Kindling — From Overload to Capacity

The Space In Between

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Why

The leaders I work with are not broken — they're overloaded. The demands of scaling a company exceed the nervous system's capacity to regulate. When we're in survival mode, our leadership suffers, our relationships suffer, and we suffer.

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What

I help you map and change your state — both your static patterns (Enneagram) and your dynamic states (nervous system). This State Mapping gives you a real-time understanding of how you show up, what triggers you, and what resources you have access to in any given moment.

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How

Through 1:1 coaching, group leadership circles, breathwork, and AI-enhanced reflection tools, we expand the space between stimulus and response — so you can lead from choice, not reaction.

Map your state — for free

Most leaders know they're running on fumes. Few know exactly what pattern is draining them — or which nervous system state they're operating from.

This 4-minute self-mapping tool combines a quick personality assessment with a nervous system check-in, and gives you a personalised reading of how your type shows up in your current state. It's the starting point of the work we do together — and it's yours to keep.

Explore our services

When is this relevant: When you're a founder, operator, or executive who has outrun the version of yourself your success was built on — and the drive that got you here is starting to hollow you out.

Individual coaching helps you change the underlying context driving your leadership and life. We start by mapping what's going on; your personality type (using Enneagram), topics you want to look at, as well as nervous system states. And then use parts work and functional breathwork to build capacity around the change you want to see.

This work gets done in 3, 6 or 12 month packages.

When is this relevant: When you're stuck in a pattern — high activation, shutdown, or just chronic disconnection from your body — and you need a direct way to shift state, not just talk about it.

Learn how to breathe again! 85% of people breathe wrong. Individual and group breathwork sessions designed to build somatic capacity.

Your body keeps the score — breathwork is one of the fastest ways to shift your nervous system state and create space for better leadership.

When is this relevant: When your leadership or executive team is technically capable but running into drama — drama and friction issues are really communication issues in disguise.

Leadership starts on the inside. This training brings the core frameworks from 1:1 coaching into your organization: Conscious Leadership principles and Enneagram typology help your team shift from drama to collaboration and alignment. Teams learn to recognize their own patterns — as individuals and collectively — and build the language to navigate pressure, conflict, and change without burning out or shutting down.

Available as multi-day workshops or ongoing organizational programs.

When is this relevant: When the loneliness of leadership has become its own kind of load — and you want community and peers who understand the weight, not just the title.

90% of leaders report fatigue, some severe burnout. Yet the demands keep growing, and to be a leader is often lonely.

Small-group leadership circles for senior leaders who want to tackle overload together. A community-driven space to build capacity, explore AI as an assistant (not an overlord) in your work, and practice regulation in real time. Circles run for 3–6 months.

When is this relevant: When you're already using AI to think — but the machine doesn't know you, and generic reflection only goes so far.

Many leaders reflect on deep topics with an LLM. However, the machine doesn't know us.

Map your state, then receive reflections and questions to reveal your blind spots — not answers — from an AI that understands your personality and nervous system patterns. Think of it as a thinking partner that knows your map, a Socratic mirror between human-to-human coaching sessions.

Get to know me

Your team or company won't grow if you are not in the right state to lead it.

I work at the intersection of building high-performing GTM teams and developing resilient, self-aware leaders — integrating systematic ways of moving fast with the art of slowing down.

Over 15+ years, I've scaled B2B SaaS companies across PLG, sales-assist, and direct motions — from Series A through post-IPO. I was Dropbox's top-performing sales leader globally for 7 consecutive years, hitting quota 27 quarters in a row, and had an early career at Google and American Express.

But speed without awareness of our internal pre-programmed patterns creates overload. I did the above while feeling constant fear, life felt like being on knife's edge. The accumulated stress turned into a severe burnout. Only by facing one hard thing after another over the course of 5 years did I start to find capacity, life force and joy again.

That's why I now work with senior technology leaders and founders to prevent or recover from burnout by using Capacity Coaching, Breathwork and Leadership Circles — exposing what's blocking capacity and expanding the space in between.

I'm a certified Conscious Leadership coach, Functional Breathwork, Enneagram and Yoga (200hrs) teacher; and trained in Parts Work (IFS), and Freediving (AIDA3). I combine an operator's systems-thinking with deep somatic and psychological methods to help you build lasting capacity.

★★★★★

5 stars from 35 client reviews

"Our whole Go-To-Market leadership team went through a 6 month program with Kindling. The leadership team now communicates a lot better, and drives revenue more effectively."

— CRO, Series C FinTech Startup

"I've been working with Kindling for years to help me develop as a leader without burning out. The frameworks, methods and ability to hold space Jaakko has is unparalleled to anything I've seen before."

— Sr. Communications Leader, Tesla

"Not only did our team learn to be more self-aware and adopt more authentic ways to communicate, I have also found new ways to connect with my body and release stress by using breathwork."

— VP, Series B AP Automation Startup

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