What does it take to build a thought leadership business over 25 years? Urs Koenig shares with Michi Lantz how radical humility shaped his journey from burnout to keynote speaking, the loneliness of solopreneurship, and why life plan must come before business plan.

Urs Koenig is a bestselling and award-winning 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.

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, Google, the Society of Human Resource Management, HP, NATO, Vistage, 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.

Urs is the loving father of two teenage boys who make commanding soldiers look easy. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Connect with Urs Koenig
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urs-koenig-ab3828/
Website: https://www.urskoenig.com/

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Credits:
Host & Producer: Michi Lantz
Editor: Michi Lantz
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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