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GLOBAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER, AUTHOR & ECONOMIST CONTENTS PLEASED TO MEET YOU! 4 CREATING A CHANGE EXPERIENCE There´s nothing more important to me, than building lasting relationships. With my clients, 6 ILJA GRZESKOWITZ, CSP, FPSA my business partners and my friends. For a long time, I have stopped thinking in the usual 8 ONE MAN, MANY TALENTS B2B or B2C categories. No, my philosophy is H2H, human to human. That´s what I really be- 10 KEYNOTE SPEAKER MADE IN GERMANY lieve in. Because even if content, quality and ex- pertise are still very important factors, it always 12 KEYNOTE: CHANGE comes down to culture, values and our attitude, when we make the decision with whom we 14 KEYNOTE: TRANSFORMATION chose to work with. Wouldn´t you agree? 15 KEYNOTE: VUCA WORLD My team and I are happy to help 17 HOST OF THE ANNUAL CHANGE AWARD How may we serve you? Do you want to hire me for a keynote speech or a motivational pre- 18 CLIENTS AND TESTIMONIALS Dear Readers, sentation. Are you or your company facing any kind of change process and need support in 26 BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WRITER thank you so much for connecting. It´s a great dealing with these challenges? Are you inte- honour, that you are interested in my work as an rested in one of my open seminars or personal keynote speaker, bestselling author and change coaching programs? Together with my team, expert. As I know that time is your most scarce I am more than happy to help you to get the resource, I am very grateful that you made the results you want. As a keynote speaker, chan- decision to get to know me a little better. Hence, ge expert or sparring partner. Just let us know I produced this profile with a different approach. what we can do for you and we´ll get back to On the one side, I´d like to give you an in you as soon as possible. depth look into my keynotes, books and 2 general philosophy on the topic of chan- We´d love to hear from you. 3 ge. But do you know what would real- ly make me happy? If you´d get an idea With kind regards, who I am as a person, what makes me tick and what drives me as an entrepreneur, father and family man. www.grzeskowitz.com CREATING A CHANGE EXPERIENCE FOR OUTSTANDING CONFERENCES, EVENTS AND MASTERCLASSES Ilja Grzeskowitz is a global conference spe- aker on change, innovation and transforma- tion. He was an executive manager for Ger- many´s largest retail corporation Karstadt as well as for IKEA, before he started his own consulting company in 2009. The keynote speaker held guest lecturing positions at the Keynote at the 2016 Business Forum in Ingolstadt Berlin School of Law and Economics and the SRH University in Berlin, and regularly travels around the world to research future trends and developments in the field of change ma- nagement. As an author, he has published ten books (among them three bestsellers), which have been translated into ten different languages and hundreds of thousand copies worldwi- de. Being nicknamed „Mr. Change“ by his clients, the studied economist inspires peo- „ ple to develop a changemaker mindset and Iljas Keynote Speech at our Gene- supports organizations to establish a chan- ral Management Meeting exceeded ge culture that is based on purpose, diversity all expectations. His personal and and strong values. casual style makes his presentations Keynote Speech at a Sales Conference in Bangkok inspiring and motivating. Among his clients are big brands as Accor, Allianz, Audi, Bayer, BASF, Biogen, BMW, Beate Rosenfeld PRIMEPULSE SE / Head of Group Brand & Com- Cancom, Capri Sun, Continental, DPD, Kao, munication Lufthansa, Nespresso, Marriott, Mercedes, Pentax, P&G, Swiss, T-Mobile, Unitymedia or Zara as well as traditional middle sized com- panies. In his change programs, he combi- „ nes real-world expertise with inspiring story- telling and scientific evidence, and despite Changes start in the head. For ninety being German, rumour has it that he even has very inspiring minutes, Ilja Grzes- 4 humour. kowitz has shown us, how to create 5 the necessary mindset. If he is not speaking on a stage around the Theodor Micklinghoff world, he loves to play a round of golf, cheers Sales Director B2B / for his favourite football teams (ManU and Telekom Deutschland GmbH HSV) or enjoys as nice cup of coffee (always Closing Speech at the Global Speakers Summit in New Zealand black and lots of it). frustrated, so I gladly said yes, when I was always came and will come first. They are my ILJA GRZESKOWITZ, offered a contract by the Swedish furniture safe harbour and constantly„ give me strength