
6 week program
Building Sustainable Startup Systems
Next Intake: July 21, 2025
This is not your typical management consultancy offering - this is founders teaming up with behavioral scientists, designing human-centered equitable systems and sharing tested results with you as blueprints.
Our 6-week live program, rooted in behavioral science, guides startup founders in building sustainable operating systems for themselves and their companies. It’s about fostering personal resilience, effectiveness, and equitable business systems through proven, practical strategies.
What’s included
Fully online experience—join from anywhere
Weekly live sessions packed with science-backed tools
Real-time support through group chat
Up to 20 participants in each cohort
Outcomes
A deeper understanding of yourself as a founder, along with a personalized system to support your energy, focus, and well being
Practical tools for cofounder alignment and decision-making, including ways to navigate and prevent founder conflict
Blueprints for human-centered operational systems that have been proven to increase team productivity by over 30%, without burnout or breakdowns
A trusted circle of fellow entrepreneurs to share insights, challenges, and encouragement
“One of the biggest issues I’ve seen in startups, that is connected to the founder mental health, is lack of access to simple and clear organizational systems. Which is why systems have to be part of founder support.”
- Ester Neznanova, Founder
Founders Rehab
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Programming
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The first step is understanding where you are at personally as a founder in relation to your startup and your cofounders. We dive deep into your resilience and your perception of self in relation to your surrounding, focusing on:
Value systems and my resilience
Balance wheel and how I manage energy
My biggest challenges in the startup and support systems I have
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Step 2 is the review of alignment and dynamics with your cofounders, as that is the foundation that makes or breaks a startup in the long run:
Cofounder spoken and unspoken agreements
Value systems alignment
Exit strategies
Decision making matrix
Conflict resolution agreement
RACI for clear boundaries and accountability
HELP button agreement - how and when you ask for help
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After you align the foundations of YOU and your cofounders, the focus shifts to your business.
This step includes taking inventory of your existing systems and rethinking some of those to optimize for alignment and productivity. We will cover:
RACI for clear decision making
Company prioritization for core goals
Project briefs for core projects
Roadmap redesign
Aligning OKRs to roadmap
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We are moving one step deeper into business systems and rethinking business plus your people. Think of it as the Grand Chess Board. This is a masterclass on human-centered matrix organizational design.
You will learn how to create a system optimized for both productivity and happiness of your team, while putting people in roles they shine best in.
Example: You will not have top engineers that are your highest expense managing people 70% of their time.
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Understanding human behavior is essential for building teams that work well under pressure, adapt to change, and maintain alignment around shared goals.
This section offers science-backed methods and strategies to help you:
Strengthen communication across the team
Learn effective conflict resolution strategies
Build motivation systems that scale with the team
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We will look at Culture as a standalone, integrated system, and one of the key elements that supports your startup goals and drives key metrics. Leaders are often vague when describing culture, and that needs to change: values, how you work, and team alignment are some of the most critical levers for productivity and retention.
Program Pricing
Cohort Experience
Small cohort journey with blueprints, group zoom calls and a Telegram chat with our experts.
$389
What’s Included:
✅ All course lectures and supporting materials
✅ Downloadable workbook with blueprints
✅ Weekly live Zoom calls with Q&A
✅ Cohort Telegram group chat with support from our experts
✅ 6-month access to all materials, recordings & chat history
Individual Guidance
Cohort Experience plus personal guidance and weekly 1:1 calls with our experts.
$649
What’s Included:
✅ All course lectures and supporting materials
✅ Downloadable workbook with blueprints
✅ Weekly live Zoom calls with Q&A
✅ Cohort Telegram group chat with support from our experts
✅ 6-month access to all materials, recordings & chat history
✅ 3 individual calls with a systems expert
✅ 1 individual call with the Founders Rehab founder
✅ Personalized answers to your questions within 48 hours in a private chat
*Extra individual hours for systems design can be requested separately