Rainer Kiefer

verrocchio Fellow – sports scientist and sports psychologist with innovation knowledge

From Rainer

"Exercise becomes experience - getting a taste becomes skill - being active becomes being fit - training becomes success."

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Worth knowing

Rainer Kiefer holds a Master of International Studies in Sport Sciences and is a member of the Association for Sport Psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany (ASP e.V.). He is a sport psychology consultant at the Olympic Training Center Freiburg.

His very special references include the SBW Biathlon National Squad, Nordic Combined athletes, Tug of War National Team, Wrestling National Squad athletes and the Ladies Curling National Team. He is a DSV Ski Instructor & DSV A-Trainer Performance Sport Ski Nordic and is the head of the teaching team cross-country skiing in the Ski Association Black Forest.

In addition, he is a lecturer at the University of Constance for mountain sports and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology lecturer for sports psychology.

At the German Sports Association for the Disabled, he leads the project for the Nordic training plan concept.

He draws his deep experience as an experiential educator, speaker and workshop leader from more than 10 years with many hundreds of trainings with groups and teams.

His contribution as verrocchio Fellow

Together with Rainer Kiefer, the verrocchio Institute developed the “Professional Athlete Training for Innovation Teams” – PATI for short.

After innovation expert Benno van Aerssen completed a biathlon training with sports psychologist Rainer Kiefer and a little later Rainer Kiefer started the innovation coach training at the verrocchio Institute, one thing was clear to both of them – “We knew instantly why so many innovation or design thinking teams had only sporadic, but no sustainable innovation successes or even performance increases.”

PATI now purposefully combines principles, methods and exercises from competitive sports into innovation work, for a long-term increase in innovation capability.