Success is (not) what you think.
With the right mindset, you can achieve even seemingly impossible goals
Hello, my name is Monika.
At the age of 30, I was sitting unemployed in the Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, wondering what I wanted to do with my professional life. At that point, I had already been through a few stations, both geographically and professionally.
I had studied international security with a focus on nuclear weapons, worked for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as well as a management consultant and professional cyclist and had lived in four countries.
But what did I really want? I didn't know. So I had to find out.
I bought a one-way ticket and moved to Spain with my bike and a small backpack to find my professional purpose.
For ten years now, based on 20+ years of experience, my self-developed model and two cycling records, I have been coaching leaders and teams to develop a success mindset for adapting to constant change, increasing motivation and courage, and defining one's own success.
In addition to ten years of coaching experience, I have delivered more than 200 keynotes and workshops, including engagements with AWS, Deutsche Telekom, Hager Group, Knorr Bremse, Intersport, AXA and SBB.
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What it takes to make dreams come true
I had my good share on bold and non-standard decisions.
I quit a career-aspiring job at the World Bank to see if I could become a professional cyclist. I failed multiple times to make my passion for cycling to my job. I started to believe that a job you love does not exist. With 30 years, I left my management consulting job and moved with nothing but my bike to the other side of the world.
I had no plan but a one-hotel night stay and a six-week car rental. My mission? To find my purpose in life. And one year later I set a seemingly impossible record.
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Adventure Gravel Transalp
Freedom without borders
The former professional road cyclist Monika Sattler is constantly looking for new challenges. In 2018, she became the first woman to complete the 3,300km Vuelta a España course on the same day as the male pros. After numerous gravel races in the USA, she has now tackled an Alpine crossing on the popular gravel bike.
The book accompanies her on her six stages from Graun to Lake Garda, tells you about the challenges along the way and about the most beautiful moments on the 402 kilometers and 10,440 meters in altitude.
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In the SRF Focus podcast
Monika Sattler: "Knowing yourself is the most important thing"
The woman has energy without end. Monika Sattler is back from her latest challenge: she cycled all 124 Swiss passes in one month. She talks to Anita Richner about her motivation, personal crises and the importance of courage. At the age of 30, Monika Sattler was at a low point. She had two master's degrees from renowned American universities under her belt and had gained career experience at the IMF, the World Bank and IBM. But she was not happy. In "Focus," she tells how she radically turned her life around, what role sports played in the process, and why it's so important to pursue your inner passions.
In the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Monika Sattler lives fast.
So quickly, in fact, that she already had a midlife crisis at the age of 30 - that's what she calls the low she was in. What she had achieved by then lasts until retirement for other people: The German, who now lives in Bern, studied security sciences, focusing on nuclear weapons, at Georgetown University in the USA on a sports scholarship in volleyball. She then worked for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. At 24, she began racing bikes, and a year and a half later she was a professional cyclist for three months...to the article .here