Andreas Kuffner
Andreas Kuffner – Olympic champion, world champion, and expert in team and cultural development
Andreas Kuffner uniquely combines the world of elite sports with systemic consulting and coaching. He made sporting history with the legendary German eight: after 24 years, the team managed to win gold again at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In addition to this gold medal, he also won silver, world championship titles, and numerous World Cup victories.
Today, he brings his experience from high-performance sports to his work—with clear impetus for team development, resilience, and value-adding corporate cultures. This makes him one of the most sought-after experts and inspiring speakers in this field.
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.
Wolfram Sauer's opinion on Andreas Kuffner
Andreas Kuffner is not only an Olympic and world champion – he is a true team player with depth. In his lectures, he manages to transfer the principles of top-class sport to business – authentically, inspiringly and practically. His experience from the world elite of rowing, coupled with his in-depth knowledge of team and cultural development, make him an exceptional speaker. Anyone who wants to understand how true high performance is achieved in a team and what it takes to surpass oneself as a unit should experience Andreas Kuffner. A lecture that has a lasting effect – on a personal as well as a business level.
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