ABOUT PHILIP HORVÁTH
Thirty years asking the same question from different angles.
What does it actually take for a human being, or a human organization, to change, at depth, in a way that lasts?
He has looked for answers in boardrooms and meditation retreats. In neuroscience laboratories and ancient wisdom traditions. In enterprise transformation programs running across forty countries, and in the quieter work of sitting with individual leaders trying to find their ground.
What he keeps finding is consistently the same.
70% of organizational transformation initiatives fail. The limiting factor is almost never the strategy, the technology, or the process. It is the human infrastructure: the developmental capacity of the people inside the system. Their ability to author their own responses rather than react from habit. To relate across difference rather than retreat into silos. To hold complexity without collapsing into certainty.
That is what philip has spent more than three decades learning to develop.
THE WORK
philip’s career spans two roles most people keep separate.
As a keynote speaker, he has stood on stages from Berlin to Bangalore, San Francisco to Tokyo, helping organizations make sense of what AI disruption, culture change, and leadership in the twenty-first century actually require. His talks do not motivate. They reorient.
As a transformation advisor and human-development practitioner, he co-founded LUMAN, the consultancy working with some of the world’s most complex organizations on the conditions that make real transformation possible.
The thread connecting both: the same rigorous, embodied inquiry into what human beings are actually capable of, and what gets in the way.
The Siemens Intrapreneur Bootcamp is worth naming specifically. philip co-designed and co-led it for a decade, one of the most successful intrapreneurship programs ever built inside a DAX 40 organization. Nearly a thousand intrapreneurs trained across more than forty countries. It was not a one-time event. It was a ten-year proof of concept for what human development and transformation at scale actually look like when built right. You can download a Case Study here.
THE RESEARCH
philip's work draws on a research arc spanning the full range of human development traditions, from the rigorously scientific to the rigorously ancient. Both are serious inquiries into the same territory.
Most leadership speakers draw from one well. philip draws from several. Over three decades, the inquiry has taken him from corporate boardrooms to contemplative communities, from neuroscience laboratories to indigenous teachers, always asking what the conditions for genuine human change actually are.
The list below is not a credential brag. It is an honest account of where the answers came from.
35+ Years Meditation and Mindfulness · Masters in Transformational Psychology · Autogenic Training · Yoga Teacher Training · Ontological Coaching · Neuroscience for High Performance · Somatic Experiencing Masterclass · Non-Violent Communication · Master in Transformational Training · Organizational Development and Design · Neurolinguistic Programming · General Semantics · Alchemy, Magick & Occult Studies · 21st Century Hermetics · Shamanism · Entheogen Therapy & Research · Kundalini · Tantra · Qabalah · Tarot · Integral Theory · Integral Yoga · Info-Psychology · Systems Theory · Systemic Design
The breadth is not eccentricity. It is discipline.
THE PERSON
philip has always lived on the edge of technological and cultural development.
philip grew up between cultures, which gave him an early education in the thing his work now addresses directly: the difference between adapting to a system and creating new ones.
He worked as an enterprise architect, project and program manager for enterprise transformation in his early career. Taking a break from the corporate world, he co-founded a non-profit for Conscious Creativity which became part of a UN think tank. He lived in one of the world’s largest artist colonies and ran a gallery in Los Angeles. He lived as a digital glomad for five years on three continents. He built one of the most successful intrapreneurship programs at Siemens. He studied with teachers from traditions that do not make it onto most leadership curricula. He wrote. He taught. He kept asking the question.
He is currently completing his first book, The Relational Age. A personal and intimate examination of what human development requires when process execution is no longer a uniquely human capacity.
He lives in Berlin and Los Angeles. He speaks English and German (plus tiny bits of French and Spanish, and is currently learning Japanese).
His primary work is currently with European and DACH organizations navigating transformation. He also works with leaders across North America and Asia.
PHILIP & LUMAN
philip’s organizational transformation work is delivered through LUMAN, the human development consultancy he co-founded with CEO Tirza Hollenhorst.
LUMAN designs and delivers the programs at scale: Transformation Communities, leadership development curricula, AI adoption frameworks. philip brings the depth of inquiry. Tirza brings the operational architecture and rigor. Together they have built something neither could have built alone.
If you are looking to bring philip into your organization for a keynote, a masterclass, or a sustained advisory relationship, the next step is a conversation.
Organizational transformation at scale
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“Philip is an exceptional human being. He brings in an incredible depth on highly relevant topics for the new age, such as Organisational Culture, Purpose and Innovation. His ability to distill and navigate the main issues even during the most difficult situations is unrivalled. He moderates tricky situations and always has an eye out for the greater good. Beyond his strong human touch, Philip thinks in systems and processes to develop long-lasting, repeatable concepts for real change in organisations. It was an absolute pleasure to work with Philip – you’ve missed out if you haven’t yet.”
Daniel Nowack
Head of Social Entrepreneurship World Economic Forum
“Philip is an inspirational leader very rare to find. Philip is humble enough to take a step back while at the same time pushing the edge of what is possible. He masters the art of creating space for others to rise for greater impact. He draws from deep knowledge and understanding of building bridges between the human factor and technological as well as societal developments. With his curious mind, Philip is constantly at the edge of the next level, the greater impact, the even deeper understanding – a true creator of emerging futures.”
Laura Engelhardt
Head of Strategy Foundational Technologies SIEMENS