You built something. Now something feels off.
First, the truth
Congratulations. You had the idea. You found the funding. You built the team.
And now you’re standing in front of that team, leading, and you know something feels off. You’re not sure what it is.
I’m not going to come in and tell you how to lead. This was your idea, your risk, your company. You should lead it your way. What I do is work on you, so you get to know yourself better. Because once you do, you find your own way to lead.
Most leadership problems are just a person who hasn’t met themselves yet.
The toilet
Years back, at my first job, there were about fifty of us. One loo. Staff and clients. No one ever cleaned it, and I’d become terrified of using it. The thought of a client having to use it humiliated me.
So I cleaned it. Then I made a cleaning list and put everyone on it.
A few days later the boss came down asking who’d made the list. He got to me: “Why do you think you have the right to create this list?” I said, one, I want a clean loo. Two, I want our clients to have a clean loo. Three, I’m tired of no one doing anything.
He took me upstairs, sat me down, and promoted me to assistant manager. I’d been there three months. He said: you can’t tell them you’ve been promoted, but you have to start leading them. Do that, and I’ll make it permanent.
I went home and cried every night for about three months. It was a nightmare. But I managed it. Not by telling them. By showing them how it was done and involving them in it.
Nine months later I was the manager. A year after that, I bought the business. Years later, I was a millionaire.
I’m not telling you this to impress you. What changed everything wasn’t a title. It was meeting myself. That’s the work I do, with you.
Why me
I’m not a consultant with a framework. I built businesses worth millions, lost everything, and came back from the bottom: breakdown, addiction, homelessness, seven years without a home. I know what unspoken pain does to a person and to the thing they’re building.
I’ve done the climb. That’s why people talk to me.
Unresolved issues don’t stay at home. They come to work.
That’s the whole idea, and it’s the one thing almost nobody in corporate wellbeing will say to you.
The industry tells you to leave your problems at the door. That’s a myth, and an outdated one. Your unhappiness, your frustration, the thing you’ve been carrying since you were nine, it walks into the office with you every morning. It shows up in how you handle your team, your decisions, your marriage, your sleep.
A meditation app doesn’t reach it. Neither does another offsite. I’ve never once found the problem in the office. It’s always older than the job.
And it costs.
The European Union puts the total cost of mental ill health at around €240 billion a year. Of that, roughly €136 billion is reduced productivity: absence and presenteeism. Not treatment. Working capacity, gone.
Across Europe, employees lose around nine sick days a year on average, and the share tied to mental health keeps rising. Reduced performance from psychosocial problems is estimated at up to twice the cost of absence. People at their desks running at 60 percent, because something older than their job is running them.
Around one in five people in Europe live with a mental health condition. Under 25, closer to one in four. On a team of ten, it’s already in the room.
It’s also one of the few costs a business can actually reduce. Analysis commissioned for the UK’s health assessment body found productivity losses from stress and poor mental health could fall by around 30 percent, with a net cost reduction running into hundreds of thousands for a company of a thousand people.
Sources: EU-OSHA and the European Commission’s Compass for Action on Mental Health, WHO, NICE, and Germany’s Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
What I actually do
If you’re the leader.
It starts with you. Not with your team, not with a wellbeing programme. Founders don’t get fixed by their own company. They get fixed by someone who’s sat where they’re sitting.
Seven weeks, one session a week, 60 to 120 minutes. Up to fourteen hours, one to one. Lifemapping: your whole life on one line, birth to today, and the exact points where you got stuck, and the personas you built to survive them that are still running your decisions.
If you’re paying for yourself, or your company is investing in you, we talk about that on the call.
If you want me inside your company.
Ten hours a month, €3,500. Anyone on the team can book me, one to one, in full confidence. I don’t run workshops or group sessions. I’m available to individuals, one at a time, as if they had found me themselves. Some will just want to talk. Others will go deeper, real one-to-one work.
Nothing gets reported back. Not to you, not to HR, not to their manager. I don’t tell anyone who booked or what was said. That’s not a feature. It’s the reason it works. Nobody tells the truth to a coach who reports to their boss.
You don’t buy insight into your people. You buy their improvement.
Company-funded coaching is tax-deductible. If someone wants to keep working with me privately afterwards, that’s a conversation between us.
If you just want to talk, without the personal work:
Book the Radical Honest Hour →€350 for up to two hoursWhat each side gains
The leader. You meet yourself, and lead your own way.
The employee. Someone to talk to in confidence, and real growth if they want it, which mirrors into both their personal and their work life.
The business. Higher productivity, fewer sick days, people who stay, lower turnover costs. A team at full power, protecting the business you built.
What people say
★★★★★
“If you’ve already worked with different coaches, opening yourself up to Aleksander’s approach is at first, in many ways, different and new. The path we walked in coaching was marked by enormous empathy and maximum honesty. Aleksander helps you develop that honesty towards yourself through very clear, direct questions, and does it in a sensitive, structured way. In various workshops and one-to-one coachings we also worked with Aleksander in a business context, giving leaders a chance for personal development. I can absolutely recommend working with Aleksander in both areas.”
“He mirrored me until I understood my micromanaging problem came from a lack of trust, and that it went back to my father. You’d be an idiot not to involve him in your life.”
Worked with
H&M · Harrods · House of Entrepreneurship · Autowelt Zurich · Blank Spaces Berlin
And a few of the top-100 companies I’ve worked with can’t be named here. Discretion comes with the work.
Stuck on a problem? This one isn’t personal. It’s purely the work.
Sometimes you’ve taken something as far as you can. You, a team lead, anyone. You’ve tried everything and the solution isn’t coming. You don’t need another team meeting. You need a radical outside perspective.
60 minutes. One work problem. An outsider with no stake in your politics and no reason to tell you what you want to hear.
€350. One session.
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