Private sparring for founders and CEOs
Your company has outgrown the operating system around your mind.
Confidential strategic sparring for founders and CEOs whose thinking does not run in straight lines. We map where your mind creates leverage and where it meets friction, then redesign the decisions, rhythms and team around it. You stay who you are.
- Active Research Collaborations with Top Business Schools (IESE / IE)
- Trusted Thought Partner to 100+ Tech Founders & C-Suite Executives
- Neuroscience-Grounded Systems & Spiky Profile Framework
Sound familiar?
The moments that usually bring founders to us.
Most leaders who call us are successful. What they notice is that the way they work has started to cost more than it gives.
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The company outgrew the way you work
What worked with twenty people breaks at two hundred. You are still the bottleneck, only now everyone can see it.
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Brilliant in bursts, judged on consistency
Your board and team read your rhythm as unreliability. You know the bursts are where most of the value comes from.
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Holding it together by force
Lists, late nights and willpower have carried you for years. Every quarter they cost a little more.
Executive Sparring
One-to-one strategic sparring for the person who carries the final decision.
Conventional leadership coaching assumes steady, predictable execution. High-performing non-linear leaders operate on radical spikes. Sparring provides confidential, high-velocity thought partnership directly at the level of your active strategic inflection points.
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Spiky Profile Mapping
Mapping asymmetric cognitive capacity, intuitive leaps and operational friction points under extreme load.
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Energy Over the Clock
Restructuring executive rhythms, high-stakes decisions and focus blocks around cognitive velocity instead of the calendar grid.
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Deconstructing Masking Costs
Auditing and retiring compensatory micro-management systems that consume critical executive bandwidth.
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Leading Asymmetric Teams
Designing leadership interfaces and translating non-linear strategy into clear execution for linear teams.
Confidential. In person in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich and Brussels or remote, in English, Spanish, German or French.
See how to startHow to start
A clear way to begin.
Start with a confidential conversation. Continue only if the fit is right.
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Step 1
Introductory call
Free
We get to know each other and see whether we can work together. No preparation needed.
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Step 2
Executive Operating Review
€1,950 excl. VAT
- Your Spiky Profile, mapped in the first session
- Your decisions, rhythms and friction points, worked through in the next two
- A written operating plan you keep
Credited in full if you start a sparring partnership within 30 days.
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Step 3
Private sparring partnership
€9,850 for six months, excl. VAT
- Two sessions a month
- Direct access by phone or message for critical decisions
Sessions in English, German, French or Spanish. Board workshops, offsites and keynotes are quoted per engagement.
Clinical partner
When a diagnosis helps, medicine and leadership work go hand in hand.
Some leaders come to us wondering whether they have ADHD, autism or giftedness. That question belongs with a doctor.
Neurodisruptors works with Dr. Andreina Mendez, a medical doctor who assesses adults in person in Madrid and London and remotely across Europe in English and Spanish.
The two kinds of work feed each other. A diagnosis can explain patterns that run back decades and open the door to treatment. Leadership work turns that understanding into how you decide, delegate and organise your week. Understood well, a neurodivergent mind can become a real leadership advantage. Clients move between the two when it helps. Nothing is shared without their consent.
With Dr. Mendez
Assessment and diagnosis, medical treatment where needed.
With Neurodisruptors
Spiky Profile mapping, decisions, rhythm and team design, sparring through critical moments.
For boards and executive teams
Keynotes, board sessions and workshops.
Formats for boards, investors and executive committees that keep the conversation on leadership and governance.
See the formatsThe Spiky Profile Framework
A working map of cognitive range, built for decisions.
Retire diagnostic labels. Replace them with an operating map that locates breakthrough capacity, names the valleys and specifies the scaffolding each one needs.
Ten operational dimensions
Where leverage peaks, where friction accumulates.
