Zsombor Szabo

Co-Founder, Breathwork & Performance Coach

Amsterdam Area

About

As co-founder at Balance, I'm passionate about reducing workplace stress and improving performance through online and on-site wellbeing workshops, L&D programs, and tech. With a background in high-pressure professional environments, I saw firsthand how stress impacts focus, performance, and long-term health. This led me to specialize in breathwork and nervous system regulation as practical, science-backed tools for building resilience. Today, Balance delivered programs to 200+ companies, including many S&P 500 organizations, reaching more than 20,000 employees worldwide. My philosophy is simple: pressure isn't going away. The key is learning how to work with it.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & Breathwork Coach at Balance Breathing
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    At Balance, we help organizations reduce stress, improve wellbeing, and unlock sustainable high performance. • Built a workplace stress reduction and performance platform combining workshops, leadership programs, digital tools, and company offsites. • Delivered wellbeing initiatives on-site and online, including breathwork, meditation, yoga, journaling, cold exposure, sound baths, and creative workshops. • Designed learning & development programs focused on resilience, stress management, recovery, and sustainable performance. • Developed Equilibria, the 1-minute stress-reset integrations for MS Teams and Slack. • Reached 20,000+ employees across 100+ organizations worldwide.

  • FeedbackFruits (Amsterdam Area · On-site)
    • Business Developer
      Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

    • Account Executive
      Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs

      FeedbackFruits is a mission-driven educational technology scale-up committed to transforming education, with the goal of enhancing collaboration, engagement, feedback, and assessment practices.

  • Business Developer at Dojoko
    Jan 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Dojoko is the first AI-powered Global Student Platform for universities that empowers students & young professionals to connect, collaborate and discover learning, mentorship, student housing & career opportunities based on their interests. Dojoko was built to inspire the youth of today, who will become the leaders of tomorrow.

  • Program Director, Volunteer at SAGE Netherlands
    Jun 2020 - Apr 2021 · 11 mos

    SAGE Global empowers teenage entrepreneurs to create businesses that address critical social challenges. For over 20 years, we’ve fostered innovation and leadership in teens across 30+ countries, building a global network dedicated to making real change.

  • Recruitment Marketing Intern at Signify
    Jan 2020 - Jul 2020 · 7 mos

    Responsible for Big Data Analytics in the Global Talent Acquisition team at Signify, formerly called Philips Lighting.