Cornelia Choe – the “5 Premium Speakers Questions”

09. December 2024 – Mandy Weinand

Cornelia Choe is an internationally recognised expert in leadership and innovation and CEO of The Leaders Alliance, an organisation that supports top leaders worldwide.

With her extensive experience, she guides CEOs, C-suite members and vice presidents from various industries, including multilateral organisations, governments and global corporations, on their journey through transformative change. She combines a deep understanding of human dynamics with the ability to foster collective synergies.

Having grown up on three continents and lived in seven countries, Cornelia Choe is characterised by an unwavering passion for connection and diversity. At the age of 17, she led an initiative to connect female CEOs and the following year spoke at a United Nations conference on change management and leadership. Her education at Georgetown University and Harvard Kennedy School underpinned her practical experience with sound theory.

Today, Cornelia Choe inspires people around the world through her speeches on topics such as leadership, innovation and diversity. She lives with her family in Switzerland and, with The Leaders Alliance, is dedicated to her mission of shaping transformative leadership and global collaboration in a sustainable way.

Cornelia Choe in an interview:

1. What are the core subjects of your keynote speeches?

Cornelia Choe:

In my lectures I talk about:

  • Leadership – From Permacrisis to Possibility
  • Change Management – Embracing the Unknown
  • Innovation – The Power of the Unseen
  • Connection – Inside Out and Outside In
  • Collaboration – Seeing 360
  • Coaching – Thriving in Uncertainty
  • Diversity & Inclusion – The Art of Microtranslation: Bridging Different Thinking

Each of these talks can be individual speeches or brought together as a masterclass.

2. Which audience or which branch do you reach with your speech?

Cornelia Choe:

I have addressed many corporate, nonprofit and governmental executives but also a wide variety of ages, geographies and industries.

3. Are you a PREMIUM SPEAKER? Where do you get your insights from?

Cornelia Choe:

I get my insights everywhere – while coaching others, while on a walk, while explaining things to my children, while reading books, and even just sitting on an airplane: I get insights on people, dynamics in the world, the way momentum works, trying to see into the future or noticing things around my immediate environment. I try to always write them down as I get them (although not always possible)!

4. What will be in the future? Does «time» play an important role in your work?

Cornelia Choe:

Most of my ideas are timeless, since they are about human beings instead of any one state of the world.

I do address change, which is accelerating in speed and intensity, and makes my message all the most relevant today. And will be even more relevant in the future given that change will not slow down but only get faster and more intense.

5. Tell us your life motto? What do you want to give your listeners to take with them?

Cornelia Choe:

“Lead the change you wish to see in the world.”

Cornelia Choe

CEO The Leaders Alliance, Leadership Expert, Investor & Board Member