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Bio (November 2024)

Franziska specializes in helping driven professionals transform their leadership capabilities by understanding a critical yet overlooked performance factor: nervous system resilience.

Just as a high-performance vehicle requires a finely tuned engine, today's leaders need an optimized nervous system to navigate complex, high-stakes environments.

Her approach reveals the nervous system as essentially an internal operating system—determining how leaders respond to stress, make decisions, and engage with challenges.

Most professionals are unconsciously operating on outdated "software," leading to burnout, reactive decision-making, and diminished creative capacity. By developing nervous system awareness, she helps leaders shift from constantly fighting fires to becoming strategic, centered professionals who create breakthrough results.

Think of her work as performance optimization for a leader's most critical asset: themselves. Just as elite athletes use specialized training to enhance their physical capabilities, Franziska works with executives and founders to develop mental and emotional agility that directly translates to better decision-making, more impactful leadership, and sustainable success.

Her client roster includes professionals from industry-leading organizations like Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, the Aspen Institute, TikTok, venture capitalists, and innovative web3 and climate tech startups. She has supported leaders in multimedia, technology, and nonprofit sectors who are committed to meaningful personal and organizational transformation.

Many of her clients come to her at a pivotal moment: they're successful, but sense untapped potential. They're ready to move beyond patterns of self-limitation, emotional exhaustion, and reactive leadership. Together, she develops practical strategies to help leaders:

  • Enhance leadership presence and decision-making clarity

  • Build resilience against professional burnout

  • Create more meaningful professional and personal relationships

  • Develop a more integrated approach to work and life

  • Optimize nervous system performance for strategic thinking

  • Overcome self-sabotaging behaviors that block potential

If you or someone you know is a high-achieving professional seeking to elevate their leadership impact, we would be honored to explore how she might support their growth. 


Speaker Bio

Franziska is a global leadership strategist who transforms how high-achieving professionals approach performance and personal development.

For 15 years, she has bridged entrepreneurial problem-solving, technology, and human-centered design to help individuals and teams unlock their most impactful potential.

As a leadership coach specializing in nervous system mastery, Franziska empowers executives and founders to optimize their internal operating system, turning stress and reactivity into strategic advantage. Her unique approach combines insights from somatics, trauma healing, and neuroscience, as well as her personal experience in technology startups, venture capital, and global leadership development to help driven professionals break through performance barriers.

With experience across 8 countries and 3 continents, she has advised Fortune 500 companies, technology startups, and nonprofit organizations on leadership, culture, and high-performance strategies. Her work has been featured in Forbes, TheNextWeb, Philanthropy, and the Huffington Post, and she has supported leaders from companies like Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

Franziska doesn't just coach or consult—she provides a transformative pathway for leaders to develop unprecedented clarity, resilience, and purposeful impact. Her mission is to help high-achievers move from constant firefighting to strategic, centered leadership that creates breakthrough results.

Traditional accountability coaching can take you from A to B, but transformational healing makes that progress irreversible because you’re reimagining the relationship you have with yourself - you’re reimagining your identity, and that’s behind every part of how you interact with the world.

© FRANZISKA GONDER 2022