Seminars & Keynotes · THE HUMAN MAP™
The Human Map™ – Leadership seminars for trust, clarity & rhythm.
The Human Map™ is a leadership method for organizations that operate under real pressure: limited time, limited people, unlimited expectations – and still the ambition to lead in a way that is clear, fair and human.
In seminars and keynotes with Michael Kirschberger, your leadership team learns to read your organization as a system: how people and teams behave under load, where structures support them – and where they quietly work against them.
Available in English and German · Inhouse & international · From 1-day workshops to 6-week programmes.
The method
The Human Map™ – a new language for leadership and organization.
The Human Map™ is a modern, research-inspired leadership method that shows how people and teams behave under pressure – and how organizations can design structures that create trust, stability and performance.
The approach connects systems thinking, human psychology and practical leadership work from international projects, industrial environments and complex organizations.
In seminars and keynotes, leaders learn to see their organization as a set of connected fields: orientation, communication, structure, performance rhythm and trust. Once those fields become visible, interventions stop being random – they become deliberate design decisions.
Why organizations fail – and how The Human Map™ helps
Most teams do not fail because of competence.
They fail because of missing clarity, broken rhythm, invisible tensions and cultures in which people cannot speak openly about what they see.
In many organizations, leaders sense that something is “off” – but they lack a precise way to describe what is happening. As a result, they over-invest in motivation and under-invest in architecture.
The Human Map™ makes these invisible patterns visible and gives leaders precise tools to stabilize systems – especially in high-pressure environments.
- From “Who is the problem?” to “What is the pattern?”
- From firefighting to structured, systemic interventions
- From overload and confusion to a shared, realistic map
What organizations achieve with The Human Map™
- Stability even under high operational load
- More transparent and faster decisions
- Fewer conflicts and fewer misunderstandings
- A work rhythm that creates productivity instead of burnout
- A culture that strengthens trust, openness and shared responsibility
Four core principles of The Human Map™
Trust Architecture
Trust is not a feeling you hope for. It is a consciously designed part of collaboration: who gets access to which information, how decisions are explained, how mistakes and conflicts are handled when the pressure is high.
Clarity Design
Communication and decision structures that create orientation and safety: who decides, who is consulted, who carries which responsibility – and how this is made visible across teams, hierarchies and locations.
Rhythm & Flow
Work rhythms that synchronise teams and prevent chronic overload: clear cycles, realistic planning, deliberate pauses and interfaces where information and decisions actually meet.
Responsibility
Responsibility that is clearly defined, visible and shared. The Human Map™ helps distinguish personal responsibility from systemic responsibility – and shows how leaders can carry their role without falling into guilt or blame games.
Foundation
The book behind the method.
The book The Human Map explains, with clear models and real examples, how human systems function – and why organizations become dysfunctional when structure and human load drift apart.
It shows how to bring organizations back into balance, strategically and humanly: with precise language, diagrams and experiments that leaders can apply immediately in their own context.
In seminars, the book serves as a shared reference: participants can revisit the concepts, work with the diagrams and extend the seminar into everyday practice.
Who The Human Map™ is for
Leaders and teams who want structure, not slogans.
The Human Map™ is designed for organizations that work with real constraints: limited budgets, complex stakeholder landscapes, regulatory pressure, international teams.
- Leaders & managers in all sectors
- NGOs, public institutions and international organizations
- Start-ups, growth companies & tech teams
- Industry, production & logistics
- Teams in phases of change, crisis or re-orientation
Typical starting questions
- “We are not a weak team – so why does it feel so exhausting?”
- “How do we create clarity without over-controlling everything?”
- “How can we rebuild trust after conflict or restructuring?”
- “How do we create a rhythm that people can actually survive?”
A Human Map seminar starts exactly at these questions – with your real context, not generic cases.
Programmes & formats
Seminars and keynotes built for real organizations.
1-Day Intensive Workshop
A focused day for leadership teams or key functions. Together we scan your system using The Human Map™, identify critical fields and design the first concrete interventions.
- Ideal for: strategy days, offsites, board sessions
- Goal: clarity & shared language in a short time
2-Day Leadership Retreat
Deep work on trust, clarity and rhythm. Day 1: reading the system and naming tensions. Day 2: decisions, new routines and concrete commitments.
- Ideal for: leadership teams, cross-functional groups
- Goal: realignment and renewed trust under pressure
6-Week Transformation Programme
A structured series of workshops, reflection phases and experiments in the real system. Between sessions, teams test new structures and rhythms in live operations.
- Ideal for: organizations in change or rapid growth
- Goal: sustainable change anchored in everyday work
In-house & international
All formats can be delivered in-house or at external locations. Work can be conducted in English or German, with hybrid setups for international teams.
- On-site, online or blended formats
- Adapted to your industry, size and context
Keynotes & conference sessions
Short, sharp impulses for leadership conferences or internal events: an introduction to The Human Map™ that gives participants a new way to see their own organization.
About the developer
About Michael Kirschberger.
The developer of The Human Map™ has worked for many years with international teams, organizations, industrial operations and projects under high load.
The method was not invented at a desk, but in practice: in crisis situations, leadership challenges, global projects and intercultural teams – always with a deep interest in how people react under pressure and how systems either support or undermine them.
What characterises his work
- Quiet, precise, system-focused – not theatrical
- Respect for the complexity leaders carry every day
- Clear language, simple diagrams, practical tools
- A combination of psychological insight and structural design
Contact & booking.
If you sense that your organization is carrying more tension than it can show on slides – and you want a precise, respectful way to work with it – a Human Map seminar is a good starting point.
A short conversation is usually enough to see which format fits your situation: 1-day intensive, 2-day retreat or a 6-week transformation programme.