Great individual contributors don’t automatically become great leaders.
Most companies promote their strongest people into leadership and then leave them to figure it out. A generic training gets booked, tools get taught once, everyone nods. Three weeks later, nothing has changed on the ground.
Meanwhile the hard part is still hard:
First-time managers leading without a real toolkit
Feedback and difficult conversations getting avoided
Delegation that never quite happens, so leaders stay the bottleneck
Learnings that never make it into daily practice
It isn’t a knowledge problem. It’s a transfer problem. And it’s exactly what we’re built to solve.
The formats we run.
Every engagement is designed around your team, but the building blocks are the same. Here’s what we run:
From one-time training to lasting leadership.
Every journey is tailored. The number of days, the cadence and the topics depend on your team. But a typical arc looks like this:
Discovery call
→
Kick-off
→
Training 1
→
transfer phase
→
Training 2
→
Peer Circle
→
Training 3
→
accountability follow-up
→
optional 1:1 coaching & supervision
Delivered on-site, spread across several weeks or months. Never crammed into consecutive days. Leaders learn, go back to the job, apply it for real and return with live questions from the field. That gap between sessions is where the actual development happens.
We work with the founders and operators inside Germany’s leading startup & scale-ups.
Leadership at a fast-growing tech company isn’t the same as leadership anywhere else — the pace is higher, the structures are younger, and the pressure lands differently. We know that world, because it’s where our people come from and who we work with every day.
120
alumni in our group programs
250+
participants across 14 workshops in 2025
6
leadership journeys delivered in 2026
850+
hours of leadership & founder coaching
+15
years of experience building & developing teams
4.4
rating on Trustpilot
COACH
You’re not buying a curriculum. You’re buying the people who lead the room.
Lea coaches the founders and leadership teams inside every Deep Work program.
Her background is unusual by design: former basketball pro athlete, strategy consultant and licensed CBT psychotherapist. That mix is what lets her work on both sides of performance at once, the mindset and the mechanics of leading a team.
She's lived the cost of getting it wrong. After burning out at the top of sport and consulting, she rebuilt her whole approach around one idea: people are the real asset, and leaders grow fastest when they grow together.
Over the past five years she's worked with hundreds of founders, executives and teams.
FAQ
Where do you deliver?
On-site at your office, at an external venue, or on retreat. We deliver in person, across Germany and beyond. Our best work happens in the room.
How do you make it stick?
Transfer phases, supervised peer pods, and accountability follow-ups turn one-time training into lasting practice. This is the core of how we work.
Do you have experience in tech and software?
It’s our home ground. Our participants lead at companies like Enpal, Doctolib, Peec AI, Hallo Petra — the examples and exercises come from the scale-up world, not a textbook.
What does it cost?
There is no fixed price list, because every workshop is built around your team. What you invest depends on the format (a half-day session, a full-day workshop, a multi-day offsite or a longer leadership journey), the number of participants, how many days we run, how much custom design goes in beforehand, and whether we deliver at your office or an external location. After a short discovery call we send a clear proposal with the scope, the dates and a fixed price, so you know exactly what you are getting before you commit.
Till Westermann
CEO & Co-Founder, Deep Work Club
Let’s talk.
Tell us what your team is navigating. Book an intro call, or reach us directly.