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Executive coaching, one to one
Private · confidential
Built on my own framework, Personal Power Management and Mental Success Training, across four pillars. For leaders who need somewhere honest to think.
Executive coach · Leadership trainer · Mediator
Leadership is an adventure.So is the rest of your life.
Coaching, seminars and mediation for people who carry responsibility. More than four decades of practice. Based between Zurich and Dubai, working worldwide.
Darvaza, Turkmenistan
More than four decades inside demanding brands
- Porsche
- BMW
- Audi
- Mercedes-Benz
- Siemens
- Swiss Re
- UBS
- Vodafone
- Suzuki
- Alcatel
- Swiss Life
Trusted by leaders at these organisations and many others.
When people understand themselves, they lead others with more clarity and far less noise.
I am an executive coach, leadership trainer and mediator with a doctorate in philosophy and human behaviour. For more than four decades I have worked inside some of the world's most demanding brands, where excellence is not optional and people are the difference.
My work is with leaders and teams in transition: strengthening emotional intelligence, resilience and trust, and turning those into decisions that hold under pressure. Sometimes that is a quiet conversation over months. Sometimes it is two days in a room with twenty managers. Sometimes it is sitting between two people who have stopped listening to each other.
I still travel the way I coach. Curious, direct, and a long way from comfortable. In my seventies I have trekked the Andes and crossed Southeast Asia in the simplest way possible. Years ago I rode a motorcycle along the Silk Road to the burning crater the locals call the Door to Hell. That is not a hobby bolted onto the work. It is where the work comes from.
Three ways to work together
Each one starts with a conversation, not a contract. Pricing on enquiry, because the shape of the work depends on what you actually need.
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Excellency & Successful Leadership
Two-day seminar · 6–20 people
For managers and management trainees.
- Leadership, charisma and motivation
- Emotional intelligence and communication
- Conflict and team building
- The power of vision
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Professional Selling Skills & Outstanding Customer Satisfaction
Two-day seminar · 6–20 people
For sales and service teams.
- Power selling and customer relationships
- Difficult negotiations and complaints
- CRM and service culture
- My Ten Commandments for dealing with customers
Personal Power Management
A method I have carried for years. Less about technique, more about who a person becomes when the pressure arrives.
Mental energy
Emotional intelligence, and what you do with your own state before you manage anyone else's.
The power of thought
Clarity, focus and the quality of the decisions that follow from both.
Physical conditioning
Stamina is not separate from judgement. Tired people lead badly.
Behaviour & communication
Values, charisma, and how you actually land in a room.
The journeys are the proof
I do not coach adventure from a desk. The Andes on foot. The Silk Road by motorcycle. Four weeks alone through Vietnam. Namibia and Botswana next.
The best decisions of my life were not made at a desk.Dr. Kurt Hannig
From the autobahn to the boardroom
My career began in premium automotive. High-performance environments teach you something quickly: excellence always begins in the mindset and behaviour of people, never in the process diagram.
I work nationally and internationally as a trainer, coach, moderator and mediator across industry, retail, services and public institutions, and have taught customer-loyalty management at the Hochschule für Technik in Esslingen.
I am a lifelong learner and, outside the work, an adventurer. I draw what I know from nature, from people and from movement. I am based between Zurich and Dubai, and I work with people who want to lead with purpose and bring more clarity to their decisions, in business and in the rest of life.
- Experience
- 40+ years
- Qualifications
- PhD, Human Behaviour
- Based
- Zurich & Dubai
- Languages
- German & English
Start with a conversation
Tell me what you are carrying at the moment. If I am the right person for it, we will find that out quickly. If I am not, I will say so.
Zurich and Dubai. Working worldwide.