Imran Rehman
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- Creator of evidence-based team performance methodologies used by Fortune 500 companies globally.
- Founder of Kokoro GmbH with 30 years' leadership experience from sales floor to boardroom.
- Multicultural keynote speaker specialising in psychological safety, belonging, and team flow dynamics.
Biography
The Team Performance Catalyst Who Makes High Performance Happen
Why settle for average when your teams can achieve extraordinary?
Imran Rehman doesn’t just talk about high performance – he creates it. With three decades of proven experience scaling from frontline sales to senior leadership roles, and a decade pioneering breakthrough methodologies with Kokoro, Imran has cracked the code on what truly makes teams flourish.
The Evidence-Based Advantage
What sets Imran apart isn’t just his multicultural wisdom or his ability to “lighten up every room” – it’s his unwavering commitment to data-driven results. Through Kokoro, his innovative web-based platform, he’s transformed leadership development from feel-good theory into measurable, sustainable change. His evidence-based approach combines real-time people analytics with hands-on psychological safety interventions that create tangible shifts in team dynamics within weeks, not months.
Leaders across Europe have discovered what Fortune 500 executives already know: Imran’s methodologies don’t just improve teams – they revolutionise how people work together. His clients consistently report breakthrough improvements in psychological safety scores, belonging metrics, and team flow indicators that translate directly to bottom-line results.
The Kokoro Revolution: Where Science Meets Soul
Kokoro isn’t just another team assessment tool – it’s a comprehensive ecosystem for building the three pillars of exceptional team performance: psychological safety, authentic belonging, and sustainable team flow. Whilst others talk about these concepts, Imran delivers the practical blueprints.
His interactive sessions don’t just inspire – they equip. Participants leave with specific, actionable strategies for:
- Creating micro-moments of psychological safety that compound into culture change
- Building belonging experiences that engage every team member authentically
- Establishing team flow states that make high performance feel effortless
- Using real-time data to course-correct and optimise team dynamics continuously
The Global Impact
From Vienna to Silicon Valley, Imran’s influence spans continents and cultures. His unique background – combining Eastern wisdom with Western business acumen – allows him to connect with diverse audiences whilst delivering universally applicable insights. He’s the rare speaker who can facilitate heated boardroom discussions in German, coach C-suite executives through complex transformations, and design online experiences that engage the most sceptical teams.
What Leaders Say About the Imran Experience
”He takes a holistic view that changed not just how I lead, but how I live.” – Senior Executive
”His ability to quickly analyse any business and facilitate the processes needed to address weaknesses whilst nurturing strengths is remarkable.” – Former Adknowledge Leadership Team
”If your team is key to your future, Imran may be the difference between success and failure.” – Startup CEO
Perfect for Your Next Leadership Event
Whether you’re planning a leadership retreat, strategy session, or organisational transformation initiative, Imran brings the rare combination of intellectual rigour and emotional intelligence that creates lasting change. His sessions are:
- Interactive and engaging – participants become co-creators, not passive listeners
- Immediately applicable – every insight comes with implementation tools
- Culturally adaptable – effective across diverse teams and global organisations
- Data-driven – backed by Kokoro’s analytics for measuring real progress
- Transformational – clients report sustained behavioural changes months after sessions
Ready to Unlock Your Team’s Full Potential?
In an era where team performance determines organisational success, Imran Rehman offers more than keynotes – he provides the roadmap to sustained excellence. His decade of work with Kokoro has created a proven methodology that turns struggling teams into high-performing powerhouses and good teams into industry leaders.
The question isn’t whether your teams can improve – it’s whether you’re ready to give them the tools to excel.
Book Imran for your next leadership event and discover why organisations across Europe consider him their trusted partner for building teams that don’t just perform – they flourish.
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The Science of Great Teams
OVERVIEW:
After working with 100s of teams and speaking with global thought leaders in neuroscience, cardiology, anthropology, design, business leadership, innovation, sports, team performance–we’ve found a few key variables that are consistently make up high-performance environments.
AGENDA:
This 30-120 minute interactive session gets people aligned and clear about the key factors that create the conditions for great teams to perform and what leaders need to do to nurture the environment for it to happen.
OUTCOMES:
Interactive, thought-provoking, a conversation to build environments for sustainable high performance. It is experiential and fun for all.
The Myths of Measuring Humans
OVERVIEW:
In building Kokoro, a tool to measure team performance, we’ve learned a few key things that work and a few that don’t. We’ll share our findings on how to get the most out of your people and what to avoid when measuring their performance, engagement, happiness, or any other human outcome.
AGENDA:
This 30-120 minute interactive session gets people aligned and bust the myths of how we currently measure and why it is not working.
OUTCOMES:
Interactive, thought-provoking, a conversation to find new ways to measure humans. It is experiential and fun for all.
Preventing Team Burnout: 6 Evidence-Based Actions for Success
OVERVIEW:
We all know that overloaded days and complex problems can lead to fatigue, resulting in shortcuts, biases, blocked thinking, lack of focus, underperformance, and a feeling of being stuck and overwhelmed. Ultimately, this reduces individual and team performance as well as organisational impact.
In this highly engaging session, we will show the evidence-based strategies necessary to create a resilient environment and to deal with on-going obstacles and change. We will also draw from our experience of working with 100s of teams in close exchange and collaboration with experienced leaders and what they did to reach high-performance and to keep going.
AGENDA:
This 60-120 minute interactive session gets people thinking about if they are set up to avoid team burnout.
OUTCOMES:
Interactive, thought-provoking, real-case, a conversation to find new ways to think about analytics that create real value. It is experiential and fun for all.