Managing Director / Owner
Irmgard Wutte
Partner, Managing Director and Head of the Institute in Germany
With gratitude, I now hold the multidimensional vision of nyendo.lernen like an umbrella over a healing space in which everyone is invited to bring this learning movement to life according to certain rules of the game.
Why have I persistently and faithfully developed my impulse “nyendo” together with others for more than 20 years, despite all resistance? Because it deeply uplifts and moves me when I can help our young people come into their own power, sense their innermost impulses and let them unfold. For me, that is as breathtaking as a magical sunrise. And because it refreshes my heart and broadens my understanding when I can explore challenges and find solutions again and again, creatively, within a social and educational framework. Nothing is fixed, everything is in flow, in change.
Caution – risk of tsunami!
Nyendo team
The core team
Brigitte Lindenhofer
Head of the Institute in Austria
My path to nyendo led me through experience with international projects and as business coordinator at my school to a wonderful chance meeting with Irmgard Wutte. After that, the step from business coordinator to coach for social entrepreneurship was a logical one for me. My school, the Handelsakademie Ybbs, was the first Austrian partner school of nyendo – of hopefully many more to come.
Jasmine Reischl
Finance
After 47 years of working life, 28 of them as a municipal treasurer, I met Irmgard Wutte purely by chance on a mountain hike. After my very first meeting with the Nyendo team in November 2014, it was clear to me that this is where I wanted to get involved. I can contribute my professional experience and work as a volunteer with strong and likeable people who pursue goals that have always been close to my heart. How can we help young people in industrialised countries understand the problems and poverty in countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Nepal etc. and encourage them to act humanely in their future private and working lives?
Rebecca van den Bogert
Office Coordinator Germany
I have been volunteering at nyendo since March 2020 and take care of administrative matters. This gives me great contact with all Nyendo departments.
Jerusa Muthoni, aka Maggie
Office Coordinator Kenya
approx. 2,000 hours
of voluntary work are contributed by our team every year
Professional support
Advisory board
Esin Bozyazi
Professor of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, IU
is Professor of Sustainable Entrepreneurship at IU, where she teaches subjects including Social Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking. With her consultancy »Crossover Projects« she develops innovative business models for international companies and start-ups and also offers business design workshops. Every year she organises the NEXTPRENEURS SUMMIT (www.nextpreneurs.org) for sustainable start-ups. Her personal mission is to promote “creativity and humanity (ethics) in business”.
Dr. Patrick Roy
Co-founder of TRIPLE IMPACT & GAIN4GOOD
Dr. Patrick Roy is committed to a better, fairer world in many different ways. He is co-founder and managing director of the engagement consultancy TRIPLE IMPACT and the fundraising agency GAIN4GOOD. The economist and former McKinsey consultant also volunteers for various non-profit organisations, currently for example as a board member of The Hunger Project. In addition, Dr. Roy regularly teaches and publishes on current management aspects of the non-profit sector and sustainable business, focusing on organisation, marketing, impact orientation, relationship management, financing and fundraising.
Volunteering
Our volunteers
