Daniela Landherr is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and founder of The Human Space, a boutique leadership advisory dedicated to transforming organizational cultures through psychological safety at scale. A former Head of Talent Engagement EMEA at Google, she partners with executive teams, boards, and founders to reduce fear, foster trust, and build workplaces where people can have real conversations, challenge, and thrive.
Daniela holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD, specializing in the system-psychodynamics of leadership and organizational behavior, and completed the
Executive Leadership Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lectures and coaches executives in EMBA programs and works closely with senior leaders navigating complexity and transformation.
With her work, leaders learn to regulate emotions under pressure, handle triggers constructively, and cultivate communication that inspires and mobilizes others. Her interventions transform fragmented teams into connected ecosystems, where clarity, courage, and care drive performance, innovation, and impact.
Today, as Founder and CEO of The Human Space, Daniela works with leadership teams across industries to address the human dynamics that sit beneath strategy execution. Her approach focuses on enabling open dialogue, strengthening trust, and ensuring that organizations operate with greater alignment, accountability, and effectiveness.
A member of the Forbes Coaches Council and a frequent keynote and TEDx speaker, Daniela also serves on advisory boards. Her company, The Human Space, was recognized with the Inc. Power Partners Award 2025 for its global impact in people empowerment and workplace culture transformation.
What looks like alignment at the top is often silent agreement shaped by pressure, hierarchy, and risk. Critical perspectives stay unspoken, and decisions are made on partial truth. Daniela helps leaders surface what is typically avoided, restoring clarity, speed, and sound judgment where it matters most.
Rather than treating trust as a cultural concept, Daniela positions it as a core enabler of performance. When teams operate in an environment where open dialogue is possible, they identify risks earlier, collaborate more effectively, and execute with greater consistency.
Leadership is not just about decisions, it is about the environment those decisions are made in. Daniela works with leaders to understand how their reactions, signals, and behaviors create either tension or openness. Small shifts at the top change how the entire organization thinks, communicates, and performs.
Daniela brings a rare combination of executive experience, psychological depth, and systems thinking. Her sessions move beyond frameworks and into the realities leaders face behind closed doors where decisions are shaped, tensions are managed, and outcomes are determined.
Trust as a strategic leadership asset: In a rapidly changing world, trust is becoming the most valuable currency leaders can build inside organizations.
Psychological safety that drives performance: Teams perform at their best when people feel safe to speak openly, challenge ideas, and contribute fully.
Human leadership in the age of AI: As technology advances, the uniquely human ability to build trust, read emotions, and navigate complex dynamics becomes even more critical.
From fear based cultures to trust-based organizations: Leaders who cultivate openness and trust unlock stronger collaboration, faster learning, and greater innovation.
Practical leadership insights: Drawing on global executive coaching experience and years at GOOGLE, Daniela shares concrete practices for building trust at every level of leadership.
With decades of experience at the intersection of leadership, psychology, and organizational performance, Daniela Landherr has become one of the most compelling voices on why the human dynamics beneath strategy are what truly determine whether organizations succeed or fail.
Her keynote at the Balkan Business Forum 2026 is for every leader who senses that the real barrier to performance isn’t just a strategy problem, it’s a human one. For anyone who believes their organization is capable of more, and is willing to look at what’s standing in the way, this session will be the most important hour of the year.
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