Founder of Pausa · performance-wellbeing for leaders

Healthy leaders build healthy systems.

I have scaled teams and revenue, and I have hit the wall. Twice. Now I design the work, and the recovery, so leaders don't have to choose between the two.

I am Yaro, a serial founder turned performance-wellbeing specialist, and the maker of the Workplace Wellbeing Score©, the 3S Method, and the Pausa Founder Residency. I work in dualities: head and heart, numbers and emotions, performance and wellbeing.

"To live every day in a consciously happy way, with a positive impact on people and planet."

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Ericeira / Lisbon · remote across Europe · 3–4 days/week, open to fractional roles

How I help

Wellbeing as performance infrastructure — not a perk.

What you get

A leadership team that performs without burning out.

A confidential read on your own energy and risk of burnout, before it costs you the company
A structured offsite and integration programme, not another one-off retreat
Work redesigned around your team's real demands and resources, not generic perks
A peer circle of founders and CEOs carrying the same weight
A partner who has built and closed companies himself, not just advised on them

What you get

A programme and a method your team can run, not a one-off workshop.

The 3S Method (See · Shape · Sustain) to measure and redesign how work actually happens
Programme design and facilitation grounded in JD-R, Psychosocial Safety Climate and Areas of Worklife
Evidence and reporting structured for CSRD / ESRS S1, not built after the fact
Someone who builds the operating model with you, then hands it over

What you get

An early-warning signal on the founders and teams you back.

A leading indicator of founder and leadership-team health, ahead of performance dips
A credible, science-based wellbeing programme to offer portfolio founders
An operator's instinct for what's fixable and what's a structural risk

Experience

A decade of building.

Sep 2025 – Present
Ericeira/Lisbon

Co-Founder & Programme Lead — Pausa

Designed the methodology, built the company, lead delivery. Steward-owned; incubated at Unicorn Factory Lisboa.

Oct 2021 – Jan 2025
Netherlands

Founder & Managing Director — CityZen eLogistics

Zero-emission cargo-bike last-mile logistics across Zoetermeer & Hilversum; grew from zero to €350k annual revenue leading a team of 45+ part-timers; 2,800+ web shops served.

Nov 2019 – Dec 2020
Utrecht

Founder — bamvélo S.E.

Eco-design smart bicycles; sole owner across design, supply chain, sales, marketing and finance.

Jun 2019 – May 2020
Utrecht

Independent Consultant (GDP) — De Fietskoerier Utrecht

Good Distribution Practice for medical courier services; SOPs, training, compliant blood-sample transport.

Feb 2016 – May 2019
Randstad

Project Manager, Life Sciences — Sensitech

250+ pharma supply-chain quality projects across EMEA; automated reporting (4× faster, ~20% fewer errors); Letter of Recognition.

Selected other ventures — I Love Tiny (tiny houses; sold 4 units, ~€140k, across 4 countries → the Pausa Reset venue) · Modernist Nederland (design furniture, €18k in six weeks) · I Love Running Utrecht (running coaching; six groups to their first injury-free 10 km).

Executive Diploma, Entrepreneurship & Management — Like Center (2020–23) · MSc International Management — Karlsruhe UAS (2011–13) · Magister, International Economics — Kharkiv National University of Economics (2005–10).

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Healthy leaders build healthy systems.

Wellbeing as performance infrastructure — not a perk.

A leadership team that performs without burning out.

A programme and a method your team can run, not a one-off workshop.

An early-warning signal on the founders and teams you back.

A decade of building.

Let's build something that lasts.