Hello, this is Monika.
I am an executive mindset coach, two-time cycling record holder, international keynote speaker and author.
With more than 15 years of experience, I help leaders and teams set and successfully pursue bold goals through confidence, purpose, courage and resilience.
As a keynote speaker, I share my experience from my work and my cycling records to showcase what it takes to go for big goals.
My book “What It Takes to Make Dreams Come True” tells my story of scary changes and failures but also courage and bold moves to create my own path.
Previously, I have worked for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and IBM. Originally from Germany, I have lived in the USA, Australia and Spain and now reside in Bern, Switzerland.

Keynotes
Get inspired with a seemingly impossible cycling record and how the lessons learned can be applied to your goals.
Corporate trainings
Thrive at work through the key skills for more productivity and motivation.
1 Mio + PEOPLE INSPIRED
100 + SUCCESSFUL TALKS & WORKSHOPS
10 + YEARS COACHING & CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
2 CYCLING RECORDS
My story in a book
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.
Every success outwits many doubts, obstacles and failures. Most people don’t talk about it. I do. In my book, I talk about the anxiety, fear of failure and the conflicts with traditions and “what you are supposed to do” mindsets. But I also talk about how to make dreams come true. What it takes. And how everyone can do it too. This book is about that “normal” people can achieve extraordinary things, if they allow themselves to do them.
If you have a unrealized dream or a seemingly impossible goal, this book is for you.
My life is marked by bold decisions. I am scared, anxious and worried like everyone else. But why I do it anyway, that is what I share in this book, in my talks and workshops while coaching others through bold steps and pushing limits.


In the SRF Focus podcast
Monika Sattler: «Sich selber kennen ist das Wichtigste»
Die Frau hat Energie ohne Ende. Monika Sattler ist zurück von ihrer jüngsten Challenge: Alle 124 Schweizer Alpenpässe hat sie mit dem Velo abgefahren, und das in einem Monat. Mit Anita Richner spricht sie über ihre Motivation, persönliche Krisen und die Bedeutung von Mut.
Mit 30 Jahren stand Monika Sattler an einem Tiefpunkt. Sie hatte zwei Masterabschlüsse von renommierten amerikanischen Universitäten in der Tasche und Karriereerfahrung bei IMF, Weltbank und IBM gesammelt. Glücklich wurde sie dabei nicht. In «Focus» erzählt sie, wie sie ihr Leben radikal umkrempelte, welche Rolle der Sport dabei spielte und warum es so wichtig ist, die inneren Leidenschaften zu verfolgen.
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