I’m passionate about helping
you grow and make an impact.
About Me
I’m Dirk Bischof. For 25 years, I’ve walked the founder’s path — through risk, reinvention, burnout, and breakthrough. I’ve built and exited six ventures, led Hatch, one of the largest enterprise support organisations from inception to 7-figures, supporting 10,000+ founders through incubators, accelerators and a £1m fund. Now I invest in overlooked founders through Korra Ventures, our angel syndicate.
What I offer isn’t advice. It’s space — to be heard, to realign, to lead from who you really are. Over the last 20 years, I’ve coached 50+ founders and CEOs through launch, scale, and exit — and I know what it feels like to carry the vision, the team, and the weight of it all. I’ve worked with dreams, inner vision, and deep practice since my teens. That work has changed how I lead and how I live. It’s what shapes how I coach.
If you’re on the edge of something new — let’s begin.
The Approaches & Tools we will use
Systemic Coaching
You don’t exist in isolation. Every founder brings with them a web of influences—family systems, organisational culture, societal expectations. If you feel like you're repeating dynamics you can't explain, or reacting to things in ways that don’t make sense, systemic coaching helps us trace the thread. We shine a light on hidden loyalties, unconscious patterns, and inherited roles—so you can lead from clarity, not reaction.
Somatic Awareness
Your body knows before your mind does. Anxiety in your chest. Tightness in your gut. Avoidance disguised as busyness. Somatic work helps you tune into these subtle signals and reconnect with the wisdom beneath them. We use breath, awareness, and presence to unlock what’s been stored—and transform it.
Narrative Coaching
You're not just building, scaling or exiting a business. You're also living a story. But parts of that story might be outdated, inherited, or no longer yours. Narrative coaching helps you step back and see the plot you've been living—then choose, intentionally, what comes next. It's about reclaiming authorship and writing a future that feels aligned.
Spacious Presence
You don’t need another tool. You need space. You need to be witnessed without judgment, urgency, or expectation. That’s what spacious presence creates—a coaching container where the noise falls away, and what’s true can finally emerge. It’s in this space that the most powerful shifts happen.
Imagination and Dream Analysis
Active imagination helps access the subconscious through dialogue, or creative reflection. It reveals insights — turning intuition into awareness. Dreams work the same way. They speak in symbols, often pointing to truths we avoid and breakthroughs we need. I’ve worked with dreams for 30 years — they’ve become a powerful way to hear what’s true beneath the surface.
The Benefits of Working With Me
Clarity in the Chaos
You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of your values, your motivations, and your blind spots. When everything around you feels uncertain or chaotic, this inner clarity becomes your most powerful tool for navigating complexity.
Deeper Emotional Intelligence
Learn how your emotions, subconscious patterns, and past experiences influence your leadership. Develop awareness and tools to manage them consciously, creating stronger relationships with yourself, your team, and your mission.
Aligned Decision-Making
Founders make hundreds of decisions each day. But when those decisions are misaligned with your inner truth, they chip away at your energy and purpose. Together, we’ll create a foundation where your choices reflect who you are — not who you think you have to be.
Healing and Integration
Whether it’s a past failure, a founder breakup, or a nagging inner voice, we bring compassion to the parts of you that feel unresolved. This isn’t therapy, but it is healing. We integrate those pieces so you can lead with wholeness.
Renewed Energy and Drive
Burnout often comes from the tension between your outer actions and your inner truth. This coaching helps you reconnect with the energy that feels natural, powerful, and sustainable — so you can lead without depletion, with a resilience that keeps you going for the long haul.
Vision That Feels True
We go beyond generic goal-setting. We define a future vision that resonates deeply — one you’re excited to move toward, not just perform. Because alignment is what sustains progress, even through challenges.
This isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about revealing you — your depth, your drive, your full capacity to build and live in alignment with what matters most.
It’s about leading with authenticity and heart — essentially living with magokoro, the Japanese concept of the “sincere heart” of true leadership.
You won’t need to explain what a cap table is or why hiring feels existential. I’ve lived this. I bring real-world experience, psychological depth, and a fierce commitment to your growth.
Let’s talk results. I know some founders (and the people backing them) might be asking: “This inner stuff sounds great, but what’s the ROI?” The good news is, coaching pays off — both for the leader and the business. In fact, studies have found executive coaching delivers a huge ROI, with one global study reported a 788% return on investment (american.edu), and the International Coaching Federation (ICF) notes an average 70% improvement in individual performance from coaching interventions. In other words, the “soft” work yields some very hard results.
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.”
— Simon Sinek, Start with Why
When you lead from your why, everything changes. The team trusts more. The mission sharpens. The results follow. Inner growth isn’t a detour — it’s the path. Each tool in my coaching offer creates deep inner shifts that drive real-world results.
Systemic coaching breaks hidden patterns and builds healthier cultures.
Narrative work reframes identity, unlocking authentic, trust-building leadership.
Somatic awareness builds calm, grounded presence under pressure.
Dream analysis surfaces insights and blind spots before they become problems.
Practice design turns reflection into repeatable habits that stick.
And when it comes to sustaining change, tiny habits add up — improving by just 1% every day can make you 38 times better in a year
“Small, consistent improvements compound over time. If you get just 1% better every day for a year, you’ll be nearly 38 times better than when you started. That’s the power of exponential growth.” — James Clear, Atomic Habits
In short, inner growth isn’t a luxury — it’s a strategic advantage. Whether you’re launching, scaling, pivoting, or preparing to exit, the most powerful shifts start within. Align the inner world, and the outer results follow.