Kohlrieser Leadership Institute

Enabling Leadership Transformation — for Teams and Organisations

Leverage the power of your leadership potential to optimise individual, team and organisational performance and create positive work environments that achieve exceptional results.

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What We offer

Experience the Transformative Power of Leadership Engineered for Performance

Our approach

Hostage negotiators have an astonishing 95% success rate.*

What if you, your team or even your entire organisation could be as successful in leadership?

Founded on the work of Professor Dr George Kohlrieser, world-renowned hostage negotiator, KLI brings practical, research-backed tools to those ready to unleash more of their leadership potential.

Our work is grounded in the principles of Secure Base Leadership and shaped by decades of real-world experience — so leaders can leverage their strengths and build teams and organisations that always play to win.

* Professor George Kohlrieser, Hostage at the Table, 2024

Teams

Through our in-depth understanding of team dynamics, we help unlock the full potential of teams with a combination of workshops, coached business discussions and mediated conflict conversations.

Individuals

Great leadership goes beyond authority — it’s also about vision, influence and the ability to inspire and empower others. We enable breakthroughs in individual leadership performance by equipping leaders with the mindset and skills they need to navigate complexity, drive performance and foster a culture of trust and innovation.

Organisations

High-performing cultures attract and keep talent while creating outstanding results. Through customised rollout programs we enable cultural transformations with genuine caring and daring, accountability and growth mindsets at their core.

20,000 +

global leaders impacted over the past 25+ years

95%

employee engagement increased from 65%

50%

reduction in meeting times

6 months

to increased sales from 65%-120% of budget

up to 92%

team joint commitment score

OUR services

Fostering Change, Overcoming Challenges, Achieving Extraordinary Results

our method

Our Transformative Approach

Unleashing potential

We help leaders unleash more of their potential so they can elevate performance and create meaningful impact.

Effective dialogue

Honing dialogue skills is at the core of enabling individuals and teams to create exceptional results.

Real-life challenges

We skip the hypothetical models and work directly with clients to solve their current business challenges.

Experiential Learning

We believe in learning by doing, incorporating opportunities for practice and feedback in all we do. 

Leadership is a relationship, not a transaction — and we need to teach caring.

Professor George Kohlrieser
KLI Founder and chairman
Testimonials

Transformation is the Goal, Outstanding Results the Outcome

Our work goes beyond theory — we equip individuals and teams with clarity, confidence and strategic insight that fuels both individual and organisational success.


Through Caring and Daring Leadership, we help our clients build workplaces where positive change lasts and people and performance flourish.

The impact that KLI has on leaders and companies is remarkable - non-comparable to any alternatives I’ve come across. They help companies enter into a truly high performing mode that has a lasting transformative impact, making the ultimate difference in business success. I’ve worked with KLI for the past two years, across two different companies and am grateful for the impact and results they have helped me and my teams create.

Marc-Julian Siewert
CEO secunet

Our entire 89-person team spent three days with KLI completing its Leadership Development Program. In those three days, our team achieved a level of bonding and trust unprecedented in our company’s 45-year history. If you want to bring your team to the next level, we can only recommend that you also do this program.

Edwin and Marie Kleiber
Co-CEOs, AMEX Health Care

I worked closely with KLI during the design and implementation of our new organizational structure. KLI's support gave us the right level of security and clarity, which we wouldn’t have achieved on our own. With KLI's expertise, the process was efficient and smooth, and our team was greatly impressed that it was unlike anything they’ve previously experienced. To anyone with a significant strategic initiative they want to drive forward smoothly and effectively, I can highly recommend working with KLI.

Klemens Hutter
Head of Customer Solutions, Veridos
Our impact

Measurable Transformation Across Industries

Creating a Cultural Transformation in a Privately Owned Technology Company

We supported a privately owned technology company (~1000 employees) with its cultural transformation so it could achieve its ambitious growth agenda.

Establishing High-Performance Teams in a Listed Financial Services Company

Our client is a large financial services company (~12500 employees) that has experienced communication and cultural challenges.

Enabling High-Performance Across a Regional Sales Organisation for a Listed Company

We worked with a Regional Sales Head for a publicly listed mid-cap company (~6000 employees), developing their Secure Base Leadership and that of their entire 200-person team.

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Transform Your Performance

Find out how you, your team or organisation can benefit from leadership engineered for high performance.