Uta Birkmayer presenting Meet Your Inner Dragon

Great leadership is not just about strategy, discipline, and execution. It is also about recognizing the inner patterns that quietly shape how we lead, decide, react, avoid, control, protect, and connect.

Great leadership is not just about strategy, discipline, and execution. It is also about recognizing the inner patterns that quietly shape how we lead, decide, react, avoid, control, protect, and connect.

In this Rocket Masterminds workshop, Uta Birkmayer will guide CEOs through a hands-on, reflective experience to identify their “inner dragon” — the part of themselves that may have helped them survive, succeed, protect others, and carry responsibility, but may also be limiting their next chapter of leadership.

This is not about slaying the dragon. It is about understanding what it has been protecting, what it is costing, and how to give it a wiser job.

• Choose a dragon figure as a personal symbol for the workshop 
• Watch a short video to open the conversation around emotional courage 
• Identify the inner pattern that shows up under pressure 
• Explore what the dragon may be protecting 
• Reflect on the “original promise” the dragon once made 
• Reframe the dragon from hidden saboteur to useful source of wisdom 
• Give the dragon a new leadership job 
• Leave with one concrete conversation, decision, or behavior to practice 

You will leave with:

• A clearer understanding of a personal leadership pattern that may be shaping your decisions, relationships, energy, or growth 
• Language for recognizing when your dragon is leading instead of your truest leadership 
• A new way to work with fear, control, grief, busyness, responsibility, or avoidance without shame 
• A practical commitment for how to respond differently the next time the pattern appears 
• A dragon figure to keep as a reminder to pause, listen, and choose wiser leadership 

Every CEO has a dragon.

It may show up as over-responsibility, control, conflict avoidance, impatience, emotional distance, busyness, perfectionism, rescuing, loyalty to the past, or the need to carry everything alone.

But the dragon is not what is wrong with you. It is usually the part of you that once learned how to protect what mattered: safety, love, belonging, dignity, family, success, identity, or the company itself.

The question is not whether the dragon should disappear. The question is whether it still needs to run the whole show.

In this workshop, CEOs will explore the dragon with curiosity rather than judgment — and turn an old protective pattern into a more conscious source of leadership strength.

Uta Birkmayer is the founder and Chair of Rocket Masterminds and founder of Xsense Authentic Places. Her work centers on helping leaders, organizations, and places reconnect with what is most authentic, meaningful, and alive beneath the surface.

Through Rocket Masterminds, Uta facilitates confidential CEO conversations where business strategy and personal leadership meet. Her workshops are designed to be practical, reflective, and deeply human — helping leaders see themselves more clearly so they can lead with more courage, clarity, and authenticity.