MEET MEHMET YUKSEK
Strategic Growth Advisor ā€¢ Business Turnaround Expert
Transforming small and mid-market businesses from stagnation to sustainable growth through strategic planning and high-performing teams.
The Challenge You're Facing
Your business has plateaued or is underperforming. You need more than incremental improvements. You need a complete turnaround strategy or a clear path to significant growth. You're wrestling with market positioning, organizational design, and how to build a team that can execute ambitious goals while adapting to constant change.
Why Mehmet Gets It
Born in a small town in Turkey with dreams of becoming a productive world citizen, Mehmet worked his way up through leadership positions across global companies, learning business dynamics from Italy to North America. His defining moment came when he raised his hand to lead PVM North America, an organization with zero growth, no profitability, and low morale. He didn't just stabilize it, he doubled the business in six years while bringing operating profit from breakeven to double digits. This hands-on turnaround experience, combined with his global perspective and local execution expertise, gives him unique insight into what it takes to transform struggling businesses into thriving enterprises.
How He Guides You to Success
Strategic Growth Planning: Develops comprehensive growth or turnaround strategies with clear winning ambitions, ensuring alignment between market entry plans, commercial strategies, and operational capabilities.
Integrated Business Systems: Designs and implements business planning and review processes (S&OP, innovation planning, monthly operations reviews) that enable you to track performance, course-correct quickly, and pivot when needed.
Go-to-Market Excellence: Crafts positioning, product assortment, and channel selection strategies that optimize market launches and drive successful entry or expansion.
High-Performing Team Building: Implements organizational design and talent strategies that ensure the right people are in the right seats -strategically aligned, behaviorally compatible, and empowered to thrive.
Leadership Through Trust: Models the philosophy that leadership combines humility with confidence, fostering vigorous debate to tap collective wisdom while having the courage to make final calls and hold everyone accountable with "one team, one voice."
Real Impact
Mehmet led the complete transformation of PVM North America from a stagnant business with zero profitability to one that doubled in size over six years while achieving double-digit operating profits. He built growth platforms, secured European leadership alignment through strategic planning, assembled a cohesive team in the right roles, and created an inclusive culture focused on operational excellence. The turnaround included protecting the core business while launching sustained innovation, building brand awareness, and consistently delighting consumers. As an advisor, he's helped companies like Milliways achieve significant distribution and consumption gains in their first year entering the U.S. market. His approach balances global perspective with strong local focus, ensuring strategies resonate both broadly and within the specific communities they serve.
Work with Mehmet Through TMI
- Strategic Growth & Turnaround Planning
- Organizational Design & Team Building
- Leadership Development & Change Management
Beyond Work
Mehmet's curiosity, generosity, and empathy shape how he connects and collaborates with others. With strong family, friendship, and business ties across Turkey, Italy, and the U.S., he brings deep appreciation for diverse perspectives and authentic relationships. He believes meaningful leadership starts with understanding people and fostering trust across cultures and communities.
Professional Foundation
Current Role: Strategic Growth Advisor, Talent Magnet Institute
Leadership Experience:
- Led PVM North America through complete business turnaround
- Global leadership roles across multiple countries and industries
- Strategic advisor to small and mid-market businesses on growth, market entry, and organizational transformation
Unique Contribution: Mehmet was part of the early conversations that led to TMI's creation and values the team's genuine curiosity and unwavering care in every client engagement.
Ready to transform your business from stagnation to sustainable growth? Connect with Mehmet through Talent Magnet Institute.
