Focus on your business using advanced skills.
Focus on your business using advanced skills.
The best founders know that better decisions start with better thinking.
The Founder Knowledge Lab helps you challenge assumptions, expose blind spots and evaluate evidence before making important business decisions.
Expose blind spots in plain sight.
See your venture through new lenses.
Make decisions backed by facts.
Get candid input you can trust.
Focus on what truly matters.
Build ventures ready to scale
We bring doctoral-level critical inquiry to your challenges so that you find better answers.
“The best founders do not have all the answers. They just ask significantly better questions.” – Stewart Miller
Begin as soon as you’re ready. No fixed intake dates.
Individual founder, founding team or group sessions.
Work with experienced experts who challenge and support you.
Challenge assumptions, probe evidence and introduce new perspectives.
Leave with clearer thinking, stronger evidence and confident next steps.
“Whether you are at idea stage or scalling fast, better questions lead to better decisions” – Dr Andreas Meiszner
Fresh thinking focused on your business challenge.
Better questions before better decisions.
Leave every session with greater clarity.
Get candid input you can trust.
Open, constructive and evidence-based.
Every engagement starts with your business.
per session
per month
Pricing tailored for your cohort
The Founder Knowledge Lab is part of our mission to bring doctoral-level thinking to business decision-making
Better questions.
Better decisions.
Better businesses.
startups
Develop doctoral-level thinking. Create immediate executive impact.
Executives
Generate original knowledge. Transform organisations.
Leaders
Take the first step today. Tell us about your challenge and we will match you with the right experts.
The Founder Knowledge Lab is a space where founders and business leaders explore their most important business challenges using doctoral-level critical inquiry.
Rather than providing ready-made answers, we help you ask better questions, examine assumptions, and develop greater clarity before making important decisions.
The Founder Knowledge Lab is designed for founders, entrepreneurs, business owners, executives and innovation leaders who are facing complex decisions where there is no obvious right answer.
Almost any strategic challenge, including:
If the challenge matters to your organisation, it is suitable for discussion.
We can if you want, but ideally we go well beyond that.
Our role should no be limited to provide just consulting or coaching advice.
Instead, we prefer to guide you through a structured process of critical inquiry that helps you evaluate your own assumptions, consider alternative perspectives and make more informed decisions.
Business coaches often focus on personal development, while consultants typically recommend solutions based on their expertise.
The Founder Knowledge Lab focuses on developing your own capability to investigate complex problems using doctoral-level thinking, enabling you to make stronger decisions long after the session has ended.
Not at all. No academic background is required.
Every founder has questioned assumptions, explored alternatives and learned through experimentation. The Founder Knowledge Lab builds on these natural abilities and develops them through doctoral-level critical inquiry.
The approach is practical, accessible and designed specifically for founders, entrepreneurs and experienced professionals.
You bring one significant business challenge. A topic that you want to better understand. A painpoint. Or something that you do not seem to fully understand and that bothers you.
Through guided questioning and structured discussion, we help you clarify the problem, challenge assumptions, explore alternative perspectives and identify evidence that may strengthen your decision making.
Complex business challenges rarely have simple answers.
Better decisions begin with better questions.
Doctoral-level critical inquiry helps uncover assumptions, identify missing evidence and consider alternative explanations before action is taken.
By strengthening the quality of your questions, you improve the quality of your decisions.
Yes. Many founders find value in returning as new challenges emerge.
Regular participation helps develop stronger habits of critical inquiry and evidence-informed decision making.
Not formally, but it may well lead into these pathways.
The Founder Knowledge Lab introduces the principles of doctoral-level critical inquiry in a practical business setting.
For those who wish to develop these capabilities further, it provides a natural pathway into the Executive Research Accelerator (ERA) and, ultimately, the accredited Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA).
You should expect greater clarity, a clearer understanding of the assumptions underlying your challenge, new perspectives to explore, and increased confidence in the questions you need to answer before making important decisions.