«You do or you don`t»
Ole Petersen, Danish nationality, born 1961, studied economics at the University of Düsseldorf, made his business career in building up several distribution companies over Europe in the investment goods industry and finally led a Swiss company with 130 employees as CEO.
Until the age of 28 he was a strong smoker, overweight and had several burnout-periods. Under these circumstances he changed his lifestyle and began running, lost weight and finished until 1999 over 40 IRONMAN competitions alongside work and family. Ole Petersen has set the Swiss record (39:33 h) for the triple IRONMAN distance (11.4k swim, 540k bike and 126k run) in 1997.
Today he runs the company fit im job AG based in Winterthur, specialises in workplace health promotion. He is author of several books and also wrote the German bestseller «Marathon». In 2004 he received the Swiss Innovation Award «Innovative enterpreneur 2004».
Focus:
Motivation, self management, work-life-balance, workplace health promotion (WHP)
Professional Background:
12 years, in sales, marketing and export, CEO of a swiss company with 130 employees since 1994 specialized in workplace health promotion (WHP)
Education:
Business economist (Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH)) div. trainings as trainer and coach
Awards:
Swiss Innovation Award: «Innovative enterpreneur 2004»
Sports:
1992 2nd place (Team) World Championships Quadrathlon long distance, DiamondMan (5k swim, 20k kajak, 100k bike and 21,1k run).
1994 2nd place Double Ultratriathlon (7,6k swim, 360k bike and 84,4k run) at Huntsville (USA) in 21:51, new Swiss record for DoubleIronman distance (meanwhile broken).
1995 6th place Ultraman World Championships (10k swim, 420k bike and 84,4k run) at Hawaii (USA) in 26:11.
1996 3rd place Triple Ultratriathlon (11,4k swim, 540k bike and 126,6k run) at Lensahn (Germany) in 39:30, new Swiss record for TripleIronman distance (meanwhile broken).
Publications:
Several public bestsellers e.g. «Health is the boss’ matter», «burn FAT instead of burnout», «Fit & top in the Job», «Marathon» and «Ironman».
Languages:
German, English
