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For high performers, leaders and athletes who take on the one goal that scares them.

Speaker

&

Coach

A new chapter

The extreme swimmer among the speakers & coaches.

2016

Cancer diagnosis. Career at its peak.

2017

10th national water polo title. Goal set during treatment. Achieved after it.

2025

65 km across Lake Constance. First Austrian ever. 6th person on earth.

2026

61 km across Lago Maggiore. First Austrian ever. 3rd person on earth.

I am not a theorist. Everything I talk about, I have lived first. Between those points: corporate leadership, five children, a book, and a system refined over ten years. One principle survived everything: Make 5% your 100%.

I don’t speak from theory. I speak from open water.

5% Is Still Your 100% — The Rebuild System for What Comes After.

MY M E S S A G E

TURNING THE IMPOSSIBLE INTO A SIDE-EFFECT

THE CORE FOCUS

“That is the gap I work in.”

Moving teams and leaders past temporary motivation into systematic endurance execution.

MOTIVATION VS. DISCIPLINE

Everyone talks about motivation. Almost nobody talks about what actually carries you at kilometre 50, when motivation left the water hours ago. That’s endurance mindset: choosing a goal so meaningful that quitting stops being an option. And discipline: the unglamorous daily work that makes the goal possible.

PROOF & METHODOLOGY

When I decided to swim Lake Constance, people thought the
goal was the swim. It wasn’t. The goal was to prove, publicly
and measurably, that the system works.
That what I wrote in “Against the Current” isn’t theory. That
5% is enough, if you make it your 100%.

My Framework

SWIM
a system built inside a crisis, not in a lecture hall.

S – Self-Leadership

Know your strengths and your values. Lead yourself before you lead anything else.

W – Why

Motivation runs out. A real Why doesn’t. Know what’s actually driving you.

I – Inner Belief

Steadiness in the middle of uncertainty. Not passive hope. Active certainty.

M – Momentum Together

Take the first stroke. And don’t take it alone. No big goal is a solo project.

On stage

FORGED IN THE STORM. NOT IN A TEXTBOOK.

AUTHENTIC EXPERTISE

I don’t speak from theory. I speak
from 26 hours alone in open water,
from eight months of chemotherapy,
from leadership under pressure.

My keynotes are built for leadership teams, sales organisations, congresses and company events. In German or English. No motivational fireworks. Just what actually happens at kilometre 50, and what your people can take from it into Monday morning.

WHAT THE AUDIENCE LEAVES WITH

  • Endurance mindset, explained as an operational system. Not inspiration.
  • What discipline actually looks like when conditions are against you. Told through real crossings, not slides.
  • One concrete step every person can take before Monday morning.

"This is not a story you hear. It is a moment in which you recognise yourself."

Bernhard Hengl on stage
a true experience

Executive Coaching

MAKE 5% YOUR 100% – 12 WEEKS, 1:1

I work with high performers who have already proven they can push through, and who are ready for the one

goal that scares them.

S PEC I F I CA L LY

The founder whose company runs, but doesn't pull anymore.

The manager who hits every target and feels strangely flat doing it.

Motivation runs out. A real Why doesn’t. Know what’s actually driving you.

This is not motivational coaching. It is operational. 12 weeks, 1:1, built on the SWIM framework. We define the goal that actually scares you, build the endurance mindset that carries you, and install the discipline that gets the daily work done. And on the way, we deal with what's really in the way. It's usually not what you think.

LIMITED SPOTS

If this is where you are — let's talk

Let´s make your goal a side-effect

It´s Your decision!

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Are you ready? To be unstoppable 

Discover my framework and overcome every challenge.

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