Talks & keynotes
Keynotes and workshops for companies, leadership teams and sports events. Former rowing world champion Jonas Kilthau shows where performance gets lost when it counts, and why the inside decides whether the outside pays off.
Former rowing world champion
MSc Management, Strategy & Consulting
Host of The Regulated Athlete podcast
Why elite sport belongs in your company
Six months before Rio, every test said I was in the best shape of my life. Then my body shut down on the ergometer. Outside, everything was in place: coach, plan, team, data. Inside, the system had been running on reserve for too long. In companies we see the same pattern. The strategy is right, the team is right, and on the day that counts, part of the performance is missing.
The model behind every talk
Outside is what everyone sees: strategy, team, tools, numbers. Inside decides whether it lands: sleep, energy, body, mind, digestion. If the inside sits at 0.8, it brakes everything you’ve built on the outside.
Talks & formats
Every format ends with the same thing: each person knows where they lose performance, and what the first step is.
What a world champion overlooked six months before the Olympics, and what it means for your team. The story, the model, and the five signals that show the loss early.
Why a company runs on the inside of the people who lead it. Outside × inside, how the three levels affect each other, and what leaders can start with tomorrow.
Recovery speed as a leadership factor. Hands-on: the team finds its blind spots and leaves with concrete steps for a full calendar.
What makes it different
During the talk, every participant takes our 3-minute analysis on their phone. Each person sees their own strongest warning signal right away. Afterwards you get the overall picture of the room: which signal costs your team the most right now.
Who it’s for
Who’s speaking
Former rowing world champion. MSc Management in Strategy & Consulting, with a master’s thesis on ecosystems. Organisational development at the Chamber of Crafts in Ulm. Today he works with athletes and entrepreneurs on the blind spot between microbiome, nervous system and identity, together with Ines, European rowing champion and sports scientist.
Podcast guests include Anne Haug, Ironman world champion, and Lubos Bilek, the coach behind Sebastian Kienle.
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Questions
Because the mechanisms are the same. Load, pressure, recovery, the one day that counts. In elite sport you see them earlier and more clearly. Add a master’s in strategy and years in organisational development, and the bridge to your everyday work is built in.
A clear picture of where they personally lose performance, an understanding of why it happens, and one first step that fits into a full calendar.
It’s a talk with a story, a model and studies behind it. Calm, honest and close to real life. People tend to remember the story and use the model.
Both. We come to your event or join online, in English or German.
That depends on format, length and audience. Tell us date, place, group size and what you have in mind, and we’ll get back to you with a proposal.
Next step
Send us date, place, audience and format. We’ll get back to you personally.
