The Leading Edge of Transformation
Expand beyond your limitations.
Transform leadership from the inside out.
Integrate presence, clarity, and courage to lead in a disrupted world.
Catalyze transformation in yourself, your teams, and your organization.
WHY
Today’s Leadership Challenge
The world is moving faster than most leaders can process. We are living in a disrupted world: crises overlap, complexity escalates, and the pace keeps accelerating. Many leaders keep going - but they’re leading on empty. Disconnected from themselves, stretched thin, and operating from patterns that no longer match the demands they face.
Leadership development often stays at the surface: more methods, better techniques, new information. But what’s needed goes deeper. It’s not just about doing more - it’s about showing up differently.
At Transformation Beyond, we focus on the internal evolution that enables this shift: developing a more present, grounded, and integrated way of leading. It requires a fundamental evolution of consciousness - a transformation in how leaders perceive, relate, and act under pressure.
Decision-making under pressure. Navigating paradox. Leading transformation.
These capacities don’t come from knowing more - they emerge from deeper ways of being.
That’s why we do what we do.
This is why transformation must go beyond.
WHO
Transformation Beyond
We live in a world shaped by disruption, complexity, and high emotional pressure. Leaders are expected to deliver clarity, direction, and resilience - even when the context keeps shifting. In this environment, what we do as leaders is inseparable from how we are - how we make sense of reality, how we relate, how we respond.
At Transformation Beyond, we work with top executives, senior teams, and organizations ready to grow beyond their current patterns - and expand how they lead, decide, and connect. We focus on Vertical Development: the evolution of the internal operating system from which leadership emerges. It’s about transforming how we perceive, integrate, and act - especially under pressure.
Our unique methodology, Mind Movement Mastery, brings together cognitive clarity, emotional intelligence, and somatic awareness. It builds Mind Excellence as the foundation for mental focus, creative thinking, and adaptive leadership - and it grounds this in Embodied Practices that make transformation real and lasting.
The result is individual growth and collective evolution:
Executives become more grounded, focused, and resilient.
Leadership teams become more connected, purposeful, and aligned.
Organizations become more adaptive, responsive, and future-ready.
This is not a quick fix. It’s the work of deep, conscious transformation.
This is Transformation Beyond.
WHAT
Our Services
We deliver cutting-edge development for leaders and management teams committed to real transformation - not just incremental improvement.
Our approach is grounded in research-based integral and vertical development, weaving together mind training, embodied practice, and systemic perspectives to foster profound and lasting transformation.
We work with top executives, core leadership teams, and forward-thinking organizations through:
Conscious Leadership
Lead from a deeper level of awareness to navigate paradox, inspire transformation, and expand your true impact.
Vertical Executive Coaching
Unlock the next level of who you are as a leader - deep, developmental coaching that transforms how you think, decide, and lead.
High-Performing Teams
Turn your executive team into a coherent, high-impact force that thrives under pressure and delivers transformational results.
Culture Transformation
Rewire the cultural DNA of your organization to drive performance, adaptability, and sustainable growth from the inside out.
Personal Mastery
Expand your awareness, resilience, and leadership presence through deep inner work and embodied transformation.
Keynotes & Speaking
Keynotes that don’t just inspire but shift paradigms - recalibrating how leaders think, act, and relate to the future.
HOW
Our Approach
We don’t follow trends. We integrate what works.
Our method combines the most effective tools for deep transformation - blending neuropsychology, somatic intelligence, and consciousness work into a clear, grounded approach to leadership development.
Rooted in vertical and integral development, our model expands leaders’ capacity to act from clarity, presence, and purpose - especially under pressure.
At the core lies our MIND MOVEMENT MASTERY framework: a unique synthesis of mind training, somatic practice, and transformational coaching that enables real change - from the inside out.
We work with leaders and teams through:
Integral Development
Develop multi-perspective awareness. See yourself, others, and the organization as an interconnected system - to lead with clarity, coherence, and systemic intelligence.
Vertical Development
Grow beyond your current operating system. Expand your mental, emotional, and relational capacity to lead in complexity and uncertainty.
Mind Excellence
Refine your presence, sharpen your focus, regulate your state, and access high-performance flow - even under pressure.
Embodiment
Anchor leadership in the body. Cultivate presence, intuition, and relational authority through somatic intelligence
MIND MOVEMENT MASTERY
Our core methodology: an integrated practice field of mindset training, embodiment, and inner work that rewires how leaders perceive, decide, and act.
