- From billionaire Bill Gates to former Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg, the world’s top performers all have one thing in common: They invest in their own potential, says Bill Hoogterp, the Fortune 500 career coach who’s worked with both. He recalls Gates blocking off an entire week to read in a cabin. “More and more leaders are doing the same thing,” he exclusively tells Fortune—and the sooner Gen Z copies them, the better for their careers.
Bill Hoogterp has spent decades advising celebrities, CEOs, and rising stars inside some of America’s most powerful boardrooms. Through his coaching firm, LifeHikes, he’s helped more than 700,000 professionals level up their communication and leadership skills and personally worked one-on-one with “thousands” of executives, many of whom appear on Fortune’s lists of the most powerful people in business.
