#PCF People & Culture Festival 2025

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24.09.2025

Nino Tsavalos in the Speaker Spotlight

In the run-up to the People & Culture Festival 2025, we spoke with Nino Tsavalos, founder of Offside. His company designs retreats for teams that strengthen mental health, connection, and culture. With a holistic approach, he creates spaces away from everyday life where people can reflect, grow, and find new paths — both professionally and personally. His focus is on genuine connection, mental strength, and the design of new working worlds.

What does resilience mean for your work or your company?

For us at Offside, resilience means strengthening mental and emotional capacity to avoid getting stuck in stress patterns during challenging situations, but rather to pause and develop new perspectives. We continually experience that this is not a state that one reaches once, but a continuous learning and practice process.

Therefore, we create resonance spaces in the form of multi-day formats where people and teams can build trust, develop healthy routines, and cultivate a constructive approach to change. We understand resilience as a key future competency – especially in a work environment characterized by dynamics, creativity, and constant change.
What do you currently consider the biggest myth surrounding AI in the workplace?
AI is often understood to be able to automatically make work more efficient and help companies become more resilient in crises. However, resilience does not come from technology but from people who build trust, resolve conflicts, and create meaning. For the younger generations growing into a digitally shaped work environment, something else is becoming increasingly valuable: spaces for genuine encounters, shared experiences, and mutual support. A space of tension where all of this has a place. AI can facilitate routines, but it does not replace the human ability to create relationships. Building trust, resolving conflicts face-to-face, and inspiring one another remain deeply human – and will be the key success factor of the future.
At the People & Culture Festival 2025, he will focus on the topic ‘How important genuine encounters are in times of remote work’ – an impulse that couldn’t be more relevant.
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People & Culture Festival 2025
The PEOPLE & CULTURE FESTIVAL 2025 is an event organized by medianet berlinbrandenburg e.V. and supported by the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises.
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