Meltem Sancar-Akal believes that leadership is the most powerful lever for lasting impact, and that effective leaders not only shape business performance but also influence the culture and lives of the people around them. A seasoned senior leadership development consultant and executive coach, she partners with clients to assess and develop senior leaders, design and enable effective top teams and support organizations in navigating transformation.
As a member of Spencer Stuart’s Leadership Advisory Services in Dubai, Meltem offers executive assessments, leadership coaching, team effectiveness programs and advising on succession planning in the pharmaceuticals, financial services, consumer goods and industrial sectors. She helps leaders move from reflection to transformation, unlocking clarity, trust and effectiveness that extend well beyond the individual, and clients value her ability to balance ethical clarity with commercial pragmatism. She is highly skilled at bridging cultural perspectives, with a deep understanding of leadership dynamics, and is widely known as warm, curious and connecting by nature, pushing leaders to reflect and drive lasting personal, team and enterprise change.
Trusted adviser helping leaders and teams thrive through clarity, confidence and transformation
- Meltem has two decades of international experience creating transformational programs for Fortune 500 and multinational clients across the Middle East and Europe.
- At her own boutique firm, founded in 2012, Meltem led strategic talent development and executive coaching for Fortune 500 companies and multinationals across EMEA — spearheading program creation, delivery, client partnerships and business growth.
- Throughout her career, Meltem has developed and nurtured C-suite partnerships, cultivated enterprise-wide program scaling and led award-winning initiatives driving business impact for her client organizations.
Meltem holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bosphorus University in Istanbul. She is an ICF-certified practitioner and speaks fluent English and Turkish.