Hanno Liiva — Performance Mentor & Coach

You do not need more motivation. You need clarity, better decisions and a system that works.

Hanno Liiva, Performance Mentor & Coach, portrait photographed for Äripäev

Today I help people reach their goals, no matter how hard a place they are in. I help them make better decisions and build the capability to move towards results step by step.

Creator of Performance Philosophy and Performance OS

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My story

Knowing how to run a company did not yet mean knowing how to lead myself.

The crisis that led me into deep trials began after I sold my company. I had built a successful business, led a large number of people and achieved very good results. I thought I had won at life and now knew almost everything about success. My next plan was to become a coach and teach others how to live and succeed “the right way”.

But life showed me how little I actually knew about myself. I lost my money and the identity I had built. My family fell apart, my relationship ended and I was left alone. Then I lost my physical health. Because of a herniated disc in my back I could walk 100 metres at most before the pain became unbearable, so all I could do was lie down.

I had to admit that knowing how to run a company did not yet mean knowing how to lead myself.

Six years of wrestling with hardship taught me a great deal. Among other things, that getting out of the crisis did not take another motivating thought — it took a system to live by, one that still holds when motivation is gone and life does not go to plan.

The Performance Philosophy and Performance OS programmes grew out of that journey. I did not create them to teach others first. I created them to rebuild myself.

I have been applying and developing this approach in my own life for years. Now I use it to help others reach goals that matter and grow their own capability.

I do not teach a system I have only read about. I live by it myself.
Hanno Liiva

The comeback did not happen with one big decision.

It happened through small decisions, deliberate action and a system I kept following even when motivation disappeared or life did not go to plan.

These two photos show the last half year of my physical change. My real comeback, though, began more than six years ago.

Hanno Liiva half a year ago, weighing 107 kg
Half a year ago 107 kg
Hanno Liiva today, weighing 82 kg
Today 82 kg

107 kg → 82 kg

About 100 metres of movement → daily movement and training

Losing control of my own life → building new goals and companies, and providing value to others

I do not think a good life means a life without problems.

For me, “every day is a good day” means that even a hard day can hold value.

A problem is no longer only an obstacle, but a source of information — to notice a weak spot, find the root cause and get better.

Read Hanno Liiva's story from rock bottom back

Who I help, and with what

When you know something has to change, but your current approach has not moved you forward.

I help employees, leaders and entrepreneurs who need to reach important goals, make difficult decisions or solve problems. I help people who feel that their real potential is going unused.

Often the problem is not a lack of knowledge or will. From inside your own situation it is hard to see what is really holding you back, and which change would create the greatest value.

For the individual, leader and entrepreneur

  • an important personal or professional goal
  • a difficult decision or change
  • a recurring problem you have not broken through
  • difficulty applying what you know consistently
  • the feeling that your real potential is going unused

For the organisation and team

  • unclear goals or responsibilities
  • ineffective decisions and actions
  • recurring problems whose root cause is never solved
  • unused potential in people and teams
  • a need for a more systematic way of working and for growth you can actually see

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What changes when we work together

You do not merely reach a result — you also grow your own capability.

From inside your own situation it is hard to see the whole picture. Your own recurring patterns, blind spots and real obstacles usually stay invisible to you.

As a Performance Mentor & Coach I help you notice those obstacles and turn your insights into better decisions and real, manageable steps.

  • You get a clearer understanding of what you really want.
  • You notice the most important obstacles and blind spots.
  • You make better decisions.
  • You turn the goal into real and consistent action.
  • You learn to use problems and setbacks for growth.
  • You build the capability to reach whatever comes next.

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Performance Philosophy

Performance OS — a system for leading yourself

Lasting results appear when a person's mindset, decisions, habits and way of leading themselves change.

The chain of change

When mindset changes, a person starts making different decisions. When decisions change, habits change too. When habits change, that changes the person as well. And when the person changes, so do the results they want to achieve.

  1. Mindset
  2. Decisions
  3. Habits
  4. The person
  5. Results

Performance OS

Performance OS is a system I created, have applied in my own life for years and keep developing. It brings clarity, quality decisions, execution and growth together into one whole, and helps you keep moving forward even when motivation disappears or you hit a setback.

Read how the Performance OS system works

What does not starting cost you?

  • Change nothing, and you keep today's situation.
  • Another month or another year of the same thoughts, the same postponing, the same recurring problems, lost time and unused opportunities chips away at your joy, confidence and sense of happiness.
  • The biggest loss may not be the goal you did not reach.

The biggest loss may be the person or the organisation you could have become along the way.

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The first step

Your first Performance Mentoring & Coaching session

60 minutes €80

In the first session we map your goal, your current situation and the most important obstacles, and find a concrete next step.

You leave with a clearer understanding of your situation and of what to do next.

If it turns out that Performance Mentoring and Coaching is not the right solution for you, I will tell you honestly.

Get in touch

You do not need to have all the answers before getting in touch. Tell me briefly what you want to move forward with, and we will see whether Performance Mentoring and Coaching can help you.

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