Career path Leadership coaching for managers

Kilian Christanell - lead confidently, live confidently

Leadership coach - personality trainer - moderator
  • Management consultant including business organization, marketing and sales
  • 25 years of experience as a manager in marketing, customer service and sales
  • Studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • Semester abroad University of Nebraska Omaha, USA

I was born and grew up in Bolzano, South Tyrol (Italy). After attending the commercial academy, I moved to Vienna (1989). The reason for this was to study economics.

During my studies, I already worked part-time and gained my first professional experience in market research. I then gained further professional experience in quality management at Erste Bank. In 1998, I accepted an exciting job offer at the Austrian Computer Society. The European Computer Driving License was about to be rolled out in Austria. I was to play a very important part in the success story of the ECDL. For 19 years, I worked in many areas, such as quality assurance, customer service, sales and marketing. Even back then, I was very interested in dealing with employees and customers. I got to know so many different people and this is where my passion came from, which I pursue today.

Before I took the plunge into self-employment, I worked for two other companies (IT security, software development) as Partner Manager and Head of Sales.

At the beginning of 2020, I started my own business. In preparation for this, I mentally returned to my childhood and youth and felt my way back. Many deep friendships were formed back then because interacting with people was so important to me and still is today. This exchange had such a strong influence on me and I encountered it every day, especially in my professional life. It was the countless business relationships in my business life to date, the many partnerships with so many customers, which were also confirmed to me time and again by the other side, that moved and drove me to delve deeper into this. Consulting and sales were so closely intertwined. Managing employees in my various sales teams also helped me to further increase my empathy and individual perception. I am now ready to share this wealth of experience and expertise with my future customers.

Today I live mostly in Vienna. I am married and have 2 grown-up children, a son and a daughter.

I prefer to spend my free time and vacations in the Dolomites (South Tyrol).