Break the cycle of co-founder conflict
Co-founder disputes are the No. 1 early startup killer, but it doesn’t have to be that way
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Systemic coaching for founders and co-founders who want to scale with clarity, confidence, and purpose. We help you transform your vision into sustainable growth.
Your biggest risk isn’t the market. It’s misalignment between founders. Fix it before it costs you the company.
Meet Wouter Gheysen
Founder Out of Our Minds
Wouter Gheysen helps co-founders repair trust, resolve hidden tensions, and rebuild a business that can actually scale.
He combines systemic intelligence, trauma-informed leadership, and business design to tackle co-founder conflict at its roots — not at the surface level where most coaches stay.
For more than 5 years, Wouter has worked with founders, leaders, and teams who are stuck in the invisible forces that shape how they collaborate: unspoken expectations, misaligned roles, early-life survival patterns, family dynamics, power struggles, loyalty conflicts, and strategic disagreements disguised as “communication issues.”
His approach differs from that of a typical co-founder coach. Where others focus on conversations and communication tools, Wouter works on the system behind the conflict, the relationship, the business model, the roles, the strategic drift, and the personal patterns driving the tension. He uses systemic constellations and trauma-informed methods to make the unseen visible while redesigning the collaboration's structure so founders can move forward with clarity and trust.
Wouter blends:
systemic constellations for uncovering hidden dynamics
trauma-informed founder works to unlock conflict patterns
business design and organisational reinvention to realign vision and strategy
leadership development and Inner Development Goals to strengthen personal and relational maturity
As a result, he doesn’t just fix the conflict.
He transforms how co-founders lead, decide, relate, and build — together.
Based in Belgium, Wouter brings a culturally aware, European perspective to the fast-moving world of startups and scale-ups. He works with co-founders across Europe who want more than mediation. They want clarity, trust, purpose, and a relationship capable of carrying the weight of real growth.
If your co-founder relationship is drifting, stuck, or quietly breaking your business from the inside, Wouter helps you find the path back to alignment, connection, and high-performance collaboration.
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65% of startups fail due to co-founder conflict
According to Noam Wasserman's research, as detailed in his book The Founder's Dilemma,
65% of high-potential startups fail due to "people problems," primarily conflicts between co-founders. This contrasts with the other 35% of failures, which are attributed to issues like faulty products or market problems. The conflicts often stem from misaligned values, goals, and expectations between the founders, which can escalate over time.