Keynotes
Inspiration for
Strategy &
Transformation
Keynotes, seminars, and expert presentations
Strategic capabilities create new perspectives, enhance knowledge and shape a common understanding. Strengthen the strategy competence of your employees and get them on board to shape strategic decisions or follow your chosen path. We provide you with inspiring keynotes, expert presentations or panel discussions, online trainings, as well as lectures and seminars on the topics of strategy, resilience, sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence. For more orientation, security and motivation in a turbulent environment.
- Keynotes at conferences, company anniversaries, conventions
- Expert presentations for companies, associations, societies
- Panel discussions (organization & moderation or participation)
- Lectures for universities, executive schools, and corporate academies
- University certificate programs upon request
- Online or In-Person
Create awareness for strategic change
With our keynotes, seminars, and expert presentations, you improve the situational awareness and strategic foresight of your company. You create a shared understanding of relevant strategic change requirements and enhance the innovative strength in your organization. As a result, your managers and employees will be enabled to recognize and implement strategic requirements in their specific work environment and to act as multipliers internally and externally.
Awareness for
Change
Strengthen understanding, sensitivity, and acceptance for the central megatrends of the 21st century in your organization.
Inspire a passion for
Strategy
Inspire your leadership teams to shape strategic change with confidence and determination.
Strengthen strategic competence
Improve the strategy literacy and confidence of your specialists, managers, and supervisory boards for effective dialogue with customers and business partners.
Promote
innovation
Increase business success through enhanced entrepreneurship, innovation and optimized business development.
Motivation
for the team
Motivate your teams to help shape the strategic course, implement it effectively, and act as multipliers.
Flexible
lifelong learning
Offer employees training with or without a university certificate for personal and flexible continuing education.
Testimonials
“You were a highlight of our ESG Community Days. Your inspiring keynote not only provided new ideas in terms of content but also sparked enthusiasm for the further implementation of sustainability within the ERGO Group. Our international managers were noticeably motivated after your presentation to achieve their goals in the various regions and companies.”
“Your inspiring presentation on 'Rethinking Strategic Management' at our Horváth Annual Conference on Strategic Management provided valuable ideas. You vividly demonstrated to our participants why sustainable strategizing is so important today – and who is already successful in it. Entertaining, well-founded, practice-oriented, and with great passion for the topic.”
"Thank you very much for your keynote on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and business strategy at our Sortimo Intelligent Mobility Campus on the occasion of our 50th company anniversary. We are thrilled, and we received consistently positive feedback from our audience – whether customers, partners, or employees."
"The joint seminar series on the strategic opportunities of sustainability was practical, clearly structured, and inspiring. The approach of connecting strategy, business models, and transformation convinced the participants and provided valuable ideas for implementation. We received consistently positive feedback – many thanks!"
The offer in Overview
Possible Focus Areas and Content
- Understanding the environment: Strategic foresight and new strategic thinking and action in times of uncertainty, disruption, and transformation (“Situational Awareness”)
- Clarifying strategies: Developing promising strategies as well as business models for realizing a triple dividend (profitable, resilient, sustainable)
- Creating a common direction: Convincing description and company-wide alignment of strategic goals (“Strategic Story Telling”)
- Preparing strategic control: Operationalization of strategies and coordination of strategic action programs (“Strategic Roadmapping”)
- Creating a strategy-focused organization: Integration of strategic goals into the operative management systems and processes (“Organizational Alignment”)
- Shaping change: Taking people with you on the transformation path and dealing effectively with values and areas of tension (“Transformation Management”)
- Enabling learning: Understanding strategy as a continuous and agile management process of optimizing and renewing (“Strategic Ambidexterity & Learning”)
- “AI-powered” integrated strategy process: Leveraging hybrid agentic AI-systems for faster, better, cost-effective, and scalable strategizing (“Strategy as a continuous process”)
Format
- Online or In-Person
- German or English
- Alone or in tandem
Possible occasions
- Keynote presentations at management conferences, company anniversaries, conventions
- Seminars/training courses for managers – open & in-house
- Expert presentations for companies, associations, societies
- Panel discussions (topic finding, organization & moderation)
- Panel discussions (discussion participant as expert and source of inspiration)
- Video training for location- and time-independent qualification (eLearning)
- Lectures for universities, executive schools, and corporate academies
Previous topics of keynotes, seminars and expert presentations (selection)
- Understanding the resilience of business models
- “Rethinking Strategic Management” – Why future-oriented and sustainable strategy work is so important today – and who is already successful in it
- Business Model Innovation for Triple Dividends: improving profitability, resilience, and sustainability simultaneously.
- Transformation competence as a competitive advantage: Successfully implement strategies and business models and avoid typical pitfalls
- Using the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) to create sustainable business models
- Non-financial disclosure as a strategic opportunity: tools for linking non-financial goals with strategies, business models, and conrol
- Future-oriented mission statements and strategies: use double materiality analyses and new strategy patterns for corporate development
- Strategic Sustainability: sustainability as a competitive factor
- Our Common Future. Transformation in a Decade of Disruptions Ahead
- Sustainability and growth – contradiction or opportunity?
- Sustainable Strategic Management – Cornerstones of an Emerging Paradigm.
- “What Can My Business Do For Sustainability?” Using innovation to reach the next level of sustainability
- Strategy Refinement, Alignment, & Execution – An Overview of Best Practices
Previous panel discussions & symposia (selection)
Previous panel discussions & symposia (as organizer & moderator):
- Can Business Lead the Way to a Sustainable Future? (New Business Models Conference, Berlin)
- Competitive advantages through sustainability – How you can win in the competition in the long term with sustainable business models! (IHK Köln)
- Purpose Driven Strategizing – Competing Through Sustainability Oriented Values (Strategic Management Society Annual Conference, Paris)
Previous panel discussions & symposia (as discussion participant):
- Sustainability: Can start-ups save the climate? (Frankfurt Book Fair, Haufe/Google)
- Strong innovation system for sustainable impact (Chamber of Commerce Ulm/Uni Ulm)
- Contributions and role of the CFO for sustainable corporate governance (Chambers of Commerce in Bavaria/WK Salzburg)
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University Certificate Courses
Upon request, university certificate courses are also possible in collaboration with top business schools from our network. A particular concern is the best possible practical transfer, so that the imparted content can be implemented quickly and effectively.
Testimonials
"Thank you for years of excellent support to the EBS Executive School in developing and staffing future-oriented certificate programs and tailor-made company-specific training events. Content-wise at the highest level and at the same time very practice-oriented and directly applicable! We greatly appreciate the consistently very positive feedback from the participating executives - also regarding your own strategy modules as lecturer."
