Curious · Independent · Deliberate

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.

Kolin Schunck · based in Hamburg, DE

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01About
Portrait of Kolin Schunck
KolinHamburg · DE

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. Recent and upcoming starts:

03Places

Where the defaults got reset this year. A few of 2026's detours:

FEB 2026
South Africa
The southern tip, with coastline, wildlife and very long horizons.
APR 2026
Mexico & USA
Two countries in one trip. Sun, cities and contrast.
MAY 2026
Azores
The volcanic Atlantic, with craters, trails and hot springs.
JUN 2026
Ericeira, Portugal
Atlantic swell. A surf trip, plain and simple.
AUG 2026
Chicago & Evanston
Work took me there, a friend kept me there. Also a return to Kellogg in Evanston, where I once spent nine months.
04Writing
05Speaking

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
Delivered
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