Marc Mertens
Founder at A Hundred Years
A Hundred Years
Traunkirchen, Austria
Co-founder of A Hundred Years — advising founder-led and family enterprises on succession. Envisioning Windlegern as an alpine retreat in Austria.
About me
Marc has always been drawn to the edge of the map, where something new hums before it has a name. He built his first company in the late 1990s as the internet was turning from novelty into inevitability. He then founded a Californian transformation consultancy that stitched purpose into the DNA of corporations. Along the way he has helped NASA dream aloud, Mattel rethink play, The Rockefeller Foundation strategize impact, and TED spark lessons worth sharing. He has worked with Richard Branson's B-Team, Sara Blakely, Bono's ONE Campaign, The Smithsonian, and more. What threads it together is not the client list but Marc's talent for convening — creating the conditions for people to lean into futures they didn't know they could believe in.
My organisation
Speaker sessions (2)
Thursday, 6 June 2024
13:00 - 14:15
Rewilding our heart and our mind
- Leadership
Outdoor Session in Burggarten: Experience a few chapters of nature’s own magic guidebook to a kind of leadership that future generations will be grateful for. Meeting point at the Kaiser Franz Joseph statue by the stairs.
17:30 - 18:30
Together in Impact - Ideas worth sharing
- Leadership
- Collaboration
An interactive workshop that will support you in identifying, developing and ultimately sharing your most impactful ideas, following the TED methodology.