My Biography

If I had to pick two leadership skills worth practicing, I’d go with kindness and curiosity.


I’m Robin Weninger, a leadership strategist, technology enthusiast, advisor, and speaker. I help people and organizations stay actionable when the future doesn’t hand over a plan. For more than a decade, I’ve been advising leaders and executives across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas on how to develop progress-driven teams. I also work with HR teams to design organizational learning programs that not only deliver content but instead focus on behavior change and actual skill adoption. I’m the Founder and CEO of the Global Institute of Leadership and Technology, an executive education firm that helps global clients to sharpen their leadership skills and understand the implications of technologies on their business. I also co-founded Njordis, a venture capital and advisory firm dedicated to helping tech companies scale. In my work, I’m most interested in what people do when things are unclear. Not what they say in slide decks, but how they sense the next step, adjust to take action, and challenge their decisions. That’s why I developed Positive Progress Leadership. Positive Progress Leadership isn’t another academic framework or rigid playbook. It’s a practical, human-centered model built for real-world messiness, where systems are flawed, pressures are high, and perfect plans don’t exist. Unlike Agile’s focus on processes or Transformational Leadership’s emphasis on vision, Positive Progress Leadership zeros in on actionable momentum: helping you and your teams make decisions, align efforts, and deliver results, no matter the chaos. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with leading global organizations like Lufthansa, Banco Santander, Telekom, Bayer and Volkswagen. I also worked with the German, Spanish and Italian government, the World Economic Forum and the European Commission. I’ve delivered keynotes in over 40 countries and shaped leadership and innovation programs at institutions like the European Business School, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, and the University of Barcelona. Beyond the whiteboards and frameworks, I believe leadership should feel real and that kindness and curiosity are key skills to focus on. And that the most useful question is often: “What’s one thing we can do by the end of today?” If you’re looking for someone who brings structure without rigidity, energy without theatrics, and clarity without fluff, I’d be happy to talk. If there’s good coffee and a marker in the room, even better.

The Bruise Beneath the Blueprint – How to Lead When You Can’t Spreadsheet Your Way Out of Chaos

No plan survives reality intact. Frameworks and forecasts provide direction, but they can’t shield leaders from the emotional weight of setbacks, conflict, or surprise. The real skill is not avoiding the bruise but carrying it. Pausing to acknowledge the sting, naming the discomfort, and then moving forward with clarity. By normalizing difficulty instead of treating it as failure, leaders build trust, resilience, and the capacity to adapt when the blueprint inevitably bends.

The Conditions for Progress

The Conditions for Progress are factors that can be shaped to make progress easier by creating the space where skills and practices can unfold effectively. They are not imposed, but aspirational - emerging and evolving through the interaction of leadership, systems, and behavior.

Unpacking the Sandwich: How AI is Really Teaching Us to Collaborate

Great leadership isn’t tested on calm days but in chaos. Our best days depend on the habits, processes, and outcomes we’ve drilled when it’s boring. Standards of Excellence anchor behavior, Standard Operating Procedures scale process, and Statements of Outcome align results. Miss one, and progress collapses. Together, they form the invisible architecture of progress.

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