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The Hidden Cost of Bad Meetings: Why Leaders Lose More Than Time
Most teams spend more time in meetings than they realize — and even more time recovering from the unproductive ones. Before you fix your meeting culture, it helps to see what’s actually going wrong. And let’s be honest: every workplace has its own collection of meeting disasters.

Merve Kagitci Hokamp
Nov 24, 20257 min read


The Five Qualities High Achievers Share: Lessons From Coaching Hundreds of Leaders Across Cultures
Every week I sit with ambitious, talented, capable leaders who—on paper—look nothing alike. A founder in Berlin. A director in Dublin. A senior executive in Singapore. A first-time people manager in New York. Different industries. Different backgrounds. Different passports and parenting stories. And yet… the same patterns emerge. High achievers don’t share a personality. They don’t share a resume. They don’t even share a temperament. What they do share is the ability to o

Merve Kagitci Hokamp
Nov 10, 20255 min read


The Leadership Skill No One Teaches: How to Create Space for Strategic Thinking (When You're Drowning in Tactical Work)
A few months ago, a founder I coach said something I hear almost every week: "I feel like I'm juggling twenty balls, and none of them can drop." She runs a fast-growing startup. Her calendar is a wall of back-to-back meetings. She's managing a team, closing deals, mentoring, hiring, fundraising, fixing ops issues. If this sounds familiar to you, you are not alone. Whether you're a founder, an executive, or a people manager, the reality is the same: You're constantly pul

Merve Kagitci Hokamp
Oct 30, 20256 min read


Where to Find Great Talent
(And Why You Might Be Looking in the Wrong Places) Whether you're a founder building from the ground up or a corporate executive scaling...

Merve Kagitci Hokamp
Aug 4, 20254 min read


The Skills Shortage Is Real—Here’s How Smart Companies Are Responding
Many of the leaders I coach are facing the same challenge: their workforce isn’t keeping up with the pace of change. The skills that were...

Merve Kagitci Hokamp
Mar 16, 20255 min read
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