Jacob Drachenberg is a psychologist, former professional water polo player, and Germany’s leading stress coach.
He helps people and companies with high standards navigate stressful times in a healthy way. He speaks publicly about his severe depression, which led him to his vision of “healthy stress management for everyone.” He is fascinated by the fact that anyone can learn to cope better with stress. He makes this process simple and easy for his clients.
Jacob Drachenberg’s Lecture Topic
Today, stress is the biggest challenge to performance, health, and effective collaboration.
This is exactly where Jacob Drachenberg comes in. In his talks and workshops, he shows how people can develop their individual stress management skills—for better health, improved leadership, higher productivity, and a noticeably greater sense of ease in both their professional and personal lives.
Whether it’s transformation, leadership, a heavy workload, or balancing work and personal life: Everyone experiences stress differently. Jacob teaches scientifically grounded and immediately applicable strategies to reduce unhealthy stress and promote personal growth. Depending on the objective, the focus is on mental stress—such as managing thoughts, expectations, decisions, and one’s own perception—or on emotional stress, for example, when dealing with uncertainty, anxiety, frustration, feeling overwhelmed, or exhaustion. This area in particular is becoming increasingly important in companies and forms the basis of his latest book, Die 1-Minuten-Strategie gegen emotionalen Stress.
However, sustainable stress management is only possible through the interplay of body, mind, and emotions. It is precisely this holistic understanding that makes Jacob’s lectures and workshops a lasting source of inspiration for healthy peak performance—burning bright without burning out.
More About Jacob Drachenberg
After earning his degree in psychology from HU Berlin, he launched his own practice as a stress coach in 2015. Jacob captained a water polo team in the 1st Bundesliga for many years and has a very positive outlook on sustainable success and healthy performance. The Drachenberg Method combines performance and health. Jacob Drachenberg works with many well-known corporations such as Mercedes, IKEA, Rewe, Daimler Truck, Henkel, and Axel Springer.
At the Drachenberg Academy, he has trained over 600 stress coaches and 100 stress mentors. His courses, programs, podcasts, books, lectures, and campaigns have reached a total of more than 250,000 people. His two most successful books are titled “Stress dich richtig” (published by GU Verlag in 2022) and “1-Minute Strategie gegen emotionalen Stress” (published by GU Verlag in 2026).