Helping Founders Solve the Internal Bottlenecks Strategy Can't Fix
Lead with clarity. Make aligned decisions. Grow without burnout.
Bio
Mario Lanzarotti is a speaker, entrepreneur, and coach to high-performing founders who are ready to stop forcing success — and start creating it from alignment.
After co-founding and exiting his first startup in New York, Mario realized what many leaders eventually face: success on paper doesn’t mean peace in your body. Even the most driven founders can feel trapped in pressure, performance, and the quiet fear of “what if I slow down?”
“Most coaches tell you what to do. I help you shift who you’re being — so the doing becomes natural, effortless, and aligned. Because when your being is clear, your actions don’t need force.”
That one shift has helped over 2,000 leaders across 15+ countries reclaim clarity, rebuild trust with themselves, and grow their businesses without burning out.
His TEDx talk on self-doubt has reached nearly 3 million people. His work has been featured in Forbes, Affluence Magazine, and on stages with NYU and Skanska Walsh. But what clients remember isn’t the credentials — it’s the presence. The way he sees what others miss.
Mario’s approach blends deep inner clarity with strategic simplicity. It’s not about adding more. It’s about removing what’s in the way of who you already are.
When he’s not guiding founders or speaking at events, you’ll find him traveling with his wife, savoring Italian food, or watching superhero movies with a bag of Haribo gummies.
Aligned Founders is where high-performing leaders come to shift the one thing that changes everything: who they are being.
This isn’t about adding more to your plate. It’s about finally letting go of the strategies, identities, and leadership habits that no longer fit — and building from a place that’s honest, clear, and deeply aligned.
Inside this 6 months experience, we walk you through 5 pillars of realignment that reconnect you to the version of yourself that can grow with clarity, peace, and power.
🔹 The 5 Pillars of Real Alignment
1. Identity Recalibration Let go of the persona success pushed you into, and come back to the version of you that’s clear, grounded, and powerful without pretending.
2. Nervous System Reset You don’t need more drive. You need more capacity. Learn to lead from stability, not stress.
3. Embodied Business Design Build your business around who you are now, not who you had to be to survive the last chapter. Strategy meets felt truth.
4. Leadership Without Performance Stop faking confidence. Start becoming the kind of leader people trust by how you show up, not just by what you say.
5. Environment Realignment Shift your ecosystem — clients, team, habits, space — to match the identity you’re stepping into.
"Mario’s coaching changed my life! He guided me from the begining of my entrepreneurial days to building two 7-figure businesses. His emphasis on mindset and leadership have helped me not only excel as a business owner but also greatly improve my relationships and overall wellbeing. If you ever get the chance to work with him, consider yourself lucky because you’re in for a huge growth experience."
Andre Haykal Jr.
Founder of Client Ascension, Knowledge X and ListKit
"Mario helped me gain clarity on what it is I actually want in life – in business, in health, and in relationships – and then create a roadmap on how to get there. With him, I found the courage to take the necessary actions, and he held me accountable every step of the way. What would've taken me years to achieve on my own only took me a few months thanks to Mario. As a result, my confidence has skyrocketed and I feel empowered to achieve anything I set my mind on. I now have a new sales process that's paying my investment in him back many times over. I recommend Mario to anyone who's done with mediocrity and is ready to regain control in their life and in their business."
Arthur B.
Founder of The Marketing Dollar Agency
"My marriage is stronger than it ever has been. I have a feeling of peace within myself that I have not ever experienced. My business has been consistently growing, and new and exciting opportunities have come my way that I had never imagined before.
Of all the courses and programs and coaching I have done through the years, Mario’s program has been the most transformational."
Annie McCarty
Executive Business Coach
Speaker | Mario Lanzarotti
Shift the being. The doing will follow.
Why bring Mario into your stage or community?
He doesn’t perform. He creates a shift. Mario doesn’t deliver hype or high-fives. He creates the space for high-performing leaders to finally get honest with themselves, their patterns, and the version of success they’re still clinging to.
In every session, he brings what most talks miss: stillness, truth, and permission to change.
This isn’t surface-level insight — it’s realignment.
With nearly 3 million views on his TEDx talk and experience across global stages, Mario speaks to the people behind the personas. He’s worked with founders, CEOs, and mission-driven teams who look successful but feel the weight of performance, pressure, and pretending.
His message helps them drop the mask and reconnect to the version of themselves that can actually lead.
Expertise Rooted in Results.
Mario has coached over 2,000 leaders across 15+ countries — from multi-7-figure founders to rising visionaries. He helps them remove internal friction, lead with embodied confidence, and grow businesses that reflect who they really are.
