Curious · Independent · Deliberate

Kolin Schunck

Hamburg, Germany

Different by nature. Deliberate by choice.

I look at familiar things from the angle most people skip, thinking in frameworks that travel across domains, more drawn to the structural shift than the surface noise.

Based in
Hamburg, DE
Off the clock
Swim · Bike · Run& Surf
Writes
AeroTechPulse& Stock & Flow
Local time · HAM
 
01About
Kolin Schunck on stage at the Love Tomorrow Summit
On stageLove Tomorrow Summit 2026

A systems thinker who tests his ideas in cold open water, on foreign roads, and on the page.

My life runs on curiosity across domains. Borrow a mechanism from one world, stress-test it in another, and use it to see the structure most people miss. By day that means shaping how an industry adopts new technology. The rest of the time it takes other forms.

Endurance sport is my lab for the self: the discipline of compounding small gains, and the honest feedback of a finish line you can't argue with. Travel is the input, because new places reset defaults you didn't know you had. And writing is where it all gets metabolised into frameworks worth keeping.

The long game is freedom: the independence to choose what I work on, and to pass on what I learn to people who weren't handed the same head start.

Systems thinking Endurance Cross-domain curiosity Tomorrowland ×5 AI & the tech wave INTJ
02Endurance

Where the frameworks meet a finish line you can't argue with.

Signature start · Baltic open water
"I finished on empty."

The Seebrückenschwimmen from Sierksdorf to Haffkrug, in water at 8 to 12 °C. Swimmers were pulled from the water and the rescue services ran a full operation on course. The kind of race that tells you more about yourself than any training plan.

OPEN WATER
Swim
Cold seas and long distances. The Baltic between the piers of Sierksdorf, Haffkrug and Scharbeutz, and lakes around Hamburg.
TRIATHLON
Swim, bike, run
World Triathlon Hamburg on home ground. Three disciplines, one honest result.
ROAD
Run
From the Haspa Half through the streets of Hamburg to the Singapore Marathon in the tropical heat.
OCEAN
Surf
Atlantic swell in Ericeira. No clock, no finish line. Just me and the ocean.
03Explore

Why I keep going out into the world.

What drives me
"The beauty of the world, in all its facets, up close."

Some trips are for the ocean, some for a start line, some for a friend on the other side of the world. The common thread: I want to experience places, not just see them.

RESET
New defaults
Every place quietly questions what I take for granted. The best trips send me home with fewer assumptions than I left with.
CROSS-POLLINATE
Other ways of doing things
Every city solves the same problems a little differently. I collect those solutions and bring them home to other domains.
ON FOOT & IN THE WATER
At my own pace
I see a place best by running its streets, swimming its coast or surfing its swell. That is when it stops being a destination.
04Writing
05Speaking

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On stage about innovation, measurement, and what we get wrong about progress.

To industry rooms and to communities that don't usually let a strategist near the mic.

  • ★ Measuring the Wrong Things, and Calling It Progress
    Keynote at the Love Tomorrow Summit, as a community-voted speaker. Recording above.
    Keynote
  • ● International keynotes & panels
    Selected stages across aviation and advanced air mobility
    Selected
Paris Air Show ILA Berlin Revolution Aero · San Francisco Amsterdam Drone Week AAMIC · Shanghai Electric Aviation · Los Angeles Air Taxi World Congress · London
Live Today, Love Tomorrow.
My guiding star
06Connect

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