Bert Overlack

The future shows itself long before it arrives. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Bert Overlack, business graduate, speaker, author and entrepreneur, is an expert in human leadership and the management of companies in challenging change situations and critical business situations. He supports entrepreneurs, managing directors and successors in personal and corporate transformation processes as a sparring partner, trusted advisor and coach at eye level. His clients include well-known owner-managed and family-run companies as well as international corporations. He managed his own group of companies with more than 350 employees for over 16 years. In addition to company succession, international expansion and digitalization, he also mastered a market collapse, insolvency and a successful restart. As an entrepreneur, he knows peak times and existential fears from his own experience. Today, he shares his wealth of experience in inspiring talks and workshops with a high degree of practical relevance. He moves and inspires his audiences by combining science with personal experience and objectivity with emotion. He encourages people to accept challenges and changes and to actively shape the future.

Rates

Vita

Topics

Between peak times and existential fears: company and employee management in turbulent times

How to learn to recognize critical situations and their patterns in good time and thus ensure your company's long-term success
How to motivate your employees in a crisis and turn them from victims into participants
How to use methods to increase the resilience of your company, managers and employees
What now? Seven immediate measures for turbulent times

Why it depends on leadership: Innovation and creativity between organization, leadership and employees

How you can use the latest findings from my research on innovation, creativity and leadership for yourself and your company
How to create optimal conditions for creativity and innovation among your employees
How managers influence and promote creativity and innovation among employees

Nine ways out of the crisis: How our personality influences the way we deal with change

How your personality affects the way you deal with crises
How to recognize avoidance strategies in crises and how to counter them
How you can use human leadership to create optimal framework conditions to successfully master crises and implement changes with your team

Further topics:

Crises as a gift of life: Become who you are!

FuckUp! - Today's failures are tomorrow's successes Crises are part of the game: Learn the rules before you are forced to

Leadership begins in the minds of others! What characterizes good leaders from a neuroleadership perspective

References & Press

References (excerpt):

ALIUD PHARMA® GmbH
Appsphere AG
Bundesverband Creditmanagement e. V.
BVMW - Federal Association of Medium-Sized Businesses
Busch & Endres GmbH
European Commission
FuckUp Nights Inc.
Hch. Perschmann GmbH
ermann Bach GmbH & Co. KG
Lufthansa AG
ATECO2 - Hop Refinement St. Johann GmbH & Co. KG
Phytolab GmbH & Co. KG
Martin Reisch Automotive Engineering GmbH
Rehau AG & Co.
Speck Pumps GmbH & Co. KG
Steinbeis 2i GmbH
TEAM U Restart gGmbH
Weissman Institute for Family Business GmbH
Business Development Rheinfelden
Business development Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm
Start-up BW, Ministry of Economics Baden-Württemberg

"You managed to appeal to people. The group is very heterogeneous and it is therefore not easy to establish a common ground. By explaining theoretical models of (different) behavior (also in change processes), everyone felt addressed without being lectured at. This enabled the participants to accept the content very well. The common basis for further action was laid."
Ingrid Blumenthal, Managing Director ALIUD PHARMA® GmbH, Vice President Generics Germany

"Bert Overlack put the final "icing on the cake" on our executive fall retreat. Drawing on his own experience, Bert Overlack took us on the challenging and always unpredictable path of leadership in stormy times - and times are very stormy these days! With a wide variety of examples, Bert Overlack helped ensure that our retreat was a success for everyone with valuable insights. Thank you very much!"
Justus Perschmann, Hch. Perschmann GmbH

"Herr Overlack war Speaker auf der NEW WORK EVOLUTION 2019 in Karlsruhe und begeisterte die Teilnehmer mit seinem Vortrag, in dem es darum ging, wie Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter aus gescheiterten Projekten konstruktiv lernen können und diese zu Grundlagen zukünftiger Erfolge machen können - auch eine Fehler- bzw. Vertrauenskultur zulassaen. Herr Overlack hat das alles spannend und emotional verpackt - sehr empfehlenswert!"
Conny Fautz, Appsphere AG, #NEW WORK EVOLUTION 2019

"Ich war sehr neugierig, was mir der Vortrag von Bert Overlack auf der #Elevate2019 "Erfolg und Scheitern sind zwei Seiten einer Medaille" vermitteln würde. Bert sprach über den unvermeidlichen Zusammenhang zwischen Kontrollverlust, hohem Stresslevel und kognitiver Leistung. Er sprach über zweite Chancen. Was mir besonders gefiel, war, wie persönlich und doch universell seine Geschichte war. Wir konnten uns wirklich mit Berts Höhen und Tiefen identifizieren und in seinen Erfahrungen den Mut finden, unsere eigenen Herausforderungen zu meistern. Der Satz, der mich beeindruckt hat, war: "Wir scheitern nicht am Himmel". Ich mochte das Wortspiel und die Bedeutung des Satzes".
Nathalie Bagadey, AFCP