Steffi Jones – Respect and fair play

Steffi Jones is clearly more than a footballer and coach. She is a role model. Like no other, she shows that it is possible to go your own way in a male domain. And that twice: because the most successful and best-known German female footballer has achieved what only very few sportswomen and sportsmen succeed in doing: a career after a career.

This success was not a matter of course. Growing up without a father in the troubled Frankfurt district of Bonames and teased because of her skin colour, Steffi Jones had to work hard to make her way.

Steffi has learned to use her talents and knowledge for organisations and companies and to help them achieve even better results together. For her, modern leadership, diversity and error culture are at the forefront of this.

In her talks and lectures, Steffi Jones talks about how she learned teamwork and self-confidence in sport and how she passes these qualities on to the next generation of athletes. After all, many insights from top-class sport can easily be transferred to the business world. She explains what leadership means to her, how much discipline a career needs and how to motivate oneself again after defeats.

Lecture topics by Steffi Jones

• Diversity, Integration & Tolerance
• Expert on football issues
• Women in leadership positions
• Life story & strokes of fate
• Everything about competitive sport, personality development through sport
• Respect, fair play, communicating values
• Leadership, diversity and error culture

Steffi Jones discovered her passion for football early on and that she could play better than the boys. She became European champion several times and world champion once. After she ended her active football career, she played behind the scenes. In 2008, Steffi Jones was appointed president of the organising committee of the Women’s World Cup 2011. As national coach of the German women’s national team and as director of women’s and girls’ football, she held various management positions at the DFB. With her public and sharp criticism of the DFB, she turned her back on professional football in 2018.

She now heads organisational development at the IT service provider 5Minds and lives with her wife and five dogs in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 2006, Steffi Jones received the Hessian Order of Merit for her many years of voluntary work. Time and again she has campaigned for integration and tolerance in Germany. For the 2024 European Men’s Championship in Germany, Steffi Jones is the football ambassador for the venue Gelsenkirchen.