Leadership
From control to trust
The management move that lets companies grow without turning the founder into the bottleneck.
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André Kiwitz · Berlin
Making the world a better place through travel.
Founder and CEO of Ventura Travel. Notes on leadership, technology, and where travel is heading.
About me
Traveler, founder, tinkerer, and a believer that travel changes people.
My purpose is simple: to make the world a better place through travel. Travel done well builds understanding, sends money to the places and communities that host us, and changes how we see the world when we come home.
I build and run businesses, not just ideas. I care about the machinery of how organisations make decisions, and I am impatient with hype that does not survive contact with the work.
More about me →What I am working on right now
The company
Ventura Travel
Specialist travel brands, deep local expertise and real responsibility for the places we send people.
Visit Ventura Travel ↗The build
Ventura AI
A personal and team operating system for working with AI agents, orchestrating real work across people and models.
Explore Ventura AI ↗The impact
The Forest Guardians
Protecting rainforest with the people who live in it, and turning travel revenue into standing forest.
Visit Forest Guardians ↗Articles
All articles →Speaking
I am open for speaking gigs.
Leadership and how good companies decide, AI in real organisations, and the future of travel. Keynotes and conversations, in English, German or Spanish.
Before we meet
How to work with me
A short primer on how I think and how I like to run meetings, so we can skip the warm-up.