About Me

Kurt Mähler is a globally recognized life coach, keynote speaker, and award-winning poet who moves leaders from disillusionment to decisive action. With decades of experience across 40 countries—including challenging environments like Cuba, Persia, and North Korea—Kurt guides leaders in venture capital, finance, nonprofit, real estate, corporate training, and mental health through his proprietary coaching framework, Courage for Your Calling™, cultivating empowered confidence, purposeful clarity, renewed passion, and resilient momentum.

He has authored multiple books and published hundreds of articles and poems, inspiring audiences with firsthand stories, poetic imagery, and practical wisdom. Together with his wife Karen and their team, he founded a community development agency in Afghanistan, a crucible for learning hands-on leadership in mending the world.

Kurt and Karen live in the Emirates, with roots in the Gulf Coast, Rio Grande Valley, Central Texas, Louisiana, and New England. Inspired by the prophetic tradition and the mysteries of the Ancient Faith, Kurt draws on the influence of Lewis and Tolkien, George MacDonald, Dante and Milton, the Desert Fathers, and the Hebrew prophets.

Why? Because thought leaders go back to the beginning to find the way forward.

The key to the future begins with a memory. Our calling comes from the original self the Creator had in mind when He said, “Let there be you.”

For those ready to invest in deep personal transformation, Kurt accepts a limited number of premium coaching clients and delivers inspiring keynotes at corporate events worldwide.

To explore how Courage for Your Calling™ can help you begin again, receive Kurt’s free reflective guide Recollect Watermark Moments when you subscribe at kurtmahler.com. Prepare to ask yourself, “What one brave thing will I do today?”