Lisa Eckhardt – Surfer Mindset for Companies, Managers and Employees

Management and extreme sports have many parallels. Courage and a willingness to take risks, for example. But there is much more that we can learn from athletes in everyday business life. Kite surfer Lisa Eckhardt shows you! Open your mindset and get to know six essential factors that you associate with a surfer.

Imagine you are far out at sea – there is no land in sight – and suddenly a steering line of your kite breaks! What do you do? Many people would react in panic in this situation. With good reason – because being helpless, without orientation and without a clear idea of what to do next is not a good feeling.

Employees feel the same way when their company unexpectedly finds itself in a crisis. Suddenly there is uncertainty at all levels. Disorientation. And for some people, perhaps even sheer fear. The result is reduced performance and declining employee motivation – the beginning of a downward spiral from which many companies have not been able to escape.

As a passionate kitesurfer, Lisa Eckhardt is not only crisis-tested on the water, but also in business. In her lectures, the crisis manager shows how your employees can skilfully weather the storm. Because one thing is clear: we often cannot change the daily challenges, but we can change the way we deal with them.
Kitesurfers have to constantly adapt to the often rapidly changing weather conditions without losing courage and motivation. Unpredictable changes are normality. For entrepreneurs, too, change can be challenging and demanding. Lisa Eckhardt shows how we can use change to bring a breath of fresh air back into the minds of employees and into the entire company.

Lecture topics by Lisa Eckhardt

• Crisis Management Nordic Style
• Fresh wind through change
• Modern Leadership

Lisa Eckhardt is an interim manager, leadership coach and passionate kitesurfer. Nordic clear in her statements, she radiates pure motivation in her presentations. As a kitesurfer, she knows that the real fun only begins when others have long since stopped daring to enter the water. For more than 10 years, the business informatics graduate has accompanied companies on their successful way through small and large crises. Renowned companies such as Porsche, Audi or Deutsche Post call on the expert precisely when things get really stormy. Her lectures are packed with stormy experiences, trend-setting recommendations for action and decisive impulses on topics such as crisis management, change, courage, doer mentality, pragmatism and modern leadership.