KEYNOTE & INTERACTIVE SESSION
1–3 hours
A keynote or interactive session based on real-world extreme situations. For executives, teams, retreats, and management meetings.
PROFESSIONAL COOLNESS
Feeling comfortable in uncomfortable situations
We combine experience from extreme situations with a sound methodology.
What happens when your company comes under pressure?
Your best employees leave
Because responsibility is expected, but the freedom to make decisions is taken away.
Your product loses its edge
Because internal processes, self-protection, and compromises become more important than quality, innovation, and actual customer value.
Your company is attacked
An acute crisis suddenly puts routines, communication, and responsibilities to the test.
New requirements slow down the organization
Because necessary regulations are implemented without simultaneously protecting operational agility.
The situations vary. The decisive question remains the same: Does your organization retain its capacity to act when established procedures are no longer enough?
OUR APPROACH
PROFESSIONAL COOLNESS
Professional Coolness means acting with confidence and prevailing in times of crisis.
Professional Coolness includes the ability to act and make decisions under pressure and with unknowns, and the capacity to take responsibility.
We support companies in developing these skills in managers and teams.
Learning from Extreme Situations for Everyday Business Life.
Extreme situations reveal what truly matters. We analyze operations and first-hand accounts, distilling the insights that are relevant to everyday business life. Expeditions on the ice, for example, can teach us what happens when team members start working against each other under pressure. Teams in which this is taboo are unbeatable; the others fall by the wayside.
SCHEDULE AN INITIAL CALLOur Formats
From inspiring insight to tangible change
PRACTICAL TRAINING
1–2 days
Intensive work on decision-making, communication, accountability, leadership, and behavior under uncertainty, tailored to the specific challenge facing your organization.
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Tailored to your needs
We analyze where the capacity to act is lost, co-develop suitable interventions, and guide the implementation process.
Team
Tom Fuchs
Tom spent ten years in special operations forces. After successfully completing his selection and training with the elite military Jagdkommando, he served as an operator and team commander within the Vienna police tactical unit, while also working as a tactical instructor for the police force.
His core focus centers on what enables individuals and teams to retain their capacity to act when time, information, and safety are entirely missing.
As the host of the Fearless Patched podcast, he interviews professionals from high-risk, front-line occupations about decision-making, accountability, and extreme situations.
Kathrin Höckel
Kathrin has spent 20 years dedicated to learning, personal growth, and economic development. She has served as an analyst for the OECD and the World Bank, was a Fellow at Harvard University, and a lecturer at Heidelberg University.
Her core focus explores the exact conditions under which people learn and evolve, and how leveraging these competencies drives personal and organisational progress.
The Arctic, the Caucasus, the US, Russia, mountain ultra-marathons, and rugged trail tracks have become her personal training grounds defining her approach: Learning as an Adventure.
Our Joint Expertise
What connects us is not the extreme situation itself. We are interested in what people learn from it and how these insights can be transferred to leadership, teams, and organizations.
10 yearsSpecial Forces
20 yearsLearning & Adventure
Operational LeadershipOperator · Squad Leader · Police Instructor
Extreme situations as a field of learningPersonal experiences at the limits, from professional operations to expeditions
Learning as an adventureConsciously seeking experience · reflecting · transferring
International experienceOECD · World Bank · Harvard · Heidelberg University
Fearless PatchedConversations with people from high-risk professions
Coaching & TrainingCoaching · Business training · Organizational development
THE SITUATION
What state is your company in?
ATTACK
The Acute Crisis
When immediate action is required, yet time, information, and certainty are missing.
Check your crisis resilienceTHREAT
The Creeping Crisis
When self-protection, inertia, and processes begin to displace responsibility and the capacity to act. When the task at hand is no longer the priority because opportunism is placed above performance and team spirit.
Assess your capacity to actALL GOOD
The Complacent Organization
When everything is running smoothly, but so much more would be possible.
Evaluate Professional CoolnessOUR METHOD
Learning from Extreme Situations
Drawing on real experience from extreme situations, we support organizations in their development. Learning happens when the content is relevant and emotions are involved. Our method for making this happen is called Learning as an Adventure.
INSPIRATION
Real-life situations reveal what truly matters and what happens to perception, communication, decision-making, leadership, and accountability under pressure.
ANALYSIS & DIAGNOSIS
We look beneath the surface of processes and structures: Where are the capacity to act and accountability lost? What role do trust, fear, hierarchy, and habits play?
GUIDANCE & SUPPORT
We design formats, learning processes, and healthy routines that allow new behaviors to be tested and embedded in everyday work.
Our work inspires and creates change.
DEBRIEF
We have access to an exclusive network of people working in emergency services, nursing, emergency medicine, and the military. Every two weeks, we look at what these people in high-responsibility professions actually do when they have to make decisions with real consequences under uncertainty and time pressure, and transfer these insights to leadership and organizations.
REFERENCES & TESTIMONIALS
Experience from Our Collaborations
Feedback We Were Delighted to Receive
"The only suggestion for improvement on the feedback form: Replace other seminars with your content and the two of you. :)"
"Role model"
“It’s clear who the Good Cop and the Bad Cop are here.”
For Organizations Looking for Real Change
Professional Coolness is for executives and teams who seek more than inspiration and are ready to challenge routines, speak openly about mistakes and uncertainty, and truly delegate responsibility.
How crisis-proof is your organization?
Whether facing an acute crisis, a gradual loss of the capacity to act, or building a high-performing team: our starting point is always a specific challenge.
Let’s talk about what can make your organization more capable of acting.