - communicate convincingly with style and presence.

Sabine Altena, Director & Owner of ALTENA Training & Coaching, is a Senior Executive Trainer, Coach, Business Speaker, Podcaster, and Author with over 15 years of experience. With a background in radio, TV, and journalism, she specializes in personal impact, presentation skills, rhetoric, female leadership, and media training. Sabine holds certifications in NLP, leadership practices, and is a member of the German Speakers Association. Known for her spontaneity and elegant repartee, she offers training worldwide and is a top 100 Trainer Speaker Excellence. Sabine's engaging lecture topics include 'Spontaneous brilliance' and 'Rock Your Business'.

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Vita

Sabine Altena

Director & Owner ALTENA Training & Coaching
Senior Executive Trainer & Coach | Business Speaker | Podcaster | Author

Experience

15 years senior executive trainer & coach
30 years stage experience as host and speaker
18 years radio & TV presenter, reporter and journalist with leading national broadcasters such as Antenne Bayern, WDR, Premiere
Over 1000 interviews with celebrities & politicians (including Roger Moore, Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Metallica)

Areas of specialisation

Personal impact & charisma
Presentation & pitch
Rhetoric, speech & performance
Female leadership
Media training
Personal business coaching

Education & Qualifications

Studied political science, sociology & psychology in Augsburg

Own programme designs & certifications:

‘Quick-witted in 4 hours’
“PresEntertain”
‘The Energy Plan’
‘Charisma & Presence’

Further certifications:

Birkman Method
NLP Practitioner & NLP Master
Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)
Mastermind Coach
Lecturer at the Universities of Munich, Constance and Steinbeis University Berlin
Member of the German Speakers Association
Top 100 Trainer Speakers Excellence (2013-2015)

About Sabine Altena

Sabine Altena worked for 20 years as a presenter and reporter for renowned radio and TV stations. She learnt early on that spontaneity and elegant repartee are crucial for lasting success. She presented and spoke in front of live audiences of up to 50,000 people and conducted interviews with international world stars. Numerous mishaps and highlights in front of the microphone and camera have made her an expert in impact, performance and spontaneous communication.

Today she runs her own training institute near Munich and coaches managers and teams worldwide in the areas of presentation, charisma, persuasiveness and quick-wittedness.

As an author, she has published several books, audio books and an online course on repartee. She also shares her knowledge in her successful podcast ‘DIE WOW SHOW’.

Sabine lives with her husband and two children partly on Lake Ammersee and partly on Mallorca.

Lecture topics

Spontaneous brilliance - Elegant repartee in business & private life
Rock Your Business - What managers can learn from rock stars
The charisma formula - Inspiring and winning people over
Communication for the brave - Female vs. male

Target groups

CEOs & management
Senior management
Women in management positions
Employees, customers & participants in motivational events

Topics

Communication Voice Rhetorics Body Language Impact

Quick-wittedness & communication

Elegant repartee - countering confidently and stylishly at work
Rhetorical techniques - tools that always work
Answers - responding quick-wittedly, accurately and effectively
Conducting conversations - communicating at eye level
Persuasiveness - arguing in a structured and to-the-point manner

Rhetoric & presentation

Exciting presentations - conveying content in a lively and captivating way
Presenting - using rhetoric to speak in an exciting and effective way, including online
Storytelling - captivating and moving people
Improvisation - the art of appearing confident at all times
Clarity & comprehensibility - making complex things simple

Appearance, impact & body language

Appearing confidently - scoring points with body language, voice and mental strength
Appearance & impact - consciously utilising body, voice and rhetoric

Voice & personality

The miracle weapon voice - relaxed and clear
That certain something - let your personality shine
Your own personality - get to know it, develop it, let it shine
Authenticity - appear confident, feel confident
Charisma - winning people over and convincing them
Typology - recognising different communication types, convincing individually

Persuasion & motivation

Persuasion - winning people over and convincing them
Motivation - recognising individual drives and using them in a targeted manner
EQ vs. IQ - strengthening emotional intelligence and social skills
Feedback - giving and receiving feedback in an appreciative and confident manner

References & Press

Extract of company references:
EDEKA, EGO, HSE24, VOLKSWAGEN, ALDI, GRÜNENTHAL,TESA, KABEL DEUTSCHLAND, ANTENNE BAYERN, PWC

Customer testimonials:

"A very charming stage performance, full of humour and wit ... and a great feel for the right tone in every situation on stage."
Olaf Bläser, CEO ERGO Versicherung AG

"Absolutely outstanding coach! I have enjoyed working with Sabine for many years."
Heidi Möhwald, Head of Training, formerly Sixt GmbH & Co. Autovermietung KG, currently Webasto

"Great speaker. Very dynamic and engaging. Our ladies love her."
Anke Strauss, German Assistants' Day

"Even before the training I had high expectations, as ALTENA Trainings had been highly recommended to me. After the training, my expectations were even exceeded."
Hala Ghandour, Ministry of State Dubai

I have often experienced Sabine - in trainings, lectures, moderating. Always absolutely motivating and inspiring!"
Meike Hegge, Head of Marketing & Communications Europe at Strategy&, Part of the PwC network

Sabine Altena was simply smashing. We were able to feel an infinite amount of positive energy from her. She showed us new, exciting ways of leadership at the business reception." Barbara Magg, District Office Fürstenfeldbruck

We would like to thank you very much for your excellent presentation at our event. It was extremely informative, lively and entertaining for everyone in the audience. Everyone was talking about "Spontan Spitze..." and your enthusiasm was well received by your audience! Isabell Brandner, ICJ mice magazine

"An extremely successful presentation for our kick-off. Many thanks for that."
Dr Manuel Cubero, CCO Kabel Germany

Awards:
2020 Lecturer of the Year
2022 Trainer of the Year
2023 International Speaker of the Year