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Unlocking New Levels of Achievement: Inspiring Leadership Keynotes

Urs Koenig

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From NATO Commander to Executive Coach, Urs Koenig empowers organizations to transform managers into true leaders.

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Urs, wow, that was incredible! Your excellent opening keynote nailed it by setting the tone for our symposium. We received lots of positive feedback from audience members on how much they enjoyed your talk and how useful it will be in their work with their teams.

Erika Berndt, HR Director Microsoft See all references

Why you should book Urs Koenig for your next event

  • Unleash Leadership Potential: Gain valuable insights and practical strategies from Urs Koenig’s extensive leadership experience, empowering your managers to become true leaders in today’s competitive world.
  • Drive Peak Performance: With Urs Koenig’s guidance, your team will learn how to overcome challenges, push boundaries, and achieve extraordinary results, unlocking their full potential and taking your organization to new heights.
  • Unlocking Potential through Experience: Benefit from Urs Koenig’s expertise as a former UN Peacekeeper and NATO Commander, as he leverages his extensive leadership background to help organizations unlock their full potential.
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With a remarkable background as a former UN Peacekeeper and NATO Commander, Urs brings a unique blend of leadership expertise and ultra-endurance championship to the stage. His dynamic and no-nonsense approach will ignite your team's motivation, drive peak performance, and unlock untapped potential. Book Urs Koenig for your next event and experience the transformative power of his keynotes.

Why you should book Urs Koenig for your next event

  • Unleash Leadership Potential: Gain valuable insights and practical strategies from Urs Koenig’s extensive leadership experience, empowering your managers to become true leaders in today’s competitive world.
  • Drive Peak Performance: With Urs Koenig’s guidance, your team will learn how to overcome challenges, push boundaries, and achieve extraordinary results, unlocking their full potential and taking your organization to new heights.
  • Unlocking Potential through Experience: Benefit from Urs Koenig’s expertise as a former UN Peacekeeper and NATO Commander, as he leverages his extensive leadership background to help organizations unlock their full potential.

Urs Koenig is a renowned keynote speaker who possesses the rare ability to inspire and drive transformation within organizations. With an impressive background as a former United Nations Peacekeeper and NATO Commander, Urs brings a wealth of experience and leadership expertise to the stage. His powerful keynotes have garnered him a reputation as a motivational speaker who ignites change and delivers exceptional results.

Urs Koenig’s keynotes are tailored to inspire, motivate, and unlock the full potential of teams within your organization. Drawing from his extensive leadership background, he shares powerful insights on effective leadership, overcoming obstacles, and embracing innovation. Urs understands the importance of driving peak performance, and his dynamic presentations leave audiences energized and ready to take action.

What sets Urs Koenig apart is his ability to translate his experiences into practical strategies and actionable tools that provide tangible results. His no-nonsense approach ensures that your team will walk away with the knowledge and resources needed to drive real change within your organization. From enhancing leadership skills to fostering a culture of innovation, Urs equips your managers with the necessary tools to navigate the ever-evolving business landscape.

Don’t miss the opportunity to unlock the full potential of your teams and position your organization for sustainable success. Book Urs Koenig as your keynote speaker and embark on a transformative journey that surpasses even your loftiest goals.

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RADICAL HUMILITY: Be a Bad-Ass Leader & 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.
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The 5 Shifts of then to now Leadership: Energize, Engage & 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.
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Urs was not only a phenomenal speaker, but he was also a great collaborator as we prepared for our event. Urs truly worked to understand our organization's mission and culture and made strong connections to our organization throughout his talk and activities. Our team was impressed by Urs's flexibility and commitment to aligning his work with the rest of our day. Leaders left feeling energized and had a tangible focus area to talk away and start implementing immediately. Urs felt like more than just a speaker, he felt like our strategic partner.

Tiffany Nieman

MSIO, Director of Organizational Development

Impactful. Urs delivered an opening keynote that kept the crowd engaged and wanting more. His thoughtful delivery was filled with humor and storytelling that showcased his impressive career and lived examples of exemplary leadership. A must attend!

John Alaimo

Leader, Amazon

Urs presentation was fantastic. He brings a distinctive and exciting view on leadership and leading personal and professional change. His illustrations and examples resonate powerfully and his approach to motivating change is compelling. Urs gives a very tight, energetic and extremely enjoyable and inspiring presentation that never wavers or falters. His is a unique and diverse worldview and it resonates with authenticity.

Mark Davila

Director Strategic Affiliate Partnerships, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Urs, wow, that was incredible! Your excellent opening keynote nailed it by setting the tone for our symposium. We received lots of positive feedback from audience members on how much they enjoyed your talk and how useful it will be in their work with their teams.

Erika Berndt

HR Director Microsoft
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5 out of 5 stars

Urs, wow, that was incredible! Your excellent opening keynote nailed it by setting the tone for our symposium. We received lots of positive feedback from audience members on how much they enjoyed your talk and how useful it will be in their work with their teams.

Erika Berndt, HR Director Microsoft See all references

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