Roland Gaebler

About Roland Gaebler

Be inspired and motivated by multiple Sailing World Champion and Olympic Medalist Roland Gäbler. He presents detailed insider knowledge on how the best sailing teams sailed to victory with brilliant teamwork. He discusses talent scouting, team building, team communication, leadership techniques, motivation, and much more.

His keynote speeches and team training sessions have already impressed many companies. Sailing is a team sport at the highest level. A team sport par excellence. And this takes place in the tightest and most efficient space aboard a racing yacht. The regattas are indescribably tough and demand everything from the crew. Often over weeks and months. A challenge for both team leadership and the crew.

Using the example of the America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race, Roland Gäbler demonstrates the strategies and methods the best sailing teams used to sail through the strongest storms and worst calms, reaching their goals with confidence. No other sport so brilliantly illustrates how to mentally and physically tackle such challenges and ultimately win.

Roland Gäbler shares which actions and mental strategies have proven most effective in sports through practical examples and case studies. Be inspired by the world of sailing and benefit sustainably from the experiences of the world’s best sailing teams. Roland Gäbler sees himself as an initiator and delivers his lecture in a passionate and exciting manner that captivates every listener. He has experienced all phases of high-performance sports, from the bitterest defeat to the most phenomenal victory. He has often achieved a turnaround and fought his way back to the top.

The special feature of the keynote speeches is the inclusion of video sequences from the America’s Cup and the winning team. This makes the lecture authentic, emotional, and extraordinary, as if you were right in the middle of it. Only the words of Roland Gäbler combined with the moving images create an extremely strong and lasting impact, from which your team can also benefit.

In 2014, the team around Roland Gäbler became World Champion in Perth, Australia, and now holds over 70 championship titles, making it the most successful sailing team of all time in German sports history.