Milon Gupta

Milon Gupta

Neckargemuend, GERMANY
Helps executives improve their strategic thinking and decision making through insights from chess.

Milon Gupta is a leading European expert for strategic thinking and decision making.

His unique insights are based on strategic wisdom gained from chess, the 1,500 year-old strategy game from India. He uses chess in his highly engaging presentations as a metaphor model for explaining to executives how to make good strategic decisions under conditions of complexity and uncertainty.

For the first time, these insights have been made accessible and practically usable for corporate decision makers without advanced chess playing skills. Milon's keynote presentations and strategy workshops combine insights from a variety of fields, including cognitive psychology, game theory, decision theory, cybernetics, and personality diagnostics.

Milon is a FIDE Master of the global chess federation FIDE. His unique approach to business strategy is based on his 37 years of international chess experience and his over 20 years of experience in marketing at high-tech firms in the European engineering and telecommunications sector. His long-term business practice as marketing manager enables him to translate the deep strategic concepts from chess into a language accessible to executives.

 

Milon Gupta is a leading European expert for strategic thinking and decision making.

His unique insights are based on strategic wisdom gained from chess, the 1,500 year-old strategy game from India. He uses chess in his highly engaging presentations as a metaphor model for explaining to executives how to make good strategic decisions under conditions of complexity and uncertainty.

For the first time, these insights have been made accessible and practically usable for corporate decision makers without advanced chess playing skills. Milon's keynote presentations and strategy workshops combine insights from a variety of fields, including cognitive psychology, game theory, decision theory, cybernetics, and personality diagnostics.

Milon is a FIDE Master of the global chess federation FIDE. His unique approach to business strategy is based on his 37 years of international chess experience and his over 20 years of experience in marketing at high-tech firms in the European engineering and telecommunications sector. His long-term business practice as marketing manager enables him to translate the deep strategic concepts from chess into a language accessible to executives.

 

What executives can learn from chess masters

This engaging and interactive keynote presentation gives the audience new insights on how to approach important business decisions.

Chess masters permanently make decisions under high time pressure in complex situations. Executives do the same. The only difference is that chess masters are better prepared for their job. Their mastery of uncertainty through the clever use of heuristics and razor-sharp thinking offers stunning insights for executives.

Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

The art of strategic thinking

This keynote provides an inspiring perspective on the art of strategic thinking - an art, which executives need to master, if they want to thrive in a world of uncertainty and volatility.

Today, traditional strategic planning approaches are bound to fail, if they are not enhanced by strategic dexterity. Strategic plans are often either badly implemented or completely ignored by middle management. What is needed in the highly complex and dynamic business of today is a more flexible...

Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing