1:1 EXECUTIVE COACHING
Double your productivity without burning out
Master your focus, boost your energy, and make stress work for you instead of against you.

+100%
increase in productivity — guaranteed
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executives, entrepreneurs and leaders served
+76%
average improvement in work-life satisfaction
Unlock your next level at work and in life
Are you struggling to focus on the important work being busy with urgent stuff?
Are you feeling tired throughout the day despite sleeping for 7 or 8 hours at night?
Are you having trouble dealing with high stress at work and “switching it off” at home?
You’re not alone. Most people face similar challenges every day:
- We’re distracted every 40 seconds, trapped in constant reactivity.
- 85% wake up feeling unrefreshed, starting the day already drained.
- 76% are stuck in chronic stress, experiencing clear symptoms of burnout.
But you don’t have to overcome these odds on your own. With the right systems, support, and accountability, you can reach the next level at work and in life.
Science-backed and battle-tested advice

Dr. Christian Poensgen is a scientist-turned-author and coach with a PhD (summa cum laude) on the interplay between stress and performance.
After co-founding several companies, he worked as the Senior Fellow of the “Future of Work” think tank in the German federal parliament, as Co-Founder and Director of the European Center for Digital Competitiveness at ESCP Business School, and as an Agenda Contributor at the World Economic Forum.
Drawing from both research and hard-earned entrepreneurial lessons as a VC-backed founder and executive, Dr. Poensgen offers science-backed, battle-tested advice. His forthcoming book Ultraproductive, co-authored with Eric Partaker, will be published by Portfolio Penguin in 2026.
Now he’s on a mission to set up ambitious executives, entrepreneurs and leaders in high-stress environments for long-term success at work and in life.
What Others Say
Here’s what to expect
Most productivity coaches only focus on time management, trying to squeeze every bit of juice out of the lemon that is work and life.
Dr. Poensgen does things differently and helps you optimize the three core areas of sustainable peak performance in parallel:
Focus Optimization
McKinsey found that increasing deep focus from 5 percent (the average) to 20 percent of the day can double your productivity. That’s just 60 to 90 minutes of undistracted work leading to a 100% increase in performance. It also lets you trade constant reactivity for deliberate action.
Sleep Optimization
Sleep isn’t just about getting seven or eight hours. What matters most is quality, especially hitting 60 to 90 minutes of deep sleep per night. This can enhance cognitive performance by up to 150%. Quality sleep is the foundation of performance and health in every domain.
Stress Optimization
Stress isn’t the enemy. Chronic stress is. Short bursts of acute stress, when harnessed properly, sharpen your focus, fuel your motivation, and double your performance by 100%. The key is learning how to harness (good) acute stress while avoiding bad (chronic) stress.
How to become Ultraproductive
Focus, sleep, and rest optimization are closely connected. Neglect one of these three for long enough, and your system will eventually collapse. It’s like sitting on a three-legged stool where one leg gets removed. No matter how strong the other two are, you’ll fall over.
But when all three are aligned, you’ll become Ultraproductive and unlock unseen potential:
- 60-90 minutes of deep focus at work can 2x your performance.
- 60-90 minutes of deep sleep at night can boost it by up to 2.5x.
- Embracing acute stress can deliver another 2x improvement.
Stacked together, these effects compound. That means up to a 10x improvement in output, without adding a single extra minute of work or sleep. By applying the 80/20 principle to sustainable peak performance in that way, you’ll join the Ultraproductive.
How we’ll work together
The Becoming Ultraproductive 1:1 coaching program draws from Dr. Poensgen’s PhD on stress and performance and research from Stanford University, McKinsey and others. In it, you’ll get the support, systems and accountability to become Ultraproductive.
Over three months, Dr. Poensgen will personally help you develop the crucial habits to optimize focus, sleep and stress for good. As part of the coaching, you’ll get 10/6 accessibility to his phone (10 hours/day, 6 days/week).
The best part: If you don’t see at least a 100% increase in productivity after working with him, he’ll continue coaching you for free until you’ve reached that milestone.
Your plan to double your productivity without burning out
The most productive people don’t just manage their time. They optimize their focus, rest and stress.
Schedule a call so you can stop feeling reactive, drained, and stuck — and start feeling focused, energized, and in control.