Press & Media: Hugo Christiansen
Last updated: October 24, 2026
Short bio (25 words)
Hugo Christiansen, founder of Ascension Consulting, does subconscious identity work with established founders, combining hypnosis, shadow work and business consultancy to remove what caps their growth.
Medium bio (60 words)
Hugo Christiansen, founder of Ascension Consulting, works with established founders past $100K per month who have hit a ceiling their strategy cannot explain. He combines hypnosis, shadow work and direct business consultancy to change the identity a founder operates from, not just the tactics they run. He works 1-on-1 with clients across the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, Dubai and Singapore.
Long bio (150 words)
Hugo Christiansen is the founder of Ascension Consulting, a consultancy for established founders past $100K per month.
He arrived at this work the long way. He began coaching founders in 2020, first on mindset, then on business, and kept running into the same pattern: the strategy was sound, the team was capable, and still the founder hit a wall they could not think their way past. The block was never in the business. It was in who they were being while running it. In 2025 he moved the work to the level where that block actually sits: the subconscious identity.
His approach sits between the scientist and the mystic. Neuroscience, psychology and neurobiology on one side; metaphysics and consciousness research on the other, both aimed at the same question: what is this person's self-image allowing them to do, and what is it quietly forbidding? He does not treat the two as rivals, and says the hypnosis came last, arrived at through both. He has studied neuroscience and psychology since 2020, and holds a double master's in International Business and in Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation, which is why the business half of the work is not an afterthought. The subconscious work is paired with direct business consultancy, because an identity shift that changes nothing in the company is not a shift.
He works 1-on-1, by application only, with founders across the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, Dubai and Singapore.
Fast facts
- Name
- Hugo Christiansen
- Role
- Founder, Ascension Consulting
- Method
- Hypnosis (theta-state identity reprogramming), shadow work, business consultancy
- Clients
- Established founders past $100K per month
- Track record
- Hundreds of founders coached since 2020 across mindset and business programs; now a small number of 1-on-1 subconscious identity clients, by application
- Format
- 1-on-1, remote by default; in-person and mastermind formats for higher-tier engagements; by application
- Clients based in
- United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, Dubai, Singapore
- Website
- https://www.hugochristiansen.com
- YouTube
- https://www.youtube.com/@hugochristiansen
- https://www.instagram.com/iamhugochristiansen/
- Background
- Coaching founders since 2020: mindset, then business, then subconscious identity work. Double master's in International Business and in Entrepreneurship, Creativity & Innovation
- Areas of study
- Neuroscience, psychology and neurobiology; metaphysics and consciousness research, including near-death and out-of-body experience literature
The lane between the scientist and the mystic
Hugo Christiansen works across two bodies of knowledge most practitioners keep apart. On one side: neuroscience, psychology, neurobiology. On the other: metaphysics and consciousness research, including the near-death and out-of-body experience literature. He moves between them deliberately, because the mechanism he works with shows up in both, and because founders who care about impact, not just margin, tend to want the whole picture rather than half of it.
Topics Hugo speaks about
- Why capable founders stall at a revenue ceiling their strategy cannot explain
- Hypnosis as a business tool: what the theta state actually changes, and what it does not
- Shadow work for operators: treating the avoided conversation as a growth metric
- Identity versus mindset: why reframing beliefs stops working above a certain level
- Measuring inner work: what to track when the change does not show on a dashboard
- Where neuroscience meets consciousness research, and why founders move faster when both are on the table
Media contact
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