The future is now

On 3rd August 2017, I announced my retirement from active sport. Since then, so many unbelievable things have happened: my book, Challenge Management, made it onto the bestseller list for business publications in just four weeks. At the Web Summit in Lisbon, I had the opportunity to speak in front of more than 15,000 people about the problem with problems, and the fun of challenges – and about how experience from elite sport can be applied to our (working) lives: by training our agility, concentration, durability, and coordination in order to achieve our goals more easily. We celebrated a very inspiring graduation ceremony with our second cohort of students, who completed our CAS in Change and Innovation Management at the University of St Gallen. The keen new graduates are now highly motivated to apply their Challenge-Management knowhow in their companies and organisations. The Klitschko Ventures team has continued to grow, and we are working on ground-breaking projects and partnerships – e.g. with Deutsche Telekom, SAP, McFIT, Porsche to name but a few. But for me, the most important thing was encountering so many inspiring, moving, fascinating people that have made it their mission to do meaningful things. All of them have renewed my motivation to continue along this path: using “willpower“ to transform problems into challenges, and approach them with courage and optimism. 

I can’t wait for the future! And it begins today. I want to shape events – with people who think and act creatively. 

Together, we are the driving force!