Dr.-Ing. Janka Krings-Klebe shows leaders how to build organizations that grow stronger through uncertainty and complexity.
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"Thank you for a great conversation" "Very informative, and the way you explained the difference between resilience and antifragility was perfect. "
ASMG Meetup
Dr.-Ing. Janka Krings-Klebe is a recognized European authority on how organizations can advance through uncertainty rather than resist it. With a career spanning more than two decades in industry, she works closely with senior leaders who are navigating complexity, transformation, and structural change. Janka’s work focuses on organizational antifragility, adaptive operating models, and ecosystem governance, helping leaders move beyond rigid hierarchies toward more responsive and collaborative forms of organizing. As the author of The Antifragile Organization: From Hierarchies to Ecosystems and a 2025 Thinkers50 Strategy Award shortlist nominee, she brings both intellectual depth and practical relevance to the stage. Her keynotes are valued for their clarity, strong narrative, and direct applicability to real leadership challenges.
Dr.-Ing. Janka Krings-Klebe is one of the most prominent voices in Europe on organizational antifragility and adaptive operating systems. Her work explores how organizations can be designed to learn, evolve, and create value under conditions of uncertainty and interdependence. With a background that bridges engineering, management theory, and executive practice, Janka brings a systems-oriented perspective that resonates strongly with senior leaders facing complex strategic environments.
Her professional journey includes more than 20 years in industry, where she has worked with and advised leadership teams across sectors. This experience gives her a grounded understanding of the tensions leaders face between efficiency, control, innovation, and long-term resilience. Janka’s contribution lies in reframing these tensions and offering new operating logics that allow organizations to thrive in complexity rather than simplify it away.
Janka is the author of The Antifragile Organization: From Hierarchies to Ecosystems, a book that has gained wide recognition for its clear articulation of how organizations can benefit from volatility and change. The book secured her a place on the 2025 Thinkers50 Strategy Award shortlist and positioned her work at the forefront of contemporary management thinking.
At the heart of her approach is the idea that organizations must be designed as living systems. Instead of relying solely on static structures and linear planning, she shows how adaptive operating models, distributed decision-making, and ecosystem thinking can unlock dynamic value creation. Her work challenges deeply held assumptions about efficiency, predictability, and control, offering leaders a more realistic and empowering way to lead in interconnected environments.
Janka Krings-Klebe speaks on a range of topics that reflect the realities of modern leadership and organizational design. Her most requested themes include:
Organizational antifragility and how to design for learning and growth under stress
Adaptive operating models in complex and fast-changing environments
Complexity leadership and decision-making beyond traditional hierarchies
Ecosystem governance and collaboration across organizational boundaries
Transformation design that aligns structure, strategy, and behavior
Her talks combine conceptual clarity with relatable stories from executive practice. Audiences appreciate her ability to make abstract ideas tangible and to provide tools and frameworks that leadership teams can apply directly in their own organizations.
Janka’s thought leadership is featured in respected platforms such as Dialogue Review by Duke Corporate Education and at the Global Peter Drucker Forum. She is also an active voice in international leadership discussions through her analyses shared with a global LinkedIn community.
As a founding member of the Business Ecosystem Alliance, Janka plays an active role in shaping how organizations think about collaboration, governance, and value creation across ecosystems. Her perspectives reflect ongoing dialogue with scholars, practitioners, and executives who are redefining what effective organization and leadership mean today.
Janka Krings-Klebe is a sought-after speaker for global conferences and leadership platforms, including the Global Peter Drucker Forum, the Brightline Initiative at the Project Management Institute, and Imperial College London’s Global Conference on Creating Value. Event organizers value her for her strong narrative presence, intellectual rigor, and ability to engage senior audiences without abstraction or jargon.
When you book Janka Krings-Klebe for your event, you invite a speaker who helps leaders rethink how organizations are built and led. Her keynotes support executives and leadership teams in moving from traditional management models toward more adaptive, collaborative, and future-ready ways of working, grounded in both theory and real-world experience.
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"Thank you for a great conversation" "Very informative, and the way you explained the difference between resilience and antifragility was perfect. "
ASMG Meetup
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"Brilliant framing of antifragility and adaptable organizations. Janka anchored the entire dialogue with a depth and elegance that stayed with everyone in the room."
Global Peter Drucker Forum
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"Janka brought such a fresh and different outlook to the discussion."
8th Global Conference for Creating Value
5 of 5
"Great speech", "Inspiring"
Regional FDP New Year reception & Liberal Women Event
5 of 5
"Fascinating presentation, great insights"
DB Systel Digital Talk
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"Straight to the point practical experience. Awesome!"
