Olympic Champion in the German Rowing Eight, Expert on Leadership, Resilience building & Mental strength

Andreas Kuffner is an Olympic and World Champion, Expert in team development, increasing resilience and value-creating cultural development.

Andreas Kuffner is an extraordinary personality who combines the world of top-class sport with systemic consulting and coaching. He has made history with the German eight. After 24 years, they succeeded in winning Olympic gold again in London in 2012. He has achieved the highest sporting honors and, in addition to two Olympic medals (gold and silver), has won world championship titles and World Cup victories.

His experience in high-performance sport, coupled with his in-depth work in the areas of team dynamics and value-creating cultural development, make him a sought-after expert and inspirational speaker.

Andreas Kuffner Lecture topics

  • Leadership in complex times – turning change and setbacks into real opportunities
  • Coherence and Peak Performance: How people and teams achieve the highest form of effectiveness
  • Resilience and antifragility: Dealing with change and setbacks and why it takes more than resilience
  • High performance in a crisis: A path to the highest form of performance, even when everything on the outside speaks against it
  • Team dynamics and leadership in complex and dynamic environments: What we can learn from an Olympic champion about successful collaboration and effective leadership.
  • Value-adding corporate culture: What cultural development really means and how it can succeed.

With Andreas Kuffner, you gain a personality who gets to the heart of how personal excellence, effective teamwork and a coherent culture form the basis for top performance in every life and work situation.

Lectures and workshops with depth and added value

Andreas Kuffner’s presentations are more than just inspiring stories from the world of top-class sport. They offer profound insights into the dynamics of teams, the art of resilience and the development of cultural frameworks that are sustainable in the long term. With his proof of concept as an Olympic champion and respected team and organizational developer and his authentic presence as well as clear impulses, he conveys how principles from elite Olympic sport can be made fruitful for leadership and corporate culture.

Coherence as the key to sustainable success and resilience

With his coherence approach, Andreas Kuffner offers a unique perspective on how people and teams can maintain stability and clarity in challenging times. Coherence describes a state that makes top performance possible through a connection between meaning, self-efficacy and belonging, even in highly pressurized and stressful situations and during transformations. An approach that is decisive for success both in top-class sport and in companies. Andreas Kuffner shows how this approach can be applied to the resilience of individuals and organizations in order to promote sustainable value creation.

Experiences that inspire and move

As a top athlete, Andreas has learned to deliver top performance under extreme pressure and to continuously achieve top goals as part of a team. He brings these skills to his work as an expert, consultant and speaker. With projects in the areas of team and organizational development, increasing resilience and creating value-creating corporate cultures, he has holistically supported numerous managers, teams and organizations in taking their collaboration to a new level. His world is the highest form of performance and effectiveness.

Andreas Kuffner: Creating spaces for connection, effectiveness and adventure – that is his mission and he devotes himself to it with passion, creativity and dedication.

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Andreas Kuffner - from Olympic champion in the German eight to one of the most important and successful experts in team development and resilience building. Especially now, in challenging times, Andreas Kuffner offers holistic approaches to teamwork, departmental development, leadership and high performance that companies need to get through the crisis successfully. Book Andreas Kuffner for presentations and workshops with the Premium Speakers Bureau.