- About
Alexander Plank
There is nothing wrong with you. Something is running you.
I’m Alexander Plank, Mental Performance Architect. I open the door back to yourself: I help founders and leaders see what is unconsciously running them, in their decisions, their work, their relationships and how they see themselves, so they have a choice again and can lead themselves. Around 17.8K people follow the work on LinkedIn, from 30+ countries.
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. 100+ people trained live so far, including workshops inside BMW and Mercedes-Benz projects and a keynote in Frankfurt in 2026. When I am not working with founders and leaders, you will find me in the gym, in my wife’s store, or on the road through Bavaria.
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.
It is the same structure whether we work privately, in a workshop or on stage: see it, choose, lead. One example, not a promise: a client went from €30k months to €37–40k months while cutting seven working days down to four. What you can see, you can choose. What runs invisible, runs you.
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: start with a free 20-minute Pattern Read. 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.
You have a choice. You always had.