Three-day retreat. Six months of sparring. For experienced founders, serial entrepreneurs and scale-up operators — and for the VCs who invest in their sustainable performance.
Founders of growing scale-ups face unique pressures: rapid scaling, complex stakeholder landscapes, the emotional weight of mission-driven work. Traditional productivity approaches ignore the fact that sustainable performance requires systematic attention to recovery, health and organisational design.
We combine evidence-based health science with practical organisational tools — and train you to become a Healthy High Performing Leader.
Healthy High Performers work on three fields simultaneously: the inner foundation, external impact on investors, and their own market and growth strategy.
A deliberate choreography of workshops, tool labs, collaborative meals and recovery breaks. Curated according to the cubeacademy 7-pillar model: Human, Content, Spatial, Temporal, Social.
Sleep and energy as a base. How investors really perceive you. How you build a brand people talk about.
Looking at fear and financial pressure head-on. Pitching with conviction. Making your own voice visible.
Self-worth without number-driven validation. Becoming authentically visible. Growth through unconventional ideas and strong partnerships.
We want to know what works — and so do you. Every founder completes structured self-assessments before and after the retreat on leadership skills, resilience, team health and operating maturity. This creates clear baselines and shapes the focus areas for the six-month sparring phase.
Online diagnostics before arrival: Leadership Self-Score, Energy Baseline, Team Health Snapshot, Operating Maturity Check.
During the 3-day sprint, we jointly identify your two to three most important deep-dive topics for the coming months.
After 90 and 180 days: same diagnostics, visible delta values, documented progress for you and for your VC.
The real leverage lies in implementation. That's why our programme doesn't end on Sunday evening.
45 minutes every two weeks with your assigned sparring partner. Structured reflection on your top topics from the retreat.
Via a coin system, you book targeted sessions with specialists from the expert network — leadership, compliance, OKRs, operations.
Micro-challenges with daily impulses: "Unwind by 10:30 pm" for sleep habits, "Meeting-free blocks Tue/Thu 10–12" for deep work.
Accountability partnerships from the retreat cohort. Structured check-ins across the full programme duration.
Implementing your personal recovery architecture.
3-2-1 feedback loops and psychologically safe communication norms.
Protecting focus time, radically simplifying meeting architecture.
Tailored deep dives: delegation, OKRs, resilience toolkits, operations.
Post-assessment, delta review, roadmap for the next twelve months.
Three-time founder, MBA in Strategy, Organisation and Leadership. First chapter in Silicon Valley, then seven years of startup and investment experience in the German tech ecosystem. Known from Die Höhle der Löwen. Manager of Tijen Onaran, Germany's most prominent voice on visibility and leadership. Now founder of grw+ and t:base — specialised in unconventional brand strategies that generate visibility and sustainable growth without losing yourself in the process.
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Founder of LeanOnMe, an AI-based FounderOS for better founder performance and earlier visibility of human risk in the portfolio. Jana completed her doctorate in venture capital at the University of St. Gallen and brings experience in corporate venture capital, investor relations and startup financing — including through her work with Global Corporate Venturing in Silicon Valley and London. As a trained CBT coach and hypnotherapist, she bridges VC perspective, founder psychology, AI and the inner game of entrepreneurship. In the retreat, she leads the founder-investor dynamic and accompanies the six-month sparring phase together with Sophie.
View on LinkedIn →For in-depth deep dives, we draw on a curated network of specialists in health, leadership, operations and VC.
Founders pay themselves — or their VC covers the investment. We facilitate the match directly between founder and investor if needed.
The direct route into the programme. One seat, three days with accommodation & full board, six months of sparring — self-funded.
Apply as Founder →Full cohort or 10-pack for multiple portfolio founders. Co-branding, aggregated health dashboard, priority booking.
Partner as a VC →All prices net plus VAT · Accommodation & full board for three days included. Travel to the venue is each participant's own responsibility. [confirm: Pricing]
Each cohort has 15 founders, curated by company stage. Both locations follow the same programme — the atmosphere and environment differ.
Autumn cohort in the city. Clarity in the Q4 endgame — and a roadmap for 2027 to take home.
Summer cohort at the Cape. Distance from daily operations, a new environment, a different perspective.
A direct follow-on cohort, one week later. Same setup, new founder group — for those who can't make it in February.
Experienced founders in the growth phase — typically Series A to later stage, team size 30–150. Serial entrepreneurs, second-time founders and CEOs with board experience are our core target group. We curate cohorts carefully by company stage so that peer dynamics happen at eye level. C-level hires (CTO, COO) are welcome as co-participants.
We work with three models: full sponsorship of 10-packs for complete portfolio cohorts, 50/50 co-investment per founder, or individual seats as an investment in key founders. For VCs, we provide aggregated, anonymised health and performance reports at the portfolio level.
Three-day retreat programme, all workshop materials, accommodation and full board for three days (breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks, shared dinners), pre- and post-assessment diagnostics, six months of sparring calls and a coin budget for 1:1 deep dives. Travel to the venue is each participant's own responsibility.
The health modules are ZPP-certified (stress management, sleep hygiene, movement, nutrition). The organisational modules are based on established frameworks (DISC, Team Canvas, Cal Newport Deep Work, OKR-Light, MVOS). The retreat design follows the cubeacademy 7-pillar model.
Your individual data stays with you and your sparring partner. For VCs, only aggregated and anonymised reports at portfolio level are produced — never individual data without explicit consent.
The three-day sprint is designed as a coherent sequence. We ask for your full participation — that's part of what sustains the cohort dynamic. Emergencies will be handled individually.
Drop us a short note about your company's stage and who will join you. We'll get back to you within 48 hours with the next step.