Urs Koenig

<ul><li><strong>Radical Humility: Be a Badass Leader AND a Good Human</strong></li><li>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.</li><li>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 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’.</li><li><strong>Tough on Results, Tender on People: How to Create Psychological Safety in Your Teams for Performance and Growth</strong></li><li>Psychological safety has become the foundation for building high-performing teams that can work more effectively together and navigate whatever change the world throws their way. It’s the secret ingredient that fuels innovation, engagement, and resilience in the face of uncertainty. Teams with high psychological safety, led by leaders who are ‘tough on results and tender on people’, consistently outperform others by fostering trust, enabling creativity, and deepening collaboration. These teams tackle challenges with confidence, openly communicate, admit mistakes, and explore new approaches without fear. The question is, how can leaders create psychological safety on their team while still being tough on the results they’re looking to achieve? UN peacekeeper and leadership expert Urs Koenig knows exactly how.</li><li>In this engaging and actionable keynote, Urs shares his deeply researched and battle-tested framework for fostering psychological safety, enabling leaders to embrace vulnerability, fail successfully, and empower every voice on their team. Drawing from his rich experiences as a UN peacekeeper, business executive, seasoned executive coach, ultra-endurance champion, and accomplished professor, Urs offers actionable and digestible insights shaped by his work with leaders across four continents that equip leaders to build the team of their dreams. Attendees will leave this presentation inspired by powerful leadership stories and armed with an actionable and practical toolkit to build a high-performance culture that prioritizes strong results while caring for people.</li><li><strong>THEN to NOW Leadership: How to Engage and Empower in a Complex World</strong></li><li>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 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 walk away energized and ready to take action, equipped 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. </li></ul><p><br></p>