Urs Koenig

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

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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.

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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.

Unlock unparalleled leadership potential with Urs Koenig. As a bestselling author and UN peacekeeper, Urs delivers transformative insights on humble leadership. His Radical Humility framework, endorsed by global giants like Amazon and Microsoft, offers actionable strategies to elevate your leadership game. Join Urs to revolutionize your approach and achieve unprecedented success!

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Keynotes

Keynote by speaker Urs Koenig: Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader AND a Good Human

With the world changing faster than ever before, increasing business competition, rapid technological change, and an incredibly diverse generation entering the workforce, a new, elevated style of leadership is required. This modern form of leadership is called leading with Radical Humility; a more human-centered approach that views humility as a key strength to achieving goals in today's complex world.

Radical Humility unlocks exactly how to deliver stellar business results with teams looking to mitigate burnout, overwhelm, exhaustion, resistance, and high turnover while promoting productivity, engagement, innovation, and creativity.

In this timely, highly actionable, and interactive keynote, Urs helps audience members implement his deeply researched and battle-tested Radical Humility framework that is grounded in his career in the leadership trenches as a UN peacekeeper, business executive, veteran executive coach, ultra-endurance champion, and widely published professor growing leaders on four continents.

Audience members will leave this presentation inspired by moving leadership stories and with a hands-on, concrete, and easy-to-use Radical Humility toolkit they can immediately implement to create a high-performance culture that is ‘tough on results and tender on people’.

Actionable Takeaways Tailored to Each Audience:

Master the three-pillared Radical Humility Framework to drive engagement and productivity.

Discover why digging deep for increased self-awareness is key to winning and how to go about it.

Learn the one critical skill that is required to fail successfully and embrace a growth mindset.

Learn how to drive high-performance team engagement by applying compassion while upholding the highest productivity standards.

Learn how to build a fearless team by championing a culture of psychological safety, including an easy-to-implement exercise that you can try at your next team meeting.

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Keynote by speaker Urs Koenig: THEN to NOW Leadership: How to Engage and Empower in a Complex World

Business leaders in today’s fast-paced, disruptive, and volatile business climate face leadership challenges that did not exist even five years ago: Delivering top business results with a highly diverse work force that is dealing with burnout, mental health challenges, and low retention. To successfully tackle these challenges, a new kind of leadership is required—a kind of leadership that lets go of what we used to do back THEN and embraces what we need to do NOW to drive stellar business results while deeply engaging our team members.

In this inspiring, interactive, and actionable presentation, Urs guides his audience through the implementation of his proprietary THEN to NOW leadership framework, which is based on his world-spanning career of developing leaders on four continents as a UN peacekeeper, executive, seasoned executive coach, ultra-endurance champion, and widely published professor.

Audience members will leave this presentation energized and ready to take action. They will walk away with a tangible and concrete THEN to NOW toolkit that includes a focus on psychological safety, empowerment, belonging, and a growth mindset that leaders can immediately implement to fully engage their people while holding them to the highest standard. The result is that the team members can do what matters most: delight customers and take care of each other along the way.

Actionable Takeaways Tailored to Each Audience:

Master the 5 THEN to NOW Leadership Shifts to drive engagement, retention, and productivity.

Discover why focus and saying ‘no’ are two of the most important ingredients for success, including a practical, hands-on exercise.

Learn how to apply compassion while upholding the highest standards.

Discover how to build a fearless team by championing a culture of psychological safety, including an easy-to-implement exercise that you can try at your next team meeting.

Learn how to delegate and empower comprehensively.

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Customer Reviews

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

Urs' speech was absolutely incredible! Great energy and fantastic message. There were so many great nuggets of information, I couldn't write fast enough. I highly recommend Urs as a speaker for your next event. Outstanding!

Paris Ervin Senior Director Media and Public Affairs, Illinois Health and Hospital Association

Urs has a special talent for engaging his audience while sharing hard-hitting wisdom about managing in today's challenging environment. He speaks authoritatively and with empathy. A 10 out of 10.

George Noroian President, Giant Leap

Urs Koenig

Unlocking New Levels of Achievement: Inspiring Leadership Keynotes

Urs is a bestselling author, one of the world’s leading experts on humble leadership, a former UN peacekeeper and NATO peacekeeping commander, a highly accomplished ultraendurance champion, a widely published professor, and a seasoned executive coach and keynote speaker with more than three decades of experience helping hundreds of leaders and dozens of executive teams unlock new levels of achievement across four continents.

Urs Koenig's message transcends industries and hierarchies, offering practical solutions to the challenges of modern leadership. His latest book, “Radical Humility,” chronicles his journey from executive coach to NATO peacekeeping commander, unveiling a new approach to leadership that emphasizes humility as a strength in today’s complex world. The deeply researched framework outlines five essential shifts to elevate leadership from Heroic to Humble, providing readers with actionable tools and practical takeaways to navigate the ever-changing landscape of leadership.

He is the founder of the Radical Humility Leadership Institute and speaks frequently on the topic of leadership to corporations and associations across the globe. His message of Radical Humility in leadership has inspired teams from across the spectrum, including Amazon, Starbucks, the Society of Human Resource Management, Vistage, the University of Melbourne, and Microsoft.

He holds a PhD in geography and a Master of Science from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

When you book Urs Koenig for your event, you're not just hiring a speaker; you're inviting a catalyst for change. With a background as a bestselling author, UN peacekeeper, and NATO commander, Urs brings a wealth of real-world experience to the table. His insights into humble leadership have resonated with audiences across the globe, from corporate giants like Amazon and Starbucks to esteemed institutions like the University of Melbourne.