Imran Rehman
Most team-performance work still rests on intuition, engagement surveys that arrive too late, and a stubborn belief that the problem is the person. Leaders sense when a team is struggling long before any dashboard confirms it, and by the time it does, the cost has already landed. The harder question is what to measure in real time, and what to change in the environment so that psychological safety and belonging stop being slogans and start producing output.
Imran Rehman is a leadership coach and co-founder of the team-analytics platform Kokoro who helps senior leaders build the measurable conditions, psychological safety, belonging, and healthy performance, that high-performing teams need.
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Why organisations work with Imran Rehman
- He runs a working team-measurement platform, Kokoro, so his sessions draw on live data from teams rather than abstract models.
- His thesis reframes the problem: fix the environment, not the individual. That shift gives HR and transformation leaders a more tractable lever than personality interventions.
- He combines executive coaching practice with product building, which gives senior teams a rare mix of one-to-one diagnostic instinct and systems thinking in the same room.
- He works fluently in English and German and operates across European corporate and multinational contexts, which suits international leadership audiences.
- His book “Sum of Many” gives the work a named, published argument leaders can reference after the session.
Biography highlights
- Co-founder of Kokoro (Kokoro GmbH, Vienna), a real-time team and leadership analytics platform founded in 2018.
- Author of “Sum of Many,” featured on the Chapters Of My Life podcast (Life Book 45).
- Certified business and executive coach, European Business School (EBS).
- Bilingual working languages: English and German; based in Vienna, Austria.
- Signature talks include “The Science of Great Teams,” “The Myths of Measuring Humans,” and “Preventing Team Burnout: 6 Evidence-Based Actions for Success.”
- Professional coaching practice spanning multiple sectors and geographies, with a focus on senior leadership teams and organisational development.
Biography
Most teams are not underperforming because the people in them are weak. They are underperforming because the environment around them quietly punishes candour, overload is treated as a personal resilience problem, and the signals that matter are read too late. This is the terrain Imran Rehman works in.
He is co-founder of Kokoro, a Vienna-based platform that measures psychological safety, belonging, and the conditions of healthy high performance in real time. Kokoro was founded in 2018, and the product sits behind his speaking: the data he references is the data his clients are generating, not borrowed survey research.
His book “Sum of Many” argues the same point in long form. Stop trying to fix individuals. Build environments where ordinary people can do unusually good work together. It is a direct challenge to a lot of standard leadership development, and it gives his keynotes a single, testable claim rather than a list of tips.
He is a certified executive coach through the European Business School and works fluently in English and German across European and multinational organisations. The coaching practice and the product are not separate lives. One informs the other, which is why his sessions land with HR directors and operating leaders who have already sat through the generic version of this topic.
Key speaking topics
- Psychological safety in teams
- Belonging and team dynamics
- Data-informed team performance
- Healthy high performance and burnout prevention
- Leadership development and coaching
- Organisational development and culture
Ideal for
- CHROs, CPOs, and heads of organisational development responsible for team effectiveness at scale
- Senior leadership teams preparing for a step-change in performance expectations
- Transformation and change leaders who need measurable people indicators alongside operational ones
- International and German-speaking leadership audiences in multinational corporate settings
Audience outcomes
- A working definition of psychological safety that is specific enough to act on, not just reference
- A shift in framing from individual performance fixes to environmental design
- A view of what can and cannot be usefully measured in team behaviour, and why most surveys fail
- Evidence-based moves for preventing team burnout before it shows up in attrition figures
- A shared language for senior teams to diagnose their own dynamics in the weeks after the session
Talks
An interactive session on the variables that create high-performance team environments, drawing on neuroscience, anthropology, and sports performance research.
Key takeaways:
- What distinguishes an environment that produces great teams from one that does not
- The specific behavioural signals leaders should watch for, and the ones they should ignore
- How to translate the science into a short list of practical shifts a team can make next week
A critical look at what team and performance measurement actually reveals, and the common mistakes leaders make when they try to quantify human outcomes.
Key takeaways:
- Why engagement surveys often mislead and what better data looks like
- The difference between measurement that changes behaviour and measurement that only describes it
- How to read team data as a leader without over-indexing on single indicators
A session on the mechanisms that produce team burnout and the specific interventions leaders can make to prevent it.
Key takeaways:
- The organisational patterns that quietly create chronic overload
- Six evidence-based actions leaders can apply without waiting for a wellbeing programme
- How to detect early signals of team exhaustion before they show up in performance or attrition
Videos
Testimonials
Fees
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| Home Country | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Asia Pacific | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Europe | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Middle East & Africa | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| South America | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| United Kingdom | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| US East Coast | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| US West Coast | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |
| Virtual | Under €12000 | Under £10,000 | Under $15000 |