The higher you go, the fewer people tell you the truth about yourself.
Everyone around you has a stake in you. Your investors, your team, your board, the people who want something from you. They manage you, they defer to you, they read you for what they need. Almost no one sees you, and the things that cost you most are the ones no one will name.
That is what I do. I see people clearly, and I say what I see.
The layer under strategy
By the time you are leading something real, you have learned to be legible to everyone except yourself. You know how you land in a room. You do not always know what is actually driving the decision in front of you, or why the same pattern keeps returning in your company, your partnerships, the way you hold or quietly hand away your power.
These are not strategy problems, and no framework solves them. They sit underneath strategy, in the place where your own psychology meets the systems you operate inside. That is the layer almost no one is looking at, and it is where the expensive mistakes are made.
What I do
I read people, and the systems they are inside.
I am a psychologist with an unusual ability to see the whole architecture quickly: a person, their history, the family system standing behind them, and the decision sitting on top of it, all at once. Then I name the knot, in language that is precise rather than flattering.
This is not coaching and it is not therapy. I am not here to support you gently toward your own conclusions, and I am not here to process your past. I am here to show you what I see. The pattern you are standing inside. The loyalty you did not know you were holding. The place where you leak power, or hold it. The thing you half know and have never had words for.
The read
The work centers on one thing.
I spend real time with you and your situation, and I give you back what I see. Not notes, not a framework. A written read, in my own words, that you keep.
Most people have never been described to themselves precisely. Reading it is often the first time the thing they have carried for years is finally in language, and clear enough to act on.
It is yours and it is private. Nothing about you leaves the room. That discretion is not a feature of the work, it is the condition of it.
Who this is for
Founders, CEOs and leaders who carry something large and have nowhere honest to set it down. You are competent, often brilliant, and quietly aware that what limits you now is not knowledge or capital, but something about yourself you cannot quite see. You would rather hear the truth once than be reassured ten times.
How it works
It begins with a conversation. If there is a fit, we go deep. I spend time with you and what you are facing, and I give you the read, in conversation and in writing.
For some people that one read is complete. They have what they came for. Others keep me close afterward, as the one person with no stake in them, to bring a decision or a dynamic to when they have lost sight of it from the inside.
There is no program and no funnel. The work is shaped around you, because you are not a segment.
About
I am Myrthe Glasbergen.
I trained as a psychologist. I have built and run my own work, and I operate internationally rather than from a single office. My days are spent seeing what people at the top are not being shown by anyone around them.
I work privately, with a small number of people.