I work with founders on their emotional resilience — the inner stability that holds when everything outside is in motion. And I speak on stages about leadership in times of accelerating convergence.
About me
I started my first company in 2009. Over fifteen years I learned how to build, scale, and lead — and eventually, what it costs when you lose contact with yourself along the way.
Today I work with founders on exactly that: the emotional resilience that holds when the pressure rises. My work draws on Positive Intelligence® (PQ), on somatic practice, the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology — and on what I've lived through myself.
Founder and Movement Architect of Emotional Insourcing, Founding Partner of the resilience consultancy MPATHY Consulting and enthusiastic PQ-Coach.
If it's about you as a founder → 1:1. If it's about your stage → keynote. If it's about your marketing → interim CMO.
For founders
1:1 for founders at a turning point.
For founders who want to lead with clarity and stability in accelerated times. No off-the-shelf programs — the work is built entirely around you: around what's holding or breaking right now.
Learn more →For stages
For conferences, leadership circles, associations.
I speak about what I've lived: vulnerability as a leadership lever, emotional energy as the underestimated resource, being human as the superpower of the Agentic Age.
See topics →For MarCom teams
Marketing and communication processes, rethought for the AI age.
As an interim CMO, I enable your marketing and communication team to rethink its processes for the AI age — and build the modern structure that holds it. Including the emotional resilience it takes to truly see the change through.
Let's talk →Not to-dos. What's underneath them — the emotional and communicative bottlenecks that quietly cap your scaling. Five threads that weave together in the 1:1:
Staying present under pressure, instead of collapsing or escalating.
Speaking clearly and effectively while staying fully yourself. Kind candor: saying what needs to be said without wounding — and without bending out of shape.
Using vulnerability as a leadership tool: deliberate, dosed, never as performance.
Leading yourself and your team through presence, with embodiment and conscious emotional modulation as the tool.
Becoming visible without bending yourself out of shape.
Format: individual throughout and no off-the-shelf program — the work is built around what you need right now. In the first conversation we see whether it's a fit.
Request a conversationFounder & Father
There's a transition almost no one talks about: you become a father — and you're expected to keep building, leading, delivering. Two roles, both wanting everything. On the outside, your calendar, your sleep, your team all shift. On the inside, something bigger shifts: who you are, what you're working for, what strength even means now. I've lived through this rupture myself. I know what it feels like when both roles pull at you and you feel you're not doing justice to either. In this thread of the 1:1, I walk you through exactly this transition — so you can live both roles with each other, not against each other.
Inside and out. Father and founder, without one role devouring the other.
When fatherhood shifts how you show up in the team. Including mediation when things grind between you.
This is not a separate program. It's the most personal door into my founder mentoring.
Request a conversationOne signature keynote — and three further thematic worlds. Adjusted to audience and format (keynote 30–60 min., impulse 15–25 min., fireside chat).
Signature Keynote
A keynote for anyone who leads under pressure — on the difference between losing a company and losing yourself.
Your mind is a tool. Your breath is the bridge. Your heart is the home.
Further themes
Movement / Future of Work
Why being human becomes the hardest currency in the Agentic Age.
Leadership / Resilience
Why leadership in permanent change needs emotional infrastructure — not more strategy.
Founder / Personal Brand
Why the sentences that cost the most move the most.
Positive Intelligence®
As a certified PQ Pro coach, I guide individuals, couples, and teams through the Positive Intelligence® mental fitness program — across all my areas of work, from 1:1 to teams. Not as an add-on, but as a foundation: I've experienced first-hand how well-being, calm, and effectiveness grow exponentially when mental fitness is trained like a muscle. That's a gift I keep passing on.
Individuals·Couples·Teams
Positive Intelligence® and PQ® are registered trademarks of Positive Intelligence, LLC.
Voices
Working with Marco as a founder coach is a real game-changer: he reads between the lines, asks the right questions, and uncovers the real challenges — always at eye level, warm-hearted, and razor-sharp.
Lilith Brockhaus
Founder, Visualmakers
Marco came in to speak with our team about the power of vulnerability and inner strength, and he did such a great job. He really connected with everyone and got us all aligned in a meaningful way. The feedback across the board was 5 stars, and you could feel the impact in the room.
James Francum
Founder & CEO, GXP-CC
Marco is honest, deeply interested in people, and you can feel the joy he takes in coaching. His maturity, appreciation, and openness create a trusting space in which everything can be said.
Rebecca Göckel
CEO & Founder, Nomoo Eis
What I value most about Marco is that he combines remarkable empathy with pragmatism — enabling results that are truly tailored to your own situation. And all of this happens while the work with him is a real pleasure.
Alexander Meyer auf der Heyde
Founder & Managing Partner, Kaleado
Beyond this page, I work in two more places — a movement for emotional resilience and a boutique consultancy, each with its own home.
Movement & Coaching
The movement against the outsourcing of being human in the business world. Free workshop, cohort, Conscious Founders Circle, blog, retreat.
emotionalinsourcing.de →Boutique Consultancy
Three pillars for resilient teams in family businesses and purpose-driven companies (80–250 employees).
mpathy-consulting.de →30 minutes. No sales call. Tell me what's on your mind — and we'll see together whether it's a fit. For founder mentoring, a keynote, or an interim CMO engagement.
