Dr. Karl-Maria de Molina is CEO & Founder of ThinkSimple. He studied engineering at the Technical University of Barcelona and philosophy and theology at the University of Navarra. He then completed his doctorate in automotive engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. This was followed by various management positions in the automotive supply industry. In 2006, Dr. de Molina founded and headed FTronik GmbH until 2011. Since 2000, Dr. de Molina has been working on the relationship between work skills, motivation and performance. He gives lectures on this topic at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Together with professors at this university, he developed a competence and motivation model as well as the associated test procedure ThinkSimple+. In addition, he developed the ThinkSimple working method. Dr. de Molina is co-editor of the book "Arbeitskultur 2020" in 2014 and is the author of the book "Komplexität im Führungsalltag reducieren", and co-editor of the book "Kompetenzen der Zukunft 2030" in 2018 and the "Renaissance of the Family" in 2024.