When life serves you lemons...
Leadership has never been easy.
But it has never been like this.
Tough Time Leadership helps executives regain clarity, the ability to act, and the power to decide.
Leadership has never been easy.
But it has never been like this.
Today, the day-to-day reality of many leaders is shaped by:
Opaque, hyper-dynamic markets
Ambivalent opportunities and risks posed by technology
Polycrisis phenomena: multiple crises overlapping and reinforcing one another
“Flying by sight” as a substitute for strategies that provide orientation
Living in firefighting mode, often “behind the curve”
Employees who cope with instability in very different ways
Employer brands that feel the impact of this uncertainty
A lack of time for genuine leadership—although it is needed more urgently than ever
“I no longer have any chance of being the leader I want to be!”
These conditions are difficult to influence. However, how leaders deal with them is very much within their control. This is why we developed Tough Time Leadership.
Regaining the ability to act
Tough Time Leadership is the compact leadership update for the polycrisis. For everyone who leads people and organizations.
With four main ingredients
+ Self-reflection as a leader
+ Working on your own leadership challenges
+ New inspiration
+ Concrete, quickly applicable tools
… make lemonade!
+ More options for action
+ Better decisions
+ With allies instead of going it alone
+ With new clarity and overview
Self-reflection as a leader
Mindsets and core assumptions
Leadership behaviors and routines (“How do I lead?”)
Leadership effectiveness check: Is my current leadership approach still effective — for me and for my key stakeholders?
Identify required adjustments and implement them in a structured way (“What do I want to change?”)
Peer Consultation
Bring up pressing questions and challenges from your own everyday management experience.
Get solutions from experienced colleagues and consultants.
Build a network of management buddies and use it in the long term.
Improve together in a moderated learning system.
New inspiration
Ideas, learning nuggets, and best practices from
Neuroscience
Technology & AI
Systemic organizational development
Applied agile practices
Practical tools
A fresh look at leadership evergreens
New work hacks, approaches & methods, literature & blinks
Personal leadership toolkit that summarizes the insights from the training in a compact form
Access to LEMMON – the AI agent for leadership questions (Q2/2026)
Short, intense, modular, adaptable
For Leaders
With Tough Time Leadership, executives receive a short, intensive program lasting 2 to 4 days in which they
rethink their ideas and practices of leadership and determine what they want to change
discuss and resolve their own pressing questions and cases in their leadership role with experienced colleagues and consultants
find allies for a way out of misery and paralysis
learn work hacks and methods for new energy, orientation, and decision-making skills
access LEMMON, the AI agent for leadership questions (Q2/2026).
FOR people & Culture
For those who support managers, i.e., senior management, HR practitioners, and organizational developers, Tough Time Leadership is the answer to the question of how managers can be effectively supported in difficult times.
Tough Time Leadership is designed as a modular in-house program and allows for different durations, a mix of in-person and remote sessions, and flexible integration with existing leadership programs in your organization.
For rapid effectiveness and immediate return on investment in day-to-day business.
Exemplary sequence of the program
Tough Time Leadership allows for numerous configurations that can be adapted to your circumstances. Contact us!
TrainerS
Kai Voigt
has been supporting people and organizations on their way to the next level of development for over 20 years. As a designer, structurer, and trainer.
As a paramedic, Kai learned early on how powerful good leadership can be in critical situations. More than 250 consulting assignments and three start-ups later, he is convinced that the best leaders see themselves as permanently beta.
Robert Stulle
Robert is a consultant and coach with over 30 years of professional experience. His background is in design and agile digital product development.
Robert was an associate partner at McKinsey Digital and previously a partner and co-owner of the international design agency Edenspiekermann. He has many years of experience as an executive and manager and knows how challenging it is to lead teams and steer an organization.
ContaCt
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We cater entirely to your needs: video call, phone call, or email to toughtime@valourie.com.