About Volker
Volker is a former Chief Revenue Officer with more than two decades of sales and go-to-market experience across tech scale-ups, SaaS companies and larger corporates. He has led teams of 60+ people, managed significant revenue responsibility, and worked closely with founders and CEOs to build, scale and lead through periods of growth, uncertainty and change.
Today, Volker is an advisor and NED to tech start-ups and scale-ups, a fractional GTM consultant, an executive coach and a qualified hypno-psychotherapist. Through Obnatus, he helps commercial founders, CEOs and senior leaders master change, moving from overwhelm to adaptive, authentic leadership.
His work combines strategic and commercial experience with coaching, facilitation and psychological depth. He supports leaders to build resilience, make clearer decisions under pressure, prevent burnout and create high-performing, sustainable teams.
Volker is an NLP Master Practitioner, Mindfulness Trainer and EMCC member, with more than 2,000 coaching hours. He has also completed training in Emotional Intelligence and Strengths Profiling, and offers therapy separately for clients who want to go deeper into the personal side of leadership.
Transition has been a constant in Volker’s life: across cultures, roles and industries. He has navigated change while balancing an executive career, family life and a 5 am routine of meditation, exercise and journaling.
Alongside therapeutic training, he has launched podcasts, written books, created course, and moved from corporate leadership into fractional consulting, executive coaching and leadership development.
Volker brings commercial leadership experience, coaching, facilitation and psychological depth to his work with founders, CEOs, senior executives and sales leaders. He helps leaders navigate change, build resilience, prevent burnout and lead in a more sustainable way.
“I can relate to many of the leaders I work with. I have experienced the pressures of senior leadership first-hand, and my redundancies taught me resilience and the motivation to never give up. I talk about mindset, emotions, self-awareness, discipline and achievement, but always in service of helping people lead and live more sustainably.”
Podcasts
Stories of Success
Volker first ventured into podcasting in 2018 with his podcast ‘Stories for Success’. Dubbed as the ‘Tim Ferriss’ of Europe, he interviewed close to 100 high achievers, entrepreneurs, consultants, visionaries, coaches, and mentors about the processes and habits that fuelled their success. Using the knowledge gained from these inspirational leaders, he then wrote his bestselling book Principles for Success.
Man Up Man Down
In 2022 Volker and his friend David Pawsey launched ‘Man Up / Man Down’, a podcast for middle aged men, which now has over 100 episodes. They discuss, and interview experts, on the pressures of being a man, approaching middle age. They have also hosted the first of many planned live events.
Book
In today’s world, it is more important than ever to cut through the noise and stand out to be successful. Whether that is through building your own venture or flying high in the corporate world, the end game is to achieve “success”.
But what does that mean?
In his book ‘Principles for Success: What does Success Really Mean?, Volker distils his findings from what high achievers and visionary leaders define as success.
Over 19 chapters, Volker covers subjects such as:
- Money and success
- Serendipity and success
- Success and making a difference
- Growth mindset, failure and success
- Mentors and success
- Team and teamwork
- Emotional intelligence and success
- Mindfulness, meditation and success