Matthias Daues

Brainstormer, Change Agent, Global soul, Job-seeker, Performer, Sales specialist

Having studied Geography, medieval archeology, sociology and public law I don't work in any of these fields. As of now, in alphabetical order, I am - amazed that communication works at all - a curious explorer of networks and connectivity - married and a parent of two - a salesperson - TEDxKoeln founder - a trainer for presenting and public speaking at ıdeetransfer.

slowing down time.

will be spread.

Being a gracious host, Connect people, Telling stories, Training and Education

I owe TED to a neighbour, a social entrepreneur sailing under the flag of "adding value to communities", who left Cologne in January 2007 to embrace new challenges abroad and who sent me a book by Guy Kawasaki called "Selling the dream". He did so because, for the lack of a proper word to describe how I saw myself in my job, I unwittingly referred to myself as an evangelist. I read the book and learned to my surprise, that there is a whole job-description associated with what I used as an impromptu metaphor for myself after several kölsch (the local draught) on our last evening out. I then started researching Mr. Kawasaki on the WWW and serendipitically stumbled upon Garr Reynolds' website and blog concerned with matters of speaking, presenting and designing (a valuable source for the how of the ideaspreading-business, btw). There I found a reference to Ken Robinson's talk, which was the first I watched. This was in early February of 2007. I never got off the hook.

kindling fires.