Behavioral development for deep-tech scale-ups in Brainport
Growfully turns fast-hiring scale-ups into teams that keep growing, using a behavioral method that makes development stick past week two.
Founder-led by an HR leader who built the people function of a MedTech scale-up from clinical stage through CE mark and commercial launch. 13+ years across leadership development, performance, and org design.
The gap
You doubled headcount in eighteen months. The org chart changed faster than anyone's ability to grow into it. Three patterns show up in almost every deep-tech company we see.
Your best builders became first-time leads overnight, with no scaffolding for how to actually manage people. Technical brilliance does not transfer for free.
Development goals get written once a year and forgotten by February. Courses get bookmarked, never finished. It is not a motivation problem. It is a design problem.
Off-the-shelf training bolted onto a full sprint feels like homework. When learning is disconnected from the real work, no behavior actually changes.
The H.I.L.P. Method
Four stages that repeat until growth becomes the default, not the exception. Grounded in behavioral science and modern coaching practice.
Small, repeatable behaviors wired into the real workday, so progress does not depend on willpower.
A diagnostic that shows how each person actually learns and where they are genuinely stuck.
Short loops of action and reflection over weeks, not year-long plans that gather dust.
Behavior change that shows up in the work, tracked so the impact is visible to you and to them.
How to work with Growfully
A behavioral program run across your team or leadership layer. It starts with a diagnostic, produces a personalized plan per person, and is reviewed founder-led over a quarter, so you can see what changed.
A low-risk way to experience H.I.L.P. before you roll it out to a team. A four-week personalized pilot, built around one real development goal.
Personal pilot, €750
Credited in full against a team programme if you bring your team.
Start the individual pilotPricing
Per participant, per quarter. The programme scales with the seniority and depth your team needs. Exact scope is always set in the diagnostic.
Emerging talent and first-time leads growing into more responsibility.
Managers and team leads carrying the weight of a fast-scaling org.
Your exec and senior layer, where the deepest founder involvement pays off.
The first three Brainport companies get the Leadership programme at €2,400 per participant, in exchange for a named case study. When the reference slots are filled, list price applies. This is a discount on access, not on the work.
Want to test the method before rolling it out to a team? Start with the personal pilot at €750, credited in full against a team programme.
Why founder-led matters
Every plan is reviewed by a person who has actually built a people function inside a scaling company, not generated by a template.
Growfully was founded by Felix Bindels, an HR leader with 13+ years across leadership development, performance management, coaching, recruitment strategy, organizational design, and culture. He built and ran the people function of a MedTech scale-up solo, through CE mark and into commercial launch. Growfully brings that same rigor to other deep-tech companies in the Brainport region.
Next step
We look at where your people are getting stuck and whether H.I.L.P. is the right fit. No pitch deck, no obligation.