Ugur-Mikail “Mik” Catmak is an award-winning High Performer by major global corporations such as Amazon Web Services, Bosch, Evonik and ThyssenKrupp. Mik has mentored 50+ and interviewed 120+ high potentials to become high performers in various industries to grow their careers and incomes well into six figure salaries. Simultaneously, Mik grew his own salary to 400k€/a+ and accumulated a networth of 4.2M€ in less than seven professional years, making him one of the fastest professionals to become financially independent.

Mik’s passion for personal development and coaching began early in his life, when he tutored highschoolers already at the age of 16, where he grew his own tutoring academy to 80+ pupils. Mik himself has been incredibly fortunate to have been mentored by some amazing individuals, who taught him a powerful lesson: what you give comes back to you. Watching these mentors live happy, balanced lives inspired him to do the same—to give back to those who are striving for more. Mik’s passionate about helping people who feel underprivileged, come from challenging educational backgrounds, or are simply struggling to find their path. His mission is to equip them with the tools to create a better career, more financial stability, and ultimately, a more fulfilled life. While his goal is to impact 1 million people over his lifetime, what drives him is seeing the ripple effect. He’s already had the privilege of mentoring many individuals who, in turn, are helping others do the same. This “pay-it-forward” approach is what keeps him going—and it’s the heart of his coaching practice.

Founding the LHP Academy was a result of his father’s severe heart attack in 2021, who was a great dad but toxic high performer himself. Mik knew if he was not going to change the toxic work ethic traits he learned from his father, he would end up at the same final stop - a heart attack. So he cultivated lean strategies to cope with the mental and physical load that high performance brings and shared his learnings and results with his small followership. The demand to turn his Lean High Performance Principles into an Academy was rather a pull from his followers and friends. Fast forward, after coaching a couple dozen new High Performers across various industries from tech (Amazon, Google), hospitality (5 star Hotel Group), automotive (Tesla), quick commerce (Getir) and engineering services, the LHP Academy is a fast growing in demand personal development framework helping ambitious professionals to take full control of their lives, career and finances, returning all the power back to its “Rockets”. All alumni have rated the LHP Academy with a perfect customer satisfaction score (CSAT) of 10/10 and have provenly progressed their career and finances e.g. as far as growing their salary from 60k€/a to $380k/a.