Urs Koenig

RADICAL HUMILITY: Be a Bad-Ass Leader and a Good Human

One overlooked leadership trait—perpetually overlooked and understated—is the key to handling the most pressing challenges in your teams. The ability to motivate people and inspire their best work while they battle decision fatigue, burnout, and mental health challenges, how to attract and retain the best amid an ongoing war for talent, and how to drive stellar business results while taking care of your people. 

When you embrace the opportunity to be a kick-ass boss and a good human, you are practicing Radical Humility—and it can be a game-changer for your career and those around you.  

During 35 years of leadership experience spanning four continents, Urs has grown leaders in academia, competitive sports, business, and complex military peacekeeping operations. He helps leaders and organizations apply his comprehensive, proven 4-Step Radical Humility Framework to energize, engage, and empower their teams, and in the process deliver exceptional results. 

Actionable Takeaways Tailored to Each Audience:

• Learn the 4-Step Radical Humility Framework to overcome disengagement, distrust and burnout and drive productivity, engagement, and build trust.  
• Master the ultimate Yin Yang of leadership: Tough on Results, Tender on People. Learn how to apply compassion and empathy as well as the highest standards and relentless striving for results.
• Get inspired by powerful storytelling of exceptional leaders applying Radical Humility resulting in extraordinary success for their organizations and how you can do the same.
• Learn how to be the champion of a culture of psychological safety by displaying vulnerability. 
• Walk away inspired and energized. 
• Leave with concrete, no-nonsense takeaways you can implement immediately with your teams.

THE 5 SHIFTS OF THEN TO NOW LEADERSHIP: Energize, Engage and Empower Your Teams

Business leaders in today’s fast-paced, disruptive, volatile business climate face challenges that did not exist ten or even five years ago: 

• Decision and pandemic fatigue
• Burnout
• A mental health crisis
• Employee retention during the Great Resignation 

The default methods of leadership to tackle these current issues are woefully outdated, having been handed down from past generations of managers and executives. But their approaches are no longer good enough to take your people where you want to go.  

What worked THEN does not work NOW.

During 35 years of leadership experience spanning four continents, Urs has grown leaders in academia, competitive sports, business, and complex military peacekeeping operations. He has developed a proprietary five-part THEN to NOW Leadership Framework. Applying this framework, Urs helps leaders and organizations to fully engage their people in the effort to adapt swiftly to relentless change. Leaders and organizations who shift their leadership from what we did back THEN to what we need to do NOW are ready for the future of work. Their teams are energized, engaged, and fully empowered to do what matters most: delighting customers and taking care of their team members. 

Actionable Takeaways Tailored to Each Audience:

• Learn the 5 THEN to NOW Leadership Shifts to transform burnout, disengagement, and fatigue to engagement, retention, and productivity
• Discover why focus and saying ‘No’ is one of the most important ingredients for resilience and success in business (and life)
• Get inspired by powerful storytelling of extraordinary leaders embracing NOW leadership, resulting in amazing success for their organizations and how you can do the same.
• Master hands-on practices for boosting morale and engagement.
• Learn how to delegate and empower to successfully lead from afar.
• Walk away inspired, energized, and with concrete, actionable, no-nonsense takeaways you can immediately implement with your teams.