Strategize Your Life - living happily and fulfilled for 30,000 days on earth
Especially in times of crisis, many existential questions arise about health, security, the meaning of life, career prospects and work-life balance. Nevertheless, everyday life often consumes us and we live our days without getting to the bottom of these existential questions.
The aim of Strategize Your Life is to transfer the principles of strategic thinking from the boardrooms of the world to our own lives - in seven interactive units:
- Great Life: what are the cornerstones of a great life?
- Life Purpose: How do I find my purpose?
- Life Vision: What should my life look like in five to ten years?
- Life Portfolio: How do I strategically manage my time, energy and money?
- Life Benchmarks: 22+ ideas for a great life.
- Life Choice: What small and big decisions should I make?
- Life Change: How do I ensure successful implementation?
At the end of the course, participants will have defined a first version of their life strategy - on a single page. They will also have derived a purpose and defined a vision.
Every company has a strategy - less than 4% of people have one. Most people study hundreds of hours for exams, spend thousands of hours online, but have probably never invested eight to ten hours in their own life strategy. We should do this before it is too late and a large part of our 30,000 days on this earth are over.
The workshop, spread over three evenings, is a cooperation between the UW/H Career Service and the Reinhard Mohn Institute for Corporate Management (RMI).
Who is the workshop for?
The workshop is aimed at students from all disciplines and is held in German. There is a minimum of 20 participants.
All participants commit to writing a 5-page reflection of the workshop on their lives.
All information shared by participants in the workshop will be treated confidentially. This confidentiality - also among each other - is expected and assumed by all participants. The results of the questionnaire will only be evaluated and processed anonymously, as will the 5-page reflection on the workshop.
ECTS points
After submission and review of the 5-page reflection of the workshop by Rainer Strack, it is also possible to obtain a Stufu participation certificate (equivalent to one ECTS) for participation in this workshop. Students can report this to Prof. Strack. He will pass on the examination result to the WittenLab examination department and have it registered.
Procedure
April 14th 2026: 18:30-22:00 as a virtual meeting, steps 1 and 2 of Strategize Your Life
April 15th 2026: 18:30-22:00 as a virtual meeting, steps 2, 3 and 4 of Strategize Your Life
April 16th 2026: 18:30-22:00 as a virtual meeting, steps 5, 6 and 7 of Strategize Your Life
The registration deadline is April 09, 2026. Tickets are available via the JobTeaser portal. Participation is free of charge.
The speaker is Rainer Strack, Senior Partner Emeritus and Senior Advisor Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Honorary Professor for Strategic Human Resources Management at the University of Witten Herdecke and trained executive coach. Rainer Strack worked full-time at BCG for more than 27 years and has been a pioneer of strategic thinking since the 1960s. Rainer Strack led the People Strategy practice globally for more than 10 years, the People & Organization practice in Europe and Africa and the Social Impact practice in Germany for more than 9 years. In 2014, he gave a TED Talk on the topic of "Global Workforce Crisis" with more than 2 million views. Rainer Strack led the "Future of Work" project for the World Economic Forum. In 2021, he was inducted into the "HR Hall of Fame" of Personalmagazin. In December 2023, he published the article "Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want" together with two colleagues in the Big Idea Section of the Harvard Business Review (HBR). The article became the most-read article on HBR.org in the month of publication, was shared worldwide, was included in two HBR Must Read books, and Rainer's accompanying video became the most popular HBR video in 2024 with over 1.6 million views. Rainer Strack is also a physicist, ski instructor, avid soccer fan, golfer, amateur painter, Christian, husband and father of three boys.