07 · Leadership that goes beyond impact.
Exponential Leadership
For leaders whose next growth isn’t about expertise: two programs, 1:1, over 6–12 months.
- Program
- 1:1
- 6–12 months

- Patrick Schmid
Companion for leadership. I work with leaders on the maturing of leadership: more conscious, more adaptive, more effective
- Focus
Integrative-systemic and meta-systemic focus · Flexible / happy to work worldwide
- Bookable in modules
Individual or systematic programs
Who it’s for
For you as a leader who knows: your next growth isn’t about expertise.
There comes a point where more knowledge or better methods no longer help. At that point, it’s about perception, attitude, and the willingness to change yourself. That’s what this offering is for.
Leadership doesn’t just increase knowledge or experience; it expands perception, awareness, and room to act.
Exponential Leadership
Complex systems can no longer be steered from just a few perspectives. Leadership becomes effective when it can hold more than one logic—economic, human, cultural, ethical.
- 2 programsDeep Leadership (Track I) and Exponential Leadership (Track II)
- 1:1Executive development, on the job, confidential
- 6–12months per program
- 4 areasper program, bookable in modules
- Track I
Deep Leadership
Foundations for lasting impact.
Individual - Track II
Exponential Leadership
Shaping complex organizations with structural clarity: leading systems—not just situations.
Individual
Those who master this …
recognize tensions earlier and use them as an impulse for development,
communicate in ways that connect across different realities,
make decisions that hold up in the short term and make sense in the long term,
create spaces in which organizations and people can grow, instead of steering them.
Multi-perspective leadership
Growing inside to be effective outside
“Know yourself” means recognizing the patterns, needs, and inner motives you lead from.
Grasp it (really!)—before you steer
Recognizing patterns means grasping dynamics before you intervene in them.
Holding tension instead of resolving it too quickly
Complex systems thrive on opposites: stability and change, control and trust, closeness and distance.
