Olaf has a really interesting character. He is an IT guy and he went up through the ranks of different companies, had a great career and learned quite a lot about leadership. He was applying a lot of these learnings and now he’s training others in that regard as he has his very own leadership program. I’m a participant and have benefited a lot.
One day, we agreed to discuss the 4 pillars of boosting your career. He helped me sharpen my thoughts and here’s the result!
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Olaf Kapinski
IT Engineer, Entrepreneur, Executive
He is an IT engineer, entrepreneur and a passionate executive. He was an active manager for seventeen years, most recently leading teams and employees in Europe, Asia and North America. He was born and raised in Hannover Ricklingen. Many people got to know him through his podcast and thus brought their own career and life a step further. It took him 50 years to get there. After graduating from high school, he first did an apprenticeship as it should be in a working-class household. Better safe than sorry. That was mechanical engineering too, on the advice of his father: welder. Then community service and then work another year,
During his studies it was clear to him that he would finish this quickly … But what exactly he was doing with it was not yet so clear. So in his hobby he also trained as a paramedic and got a Microsoft certification.
After graduating, he got into an IT company, his first office and academic job. He found the management of the IT department worse than what he experienced in the craft. Well, after six months he was handed over the management of IT. Felt natural for everyone involved.
However, like almost all other fresh managers, he didn’t know what he was doing. It helped him that he had already had 10 years of leadership experience in voluntary work in the DLRG and the Malteser Hilfsdienst, but that was something else.
So he learned. He devoured books, later various podcasts were my constant companions. At the same time, he became an NLP master and communication trainer, and was trained by the Malik Management Center in St. Gallen. The career went well, at some point he was called to the circle that trains the other managers.
He was lucky with the company, and that’s where he found my passion for leadership. The center of what I do came into being with the LEBEN-FÜHREN podcast.
At the next, no one had any idea what “leading” actually is, command and obedience were culture. That was his final spark of decision to continue in this direction: Making people and companies more effective through good leadership.
More about him: https://leben-fuehren.de/olaf-kapinski/
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