Executive Performance Coach

For founders and service providers whose income depends on their own performance.

Removing what's draining your performance and capping your results.

⚠︎   Limited to 10 client partnerships at a time.

200+ Clients
2,000+ Consultations
150+ Group Sessions
Since 2019 Coaching

At 21, I stood on a handball court with a swollen knee, fueled by painkillers and desperate ambition. One week from the World Championships. The dream I had lived for since I was 10.

I jumped. I landed. My knee ligament tore. So did the dream.

In that moment of real pain, I learned something that took years to fully understand: everything can change in a heartbeat, and who you become after that moment is entirely your choice.

The decade that followed was one long rebuild. A philosophy degree. Corporate roles across Amazon, Expedia, Hilton. Three countries, three industries, three languages. New culture, new identity, each time from scratch. Always performing, always searching for something that fit deeper than a stable job or a good salary.

At 33, a headhunter offered me three times my salary to move to Amsterdam. I turned it down from a train and never looked back. Went all in on coaching with two months of savings. COVID hit three months later. No safety net, just a decision already made and a deep belief I'd find the way.

I found the way.

I've watched too many capable people waste their potential inside a comfort they mistake for safety. That's what drives this work: I can't stand watching someone with real capability settle for a life smaller than what they're actually capable of.

Marek Urban leading a live workshop

What I know after 7 years, 200+ clients, and 2,000+ consultations is this: the gap between where you are and where you know you could be is never about talent. It lives in how you see yourself, what you tolerate, and the state you show up in every day. All three are changeable.

I work with founders and service providers whose income depends directly on their own performance. People who've built something real, who know there's more inside them than their results currently show, and who are done watching their own potential go to waste.

The mix I bring to this isn't typical. A pro athlete's relationship with performance under pressure. A philosophy degree that won't let me settle for surface-level answers. Five countries lived and worked in, each one rebuilding who I was from scratch. I don't believe performance and fulfillment are two separate pursuits you balance against each other. One without the other isn't a full life, and I coach for both at once.

I show up fully for the people I work with. I believe in them when they struggle to believe in themselves. I see what they can't see from inside their own situation. I hold them to a higher standard than they hold themselves, and I bring everything I have into every partnership.

When you're in, I'm fully in. Maximum 10 client partnerships at a time.

200+

Clients,
10+ countries

2k+

Individual
consultations

150+

Workshops &
group sessions

457%

Revenue growth,
sales teams, year one

Overworking.
Underpricing.
Doing it all alone.

These aren't separate problems, they're the same pattern wearing three different outfits. Business problems are usually personal ones wearing a business disguise. What's unresolved in you gets carried straight into how you price, how you show up, and what you tolerate, whether you're ready to see it or not.

This isn't only psychological. It's spiritual too, in the oldest sense of that word, it's about who you actually believe you are underneath the performance.

01 / 04

The sales meeting you're already dreading

Fear shows up before you even walk in. You discount before anyone asks. You take clients you already have doubts about.

Underneath it

You're negotiating from scarcity, afraid to lose the client before you've even signed them.

Outcome

You charge what the work is worth, and you stop dreading the meeting.

02 / 04

The prices you struggle to raise

You struggle to see your own worth, even with the results to prove it. So you undercharge, then overwork to make up for it in your own head.

Underneath it

You don't yet believe you're worth what you charge, so you try to earn it after the fact instead of asking for it upfront.

Outcome

Your price finally matches your actual value, and you stop working for free to prove it.

03 / 04

The task you still won't hand off

You keep doing it yourself, and quietly blame your own lack of discipline for not having built the systems that would let you stop.

Underneath it

Keeping control feels safer than trusting the outcome to someone else, even when you already know it isn't sustainable.

Outcome

The business grows past what your personal hours allow.

04 / 04

Settling for less than you're capable of

You've made peace with results that are good, not the ones you already know are possible. Playing it safe feels responsible. It's actually the slow way of giving up.

Underneath it

Without a clear picture of who you're capable of becoming, there's nothing pulling you past what's already comfortable.

Outcome

You stop settling, and start closing the gap between what you're doing and what you're actually capable of.

All four come from the same place. You're tolerating a version of yourself smaller than the one you already know you're capable of. Without a clear picture of who that future version actually is, there's nothing for your standards to hold against, so they quietly slip, and you sacrifice that future self one discount, one unpaid extra hour, one task you won't let go of, one safe choice, at a time.

That relationship, the one between who you are now and who you're capable of becoming, is the actual work.

1

Diagnosis

You get the real answer, past the surface story you've been telling yourself.

2

Clarity

You leave knowing exactly what needs to change, no more guessing.

3

Remove the cap

Your specific blocker, State, Self-Image, or Standards, gets removed at the source.

4

Strategy

A specific path forward, built for your actual situation, not a template.

5

Execution

You get someone in your corner through the move, so the old pattern doesn't quietly come back.

This is not business coaching or life coaching. We find what's capping your results, remove it, and find the practical move that needs to happen next. Your results follow.

Diagnose the truth. Clear the noise. Decide the move. Execute.

"You didn't just coach me. You saw my strengths, pushed me into leadership, and helped me become someone who could lead a team, not just manage one. The strategy we built, the table and legs metaphor, I'll carry with me always. For the first time in 34 years, I feel free to live life on my terms."

Mirka Ecker

1st Farmasi Millionaire in EU

"I'm highly organised, I operate at a high performance level, and I usually arrive with my own system already built. What Marek does isn't add another framework on top of that. He finds the moment when you're convinced you've reached your limit, and shows you there is more. Not through pressure, but through a steady confidence in you that becomes contagious. If you're in a period of change, especially if you're the type who's used to figuring things out alone, I can't recommend Marek highly enough."

Julia Im

BCN Entrepreneurs & La Fábrica, Start-up Mentor

"Marek doesn't just radiate great energy, he's a highly skilled professional. I loved the board, watching him draw the schemes live, and the fact that he checked in and actually listened. Today I have so much more confidence, acceptance, and motivation."

Khrystyna Svarychevska

Founder

Not for everyone

✗   People who want comfort, not truth

✗   People not ready to take full ownership

→   Done tolerating patterns that no longer serve

→   Ready to be challenged, not managed

→   Serious about closing the gap

⚠︎   Max 10 clients at a time. This keeps the work real.

The next move

There are only two ways we change.
Either we decide to.
Or life forces us to.

Don't wait until the cost is too high.

Marek Urban

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