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.
Journal
Thoughts on positive progress.
The Illusion of Progress: Why we are Addicted to Activity but Starving for Outcomes
Most of what we call progress is just motion. Like Skinner’s pigeons pecking for pellets, we keep pressing buttons... emails, dashboards, tickets... mistaking activity for achievement. The comfort of busyness feels safe because it produces signals we can count, charts we can show, and rituals that look productive. But these are illusions. Fake wins hijack energy, distract from outcomes, and slowly make leaders worse. Real progress looks different: it’s narrow, uncomfortable, and leaves a bruise when it’s absent. If no one feels it, it wasn’t progress.
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.
The Pending Task Threshold: A Survival System for Personal Productivity
Productivity is about protecting attention. The Pending Task Threshold (PTT) is a survival system for personal productivity with three mechanisms. Value Creation (move one mission-critical task daily), Organizational Flow (unblock dependencies), and Declutter (capture freely, graduate selectively). The core rule: nothing new enters without something else leaving. One value move, one flow safeguard, one page turned. This essay introduces the concept; the next essays will dive deeper into each mechanism.