Klaus Hammer

Klaus is the Vice President of education of the Toastmasters Bratislava, a club he has cofounded in 2008 and chaired as the president. He holds a CC and CL award by TI.

In his professional life he is an independent Advisor to Top Management and Entrepreneurs. Analyze, advising, planning and implementation is his craft. This he conducts in the roles of Consultant, Coach and Interim Manager.

He received his management training in Austria, Germany, United States and United Kingdom within one of the largest multinational organization in the world. His professional experience he has earned within 27 years of business practice as Managing Director, General Manager, Functional Head and Management Consultant in corporate organizations and private companies throughout the CEE & Balkans region.

His functional expertise is unusual wide spread. It is within Operations, Human Resources, Finance and Franchising. Klaus performed in these functions in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria.

Klaus holds a MBA in Strategic Management of Nottingham Trent University and BBS. He considers himself European Citizen with an Austrian passport.

His advisory focus is on strategy implementation, productivity improvement and people development. He consequently offers speeches on these subjects, as there is execution, internal communication and management development.

Speech Topics

Execution – the hard side of soft skills

Implementing plans is the critical issue in every organization. Falsely it is often considered a given that people after being informed about what to do are really doing it. Execution management is one of the hardest of all soft skills. This speech is about the soft issues over every hard implementation.

Day-to-day Management development

The development of managers and leaders is often considered the realm of the HR staff. This belief costs companies useless time, money and in the worst case a loss of talent. What line managers can do on a day-to-day basis in order to develop their subordinates into better managers and leaders is stated within this speech.