Topics That Go Beneath the Surface
- The Hidden Bottleneck: What keeps leaders stuck when strategy isn’t the problem
- Embodied Leadership: How to stop performing confidence and start leading from your center
- Burnout-Proof Growth: Scaling without losing your peace, presence, or purpose
- The Nervous System of a Leader: Why your state is your strategy
- Identity Recalibration: What happens when you stop leading from who you had to be
Tailored to the Room. Every Time.
No generic keynote. No one-size-fits-all inspiration. Every session is designed to meet the emotional maturity and lived experience of the audience — whether that’s startup founders, executive leaders, or curated communities ready for real growth.
For Audiences Done With the Mask.
If your room is ready for more than mindset hacks — if they’re ready to lead from truth, not pressure — then Mario is the speaker who doesn’t just leave them inspired. He leaves them changed.
Mario covers the following topics
1. The Bottleneck You Didn't Know You Had
Why your strategy keeps falling short and how to find what's actually in the way
2. Scale Without Losing Yourself
What it takes to grow without burning out, numbing out, or checking out
3. Lead From Vision, Not Vigilance
How to stop managing chaos and start creating from what's true
4. The Nervous System of a Leader
Why your internal state shapes your decisions, team, and your revenue more than strategy ever will
5. Break the Performer Identity
Let go of the version of you that leads from pressure and step into the one that leads from presence
6. Becoming the Leader Your Next Level Requires
Because who you are is the bottleneck, not what you do.
7. Aligned Business, Aligned Life
How founders who stop forcing success start attracting the right clients, team, and opportunities
“I attended Mario's 'THE POWER IN YOU' full-day workshop at the Frankfurt School. The workshop made me feel motivated, inspired and energized. Mario provided many tools to empower my mindset to help me become more effective in my professional career and achieve goals with more ease.”
Artur Gleyberman,
Account Executive at MuleSoft
“I found something within me, definitely a power within me. Not just on a business level, but on a personal level too.
There have been some issues that I’ve been dealing with. Amazingly, I managed to find the answers right there in this workshop”
Sarah M.
Business Owner
“Before the call with Mario, my head was spinning and I was super scatterbrained. But after I felt much more clarity and excitement toward my work. About an hour after the call I jumped on a sales call and closed the deal! I don't think this would have been possible in my previous state."
Hunter Eastland
CEO at Eastland Enterprises
TEDx Talk: “What if self-doubt is a gift?”
This talk didn’t go viral because it was clever. It resonated because it told the truth.
In this TEDx talk — now approaching 3 million views — Mario shares the story behind the story: the quiet, exhausting inner pressure so many high-achievers carry but never name.
Through vulnerability and clarity, he reframes self-doubt not as something to eliminate, but as a doorway to deeper self-trust, clarity, and leadership.
“Self-doubt isn’t your enemy. It’s an invitation to reconnect with the part of you that needs your loving attention.”
This talk challenges the personal development world’s obsession with fearlessness. Instead, it offers something far more useful: the permission to feel, forgive, and finally come home to yourself.
Published Articles
Forbes
Mario Lanzarotti’s ZenPreneur Method For Business And Well-Being
Startupill
Zenpreneur: Revolutionizing Entrepreneurship with Balance and Success
The Bellwether
Business Harmony in Action
Canvas Rebel
Burnout Free Business Growth
Affluence Magazine
Ethical Business Excellence
in South Africa
Questions For The Media
- What does it actually mean to build a business from alignment, and why are so many high-achievers waking up to that need?
- How do successful founders quietly drift out of alignment, and what signs should they look for before it costs them more than revenue?
- Your TEDx talk reframes self-doubt as a gift. How do you help leaders build a healthy relationship with it instead of trying to eliminate it?
- What hidden bottlenecks do most founders ignore, and why can't hustle, bio hacks, or high-performance habits solve them?
- You talk about shifting "who you are being" instead of adding more to your to-do list. What does that look like in real life?
- You combine nervous system work, inner healing, and strategy. Why is that integration the key to growth that most coaches miss?
- What are the 5 most common areas in which founders fall out of alignment, and how can they recalibrate without burning everything down?
- You often speak about outgrowing the identity that got you here. Why is updating your self-concept more powerful than updating your strategy?
- Can you share a story about a founder who broke through not by doing more but by finally realigning with who they really are?
- What inspired your new program, Aligned Founders, and how is it different from traditional leadership or performance coaching?
Other Media
Podcasts
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The Zenpreneur Experience - Scale Boldly, Lead Consciously.
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