company IKEA. During my time in the organi- and inspiration. But„ first of all the are my zation, I got to know the Scandinavian way of strong why, the rational and emotional rea- CSP, FPSA Thanks, Ilja, for sharing your pas- leadership as well as the other side of chan- son, that reminds me every single day, what GLOBAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER, AUTHOR ge – the innovative, active and future oriented drivession me for and change why my as big a chancegoal is to to change go AND ECONOMIST one. thebeyond world – our one self-created person at a limitations.time.son, that remindsYou metouched every singleand encouraged day, what drives our me FAMILY FIRST - and why my big goal is to change the world – town Lübeck to study economics and marke- SWISS audience with your witty life BUSINESS SECOND one person at a time. ting at the universities of Greifswald, Mann- and business anecdotes. Audience heim and Hamburg. But I wasn´t spending As much as I liked the retail business (and reviews stated it was the best event much time in the lecture hall, because I had I still do), as time went by, I discovered my of this kind ever!” so many awesome jobs. I worked as an inter- real passion: To work with the people. To ins- preter for a Texan construction company, dro- Elisabeth Tanke Sugimoto pire my employees, customers and business Senior Manager Culture, Change & Talent ve with Nigerian businessmen through rural partner to use the power of change to grow SWISS International Air Lines Ltd. northern Germany to buy armoured sedans, and get better. To understand what makes us was a business development manager for a tick and how we make our choices. And in software company and wrote business plans March 2008, in a traffic jam on the Autobahn, for StartUps in the age of the New Economy I made a choice that should change my life (yes, I´m that old). like no decision before: I quit my safe job as a corporate executive and started my own THE HARD SCHOOL OF company. WORKING IN RETAIL Since then I have published ten books (wich Despite all that I chose – driven by my fascinati- have been sold way over 100K times and HOWDIE, I´M ILJA GRZESKOWITZ on for sales and consumer behaviour – a pretty have been translated into lots of different conservative career in retail. At the age of twenty languages), gave hundreds of keynote spe- It´s not that easy to describe myself with just seven, I started as the youngest store manager eches for great clients all over the world and one word, because I´m constantly wearing so for Germany´s largest departement store chain awesome personalities hire me as their per- many different hats and my head is always full Karstadt, and for the next seven years I was sonal coach (wich makes me very grateful). of different ideas, so that I sometimes struggle responsible for ten different locations all over with focusing on whats really important. But the country, lead thousands of employees and In my one to one work, I help entrepreneurs, when I look back, there definitely is one cons- managed sales figures in the three digit million managers and executives to live a self-de- tant in my life: Change. The urge to question range. But while my career just began to kick termined life that is based on purpose and the status quo. To let go what used to work off, the organization driftet into a huge crisis, so freedom. On the other hand I support organi- and boldly try out new ways of doing things. that – together with my teams – I had to fight zations to develop a culture of change that is To live a life based on my own terms. Chan- various internal and external changes on a daily based on shared values, diversity and purpo- ge and transformation are the read thread that basis (think: VUCA). Locations, Strategies and se. And even if my team and I are celebrating have always accompanied me through the every single job could me gone from one day to the 10th business anniversary in 2019 (and various phases of my own development and the next, so uncertain was the permanent reor- I still enjoy to work hard and a lot), my family more than once have been the reason that ganization. As a leader, I had to shut down de- my life was heavily shaken and turned upside partment stores. lay of lots of good people, but 6 down from one moment to the other. was also able to plan and execute future orien- 7 ted projects. During my civil service – for the first time ever – the work with mentally and physically disabled When I was thirty three, I was in charge of one children showed me that there is more to life of the largest department stores of the country, than just the same old faster-harder-stronger.