Executive Sparring with Sascha Martens
For managing directors, senior management and leadership teams that need to make important decisions or translate strategy into day-to-day leadership.
Request a conversation with Sascha15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and advisor.
Reasons to work together
I challenge your thinking, contribute my experience as a managing director and work with you on concrete agreements. The decision remains yours.
You need to decide even though information is incomplete or goals conflict.
In a confidential conversation, we clarify the decision, test assumptions and weigh options. For recurring questions, we arrange regular sparring sessions.
What we develop: A structured basis for decision-making with options, open questions and next steps.
The strategic direction is unclear—or your leadership team is pursuing different priorities.
In prepared working sessions or workshops, we develop or sharpen the strategic direction. Together, we clarify goals, priorities and responsibility, and document the results so your leadership team can continue working with them.
What we develop: A strategic framework, jointly prioritised goals and documented agreements as the foundation for execution.
Agreed goals need to become concrete initiatives and reliable collaboration.
We translate goals into initiatives, clarify responsibilities and available capacity, and shape planning and coordination. Over an agreed period, I support the leadership work, help address obstacles and prepare upcoming decisions with you. We review progress regularly.
What we develop: An aligned execution plan, clear responsibilities and working routines for discussing progress and open decisions.
How the collaboration can continue
We clarify entrepreneurial questions, develop the strategic direction with your leadership team and translate it into concrete initiatives. During execution, I support planning, collaboration and upcoming decisions. Together, we review progress and adapt the approach.
A specific concern starts with sparring. If your strategy is already in place, we can move directly to preparing execution or agree on ongoing support.
A basis for decision-making with options and next steps.
We clarify the situation and decision, challenge assumptions and weigh options and consequences. We record open questions.
A shared direction and prioritised goals.
We develop or sharpen the strategic direction. Within the leadership team, we clarify goals and priorities—including what will deliberately be deferred.
Concrete initiatives, responsibilities and next steps.
We translate goals into tasks and clarify owners, available capacity and dependencies. Together, we agree on a suitable rhythm for planning and decisions.
Aligned tasks and addressed obstacles.
I support planning and coordination, facilitate working sessions and make obstacles visible. We prepare upcoming decisions and document agreements.
Well-founded adjustments to actions or direction.
During the engagement, we regularly compare agreed steps and goals with actual developments. New insights may require changes to tasks, priorities or strategy.
You and your leadership team remain responsible for decisions and execution. I support you through sparring, facilitation and ongoing guidance.
Insights into our work
01 / Strategy & Leadership
02 / Collaboration & Change
Your contact
Entrepreneur. Sparring partner. Advisor.
For 15 years, I have carried entrepreneurial responsibility and worked with companies on their development.
As a managing director, I have led teams and been responsible for change. I know the pressure of having to decide before every question has been answered. In my advisory work, I focus on strategic goals, collaboration and execution in day-to-day leadership.
You work directly with me. If the assignment requires additional expertise in team development or communication, I involve our team and remain your point of contact.
A personal decision can be explored in confidential sparring. If the topic involves shared priorities, roles or collaboration, we involve the relevant members of the leadership team. We clarify the right format in the first conversation.
We discuss your situation, the people involved and the desired outcome. From this, we propose a single conversation, a workshop or an ongoing engagement—with an agreed scope and approach.
We treat the concerns and content of our collaboration as confidential. That is why our examples do not name clients, reveal identifiable project details or show confidential material.
The first conversation
Tell us briefly what you are working on. In the first conversation, we clarify your situation, the contribution you need and whether we are the right partners.
Choose the contact option that works best for you. We look forward to hearing from you.
