Former Team Principal and CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing
Christian Horner: Biography at a Glance
- Christian Horner OBE is the former Team Principal and CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing, known for creating a team environment that combines technical excellence with risk-taking and innovation.
- Horner distills lessons from leading one of the world’s fastest-moving organizations to demonstrate how clarity of purpose, calm decision-making, and trust empower teams to perform at their best in high-stakes environments.
- He offers a blueprint for developing cohesive, high-performance cultures that thrive on accountability, innovation, and mutual respect—insights transferable from the pit wall to any competitive business landscape.
- Horner explores how embracing technology, data, and evolving human dynamics can help leaders future-proof their organizations while keeping people, not machines, at the center of success.
- Drawing from years of leading through uncertainty, he reveals how to balance bold, strategic risk-taking with the discipline and structure needed to sustain long-term excellence.
- Horner shares how aligning performance goals with broader values such as innovation, responsibility, and sustainability creates cultures that endure and inspire.
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Biography
Christian Horner OBE is the former Team Principal and CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing. He began his motorsport career behind the wheel, working his way up to Formula 3000 before swapping the cockpit for a different driving seat – as the boss of his own team, Arden International. After guiding Arden to three team titles, Horner was brought in to lead the new Red Bull Racing Team following the Austrian drinks company’s decision to enter Formula 1 in 2005.
Then the youngest team principal in the sport, Horner brought renowned designer Adrian Newey to the team at the end of Red Bull’s first season and after three further years of growth, the emerging team signaled its arrival with the first grand prix win at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix. Horner led the team to its first Drivers’ and Constructors’ double the following season, with Sebastian Vettel at the wheel of the RB6, after which he cemented the team’s place in the top echelon of F1 by taking three consecutive title doubles from 2011-2013. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2013 for his services to motorsport.
Though the team continued to win races, the arrival of hybrid power in F1 in 2014 marked the end of Red Bull Racing’s first period of dominance. However, Horner once again led the team back to championship glory in 2021, with Max Verstappen winning his first Drivers’ crown and the team's ninth title. Horner now stands as Formula 1's longest-serving Team Principal.
Horner advocates for creating a sustainable future in F1 with a focus on sustainable fuels and improving road, sea and air logistics for equipment transportation which account for almost half of F1’s emissions.
Topics
Engineering Excellence: Building and Sustaining High-Performance Teams
Culture, resilience, and leadership at 300km/h
From the pressures of Formula 1 to the dynamics of global business, Christian Horner draws on two decades leading one of the sport’s most successful teams to reveal what it takes to build and sustain elite performance when every decision counts. He explores how culture becomes a competitive advantage the equips teams to balance freedom with accountability, risk with discipline, and innovation with trust.
Horner shows how great teams maintain clarity, composure, and connection even under extreme pressure, and how leaders can cultivate a shared purpose that keeps performance high through both stability and disruption. This is a playbook for building teams that don’t just win — they endure.
Intelligent Speed: AI, Risk-Taking, and the Human Edge in Formula 1
Where data meets instinct
As Formula 1 accelerates into the era of intelligent machines, Christian Horner reflects on how he and his team integrated AI, data, and human instinct to stay ahead of the curve. He shares how AI-driven simulations and predictive modelling reshaped decision-making and why the greatest breakthroughs still depended on the courage to take risks that no algorithm could justify.
In this talk, Horner reframes innovation as a balance between precision and intuition. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at how leadership, culture, and curiosity enable teams to adapt faster than the technology itself and how the principles of F1’s AI revolution apply to any business operating in an age of automation and uncertainty.
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