Ilja Grzeskowitz

How to Dream Big, Act Bold And get the Results you want
Keynote Speech Change: Seizing Opportunities & Shaping Change Together
Change isn’t what’s happening around you, it’s how you deal with it. In this Change Management presentation by keynote speaker Ilja Grzeskowitz, you will learn how to recognize and seize the opportunities of change even in uncertain times.

Inspiring. Inspiring. Changing.
In doing so, the former retail executive not only talks about change management, but also lives change in an infectious way. From his time at Karstadt and IKEA, the book author knows what it takes to whet people’s appetites for new ways of doing things and actively shaping the future.

The keynote speech Change Management: Desire for Change
Using practical examples, inspiring stories and messages tailored to the audience, you will receive ideas, tools and methods that you can implement directly and apply in your everyday life. In this way, you are in a position not only to passively let change management processes wash over you, but to actively shape them, position your company for the challenges of the future, and create a culture of openness and willingness to change.

Leading yourself and others through change processes
The result of this individual and at the same time entertaining lecture: A high motivation, distinctive implementation competence and an attitude with which you can use the chances of change even under difficult conditions. In short: you will learn. You will laugh. And after the lecture, you’ll roll up your sleeves and get a lot of desire to make.

Shaping the Future with Passion, Courage and the Will to Change
Keynote The Change Mindset: Why Attitude is everything
What makes people tick? What really motivates us in the long term and how do we focus on the huge opportunities of change? You will learn this and much more in the Mindset lecture by Ilya Grzeskowitz. The former top manager of Karstadt, Wertheim, Hertie and IKEA knows from his own experience what is important if you want to be successful even under difficult conditions: The mindset makes the difference, because change is primarily a matter of attitude.

The Mindset Shift for sustainable motivation
From his time as a managing director in the retail sector, Ilja Grzeskowitz is very familiar with the need for a future-oriented mindset. In his Mindset lecture, it quickly becomes clear: Mr. Change “walks his talk” when he talks about the power of inner attitude and uses inspiring practical examples to make one thing clear above all: change is a matter of attitude – success and failure are always decided between the ears. To achieve this, he shows simple solutions on how really everyone can successfully trim their inner attitude for opportunities, change and success.

Motivating. Engaging. Inviting to roll up your sleeves.
The inspiring mindset lecture offers high practical value, motivates to immediately “roll up your sleeves” and get started and convinces with authentic expert knowledge. Because only when people change, does your company change. With the right inner attitude, it is possible to find solutions even under difficult conditions instead of looking for reasons why something doesn’t work.

The Mindset of Changemakers and Gamechangers
The Mindset presentation is about solutions that invite you to tackle, implement and do. In this keynote, Ilya Grzeskowitz shows how to align your mindset so that change is no longer a threat, but a great opportunity to grow as a personality and succeed as a team. The expert for change and transformation gives courage when he conveys the core message to his audience: It is never the external circumstances that hinder us, but always the way we deal with these challenges.

The Magic of Motivation – The Inner drive for change
Keynote Motivation: Igniting the inner fire for change

• How do you succeed in inspiring yourself and others for courageous ideas and new ways?
• How do you deal with resistance to change?
• And above all, how do you create real motivation that has a lasting effect and doesn’t fizzle out again after just a few days?

Ilja Grzeskowitz addresses all these questions in his lecture Motivation.

Motivating messages and memorable examples
The presentation Motivation by keynote speaker Ilja Grzeskowitz is peppered with personal experiences from his many years as a top manager in the retail industry, exciting practical examples and motivating messages that will remain in the memory for a long time.

Your participants will be enthusiastic and will continue to benefit from this day long after the lecture. But most especially, you’ll feel like implementing, rolling up your sleeves, and integrating a new motto into your daily life: “I’m just going to do it now.”

Real motivation beyond chakka chakka
In the Motivation keynote, you will learn how truly anyone can become a changemaker. How to develop an inner motivation that enables you to take responsibility, actively shape change and be successful together with your team in the disruptive markets of tomorrow.

You will receive ideas, tools and impulses with which you are well-equipped for the challenges of the future. The result: They are happy about new paths, every single change, every single disruption. Because you know: It is a unique opportunity to get better, to develop further and to position yourself as number 1 in the minds of your customers.

Motivation for change – Successful together as a team
Have you noticed it too? Everyone wants change, but no one wants to change. Because everyone is counting on others to do something. But sustainable results can only be achieved together. In a motivated team in which everyone learns from everyone else, everyone pulls together and everyone takes responsibility in their area.

Because the bottom line is that it doesn’t matter what position we have. Each and every one of us can make a huge difference in our place and contribute as a changemaker to transform a team, a company or an organization as a whole. How this works, you will learn in the lecture Motivation

Change Leadership – Modern Leadership in Times of Change
Keynote Leadership: Leading yourself and others through change
When Ilja Grzeskowitz talks about leadership and management, it quickly becomes clear what a wealth of experience the former top manager has.

No wonder, since during his time as managing director for Karstadt, Wertheim, Hertie and IKEA he managed a total of 11 locations throughout Germany, was responsible for a sales volume of more than 500 million euros and managed hundreds of department heads and thousands of employees. His most important insight: good leadership and sustainable results go hand in hand.

Leadership is not a title, but an attitude
The Leadership lecture is packed with practical examples, inspiring stories and modern leadership tools that can be applied immediately in everyday life. And modern leadership is more important today than ever before, as is clear to every entrepreneur, executive and manager. But in times of digitalization, radically new customer needs and permanent change in the VUKA world, leadership requires a completely new skill set and mindset.

From traditional boss to modern leader
On the one hand, as a leader, you have to get used to the changed framework conditions yourself and constantly realign your own patterns of thought and behavior. But that’s not all, because your own employees, team members and customers also want to be guided through this transformation process. They need and expect orientation, transparent communication and empathy.

How leadership in change succeeds
In his presentation Leadership, Ilya Grzeskowitz explains how the balancing act between personal responsibility and team spirit can be achieved on a daily basis. He does not use the famous finger of blame, but instead presents the topic in a way that invites people to question their own ways of thinking and to try out new approaches.

The mixture of well-founded, scientific backgrounds and experience from daily management work provides many “aha” insights, invites a change of perspective and ultimately leads to a leadership culture that puts people at the center without losing sight of the opportunities of digitization.