Top Leadership Speaker
““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.””
Speaking Topic 1
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.
Speaking Topic 2
Tough on Results, Tender on People
How to Create Psychological Safety in Your Teams for Performance and Growth
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.
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.
Actionable Takeaways Tailored to Each Audience:
Master the Three Pillars of Psychological Safety to enhance trust, collaboration, and productivity.
Turn failures into growth by normalizing mistakes as an opportunity for growth and fostering fearless innovation.
Empower every voice by creating a culture where team members feel confident to speak up and share ideas.
Build trust through vulnerability by leading with authenticity and openness.
Walk away with actionable strategies, including a simple team exercise to cultivate a thriving, safe space.
Speaking Topic 3
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.
Watch Urs in Action
WATCH URS IN ACTION
WATCH URS IN ACTION
“Urs Keynote Presentation at our System-wide Quality Summit was stellar! He was engaging from start to finish, taught us all something new, enunciated his points with incredible stories and was humble to boot! I would highly recommend Urs and know that all 400 of us there benefitted!”
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.
