Gergo Barandi

I am not more than any other human being, but my life has absolutely no business being conventional.

I am a strategist and an operator, a world traveller and explorer by heart, a friend and a loving partner, an athlete and a lifelong football fan, a reader and a writer, a foodie and a great cook.

Gergo Barandi

My professional experiences

I’ve worked across international corporations, industries and independent ventures, taking on challenges that rarely came with a ready-made playbook.

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Gergo Barandi, portrait

About me

I’ve never been particularly good at following a predefined path. I’ve hit rock bottom, started over, and learned that life rarely goes according to plan and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

I’m a big believer in staying curious and treating people right. Outside work, you find me travelling somewhere unfamiliar, at the gym, watching a Manchester United game, cooking something or abusing coffee. I’ve travelled across Europe, Latin-America, Asia, Africa and the Middle-East, been held at gunpoint, hitchhiked across countries, climbed volcanoes and met beautiful people along the way. I also enjoy my small circle, a good night out, long dinners and doing absolutely nothing when I feel like it. There’s more to life than work, after all.

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“I take my responsibilities seriously, myself considerably less so.”

Me, probably every day

My observations about life

A collection of thoughts, experiences and observations from different corners of life, from professional lessons to the world beyond business.

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Professional philosophy

I ask questions, figure things out, then I make them work. I’ve built businesses and systems, solved problems in industries I barely knew, led teams I’ve never met in person and learned things I had no business knowing how to do. I don’t need to be an expert before I get started, I only need to understand the problem, find the right tools, and learn whatever it takes to get the job done. Yes, sometimes this means figuring out a business I knew nothing about a week earlier. I strongly believe resourcefulness beats credentials when it comes to getting things done and learning fast matters more than pretending to know everything.

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Gergo Barandi at work

My most recent articles

Football is life

A cold and rainy FA Cup night at Old Trafford, a teenager standing on the terraces in Székesfehérvár, four World Cup games in Mexico and a wardrobe full of jerseys from Mandalay to Guadalajara. Four things that connect a lifetime of following the beautiful game and a reminder that loyalty and belonging matter more than the result.

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Aesthetic clinic marketing technology: fixing lead quality

The clinic’s ads looked healthy: cheap leads, steady conversions, glowing reports. But the cheapest conversion was always the low-ticket one. We audited the whole digital setup, separated acquisition by treatment type, rebuilt tracking around business value and automated booking, so surgical consultations finally had a path from ad to calendar.

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Aesthetic clinic business development: high-ticket growth

An Emirates aesthetic clinic had the surgeons and equipment for high-value procedures, but their calendar was full of lip fillers and botox. Over two years we changed consultations, incentives, calendar rules and sales ownership. High-ticket appointments rose from 13% to 38%, and revenue per appointment from AED 4,500 to AED 10,400.

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If you want to be understood, adapt

It does not matter if I’m trying to order dinner in South America or explain a digital advertising campaign to a regulatory colleague. If I want someone to understand me, I have to make an effort to communicate in a way they can understand.

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I’m getting super tired of “entrepreneurs” lately

I’ve worked with enough entrepreneurs, self-proclaimed visionaries and business geniuses to develop a rather serious allergy to entrepreneurial theatre. Between AI evangelists, LinkedIn philosophers and founders in love with their own ideas, I’ve started wondering when actually running a business became less important than looking like you’re running one.

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