Spikes High leverage
- Systemic Synthesis
- Crisis Hyperfocus
- Divergent Ideation
- Rapid Pattern Recognition
- Associative Leaps
Valleys Systemic friction
- Routine Cadence
- Linear Documentation
- Calendar Fragmentation
- Repetitive Execution
- Translation into Text
Dashed line: the flat corporate baseline, the uniform profile most roles, reviews and governance models are built for.
Insights
Notes on non-linear leadership.
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How to work with a non-linear founder: a guide for the people who hold it together
For the COO, chief of staff or co-founder who absorbs a founder's variability: what the research says and what works from your seat.
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Neurodiversity, neurodivergence and the non-linear operating system: three frames for the same minds
Clinicians, advocates and boards use the same word for different things. Three frames for the same minds and the one a founder can act on.
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Why boards misread founder variability as unreliability
How to tell a founder on a different cycle from one who is struggling, then build the structure that lets the first one perform.
About
Dr. Sven Mulfinger
Executive coach, offsite facilitator and strategic advisor to founders and C-suite teams across Europe.
Sven trained as an engineer and holds a PhD in biotech engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He spent years building start-ups, including a venture in women's mental health, before moving into advisory work with founders and leadership teams.
Neurodisruptors grew out of a late ADHD diagnosis at 50 and a pattern he kept recognising in the founders he worked with. The research, the book and the Spiky Profile framework all come from that work.
- Barcelona, in person across Europe and remote
- English, Spanish, French and German
- Founding Partner at Kuma Partners
Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Key distinctions drawn from executive sparring and Dr. Sven Mulfinger's book, The Non-Linear Operating System.
What is a Spiky Profile in executive leadership?
A Spiky Profile is a leadership framework by Dr. Sven Mulfinger, built on the spiky profile concept from occupational psychology, that maps where a leader's thinking creates exceptional leverage (spikes) and where it meets friction (valleys).
It covers ten operational dimensions, from systemic synthesis and crisis hyperfocus to routine cadence and calendar fragmentation. Neurodisruptors uses it to design the roles, rhythms and support around a leader instead of asking for an even profile across every domain.
Who is Dr. Sven Mulfinger?
Dr. Sven Mulfinger is the founder of Neurodisruptors and a Barcelona-based executive coach, offsite facilitator and strategic advisor to founders and C-suite teams across Europe.
He trained as an engineer, holds a PhD in biotech engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and is a founding partner of Kuma Partners. He is writing The Non-Linear Operating System with research collaborators at IESE Business School and IE Business School. Neurodisruptors grew out of his own ADHD diagnosis at 50.
Do I need a diagnosis to work with Neurodisruptors?
No: the work starts from how your mind operates as a leader, so a formal diagnosis is neither required nor assessed.
Some clients have a diagnosis of ADHD, autism, dyslexia or another profile, others suspect one and many simply know they think differently. Questions about diagnosis or treatment belong with a doctor or psychologist.
How does private sparring work in practice?
Private sparring is a confidential, retainer-based partnership with Dr. Sven Mulfinger, held in person in Barcelona or by secure video, with direct access between sessions during critical decisions.
It starts with a free 30-minute introductory call to check fit. Sessions run in English, Spanish, German or French. Meetings in other European cities are arranged when needed.
How much does it cost to work with Neurodisruptors?
The first 30-minute call is free, the Executive Operating Review costs €1,950 for three sessions including the Spiky Profile and a six-month private sparring partnership costs €9,850.
Prices exclude VAT. The Review fee is credited in full if you start a sparring partnership within 30 days. Board workshops, offsites and keynotes are quoted per engagement. See how to start.
Request a Conversation
Start with a confidential conversation.
Book a free 30-minute introductory call, or ask about the Executive Operating Review, sparring, board advisory or keynotes.
- Read personally by Sven. Never shared.
- Founders, CEOs, boards and HR leaders across Europe.
Prefer direct dialogue?
Message Sven directly on LinkedIn