Strategy · Aviation · Innovation

Shaping the transition of an entire industry.

Senior strategist working at the intersection of aviation and disruptive innovation — turning frameworks into decisions, and signals into systems.

Kolin Schunck · based in Hamburg, DE

Role
Digital Strategy
Sector
Aviation / MRO
Writes
Stock & Flow
Local time · HAM
01About
Portrait of Kolin
KolinHamburg · DE

A systems thinker who connects ideas across industries — and makes change actually happen.

My whole career has lived at the edge where aerospace meets disruptive innovation. I'm less interested in incremental polish and more in the structural shifts — the moments where a technology, a business model, or an incentive quietly rewrites how an entire industry works.

I think in frameworks that travel: borrow a mechanism from one domain, stress-test it in another, and use it to cut through noise. Data-first by instinct, contrarian when the consensus is lazy, and obsessed with measuring the things that actually matter — not just the things that are easy to count.

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

Digital MRO strategy Competitive intelligence Market sizing AI & the tech wave Decision theory INTJ
02Writing

Stock & Flow — an analytical newsletter for the strategy-literate.

Framework-driven essays that take a single signal — a fuel-price chart, a festival, a cruise-ship outbreak — and pull the whole system into view. Written in English for an international audience that likes its ideas with structure and its takes with an edge.

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03Speaking

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

I've spoken across Munich, Silicon Valley, and Shanghai — and to communities that don't usually let a strategist near the mic.

Measuring the Wrong Things — and Calling It Progress
Community-voted speaker · Love Tomorrow Summit
2026
International keynotes & panels
Selected stages across aviation & 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

Available for talks on AI, aviation, and decision-making under uncertainty.

04Off the Clock
/ 01
Ironman
Endurance as a long-running experiment in the quantified self — training, data, and the discipline of compounding small gains.
/ 02
Tomorrowland
Five festivals since 2013, now also a recurring object of analysis. The last place on earth where strangers still touch.
/ 03
Travel the World
Experiencing the beauty of the planet in all its facets, up close — every culture, coastline, and altitude worth the detour.
Live Today — Love Tomorrow.
Guiding star
05Connect