Global Peter Drucker Forum
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"Highlight of the conference" "Best speech of the summit"
HighTech Summit Baden-Württemberg
Keynote by Janka Krings-Klebe:
Most companies work harder to keep up with shifting markets. Regenerative organizations build systems that renew capability, energy, and value as their environment evolves.
This keynote shows how regeneration becomes a structural property through smarter decision pathways, modular architectures, sensing mechanisms, and coordination patterns that allow the organization to evolve continuously. Participants learn how to create momentum under uncertainty by designing environments where renewal happens as part of everyday operations.
Audience takeaways
A systemic lens for organizational vitality
How to design structures and flows that generate continuous renewal
Examples of organizations that convert complexity into capability
Practical ways to embed regeneration into daily work
Keynote by Janka Krings-Klebe:
Antifragile organizations gain strength from uncertainty. This keynote translates the principles of antifragility into concrete organizational design. Participants explore the architecture of learning loops, modular structures, distributed decision rights, and dynamic practices that help organizations accelerate under pressure and turn disruption into progress.
Audience takeaways
The mechanics of antifragility as a system property
How to build capabilities that strengthen under volatility
What antifragile structures and decision patterns look like
How to design systems that evolve faster than their environment
Keynote by Janka Krings-Klebe:
Every organization runs on an operating system that defines how work is organized, how responsibilities are assigned, how decisions move, and how learning happens. Many of today’s systems were built for stability and struggle with today’s non-linear, fast-changing environments.
This keynote explains how to redesign the organizational operating system for clarity, speed, and continuous adaptation. Participants learn how to identify architectural drag, reshape decision flows, and build structures that support distributed intelligence.
Audience takeaways
How to diagnose friction in the current operating system
The elements of a real-time decision architecture
How to remove structural bottlenecks and increase flow
How to build an organization that learns continuously
Keynote by Janka Krings-Klebe:
Value creation increasingly spans beyond the boundaries of the firm. These environments require governance based on interdependence rather than ownership or hierarchy. This keynote explores how to design governance for ecosystems through trust architectures, shared decision rights, transparent value flows, and coordination mechanisms that allow autonomous actors to collaborate effectively.
Audience takeaways
How to design trust structures across organizations
Shared decision rights that enable efficient collaboration
Governance mechanisms suited to distributed environments
How to make value flows visible and fair across ecosystems
Keynote by Janka Krings-Klebe:
Organizations behave according to their underlying structures, interdependencies, and feedback loops. Transformation succeeds when these elements evolve together. This keynote focuses on redesigning the system rather than isolated components. Participants learn how to shift the underlying logic of the organization so new patterns of behavior emerge naturally and consistently.
Audience takeaways
How to read organizations as dynamic systems
How interdependencies shape outcomes
Key leverage points for structural transformation
How to build transformations that reinforce themselves
Keynote by Janka Krings-Klebe:
Adaptive enterprises depend on leaders who design the conditions for autonomy, experimentation, and rapid coordination. This keynote explains how leaders shape the structural and informational environment so teams can respond quickly, learn continuously, and maintain coherence as the organization evolves.
Audience takeaways
What systemic stewardship looks like in complex environments
How to enable autonomy without fragmentation
How to build conditions for rapid learning and experimentation
How to maintain organizational coherence during ongoing adaptation
Workshops by Janka Krings-Klebe:
Operating System Design Lab
Leadership teams map their current organizational operating system: the decision flows, governance structures, coordination mechanisms, and learning loops that drive daily behavior. Together, they identify structural friction points and redesign the OS for speed, clarity, and distributed intelligence.
Ecosystem Governance Lab
A practical deep dive into governing value creation across networks. Participants define roles, decision rights, information flows, shared rules, and trust architectures that enable multiple independent actors to innovate and coordinate effectively.
Antifragility Bootcamp
A hands-on session where teams practice the core mechanisms of antifragility: fast learning loops, safe-to-try experimentation, redundancy and slack design, and structures that convert stressors into capability.
Systemic Transformation Workshop
An applied systems-mapping session where teams uncover interdependencies, bottlenecks, reinforcing loops, and leverage points. The result: transformation strategies that shift the whole system toward adaptability and antifragility.
Leadership for Dynamic Organizations
This workshop focuses on systemic leadership, not personal style. Participants learn how to design conditions that enable autonomy, emergence, and rapid coordination: boundary-setting, decision rights, information transparency, and structural enablers of continuous adaptation.
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