Update your internal operating system

A one-year deep work journey for founders who have already built something and now need to evolve themselves.

This program updates your internal operating system.

Update your internal operating system

A one-year deep work journey for founders who have already built something and now need to evolve themselves.

This program updates your internal operating system.

Update your internal operating system

A one-year deep work journey for founders who have already built something and now need to evolve themselves.

This program updates your internal operating system.

Not just another founder program…

Not just another founder program…

This is not a mastermind or a networking format. At Seed to Series A, the real bottleneck is no longer strategy. It’s your internal capacity. The patterns that once drove growth can quietly start limiting it: overdrive, control, reactivity, isolation. This program works beneath the surface, upgrading the operating system that shapes how you decide, lead and respond under pressure.

This is not a mastermind or a networking format. At Seed to Series A, the real bottleneck is no longer strategy. It’s your internal capacity. The patterns that once drove growth can quietly start limiting it: overdrive, control, reactivity, isolation. This program works beneath the surface, upgrading the operating system that shapes how you decide, lead and respond under pressure.

COACH

The humans behind the method

Deep Work is built by founders, coaches, operators and therapists who’ve lived through burnout, imposter syndrome, leadership pressure and identity questions. What we teach is what we’ve walked through ourselves.

Program Lead & Senior Executive Coach

Former Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company.
Former Co-Dean and core faculty of McKinsey’s global senior leadership programs.


20+ years supporting CEOs, founders, and senior government leaders across 25+ countries through transformational change.


Today, Jens works as a coaching-therapist integrating:

  • Trauma-informed modalities (incl. IFS / IFIO, NARM)

  • Somatic practices and nervous system regulation

  • Ontological coaching and identity development

  • Complexity thinking and leadership assessment tools

“I’ve lived the high-performance life and I know its strengths and its costs. When we’re identified with being driven, the nervous system stays activated: we lose self-observation, become less relational, burn resources, and sometimes make worse decisions. The real shift begins when we can lead ourselves from clarity rather than pressure and when our inner system becomes a team instead of a battleground.”

A Structured Year of Transformation

Transformation is not an insight event. It is a guided arc.

Lasting transformation is built over time not discovered in a single session. You can find a curriculum excerpt below:

MONTH 1

Retreat: Diagnosing Your Leadership OS

3-day offline immersion. No devices. Surface the patterns driving your decisions, stress responses, and leadership style.

MONTH 2

Your Leadership Profile & Its Impact

Assess your current leadership style. See how it shapes team dynamics, trust, and execution.

MONTH 3

Limiting Beliefs & Reactive Patterns

Identify recurring founder loops: control, overdrive, avoidance. Shift from automatic reaction to conscious response.

MONTH 4

Integrating Your History

Understand where your ambition, perfectionism, and fear of failure were formed. Release outdated strategies that no longer serve your scale.

MONTH 5

Energy & Resource Management

Lead on four levels: physical, emotional, cognitive, relational. Design sustainable performance instead of constant activation.

MONTH 6

From Socialised to Self-Authoring Leader

Move beyond external validation and expectation. Lead from internal clarity, not from pressure.

MONTH 7

Relating with Authentic Authority

Strengthen transparency, attunement, and difficult conversations. Increase trust without losing sharpness.

MONTH 8

Purpose, Drive & Meaning

Reconnect ambition with deeper motivation. Build drive that sustains. Not depletes.

MONTH 9

Re-Designing Your Operating System

Consolidate inner shifts into new default patterns. Stabilize clarity under real business stress.

MONTH 10

From Inner Alignment to External Impact

Translate internal evolution into leadership behavior. Redesign team dynamics, boundaries, and decision culture.

MONTH 11

Leading Through Complexity

Navigate ambiguity without tightening control. Build coherence across self, team, and system.

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Apply — short form, takes ~2 minutes

Apply — short form, takes ~2 minutes

Apply — short form, takes ~2 minutes

Apply — short form, takes ~2 minutes

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Talk to us — 1:1 call to explore fit

Talk to us — 1:1 call to explore fit

Talk to us — 1:1 call to explore fit

Talk to us — 1:1 call to explore fit

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Get your spot — if it’s right, we’ll invite you in

Get your spot — if it’s right, we’ll invite you in

Get your spot — if it’s right, we’ll invite you in

Get your spot — if it’s right, we’ll invite you in

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Join your cohort — and begin your Deep Work journey

Join your cohort — and begin your Deep Work journey

Join your cohort — and begin your Deep Work journey

Join your cohort — and begin your Deep Work journey

Join us to start your journey

We begin with a 3-day offline retreat near Munich to surface the patterns shaping your leadership and build deep cohort trust.

From there, we meet monthly for high-impact sessions over the course of a year integrating inner work directly into your real founder challenges: team dynamics, investor pressure, decision-making, and growth.


Applications for the Cohort #02 are open.

Winter 2025 (Cohort #1)

LIVE

Cohort closed

3-Day Kick-off Retreat: 23.07. - 26.07.2026 near Munich (Schlierseee)

Session 10: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 9: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 8: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 1: 18/08/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 2: 22/09/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 3: 27/10/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 4: 17/11/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 5: 15/12/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 6: 12/01/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 7: 16/02/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Spring 2026 (Cohort #2)

APPLICATIONS OPEN


Winter 2026 (Cohort #3)

TBA

3-Day Kick-off Retreat: 03.12. - 06.12.2026 near Munich (Schliersee)

Join us to start your journey

We begin with a 3-day offline retreat near Munich to surface the patterns shaping your leadership and build deep cohort trust.

