Influencing Without Authority: Leading When You're Not in Charge
Nele Clüver
This one runs as a masterclass: Nele Clüver takes your colleagues through the research and the thinking behind it, with live questions throughout.
Nele Clüver is a seasoned facilitator and strengths-based leadership coach who helps professionals shift from “fixing weaknesses” to truly amplifying what already makes them great. With a background in management consulting, she brings a strong business lens to human development – translating people insights into practical, performance-relevant actions teams can use immediately. Over the past six years, she has partnered with leaders, founders and HR/L&D teams across Europe to redesign how we work, making it more human, energizing and effective. Nele’s warm, reflective and lightly provocative style blends the science of positive psychology with real-world experience, helping participants uncover their unique strengths and show up with more clarity, energy and impact at work.
All sessions by Nele →Most of us have left a meeting having agreed to something we never really wanted, simply because we couldn't just tell the other person no. So much of our work depends on people we don't manage: colleagues, clients, other departments, our own bosses.
In this session, facilitator Nele Clüver makes the case that you have far more influence than your job title suggests – and shows how the way through isn't more authority, but more understanding. Participants leave with a fresh way of seeing the people they need to move, and one practical shift they can put to work straight away.
During the expert session, engages participants through a series of interactive activities and Q&A.
We tend to believe that influencing others requires being in charge. But research shows leaders spend more than half their time managing relationships outside their direct line of authority – and for most of us, the same is true.
The colleague who won't prioritise your request, the stakeholder at HQ who goes quiet, the manager whose buy-in you need: none of them can simply be told.
In this insightful and interactive session, Nele draws on her work coaching leaders and teams across Europe to reframe what influence actually is. It isn't about being the loudest voice or having the most senior role.
It flows through who you already are, through the trust you build, the way you listen, the strengths you lead with. The shift she invites is a subtle but powerful one: from “I can't make this happen because I'm not in charge” to “I don't need to be in charge to move this.”
Through stories, reflection, and a simple, memorable framework, participants explore why people really resist, what changes when you stop pushing and start understanding, and how to turn a stuck “me versus you” into a shared “us versus the challenge.” You'll leave seeing your own toughest stakeholder a little differently and with something concrete to try in your very next conversation.
It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
Most of us have left a meeting having agreed to something we never really wanted, simply because we couldn't just tell the other person no. So much of our work depends on people we don't manage: colleagues, clients, other departments, our own bosses. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.
A masterclass. Nele Clüver takes your colleagues through the subject and the reasoning behind it, and answers live questions. It is practical in what people take away, without the hour turning into an exercise class.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Nele, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
“You are your own worst enemy” – most of us know that nagging inner voice all too well.
What if your greatest potential isn’t hidden in fixing your weaknesses, but in amplifying what already makes you great?
"People will forget what you said... but people will never forget how you made them feel," - Maya Angelou This hands-on workshop…
Robert Wolfe lets you experience how you can use a story from your own life to convey a message and convince the people around…
“Netflix’s biggest competitor is sleep.”That statement captures the reality of today’s attention economy.
Feedback should help people grow, but too often it creates tension, confusion or defensiveness.
Skillful communication and warm connection are needed today more than ever before — whether that be in your professional or…
Public speaking is nerve-racking for most people and is often named as the one thing people fear most.