For Leaders Who’ve Outgrown Performance

You’ve built the success. You’ve earned the recognition. But somewhere along the way, you lost contact with the leader you actually are – the one who leads from presence, not pressure.

Most leadership development teaches you to optimize the mask. I help you take it off.

I work with accomplished leaders – CEOs, founders, executives, entrepreneurs, changemakers, and forum members – who’ve achieved everything they thought would make them feel whole, and still feel empty. Who are tired of leading from compensation, control, and constant drive. Who sense there’s a deeper way to lead, but can’t access it while still running the same patterns.

This isn’t coaching that adds more strategy. It’s transformation that integrates what’s been fragmented – so you can lead from clarity, creativity, and calm instead of reactivity, pressure, and exhaustion.

If you’re ready to stop performing and start integrating, let’s talk.

Volker Schlettwein

RETREATS & EXPERIENCES

Leadership Retreats

Leadership Forum & Executive Team Retreats

Whether you’re leading a YPO forum, an executive team, or a private leadership group – these retreats go beyond strategy sessions and team-building exercises. They create the conditions for real trust, honest reflection, and the kind of connection that changes how your members lead – and live.

Each experience is designed specifically for your group’s needs, blending depth, presence, and practical integration. Trusted by YPO, EO, WPO forums, C-suite teams, and private leadership groups worldwide.

Heart Quest Retreats.

Heart Quest Leadership Retreats

You’ve spent years building, leading, achieving. But the pressure, the performance, the relentless pace – it’s exhausting. And underneath it all, there’s a quiet knowing: this isn’t sustainable.

Heart Quest Retreats are for leaders ready to step off the treadmill and reconnect with what actually matters. Through immersive experiences in nature, deep inner work, and conscious practices, you’ll release what you’ve been carrying and return to yourself – and your leadership – with clarity, energy, and presence.

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Transformational Breathwork for Leadership Teams

Powerful group experiences combining teaching on emotional intelligence, energetic states, and vulnerability with guided conscious breathwork.

Trusted by YPO, WPO, EO, executive teams and forums seeking depth and transformation.

Volker’s eye-opening wisdom and his ability to pinpoint exactly what will set you free is what sets him apart. His integrity and compassion made me feel at ease immediately. He is a master of his craft.

Glenn-Douglas Haig MCC
InnerLifeSkills Master Coach and Global Lead Trainer

Volker Schlettwein
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