Keynote Speaker Stefan Kuntz

Stefan Kuntz

Profession:
European soccer champion, coach and soccer official
Expertise:
Motivation, leadership, team spirit
Languages:
German, English

"With heart and soul towards success."

When soccer pro Stefan Kuntz scored the equaliser in the 1-1 draw with England in the semi-finals, he paved the way for Germany’s national team to win the European Soccer Championship in 1996. After his biggest successes until then - winning the German Soccer Championship, winning the German Soccer Association’s DFB cup, being voted soccer player of the year as well as being awarded the title of top scorer twice – the Global Topspeaker had finally achieved the height of his career as a soccer player. At the age of 33, this amazing success was the just reward for his incredible determination, his assertiveness and his ambition. “I’ve always had to fight tooth and nail for what I wanted,“, says Stefan Kuntz today, „As my talent was only mediocre, I had to rely on my will of iron and the rest was a lot of hard work“.

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Leo Schrell - Landkreis Dillingen a.d.Donau

"Stefan Kuntz completely convinced me with his naturalness, his authenticity, his humorous and likeable manner and his entertaining anecdotes from his soccer experience and gave good tips for people management. A wonderful evening and a great experience."

Marcus Barnstorf - Augsburger Allgemeine Im Verbund der Mediengruppe Pressedruck

"Stefan Kuntz has lost none of his charisma even after his active career. The man from the Saarland came across as authentic in his talk, picked up his audience and knows what he's talking about. I have rarely seen such a likeable soccer player. Close, human, professional! Congratulations to the 5 Star Team on this keynote speaker."

Günter Strauch - Augsburger Allgemeine

"What was billed as a sober lecture on "squad planning" in sports and business with Stefan Kuntz developed over the course of the evening into a colorful mix of instruction, training principles, philosophy of life and, above all, German soccer history with countless anecdotes."

lectures by Stefan Kuntz

with heart and soul towards success

Soccer is an economic factor of enormous proportion that generates billions in turnover all over the world. However, just as in any company, big goals in soccer can only be achieved in a team effort and with the proper leadership and motivation. How do you manage a soccer team and a club in professional sports? How do you motivate and emotionalize players, employees and an entire region?

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The team is the star

In the past three decades and in his various capacities as soccer player, coach and soccer official, Stefan Kuntz has experienced all the ups and downs the soccer business has to offer and therefore knows exactly which factors make the difference between a team’s success or failure. As a team player, the 1996 European Soccer Champion experienced very different types of coaches, as a team captain and later as the chairman of a German Soccer League club, he learned what it means to assume a particular responsibility within a team.

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Squad planning - finding, developing and keeping the best players

What makes a successful soccer player and how do you recruit them? What characterises a winner? And how to find the right players for a team to get the most out of the group as a whole? In particular in times where there is a shortage of specialists, many parallels become apparent between soccer players and employees in companies. But even if you promote and develop a talent, how do you make sure that the player or the employee stays with the club or the enterprise?

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Profile

This is how Stefan Kuntz made it to the top squad of Germany’s national team. After the termination of his career as a soccer player, he was also very successful as a coach and manager. In various clubs, Stefan Kuntz moulded players to teams while nurturing the respective skills of individual players at the same time. As a soccer official, he was not only responsible for the team on the field but also for the team behind the team. The sports manager was in charge of more than 100 employees and thus managed a mid-sized company. Stefan Kuntz’s success is based on his solid knowledge, his varied experience but also on his high degree of humaneness and his setting a good example for living according to traditional values. In his position as the club’s chairman of the board, Stefan Kuntz proved his farsightedness and learned to act pro-actively, which gained him the respect and appreciation of the German soccer officials who appointed him to the Board of the German Soccer League DFL and the German Soccer Association DFB.

The born Saarlander experienced amazing successes just as well as almost hopeless situations. Despite of defeats and setbacks, however, his will to fight always provided the speaker and kicker Stefan Kuntz with new opportunities. In his motivating presentations, Stefan Kuntz compares and explains the mechanisms in soccer and in business teams using authentic and inspiring examples. He knows the tricks on the field and in the demanding world of business. In a highly entertaining manner, the charismatic keynote speaker therefore tops off his presentations with exciting stories from his eventful life as a soccer player. He loves to figuratively cross the ball into the audience. Soccer is the Global Topspeaker’s life: „Camaraderie, a sense of community, a lot of ambition and the will to win – that’s the spirit of soccer“, says Stefan Kuntz.

Keynote Speaker Stefan Kuntz

News, Presse und Blog

What makes athletes important sources of inspiration for the economy

If you want to be a top performer in competitive sports, you need to have certain characteristics or develop them during years of training. But although physical qualities such as muscle strength or mobility are essential, a lot is a matter of mind, really. Exactly the same characteristics is what brings companies forward and makes employees successful. Therefore, top athletes in particular are important sources of inspiration for the economy. Lecturers such as Global Topspeakers Stefan Kuntz, Natalie Geisenberger and Norman Bücher transfer the experience they gained in competitive sports to business and thus give their audience a new perspective on economic processes and successful collaboration.

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Fair Play medal for U21-national coach Stefan Kuntz

Because he didn’t use a technical glitch at the U-21 European Championship 2018 for his own advantage and forewent to see the video footage of his opponent, the DFB conferred Stefan Kuntz, national coach of the U21 national team, the Fair Play medal 2019.

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U21 National Coach Stefan Kuntz assesses Germany’s World Cup Team

The final nomination of the German team members for the World Cup 2018 didn’t really surprise German U21 National Coach Stefan Kuntz: „Jogi Löw’s decisions for or against certain players are understandable”, says the fascinating Global Topspeaker and soccer expert. Every coach has a clear plan in mind when putting together a team, evaluates players according to criteria such as discipline, talent and also team spirit and weighs up the pros and cons.

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Stefan Kuntz to be TV commentator at the Soccer World Cup in Russia

Exciting new challenge for our Global Topspeaker and coach of the German U21 National Team Stefan Kuntz: In a press conference, the German broadcaster ARD (short for Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in the Federal Republic of Germany) presented Kuntz as their new TV expert for the Soccer World Cup in Russia. Alternating with Thomas Hitzlsperger and Hannes Wolf, Stefan Kuntz alongside Alexander Bommes and Matthias Opdenhövel will comment and evaluate the live matches on “Das Erste”, Germany’s first TV channel.

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Soccer World Cup 2018: Successful squad planning with Stefan Kuntz

A team is more than the sum of its members. It’s a living organism with a strong momentum. This applies to professional soccer as well, of course. Like no other, Global Topspeaker Stefan Kuntz knows how to put together a successful team. In 1996, he made soccer history with his legendary equaliser against England which not only advanced the German team to the European Championship finals but ultimately won them the title. Kuntz knows both sides in equal measure: the player’s but also the coach’s side. Nowadays, he uses the experience gained on the soccer pitch for a different kind of playing field as well: corporate development. For this is exactly what it’s all about in business: How do I put together a first-class team to achieve top performance?

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