Stronger Leaders Build Better Companies.
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.
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.
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.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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Sarah, our Leadership Journey Facilitator, integrates psychology, therapy, and leadership. She holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy from LMU Munich and is a certified Gestalt therapist. For the past years, she has worked both clinically and as a freelance therapist, helping individuals navigate stress, change, and personal transformation. Before focusing fully on psychology, Sarah led teams in the tech industry, where she experienced firsthand how pressure, uncertainty, and fast growth can undermine wellbeing.
This combination of leadership experience and therapeutic training shapes her work today: guiding founders through moments of vulnerability, surfacing underlying beliefs, and fostering resilience in the face of complexity. Her approach is deeply human: she believes that lasting leadership growth begins with self-awareness, healthy boundaries, and the courage to stay authentic. At Accelerate Health, she designs and facilitates transformative spaces that connect the inner journey of founders with the outer impact they aim to create.
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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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Dominika, our Marketing Lead, is a full-stack marketer and brand strategist who’s spent 8+ years helping brands like McDonald’s and Raiffeisenbank craft stories that resonate—and supporting health and sustainability founders to do the same. Her work has driven visibility, sparked partnerships, and attracted top talent.
Having felt the loneliness of entrepreneurship, she’s now building the kind of community she once craved—because she believes strong relationships are the foundation of lasting health, happiness, and leadership. Her mission: to help leaders feel seen, supported, and energised to lead with heart.
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Sophie, our Content Creator, knows the highs and lows of building something from scratch—because she’s done it herself. As co-founder of Lyfta Skintape, she led everything from product development to marketing and partnerships, gaining a deep appreciation for what it takes to grow a brand in a fast-moving world.
After stepping away from her company, Sophie completed an 11-month digital marketing program, solidifying her expertise and passion for content marketing. Having walked in the shoes of founders, she resonates deeply with the challenges and aspirations of our community—and channels that empathy into storytelling and content that truly connect with the audience.
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.
