Why We Built Accelerate Health
Ambition outpaces capacity for many founders and leaders. After seeing too many of them run on depleted energy, unclear leadership under pressure, and cycles of near-burnout, Gerjet and Natascha set out to build something better: a health and performance-driven system rooted in physiology, psychology, and modern leadership practice. Accelerate Health exists to help founders, CEOs, and teams operate at their highest level, sustainably.
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What started as a handful of intimate, health-focused workshops for founders has grown into a small but dedicated collective of entrepreneurs, coaches, and psychologists working at the intersection of performance, longevity, and leadership.
Since 2021, we’ve had the privilege of partnering with accelerators, VCs, and entrepreneurial communities who care deeply about the humans behind the companies they back. In 2023, with EU support, we launched Build & Thrive for Impact—a first-of-its-kind health-oriented leadership program serving 20 founders committed to building meaningful companies.
As our work deepened, so did our team. We expanded with specialists in physiology, neuroscience, and behavioral psychology to bring more rigor, data, and science into everything we build. That evolution led to VANTAGE in 2025—our next-generation founder performance system designed to strengthen clarity, resilience, and long-term leadership capacity.
Today, we design the support system we wish we had earlier in our own journeys—integrating personal health insights, executive coaching, and real peer connection to help ambitious people lead with more strength, more clarity, and more humanity.
Stronger Leaders Build Better Companies.
The Team
We’re a team of entrepreneurs, psychologists, scientists, coaches, and creatives – united by a mission to help founders and teams lead with more clarity, resilience, and humanity while building what matters.
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With a background in business and health psychology (M.Sc.), she’s been championing health from day one—across schools, executive coaching, and corporate consulting. Her mission: to create environments where people and performance thrive together.
An active voice in Berlin’s digital health scene, Natascha works closely with visionary founders and changemakers to shape the future of healthcare. Drawing from both professional expertise and her own health journey, she integrates cutting-edge science, practical tools, and interdisciplinary methods to make well-being tangible—every day.
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Gerjet combines startup grit with a deep care for founder health.
After earning his Master’s in Corporate Management and Economics, he worked across NGOs, development finance, and Berlin’s health tech scene—before launching his own startup, Skill Yoga, in 2018. He grew it to over €1M in revenue and raised €1.8M in funding—while quietly facing the stress, pressure, and burnout so common in the founder journey.
Today, he supports other founders in doing it differently—blending real startup experience with training in fitness, yoga, breathwork, and body-based coaching. His belief: healthy founders build stronger companies, and a better world. He also grows cacao in Guatemala—because regeneration, like leadership, starts deep below the surface.
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Cimberley, our Program Lead, has spent the past 6+ years shaping the European climate tech space, holding leading roles in carbon removal and ESG startups and supporting one of the first European impact VCs in raising over €100M.
As the former lead of VOYAGERS in Berlin, she built community spaces for founders, investors, and scientists across climate and health tech. After seeing the toll of stress and burnout up close, she spent the last 4.5 years deep-diving into mental, physical, and emotional health in high-pressure environments. As a certified coach, she now helps founders and companies rethink performance through a lens of wellbeing — and is here to build the kind of support she once needed herself.
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Niklas, our Leadership Assessment & Development Facilitator, bridges the gap between high-level management theory and pragmatic business transformation.
He holds a degree in Corporate Management and Economics, providing him with a robust analytical foundation for his 15+ years of experience across the corporate landscape.
His deep expertise in leadership development is further underscored by his time as a Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). During this period, he focused on "Peer Coaching" in a dedicated research program in cooperation with BMW, exploring how collaborative learning environments drive leadership excellence.
As a self-employed consultant and coach for nearly a decade, Niklas has navigated the cultural complexities of diverse sectors—including Retail, Banking, IT Security, Creative Agencies, and Automotive. Whether working with agile Start-ups or global corporations, he applies a rigorous two-year Systemic Training to his practice, specializing in executive coaching, career evolution, and leadership diagnostics.
Niklas has designed and facilitated transformative leadership and culture programs for 20 to 500 participants within leading German corporations and worldwide. A seasoned speaker and moderator, he excels at translating complex systemic insights into scalable strategies, ensuring that organizational growth and leadership maturity go hand-in-hand.
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Marco brings together over 15 years of experience in psychology and science-based physical training. As a Psychologist (M.Sc.), Systemic Coach (DGSF), certified Stress Management Trainer (SG), HRV Coach, Couple Therapist (IIP) and Fitness & Performance, he works at the intersection of mental resilience and physical performance. Before stepping into this Head of Performance Coaching role, Marco spent years supporting individuals and teams through stress, burnout, and recovery—always with a focus on daily nervous system regulation and sustainable health.
His approach combines data-driven tools with psychological insight, helping people perform at a high level without compromising their well-being. His style is calm, precise, and scientifically grounded: tailored protocols that strengthen both body and mind, designed to work in everyday life. At the heart of his work is a simple belief: clarity and consistency beat hustle every time.
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Christina, our Senior Growth & Business Development Manager, is a psychologist turned entrepreneur.
Over the past seven years, she built, scaled, and sold a mental health tech startup from scratch, growing it from an early B2C product into a B2B business. She experienced both the intensity and the growth that entrepreneurial leadership can unlock.
Vipassana meditation and yoga, alongside peer circles and coaching, became her non-negotiables for sustainable performance.
Today, she leverages her founder expertise to turn what Accelerate Health does best into offers and partnerships that scale. She’s here to help more leaders access the clarity, community, and inner resilience she once had to find the hard way.
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Sophie is our Marketing & Community Manager, shaping the brand’s voice and long-term vision. She leads the overall marketing strategy—from positioning and storytelling to social media and partnerships—ensuring every touchpoint feels intentional and connected.
Having previously co-founded Lyfta Skintape, Sophie knows firsthand what it takes to build something from scratch. From product development to brand building, she experienced the highs and lows of entrepreneurship in a fast-moving industry.
After stepping away from her company, she completed an 11-month digital marketing program, deepening her strategic expertise and refining her passion for content and community-driven growth.
Today, she combines founder empathy with strategic clarity—building marketing that doesn’t just reach people, but brings them together. Through thoughtful storytelling, community-building events, and meaningful digital presence, Sophie creates spaces where audiences feel seen, inspired, and part of something bigger.
Our Approach
Leadership isn’t just strategy. It’s physiology, psychology, and clarity under pressure.
We build the internal capacity founders and teams need to lead well, perform consistently, and grow sustainably.
our values
our values
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We treat well-being as a core part of performance-not an add-on. Because thriving leaders build thriving companies.
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We ground our work in evidence, data, and proven tools. Not trends or hype.
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We don’t chase hacks, we build capacity. Leadership, like health, is a practice–measurable, trainable, and always evolving.
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Better leadership ripples outward – through teams, companies, and communities. The future depends on how we lead now.
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Sustainable leadership starts within. We build the inner capacity to lead with clarity, not just charisma.
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We work as an ecosystem of coaches, practitioners, and peers – because meaningful change is never built alone.
