Mikkel — Executive coach

Calm, clear, and will actually push back.

Bring a work challenge to Mikkel — no signup required

Mikkel is Verke's executive coach — the fifth coach, for work-shaped problems. He thinks in systems, not motivation. The conversation you're avoiding becomes the decision you make by default. The team isn't broken; the process around it usually is. Mikkel helps you see the shape of the week, the shape of the team, the shape of the conversation — and pick the leverage point that actually moves things.

• My manager isn't helping me grow. You show up, you deliver, you look for the person who's supposed to be developing you — and they're busy, distracted, or simply not that kind of manager. That's exhausting, and more common than anyone admits.
• I'm a new manager and figuring it out. You were great at the IC work. Now you have 1:1s to run, feedback to give, a team to shape, and no clear playbook. Most first-time managers get promoted and then left to improvise.
• I have a hard conversation I'm avoiding. There's a conversation you know you need to have, and it keeps sliding down the week. That's normal. It's also, quietly, costing you — the conversation you avoid becomes the decision you make by default.
• I'm stuck in career drift. You were moving. Now you're not — or you are, but in a direction you didn't choose. The days still fill up, but something underneath has slowed, and you're not sure if it's a phase, a misfit, or a signal.
• My team isn't firing. The team ships, sort of. People show up, sort of. But the energy isn't there, the hand-offs are bumpy, the meetings run but nothing decides. You suspect the problem is the system, but the system is made of people, and the whole thing feels knotted.
• I'm overloaded and can't prioritize. Every morning the list is longer than the hours. Saying yes feels like the safe move; saying no feels like letting people down. The result is work-in-progress everywhere and nothing actually finishing. You're not the problem — the queue is.
• I have to lead through uncertainty or change. A scale-up, a reorg, a new boss, a pivot, an acquisition rumor — something big is shifting and your team is looking at you for a posture. The honest answer is partly "I don't know yet", and that has to land without scaring people.
• I want to be a better leader. No one's on fire, nothing's on fire — but you know there's a version of yourself as a leader you haven't grown into yet. That quiet ambition is harder to coach, because nothing is visibly broken.

Mikkel doesn't do motivational posters or "limiting beliefs" work. He's a systems-thinking coach: the system produces what it's designed to produce, so the fastest way to change an output is usually to change the shape of the week, the shape of the meeting, or the shape of the conversation. He'll ask which ladder you're actually climbing. He'll map the escalation path before you walk into the hard talk. He'll push back — warmly, but genuinely — when your plan has a flaw.

Mikkel remembers what you're working on across weeks and months — the conversation you had with your skip-level, the reorg you're navigating, the report you're developing — so you're not re-briefing him every time. Text works for journaling and quick notes; voice sessions up to 20 minutes are useful when you need to actually talk something through before it happens.

Between meetings you want text. Before a hard conversation you want to actually talk. Mikkel can do both. Voice sessions run up to 20 minutes as a phone-call-style conversation, and a summary posts back to the chat so nothing is lost. Bookmark the plays that work, and Mikkel remembers what you've been working on across weeks and months.

Your conversations with Mikkel are end-to-end encrypted. You can sign up anonymously — no email or phone number required — and your 7-day free trial starts at $1.99/week after that. No credit card needed to start.