Executive Culture Coach at Blue Agile GmbH | Empowering leaders to foster a culture of excellence and innovation through coaching executives, enabling teams to surpass their potential and achieve remarkable results.

I’m Eva Gysling, a three-time Olympic swimmer and executive/team leader with 35+ years in complex organisations. I know real pressure - on the starting block and in the boardroom - and how much potential gets wasted when culture is left to chance, systems are poorly designed, and leadership behaviour goes unchallenged.

My work sits where Olympic mindset, executive leadership, culture and corporate mental health meet. Burnout isn’t an individual weakness, and “tough” leadership doesn’t justify daily micro-suffering - especially when it’s driven by bad behaviour. High performance without psychological safety is a contradiction. If people pay with health or dignity, it’s not performance, it’s system failure and a culture problem.

That’s why I created The Executive Edge - ASPIRE: a clear six-module framework for senior leaders who build healthy high-performance cultures on purpose. ASPIRE turns intent into standards, rituals and tools across:

• Pressure design
• Accountability
• Resilience
• Strategic agility
• Team confidence
• Culture anchoring

Purpose:
Design pressure, behaviour and collaboration so people can deliver ambitious results while staying healthy, respected and appreciated.

Who I work with (DACH)
• Senior leaders in tech, healthcare and other disruptive environments (and their leadership teams)
• People & Culture / HR leaders responsible for culture, mental health and leadership quality
• Interprofessional bridge leaders (Product, IT, Ops, Clinical/Service) living in the friction between silos
• Selected consultants, coaches and executive-education partners who want an Olympic-tested, tool-rich system to plug into their work

Together, we redesign how pressure, workload, behaviour, collaboration and culture are handled so leaders don’t have to choose between results and system health.

What I don’t do:
I don’t train people to “be more resilient” so they can tolerate the intolerable. No glossy wellbeing without accountability. No treating bad leadership as a private issue. Psychological safety is infrastructure, non-negotiable, measurable, and owned.

What working with me feels like:
Calm under pressure; direct, respectful and appreciative; Olympic-level standards with high respect for people. We install small, robust rituals/behaviors that hold when things get tough: clearer decisions, fairer load, healthier teams, and more honest collaboration. Proof, not slogans.

If this sounds like your world, let’s explore whether ASPIRE can help you build the healthy high-performance culture you actually want to own.

Eva Gysling, OLY

Most people remember one leader from their career.
Not the title → The feeling...

That feeling came from:
→ being trusted early.
→ before confidence felt solid.
→ before everything was figured out.

And also sometimes...

✅ A responsibility handed over sooner than expected.
✅ A decision made without someone stepping in.
✅ Support shown publicly when things got uncomfortable.

Those moments stay.

↳ They change how people think about themselves.
↳ They stop waiting for permission.
↳ They start taking responsibility.

This is where leadership actually shows up.

Power moves work forward in the moment.

Empowerment builds people who move work forward again and again.

That difference compounds over time.

- People think deeper.
- They own outcomes.
- They solve problems without being asked.

And eventually:

+ Teams become stronger.
+ Cultures become clearer.
+ Results stop depending on one person.

Leadership scales through the people around it.

The strongest leaders understand this.
Their focus shifts from control to capability.
From directing work to developing judgment.

The impact lasts longer than any role or title.

Leadership shows up in the people who grow under it.
That’s how leaders become great.

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3x Olympian | Executive Sparring Partner for Senior Leaders in D-A-CH | The Executive Edge - ASPIRE: High performance that protects people’s health and dignity

You don’t need more time.

You need fewer decisions.

Most people exhaust themselves
deciding what to do next.

That’s not productivity.
That’s friction.

Here’s my personal blueprint for focus and flow - simple, practical, repeatable:

1️⃣ The Anchor Task
Forget the endless to-do list.

Pick one non-negotiable task each day.
Finish it and the day counts.

Everything else is extra.

2️⃣ Energy Mapping
Stop managing hours.

Start managing energy.

High energy → deep, creative work.
Low energy → admin, emails, chores.

Match the task to your state, not the clock.

3️⃣ The 2-Minute Rule
If it takes under 120 seconds, do it now.

Tiny tasks create invisible stress.
This clears it before it stacks.

4️⃣ Digital Fortressing
Focus is a finite resource.

Treat it like one.

Phone in another room.
Messages checked at set times.

Constant availability is not a performance metric.

5️⃣ The “Clear the Deck” Ritual
End the day on purpose.

Last 10 minutes:
– Tidy your space
– Close the tabs
– Write tomorrow’s Anchor Task

Future-you starts calm, not behind.

Time management isn’t about control.

It’s about design.

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Helping Leaders Ignite Change Through Inner Growth 🌱

There are truly two ways to live in 2025:

1. Striving endlessly for more. Feeling separate & disconnected.
2. Living fully in the present. Aware of our shared connection.

Most live stuck in the first.

Inevitably leading to stress, burnout, and a sense that something’s missing.

The bigger problem?

This way of living doesn’t just drain your energy, it costs you the deeper joys of life:

- A clear & peaceful mind.
- Meaningful relationships.
- A deep sense of fulfillment.

The truth?

You don’t have to sacrifice well-being for success.

Life doesn’t need to feel like a constant grind.

