Energizing
Actionable
Passionate Delivery
Lasting Impact
Tangible Take-Aways
Learn more about Urs’ unique leadership expertise & remarkable achievements in ultra endurance competition, academia, business and military peacekeeping.
Explore Urs' THEN to NOW principles that are proven, powerful, and battle-tested by today’s high-stakes and fast-paced business environment.
Discover how clients have been transformed by working with Urs and the impact his message has had on organizations around the globe.
Contact Urs today to explore the fit, set up a keynote action plan, and transform your audience, shifting from THEN to NOW leadership.
Shift from THEN to NOW
How has what we’ve learned about leadership of the past changed the way we lead today? How do we best inspire our people in today's fast paced, high stake business environment?
THEN, executives and managers used heavy-handed scare tactics to try and pull productivity out of their employees. NOW, sharing and empowering are two of the most important tasks managers must master. THEN, all employees focused on the boss. NOW, managers and employees work and learn together in service of the mission. From kicking down to helping up. From hidden agendas to radically transparent sharing.
Urs Koenig and his five-part leadership model is your guide to shifting from THEN to NOW, that will transform your leadership, your teams, and your organization.
It’s High Time to Shift Our
Leadership from THEN to NOW
Shifting our leadership from THEN to NOW sets our organization up for success in today's fast paced business environment. Each of the five shifts can transform both individuals and organizations.
Shift #1: The Leadership Funeral:
If we want something new, we need to kill something old. Celebrate the THEN for what it was, give it its place in the sun and bury it to make room for bigger, better, more relevant NOW leadership.
Shift #2: Radical Transparency:
To get ahead and win in todays’ fast paced business climate, our employees need to make quick decisions independently. Not waiting for direction from the top. To empower employees to take fast NOW action at the front lines, we need to share more. Share more by leading with Radical Transparency.
Shift #3: Tough on Results, Tender on People:
Being both tough on results and tender on people, having both high standards and high touch is the ultimate yin yang of NOW leadership.
Shift #4: Eyes On, Hands Off:
Employees who are empowered to make fast decisions independently will drive our success. Success as a leader is measured by how the ship runs when you aren’t there. That is true NOW leadership.
Shift #5: Champion of the Culture:
Culture eats strategy for breakfast, meaning: As NOW leaders we are responsible for driving our company's and our team’s culture. Great leadership is not about individual excellence but about our ability to drive the culture of our organization.
“Thank you so much for the productive and inspiring session yesterday. We already used much of what was gained during our time with. The progress was significant!”
Speaking Topic 1 + Outcomes
THE 5 SHIFTS OF THEN TO NOW LEADERSHIP: How to Energize, Engage and Empower in a Complex World
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.
Speaking Topic 2 + Outcomes
RADICAL HUMILITY: How to Be a Kick-Ass Boss and a Good Human in a Messy World
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.
“What a wonderful keynote address!!! It resonated with me and I will definitely be implementing new leadership strategies thanks to you!”
Top 10 Reasons to Book Urs
1. Captivating Delivery
Urs’ compelling presence brings a refreshingly direct and honest style to every speech that’s absent in many ‘motivation’-centric keynotes.
2. Inspire Action in Your Audience
No vague motivational phrases, no generalizations about management. Your audience will leave with actionable steps to maximize leadership potential.
3. No Drama
Urs is extremely easy to work with. Zero drama here! He will do everything to make your life as easy as possible before, during and after the speech.
4. True Excellence Across Multiple Disciplines
Skiing. Military Leadership. Ultra-endurance. Executive Coaching. Academia. Urs has developed, and refined his leadership expertise across a wide range of fields.
5. Authenticity You Can Feel
Urs approaches every speech from a deeply personal place, weaving together personal stories of struggle and triumph with widely applicable leadership principles.
6. Commitment to Growth
Urs doesn’t consider himself having ‘made’ it. Between keynote talks, he’s still out leading, achieving, and refining all that he knows about leadership. Most recently, in 2021, on a 12 month military peacekeeping mission in the Middle East.
7. High-Energy, High-Impact
Urs is a passionate, enthusiastic, and energetic speaker who will engage your audience from the first word and keep them captivated until the last.
8. A Service Mindset
A successful keynote is all about serving the needs of the audience. It’s never about the speaker. Urs will go out of his way to understand your audience and their pain points and deliver a speech catered to their needs while helping you achieve your goals for the meeting.
9. Fact-Based Instruction
Urs combines his real-world experience with what data tells us about leadership to deliver a combination of personal anecdotes and proven techniques.
10. Speaking from a Place of Empathy
Urs truly wants each member of each audience to excel— and they can feel it. He’ll make a meaningful emotional connection with your audience throughout the event.
