- About
Alexander Plank
There is nothing wrong with you. Something is running you.
I’m Alexander Plank, Mental Performance Architect. I take married founders from the 3am loop back to their own dinner table. 16,900+ founders follow the work on LinkedIn every day.
In 2023 my life looked successful and felt like drowning. Six years of Mercedes and BMW projects, two businesses on the side, 14-hour days. I did everything right: more work, less sleep, push through.
Then the crash. Full burnout. It cost me €108,000 across the full span, my health, one month of lifetime, 80% of my friendships, and nearly my wife.
The confusing part: I knew better. So I rolled my whole life open, all the way back to the boy who lost his mother young and decided that stopping was not safe. What I found was not a discipline problem. It was an old protective pattern that had once made sense, but was still shaping the way I worked, rested and related to the people around me years later.
I learned to see it, question it, and choose differently. Then I retrained, got certified in NLP and mental fitness methods, and built a taxonomy from what I kept finding in other founders. Five masks: the Performer, the Scanner, the Deflector, the Perfectionist, the Grip.
My Philosophy
Health. Love. Vision.
What you can see, you can choose. What runs invisible, runs you. Founders do not need another productivity system. They need to understand what keeps pulling them back into the same patterns even when they already know better. Everything else is layering frameworks on top of what is running underneath.
Beyond Coaching
Grow every day
I live what I sell: 6-hour days, weekends off, wife first. That rule does not bend, because I have already paid the price of bending it. When I am not working with founders, you will find me in the gym, in my wife’s store, or on the road through Bavaria. Featured in Forbes. Named Germany’s #1 LinkedIn Personal Growth Creator by Favikon.
My Approach: The 3R System
Every engagement runs on my 3R Method: Reset (see what is running you), Rise (choose who leads now), Reshape (build a life that supports who you are today). It is the operating system behind Whole Founder™.
- Reset – See what is running you.
- Rise – Choose who leads now.
- Reshape – Build a life that supports who you are today.
One of the first founders I ran it with, C., went from €30k to €37–40k months while cutting 7 workdays down to 4. More money and three days back. Both, at the same time. That is the point.
Something is running you right now.
See it. Understand it. Choose what leads next. If you want to do that work privately, with me, the door is open. Not ready for that? The Gameplan takes 10 minutes and helps you identify which of the five masks may be shaping how you work, rest and lead.
It’s your choice. It always was.