"I wasn't born to be what others would like me to be! And that is my recipe for success.”

Philipp Hahn is one of the most sought-after strategy and transformation pioneers worldwide. His pragmatic recommendations do not come from the drawing board, but have already transformed international top corporations and their managers.

With his disruptive solutions, he regularly inspires his audience and safely guides international corporations through their transformation. Buckle up for uncomfortable truths, unconventional solutions and of course a lot of humor, because Philipp calls a spade a spade.

What makes you different from other speakers?

I live transformation. In more than 25 years of professional experience, I have managed over 500 transformation projects.
I grew up in the proverbial "engine room of change" and lend a hand wherever I'm needed. I write concepts, create measures and sometimes drive one of the trucks myself at the road shows for my customers.

With many of my clients I got to know more employees personally, trained them and worked out solutions with them than most of their top managers. At Airbus, for example, I met almost 20,000 people personally in change workshops and at roadshows, informed them, trained them and listened to them.

And I go on stage with these experiences: I report on the tough transformation front. I draw my experience from around 500 transformation projects from all industries, all of which I have managed myself.

Examples of successful disruptors?

Of course, the usual suspects like Google, Facebook, Virgin or Tesla, who have just turned the entire pick-up industry upside down with their cybertruck. After the model announcement, almost half as many vehicles are now on order as Ford sold with the competing "F-Series" line in the entire year. While the press is pondering the PR debacle after the metal ball test, Tesla is already immortalizing it on a T-shirt, which depicts the damage exactly, and is boosting its own merchandising profit with the error.

But we can also learn from Netflix – not a serious threat 10 years ago after several misfires – they are now pushing TV stations to the wall. Walmart shapes the innovation in classic retail and is a pioneer in digitization, while Amazon dominates e-retail. Airbnb is hurting tourism. The list just keeps getting longer..."

How to succeed in disruption:

“Creative destruction is the result of raw, hard work and a lot of passion. It is based on a bold corporate culture where decisions are made using numbers, data and facts. It hurts and the sensitivities that are commonplace in the (still sated) European corporations block it.”

“Many companies are a big step further. They have committed themselves to a purpose, i.e. a sustainable vision. This "North Star" becomes the compass needle for all entrepreneurial activities.

Ideally, individual functions such as managers are then selected from within the company over the course of the project. Kind of like a class representative. If the manager does not serve the purpose, the team and therefore the customer, he is simply voted out.

Incidentally, something like this is part of a swarm organization, and there too there is little room for the ego. Imagine that tomorrow would be election day in your company..."

Why are you called a stage rock star?

This is probably due to the fact that, in addition to my busy workday as a transformer, I'm the singer of a German heavy metal band.

I was on tour with the guys in the USA in 2019/2020. This year we released a concept album dedicated to the human era. We extracted songs from the chapters. A change management heavy metal album, so to speak.

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In his early 20s he started his own aviation company. A few years later he was an international top salesman in a worldwide organization.

He has lived in America and Asia. His huge range of knowledge and his extraordinary solution approaches make him one of the most popular and well-known strategy and transformation consultants worldwide.

His list of references reads like a who's who, not only from Germany and not only from Europe. In his private life he suffered a few strokes of fate: in 2001 he broke 3 vertebrae while skydiving, in 2012 he survived a heart attack. In 2014 he broke
3 more vertebrae in a motorcycle accident on the Dakar route.

There aren't enough hours in the day for him, which is why he's been practicing polyphase sleep for 10 years, i.e. he sleeps 4 hours at intervals in one day, giving him 20 hours a day. That way you can experience as much as others in 3 lives.

In addition to his busy workday as a transformer, he is also the singer of a German heavy metal band, with whom he was on tour in the USA in 2019/2020. His disruptive view of the international economy, his extraordinary solution approaches and his huge range of knowledge impress even top experts. Today he is one of a hundred top European speakers, executive coach and CEO of the super disruptive management consultancy Rabl & Hahn with the declared goal of leading his customers into the circular economy and thus climate neutrality.

If you have experienced him, you have experienced something.