Rethinking Performance Through Diversity – Shaping Work-Life Balance Effectively
Perspectives and Insights from Corporate Practice and Family Life
At “Wake up! – The Work-Life Balance Breakfast,” Volksbank Kurpfalz, berufundfamilie Service GmbH, and easyfaM bring together different perspectives on performance and balancing work and family. Look forward to insights, practical examples from the workplace, and above all, a shared dialogue about what defines performance today and what opportunities this creates for organizations.

Program
From 9:00 AM · Arrival, Breakfast, and Initial Conversations
- Start the morning at a relaxed pace and use the time for initial meetings with other participants.
From 9:30 AM · Joint Opening
- Brief welcome and introduction to the event’s central guiding question.
01 · High Performance: Work-Life Balance and Diversity
- What role do work-life balance and diversity play in a contemporary understanding of performance? The thematic opening presents different perspectives on capability, life phases, and organizational design.
Oliver Schmitz · Managing Director, berufundfamilie Service GmbH
02 · Performance and Work-Life Balance in Corporate Practice
- The insights talk provides a look into experiences, current design challenges, and perspectives from the HR work at Volksbank Kurpfalz.
Markus Hug · Director and Head of Human Resources, Volksbank Kurpfalz
03 · Family Life as a Learning Space
- Which experiences can strengthen professional capability
Family and care routines are an informal learning and experience space. Within them, skills can develop and evolve that also gain significance in professional life.
This session connects concrete everyday practice with reflection and focuses on behavioral patterns that support professional capability and performance. At the same time, it addresses how these experiences can be brought into conversation within the organization.
Dominik Frommherz · Managing Director, easyfaM GmbH & Co. KG
From 10:30 AM · Connecting Perspectives
Dialogue · Breakfast · Networking
- In shared exchange, we connect the insights with the experiences and questions of the participating organizations.
End around 11:30 AM
On the Focus Topic “High Performance: Work-Life Balance and Diversity”
- The Performance Checker from berufundfamilie Service GmbH provides additional food for thought for a work-life balance-friendly and diversity-oriented understanding of performance and invites you to reflect on your own understanding of performance, willingness to perform, and capability.
Go to the Performance Checker on berufundfamilie.de
Open Performance Checker directly as PDF:
A Joint Event by

Thursday, October 8, 2026
Doors and breakfast from 9:00 AM · Start 9:30 AM · End around 11:30 AM
Volksbank Kurpfalz – Heidelberg Main Branch
Hauptstraße 46 · 69117 Heidelberg
Participation is free of charge. The number of places is limited.