Our Tools
Transformation doesn’t begin with strategy - it begins with awareness. That’s why we work with tools that don’t just measure performance but expand consciousness. Our four core instruments - the Enneagram, Global Leadership Profile, Leadership Circle Profile, and BRITE - are carefully chosen for their capacity to unlock deep inner shifts and systemic clarity.
Each tool reveals what conventional approaches overlook: the unseen patterns, the developmental potential, the untapped intelligence within leaders and teams.
Enneagram
The Enneagram reveals the core drives, fears, and blind spots that shape how you lead, relate, and show up. It’s not just a typology - it’s a map for inner transformation across all levels.
What’s unique? It shows not only who you are, but who you could become - when you stop running from yourself.
Global Leadership Profile
The GLP assesses your vertical development stage - interpret ambiguity, hold multiple perspectives, and act from wisdom. It’s a lens into your current mindset architecture.
What’s unique? It doesn’t just assess how skilled you are, but how evolved your inner operating system is.
Leadership Circle Profile
The LCP delivers 360° feedback that connects your behavior and mindset to your leadership impact. It reveals unconscious patterns and opens a path to deeper presence and effectiveness.
What’s unique? It links what others see to why you act - and makes change tangible and actionable.
BRITE Team Assessement
BRITE evaluates the emotional, structural, and relational fabric of your team. It reveals the hidden dynamics that drive or derail collective performance.
What’s unique? It exposes the difference between high-performing teams - and groups that just work in parallel.
Our Team
Nicholas Pesch
Nicholas Pesch is a trusted advisor to C-suite executives and entrepreneurs, known for his sharp business acumen and deep psychological insight. With a background in social sciences, psychology, and top management, he combines strategic clarity with profound personal transformation. His approach is both empathic and radically clear - challenging leaders to expand their perspectives and navigate high-stakes decisions with greater awareness. His approach is informed by cutting-edge research in Vertical Leadership Development, which he has studied at leading global think tanks. A long-time practitioner of contemplative traditions, he helps executives cultivate the depth and adaptability required to lead in an unpredictable world. For Nicholas, leadership is about making conscious choices - and only transformed leaders can truly transform people and organizations.
Eva Klein
Eva Klein is an executive coach and embodiment expert who integrates corporate leadership, neuroscience, and somatic intelligence in a unique way. With a degree in molecular genetics and neurobiology and more than a decade in senior roles in the healthcare and medtech industries, she combines scientific rigor with practical leadership experience. After building a reputation as one of Germany’s most renowned yoga teachers, she now works with executives and teams to foster clarity, resilience, and authentic presence. A certified Integral Coach and Vertical Leadership Development consultant, Eva guides leaders beyond intellectual understanding into embodied transformation. For her, true leadership is not just about strategy - it is about who you are in every moment.
BEYOND
Transformation Beyond challenges you to go further - beyond conventional thinking and limitations, beyond comfort zones, to a place of genuine, radical growth. Today’s leaders face complex demands, but true leadership isn’t about more control; it’s about enabling the potential within others and stepping into a space of authenticity, clarity, and heart. Here’s what it means to move beyond:
Beyond for Individuals
Your potential is an uncharted horizon. Transformation Beyond helps you transcend old patterns and surface habits, opening doors to parts of yourself that are as yet untouched. We’re here to help you see the possibilities hidden beyond the known and to nurture the courage it takes to explore them.
Beyond for Leadership
In a world where authority no longer drives engagement, today’s leaders thrive by enabling rather than directing. The future of leadership calls for vision that looks outward - understanding the needs, values, and potential of those we lead. Transformation Beyond prepares you to lead from within, cultivating a clear mind and open heart so you can become an “enabler” of potential and innovation for others.
Beyond for Organizations
Top-down structures are relics in a networked, digital world. Tomorrow’s organizations are agile, self-organizing, and powered by purpose. Our work guides your organization to evolve beyond hierarchy and control, creating cultures where people find meaning, direction, and empowerment through an inner compass that transcends formal structure.
OUR
COMPASS
Real transformation begins with an inner compass that goes beyond external success. Inspired by the virtues of Paramita (Sanskrit for “reaching beyond all limitations”), we offer a pathway to greater clarity, resilience, and emotional health. This compass doesn’t just guide individuals; it redefines entire organizations, aligning purpose with action in ways that spark authentic connection, trust, and innovation. With the right practices, each person can cultivate these six guiding virtues:
Inner strength and calm amidst challenges. Patience allows us to navigate life’s demands with poise and trust, unshaken by obstacles.
