Daniel Vonier

Leadership means taking responsibility!

Daniel Vonier is an independent Leadership Designer, organizational consultant, and sought-after keynote speaker. His passion lies in the future of work, leadership, and collaboration. With deep expertise from global leadership roles at DAX corporations and startups, he supports companies in developing effective, agile organizational structures. As a systemic coach and author, he combines scientific depth with pragmatic implementation. Daniel inspires people to take action and organizations to evolve. Book him for insights on agile leadership, transformation, and meaningful work.

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Shaping the Future of Work – Rethinking Leadership, Making Organizations Effective

Daniel is an independent leadership designer, organizational consultant, systemic coach, and sought-after keynote speaker. His passion lies in the future of work, leadership, and collaboration. He helps companies question traditional structures and develop effective, agile organizational forms – for more meaning, impact, and future viability. His work operates at the intersection of leadership, culture, and transformation.

From DAX Corporations to Start-ups – Insights with Substance and Relevance

Daniel brings deep expertise from global leadership roles at Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP – particularly in leadership development, talent management, organizational development, and cultural transformation. Today, he works with SMEs, tech start-ups, and scale-ups, providing practical, innovative approaches in transformation processes. His insights are applicable for leaders, HR professionals, and transformation drivers of all company sizes.

Thinking Systemically, Acting for the Future

As a systemic coach, university lecturer, and author of the book Unlearning Hierarchy – A Journey into Self-Organization, Daniel combines scientific depth with pragmatic implementation. His keynotes and workshops offer new perspectives on self-organization, new leadership models, and meaningful work. He inspires people and drives organizations forward.

Why Daniel is the Right Catalyst for Your Company

• Multifaceted perspective: Combining DAX experience with start-up mentality
• Rethinking leadership: Agile, collaborative, and effective
• Transformation from practice: For HR, management, and teams
• Strong bridge-builder: Between strategy, culture, and tangible implementation

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Shape the future of work, leadership, and organizations – with an expert who not only understands change but actively shapes it.

Topics

Unlearning Hierarchy - Expedition into self-organisation

How can we create freedom away from inflexible bureaucracy and rigid organisation without losing ourselves?
How can we find the right balance between hierarchy and self-organisation?
A journey along aha-experiences, breakthroughs and setbacks to distributed leadership, networked organisations and effective organisational processes.
Applicable and pragmatic transfer ideas for every work context.
Don't abolish hierarchies, but rethink and redesign them!

Future-Fit Leadership: Effective leadership in the spirit of the times

Understanding the spirit of the times: Social trends for future leadership.
Agile leadership: Key qualities for adaptability.
Empowerment and decentralisation in teams.
Human leadership: empathy and emotional intelligence.
Measuring success in a changing business environment.

Real work vs. new work: perspectives for the future of work beyond buzzwords

Evolution of the world of work: traditions vs. modern concepts.
Practical implementation of New Work in companies.
Employee needs and expectations in the modern world of work.
Technology and flexibility in the way we work.
Sustainability and purpose in the future of work.

Culture Change & Transformation: Agile and meaningful organisations for a dynamic world

Cultural change: Why is it more crucial than ever?
Agile culture: key components for adaptability and flexibility.
Leadership in change: How do leaders lead cultural change?
Transformation - a journey without a destination.
Practical tips and examples to make our organisations more flexible, adaptable and self-organised.

and much more.

References & Press

"Recommended for anyone who is committed to more innovative strength, more agility and self-organisation - and really wants to make a difference"

Tim Höttges - CEO Deutsche Telekom AG

"Confirmation and incentive at the same time. We will only make organisations more resilient, more courageous, more effective and therefore ultimately more successful organisations if we think of them as an agile community within which we maximise both the degree of autonomy of its members and the understanding of the common direction."

Fabian Kienbaum - Co-CEO Kienbaum Consultants International GmbH

"Hierarchy means order and has an important regulatory function in an organisation. If this order is abused and responsibility is passed on, then we cannot be successful. Unlearning Hierarchy shakes people up and inspires them to take responsibility - at every level."

Frauke von Polier - Head of Human Resources at Viessmann Climate Solutions SE

"Unlearning Hierarchy provides concrete help for all those who want to change something in organisations and rethink structures or have had enough of rigid hierarchies and power struggles."

Cawa Younosi - former Head Of People & Member of the Executive Board SAP Germany

"Daniel Vonier puts his finger in the wound. He doesn't come around the corner with new tools. On the contrary: he talks openly about the pain that transformations sometimes bring. A company has to go through this if it really wants to allow self-organisation. Unlearning hierarchies is a pretty tough process."

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