Your way forward:

Live (and lead) with presence, connection, and intention.

My goal is to help leaders and organizations:

- Embrace the present moment to lead with clarity & connection.
- Build emotional intelligence for stronger relationships.
- Shift focus from individual goals to shared progress.

The future belongs to those who lead with the heart, inspiring collective growth over individual ambition.

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I am a husband, father and co-creator.

For 15+ years, I have been building tech companies and supporting leaders to:

- Improve lives
- Extend quality time
- Foster positive change

My deepest purpose in life is to touch and improve as many lives as possible.

To achieve this, I share everything I know and continue to learn over time.

It's up to you to decide how to use this knowledge to help others.

If you ever want to work with me, my door is open.

If not, take what you learn and pay it forward. 

We are all in this together!

Marco Franzoni

If your job drains your energy,

It’s too costly.

Just because you can carry the load,
doesn’t mean it’s worth the weight.

When your spark becomes strategy.
When days off still feel like work.  
When your phone feels heavier than your purpose.  

That’s not balance.  
That’s burnout.

Here’s how I protect my energy (and still perform at my best) 👇🏼

1. Lead from presence, not pressure  
↳ The team mirrors your nervous system.  
↳ Regulate yourself, elevate everyone.

2. Protect recovery time like revenue  
↳ You don’t rise by running empty.  
↳ Rest sharpens, it doesn’t soften.

3. Redefine ambition  
↳ Chasing everything dilutes excellence.  
↳ Choose impact over image.

4. Replace urgency with clarity  
↳ Emergencies are rarely real.  
↳ Slow is smooth — smooth is fast.

5. Audit your attention  
↳ Your focus is your fuel — guard it.  
↳ Check what drains vs. what drives you daily.

6. Set “end-of-day anchors”  
↳ Write 3 wins, close the laptop, step away.  
↳ Completion beats perfection every time.

7. Build emotional buffers  
↳ One mindful breath before every meeting.  
↳ Calm is your new competitive edge.

No title is worth losing yourself.

Work should amplify your life,
not consume the parts that make it meaningful ✨

👉🏼 Which energy habit will you start today?


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If you have to make yourself smaller to fit in,

it’s time to find a space built for growth.

It’s not a confidence issue, it’s a context issue.

Because the wrong environment can turn
strength into self-doubt.

Here’s how a limiting culture quietly gets to you:

❌ You triple-check every word because candor feels risky

❌ You hide your pace because moving fast triggers pushback

❌ You lower your standards to fit a room that fears growth

And before you notice, you forget the version of you 

Healthy rooms don’t need you muted.

So here’s a leaders checklist:

↳ Do people elevate your ideas or water them down?

↳ Can you bring tension with care — without fallout?

↳ Do your strengths spark collaboration or insecurity?

You’re not the problem.
The environment is.

And there are always two choices:

Change the culture.
Or move to a room that can handle your full range.

Don’t spend your life adjusting to places that deplete you.

Choose people who sharpen your presence and stretch how you think.

Find environments that recognize your strengths, not feel threatened by them.

You were built to expand.
Not to fold.

💬 Who in your life expands your potential?
Tag them. Let them know.


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Success isn’t about being the brightest.

It’s about who sharpens you ✨

I used to feel safest being the expert.

Turns out, that comfort was my ceiling.

Real expansion starts when you:

- Feel exposed, not impressed
- Listen more than you speak
- Stay long enough to be stretched

Here are 5 shifts that changed my growth path 👇🏼

1) Celebrate others out loud  
↳ Generosity compounds trust and momentum  

2) Admit what you don’t know early  
↳ Clarity arrives faster without pretending  

3) Let others finish your thinking  
↳ Pausing invites better ideas to emerge  

4) Track patterns, not opinions  
↳ Repeated signals matter more than loud takes  

5) Build rooms, not pedestals  
↳ Systems beat solo brilliance every time  

Growth isn’t about standing out alone.  
It’s about rising inside the right ecosystem ✨  

Which shift feels most uncomfortable right now?


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Fear-led leadership may hit fast.  

But trust-led leadership lasts.

I've seen it too many times, leaders chase quick wins.

While they lose the people who could help them build something lasting.

When fear takes the wheel, teams choose:

↳ compliance over creativity  
↳ caution over contribution  
↳ burnout over belief  

Here’s what to do to make your people stay:

❌ Ignoring the quiet ones  
↳ Silence often hides disengagement.  

❌ Micromanaging every move  
↳ It tells people you don’t trust them.  

❌ Confusing urgency with importance  
↳ Not everything needs to be a fire drill.  

❌ Holding back feedback until it’s too late  
↳ Growth happens in real time, not in reviews.  

❌ Rewarding results over relationships  
↳ You’ll hit targets, but lose loyalty.  

What to start doing instead:

✅ Lead with clarity, not control  
↳ Direction beats pressure every time.  

✅ Coach, don’t control  
↳ Help them think, not just execute.  

✅ Build psychological safety  
↳ Let people speak without fear of fallout.  

✅ Celebrate small wins  
↳ Recognition fuels intrinsic motivation.  

✅ Share your own learning curve  
↳ Vulnerability builds credibility.  

Fear can force performance for a moment.  

But trust fuels momentum that lasts.


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