From there, we meet monthly for high-impact sessions over the course of a year integrating inner work directly into your real founder challenges: team dynamics, investor pressure, decision-making, and growth.


Applications for the Cohort #02 are open.

Winter 2025 (Cohort #1)

LIVE

Cohort closed

3-Day Kick-off Retreat: 23.07. - 26.07.2026 near Munich (Schlierseee)

Session 10: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 9: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 8: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 1: 18/08/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 2: 22/09/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 3: 27/10/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 4: 17/11/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 5: 15/12/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 6: 12/01/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 7: 16/02/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Spring 2026 (Cohort #2)

APPLICATIONS OPEN


Winter 2026 (Cohort #3)

TBA

3-Day Kick-off Retreat: 03.12. - 06.12.2026 near Munich (Schliersee)

Join us to start your journey

We begin with a 3-day offline retreat near Munich to surface the patterns shaping your leadership and build deep cohort trust.

From there, we meet monthly for high-impact sessions over the course of a year integrating inner work directly into your real founder challenges: team dynamics, investor pressure, decision-making, and growth.


Applications for the Cohort #02 are open.

Winter 2025 (Cohort #1)

LIVE

Cohort closed

3-Day Kick-off Retreat: 23.07. - 26.07.2026 near Munich (Schlierseee)

Session 10: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 9: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 8: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 1: 18/08/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 2: 22/09/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 3: 27/10/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 4: 17/11/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 5: 15/12/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 6: 12/01/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 7: 16/02/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Spring 2026 (Cohort #2)

APPLICATIONS OPEN


Winter 2026 (Cohort #3)

TBA

3-Day Kick-off Retreat: 03.12. - 06.12.2026 near Munich (Schliersee)

Join us to start your journey

We begin with a 3-day offline retreat near Munich to surface the patterns shaping your leadership and build deep cohort trust.

From there, we meet monthly for high-impact sessions over the course of a year integrating inner work directly into your real founder challenges: team dynamics, investor pressure, decision-making, and growth.


Applications for the Cohort #02 are open.

Winter 2025 (Cohort #1)

LIVE

Cohort closed

Spring 2026 (Cohort #2)

OPEN

Kick-off Retreat: 23.07. - 26.07.2026

Session 9: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 10: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 8: tba 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 1: 18/08/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 2: 22/09/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 3: 27/10/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 4: 17/11/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 5: 15/12/2026 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 6: 12/01/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Session 7: 16/02/2027 4PM-7PM (remote)

Winter 2026 (Cohort #3)

TBA

3-Day Kick-off Retreat: 03.12. - 06.12.2026

What our Alumni say

What our Alumni say

  • “Working with Jens and Deep Work has profoundly shaped me both as a person and as a founder. I’m incredibly grateful to be part of this community.”

    Marius Hepp

    CEO & Founder, Junto

    “Working with Jens and Deep Work has profoundly shaped me both as a person and as a founder. I’m incredibly grateful to be part of this community.”

    Marius Hepp

    CEO & Founder, Junto

  • “Deep Work truly lives up to its name. I’ve experienced a number of coaching programs, but this was the first time I reached real depth so quickly.”

    Daniel Krauter

    CEO & Co-Founder, buah

    “Deep Work truly lives up to its name. I’ve experienced a number of coaching programs, but this was the first time I reached real depth so quickly.”

    Daniel Krauter

    CEO & Co-Founder, buah

  • "Few retreats have created such lasting change for me. The IFS work confronted me with who I am as a leader and helped me shift from leading out of fear to leading from trust. Five stars without hesitation.”

    Christopher Röskes

    Co-Founder, LoadUp

    "Few retreats have created such lasting change for me. The IFS work confronted me with who I am as a leader and helped me shift from leading out of fear to leading from trust. Five stars without hesitation.”

    Christopher Röskes

    Co-Founder, LoadUp

  • “What stood out most for me was the depth of the sessions with Jens and the strength of the peer group. The level of openness and support in this community is rare.”

    Raphael Eder

    CEO & Co-Founder, No Limits Tour (NLT)

    “What stood out most for me was the depth of the sessions with Jens and the strength of the peer group. The level of openness and support in this community is rare.”

    Raphael Eder

    CEO & Co-Founder, No Limits Tour (NLT)

  • “Deep Work has had a lasting impact on both my personal growth and leadership. The combination of deep sessions with Jens and the supportive, highly selective community makes it unique.”

    Marius Vennemann

    Co-Founder, Edyoucated

    “Deep Work has had a lasting impact on both my personal growth and leadership. The combination of deep sessions with Jens and the supportive, highly selective community makes it unique.”

    Marius Vennemann

    Co-Founder, Edyoucated

  • “Deep Work gave me clarity and strengthened my leadership. The exchange with other participants is incredibly valuable, and being part of a selective group makes the experience even more meaningful.”

    Tobias Wittekindt

    CEO & Co-Founder, Pland

    “Deep Work gave me clarity and strengthened my leadership. The exchange with other participants is incredibly valuable, and being part of a selective group makes the experience even more meaningful.”

    Tobias Wittekindt

    CEO & Co-Founder, Pland

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