I offer private mentorship for design managers, senior managers, and directors who are ready to grow from leading ICs to leading leaders. I help you lead with clarity, confidence, and candor while growing your impact and staying connected to craft.
I’m a design leader with 18+ years of experience scaling global teams and coaching managers into leaders of leaders. These sessions give you space to sharpen your voice, expand your influence and build the systems that let teams thrive. My style is direct, honest and focused on real progress. You’ll get clear feedback, no fluff, practical tools and a path forward. And yes, there will be laughter along the way.
CONSIDER THESE SESSIONS IF:
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If you’re leading ICs and want to grow into leading other leaders. I’ll help you build the systems, confidence and clarity to scale your impact beyond individual work.
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If you are already leading but feel stuck. Too much noise, not enough clarity. I’ll help you reset your focus, expand your influence and lead with clear intention and more impact.
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Design curious. If you’re a PM, engineer, researcher or founder wanting to level up your product or design chops, I’ll help you get there without the buzzwords.
Mentorship Track
Weekly, Bi-Weekly or Monthly
This is a hands-on partnership. We start with a 60-minute call to map your goals, challenges and context. From there, I design a custom path that includes:
- Monthly or bi-weekly live sessions
- Structured feedback on leadership approach and team direction
- Tools, scripts, and frameworks for conflict, influence, and decision-making
- Portfolio and interview support (if needed)
- Weekly async check-ins
- Insights and tools tailored to scaling teams, managing managers and communicating with executives
Focused Session
One-Time Coaching for a Specific Topic
I offer single sessions focused on:
- Getting your portfolio in shape
- Prepping for a design or leadership interview
- Untangling a tricky team, org or stakeholder conversations
- Practicing salary and promotion negotiations
- Getting feedback on your resume, case study or roadmap
- Resetting priorities and saying no with business rationale
- Preparing for VP/Director-level interviews
ENDORSEMENTS
“Yaprak makes people shine.✨”
Direct report, Senior Design Manager, Fjord Berlin
“I love how welcoming you are to change and nothing ever seems to be too disruptive for you. I try to emulate a lot of that by observing you. Working with you makes me better.”
Director of Insights, Spotify
"Yaprak is one of the greatest managers I’ve had in my career so far. She fosters good Psychological Safety. She is proactive and delivers clear and actionable feedback. My professional development path is clear and inspiring, all thanks to Yaprak."
Direct report, Senior Designer, Spotify
“Not exaggerating here, anything can be possible when Yaprak is in the room.”
Senior Staff Designer, Spotify
“Yaprak is a phenomenal designer, and mentor. As a director she manages to be supportive and empathic while she leads and maintains an uncompromising sense of design quality. She has an uncanny ability to shield her team from organisational complexities and she'll work in the background to sort out project ambiguity, to give her reports the space needed to get the work done. ”