Inner strength and calm amidst challenges. Patience allows us to navigate life’s demands with poise and trust, unshaken by obstacles.
Strength, diligence, and endurance. Perseverance is the resilience to pursue our path and goals with courage, energy, and commitment to a larger vision.
Strength, diligence, and endurance. Perseverance is the resilience to pursue our path and goals with courage, energy, and commitment to a larger vision.
Stability of mind and emotions through focus, mindfulness, and clarity. This quality supports deep insights and clears away mental obstacles, empowering us to see through habitual patterns.
Stability of mind and emotions through focus, mindfulness, and clarity. This quality supports deep insights and clears away mental obstacles, empowering us to see through habitual patterns.
The highest insight, free from illusions and concepts. True wisdom lets us see reality as it is, beyond limitations of the mind, fostering an ultimate understanding of our purpose and potential.
The highest insight, free from illusions and concepts. True wisdom lets us see reality as it is, beyond limitations of the mind, fostering an ultimate understanding of our purpose and potential.
Boundless openness of heart and mind, compassion, and selfless giving. This quality of a developed heart keeps our focus on the well-being of others, free of judgment and expectation
Boundless openness of heart and mind, compassion, and selfless giving. This quality of a developed heart keeps our focus on the well-being of others, free of judgment and expectation
Integrity in every action, rooted in respect, nonviolence, and a commitment to personal authenticity. Ethical conduct radiates outward, creating alignment between words, actions, and values.
Integrity in every action, rooted in respect, nonviolence, and a commitment to personal authenticity. Ethical conduct radiates outward, creating alignment between words, actions, and values.
Step into a future where potential knows no bounds. Let Transformation Beyond be the partner on your journey to break past limitations, to expand authentically, and to lead boldly. Beyond the ordinary. Beyond expectations. Transformation Beyond.
Publications
Der bewusste Leader
Everyone is talking about transformation - yet only fifteen percent of all executives truly possess the mental and emotional competence to master the rapid pace of change and the complexity of today’s challenges. The way out of this does not lie in sophisticated management methods or new super-tools, but rather: in a clear, focused mind. Because we cannot reduce the complexity of the world – we must increase our own!
Ich bin alles, nur nicht busy
In 49 refreshing impulses, Nicholas offers insights and inspiration. They are guideposts that show us how to live and work in this world in ways that are happy and fulfilling, yet also successful and productive. After more than 20 years of dedicated consciousness work, he now says: “The goal is to pursue a task in life that doesn’t feel like work, and to live a life filled with meaning.”
Articles
Blog
Selected Clients
FAQs
What does “Vertical Leadership Development” mean?
It expands how leaders think, decide, and relate - not just what they know. This enables effective, conscious leadership amid complexity and change.
Who is Transformation Beyond designed for?
For senior leaders and leadership teams who seek deeper clarity, maturity, and presence in volatile, fast-shifting environments.
How is this different from conventional leadership training?
Traditional training adds knowledge. We transform the inner architecture that drives perception, decisions, and behavior.
Why is inner development essential for leadership today?
Real transformation begins within. Leaders who cultivate awareness can meet disruption and uncertainty with clarity rather than control.
What outcomes can clients expect?
Our clients develop grounded clarity, high-performing teams, and cultures that transform from within. They achieve this because we care deeply and challenge rigorously - growth happens only through both.
Why is presence so central to effective leadership?
Presence shapes how people feel and respond. It conveys trust, cuts through noise, and anchors calm, decisive action.
Do you incorporate meditation?
Yes - we teach advanced meditation for leaders who wish to go further, including practices that open awareness beyond the illusion of separateness.
What is awareness training and how does it differ?
Awareness training refines perception in real time - helping leaders recognize mental and emotional patterns before they shape behavior or decisions.
How long do your engagements typically last?
Our work ranges from focused six-month programs to two-year journeys - deep enough to rewire patterns and embed transformation sustainably.
What makes Transformation Beyond’s approach to leadership development different?
We integrate vertical development, embodiment, and neuroscience to expand leaders’ capacity - creating real, sustainable transformation beyond methods and quick fixes.
Testimonials
Grita Loebsack
Member of the Executive Board,
Beiersdorf
Harald Emberger
Chief Supply Chain Officer,
Reckitt
Steph Warnery
Senior Vice President People Solutions,
Zalando
Alexander Keller
General Manager Italy,
Chanel
Mari-Lizette Malherbe
Member of Executive Board of Management,
Munich RE
Get in Touch
We look forward to hearing from you.
Prefer to contact us directly?
Email us at info@transformationbeyond.com