Urs KoenigKeynote Speaker | Leadership Expert, Bestselling Author & UN Peacekeeper

Tough on Results, Tender on People

When companies need to inspire, engage, and develop their people while at the same time delivering stellar results in today's hyper-competitive and complex business environment, they call Urs Koenig. Urs is a bestselling and award-winning author and one of the world's top thought leaders on humble leadership. His message of Radical Humility in leadership draws on his world-spanning career growing leaders on four continents. Urs' research-backed Radical Humility Framework is packed with tangible tools and practical takeaways, leaving audience members with the ultimate actionable blueprint for a new type of leader for a new type of world.

Biography

Urs 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 ultra-endurance 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.