Olympian Tina Manker: Rethinking performance beyond the podium | ESMT Insight Hour

Medals, titles, and records look like success – but they do not make you a champion. In this ESMT Insight Hour, Tina Manker, Olympian, world champion, and coach for high-performance teams, invites participants to rethink what performance and leadership really mean. True champions are not defined by what they win, but by how they behave, especially when no one is watching. Drawing on her experience in elite sport and her work with leadership and startup teams, Manker explored how high performance is built collectively, sustained over time, and tested under pressure. What does it actually mean to be a champion when no one is watching? Which conversations are teams most likely to avoid, and why? Do you really want feedback? Performing on your best day is easy. But how do you perform on your worst? What difficulties await you when you leave your comfort zone? The event was moderated by Hilde Rosenboom, program director of executive education at ESMT Berlin, and took place on campus in Berlin. ----------------------------------- ESMT Berlin is a leading global business school with its campus in the heart of Berlin. Founded by 25 global companies, ESMT offers master, MBA, and PhD programs, as well as executive education on its campus in Berlin, in locations around the world, online, and in online blended format. Focusing on leadership, innovation, and analytics, its diverse faculty publishes outstanding research in top academic journals. Additionally, the international business school provides an interdisciplinary platform for discourse between politics, business, and academia. ESMT is a non-profit private institution of higher education with the right to grant PhDs and is accredited by AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, and ZEvA. It is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across all its activities and communities. Connect with ESMT Berlin: Visit our website: https://esmt.berlin/ Follow us on LinkedIn: LinkedIn: esmt Follow us on Instagram: Instagram: esmtberlin Follow us on Facebook: Facebook: ESMTBerlin.org Follow us on TikTok: TikTok: esmtberlin