Entrepreneurs coaching entrepreneurs.
The Octopus partners are seasoned entrepreneurs with exit experience and years of practice in building, scaling, and transforming companies. We know responsibility, dynamics, and uncertainty firsthand — including failures.
Who guides you.
Five partners with their own entrepreneurial and exit experience. They guide you from practice — each with a distinct focus.
Philipp von Kunhardt
Entrepreneur coach at the human × AI intersection.
Repeat founder with an international exit (bellicon). Today a coach at the human × AI intersection.
Thomas Plöger
Most entrepreneurs don't have a strategy gap — they have a clarity gap.
Built sales himself — Sigma-Aldrich, turnarounds, Der Sales Doc. Says what's in the room but unspoken.
Dr. Patrick Blum
Learn today what was missing yesterday — and make it count tomorrow.
A founder and coach for 30 years. He makes learning and AI work inside the company — and brings complex topics into simplicity.
Dr. Max Scheidt
An entrepreneur in the day-to-day. A coach as an equal.
A managing director and coach in one — he works on what goes unspoken in the leadership team.
Christoph Graf
Would rather get stuck in than hesitate — and understands people as well as numbers.
CFO/COO from the agency world with his own exit to Serviceplan. Pragmatic, hands-on, reads people and numbers.
The fields we cover.
When your topic gets specific, the right expert joins the workshop setup — no extra cost.
- Finance & CFO
- International sales
- Program management
- App development
- INSEAD
- Communications
- Train-the-Trainer
- Leadership practice
- Strategy
- Leadership
- Personal development
- Entrepreneurship
- Conflict management
Talk to the coach who fits.
In the 30-min discovery call we figure out who fits your situation best.