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Yasemin
Bradley
Medical Doctor, Nutrition Consultant
Biography
Yasemin Bradley is a Turkish female physician specialized as nutritionist and dietitian. She is also a television presenter and writer.
Born as Yasemin Özdemir, she graduated from the Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir studying medicine. She worked a long time as a prime-time news presenter at the television channel Kanal D. She moved to England and settled there when she was touched much from the destruction of the 1999 İzmit earthquake. In London, she was trained in media production management at the BBC Turkish. She married to psychotherapist Anthony Bradley, who inspired her in healthy lifestyle. Upon her spouse’s advice, she received education in nutrition and dieting at the alternative therapy school ITEC in London.
Özdemir Bradley translated two books of the renowned American television and radio host Larry King (1929–2012) into Turkish under the title Kiminle Ne Zaman, Nerede, Ne Zaman, Nasıl Konuşmalı (1996), II. Dünya Savaşı Aşk Öyküleri (2002) She authored with her spouse diet food books Gelecek Yiyeceklerde (“The Future is in Food”) in 2002, and Bradley Mutfağı (“Bradley’s Cuisine”) in 2004. She edited the memoirs of a military officer and published it in 2002 under the title Parola: Harbiyeli Aldanmaz (“Password: Cadet does not get taken in”). In 2009, she published a series of three books on child development titled Cemile Doğru Beslenmeyi Öğreniyor (“Cemile Learns How to Eat Healthily”), Cemile Sağlıklı Yaşamayı Öğreniyor (“Cemile Learns How to Live Healthily”), and Cemile Boyu Uzasın İstiyor (“Cemile Wishes To Grow Tall”).
In 2012, she started a television program titled Dr. Yasemin Bradley ile Reçetesiz Hayat’ (“Life Without Prescription by Dr. Yasemin Bradley”) at the channel TRT Haber aired Thursday nights at 21:05 local time.
She was honored with the “Best Female TV News Presenter 1996” award by the “Tabloid Journalists Association” (Turkish: Magazin Gazetecileri Derneği).
Celal
Seçkin
Management Consultant, EFQM Trainer and EFQM Assessor
Biography
Celal Seçkin is a graduate of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He worked as an engineer and manager in PTT ARLA (TELETAŞ) and Siemens for 17 years.
He has undergone a variety of business excellence, management and leadership training programmes and has attended many national and international symposia, congresses and forums in the field of quality and organisational excellence as speaker, moderator and organiser
He worked at Turkish Society for Quality (KalDer) in 1998-2000, as Manager of the National Quality Awards Program and four years at the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) in Oct 2000-Dec 2004, as Manager of the European Quality Awards Program (now known as EFQM Excellence Award) and worked as part of the development team for the EFQM recognition scheme “EFQM Levels of Excellence”, revision of EFQM Model and development of EFQM training programs.
As a qualified EFQM Excellence Assessment Team leader, he has participated and led numerous organisational excellence assessments both in public and private sectors in many countries. As a member of the EFQM Faculty, he has trained many hundreds of assessors in many countries.
Celal Seçkin is founder of Seçkin Consulting and Training Co. Ltd, a Turkey-based company in management consultancy covering organisational performance management, internal/external assessments, leadership, change management, strategic planning, process management, continuous improvement and teamwork.
He took part as an instructor in Professional certification programs jointly organised by KalDer and Bosphorus, Sabancı and Okan Universities.
He is highly motivated for continuous learning and passionate for working in multi-cultural environments and believes that the EFQM Excellence Approach is one of the key aspects that will contribute to a better future for human being.
Speech Topics
Stories of (Un)success in Corporate Excellence
What are similar about well-managed institutions? What are the barriers or facilitator en route to corporate excellence?
Sustainability, leadership and adaptation to change in corporate excellence.
Sharing of experience on corporate excellence.
Corporate Mirror: Self-evaluation; but how?
Why self-evaluation? How to ensure objectivity, fairness and clarity in self-evaluation? What are the strengths and areas of improvement available for determination by self-evaluation? How to benefit from the results of self-evaluation? What are the basic elements in designing the improvement process?
Diving Power Behind the Process of Change of Institutions: Leadership
What is the impact of leadership in corporate management, change processes and success? How to evaluate the relations between corporate culture, values & ethical perspective and leadership? What are the basic features of a successful leader’s profile? How to meet the expectations of the stakeholders and manage the relations as a leader?
How To Act at Inevitable Junctions: Change Management
The feeling of the need for change. Resistance and adaptation to change.
The role of leaders and leadership in the process of change. Corporate culture, values and change.
Management of change process. Role of stakeholders in change management.
That’s Life, But It’s Not Inevitable: Innovation
Why innovation? A need? A luxury? A requirement? A trend? A hobby? Making a difference? How? Relations with corporate culture and management approach. Examples of failure in innovation… Barriers, facilitators. Sustainability in innovation.
Let’s Work, Search, Understand and Solve Together: Moderation, Workshops, Management and Design of Search Conferences
Workshops on certain areas of focus for performance improvement and a better and more effective management approach?
Strategic planning.
Process management.
Employee satisfaction.
Customer satisfaction.
Social responsibility.
Change management.
Sustainability.
Ethics, corporate culture, values etc.
Can Fuat
Gürlesel
Strategist, Chairman of Strategic Research Institute
Biography
“The search for a multilateral world is taking place against the background of the global crisis and the threat of chaos, whilst discussions about the end of history and the clash of civilisations are still ongoing. Welcome to a new century.”
Global power shifts and the search for a multilateral balance
After the end of the Cold War, the USA sought to implement unilateral foreign policies appropriate to the unipolar world. However, attempts to establish a new and consistent global balance in terms of policy, military and economy have not been successful. Over the last years, substantial losses and shifts in global power have occurred alongside the substantial effects of the global economic crisis. The uncertainty as to what kind of a balance this loss of power would result in means that chaos theories are of great use. According to Dr. Gürlesel, at the moment the USA is trying to avoid adopting multilateral policies based on realism and to establish a new multilateral balance by undertaking a leading role. Global and regional actors in the multilateral balance, its institutional structure, its rules and, above all, its centre of gravity, in other words its geopolitical area, will take become clearer in the coming era. Dr. Gürlesel says that Turkey will also be affected by the multilateral balance of the new era and Turkey may, for the first time, become a regional actor in the establishment of the new balance. However, it will only be possible to draw on Turkey’s potential as a regional actor by creating a healthy balance between idealism and realism.
Who is Dr. Can Fuat Gürlesel?
As the founder and director of Economy and Strategy Consultancy Services, he has, since 1991, been providing economic and sectoral consultancy and research services to financial sector institutions, business organisations, local governments, and public and foreign institutions.
He is the founding chairman of the Strategic Research Institute where he has worked since 2003. The institute carries out strategic research. He has written many books, articles, reports and similar works.
Speech Topics
• The global economic crisis and its aftermath
• The global power shift and the search for a multilateral balance
• Geopolitical options for the new power balance
• Turkey’s new multilateral foreign policy and its possible consequences
• The institutional, social and political changes in Turkey and their consequences
Yılmaz
Argüden
Chairman, ARGE Consulting
Biography
“In order to make corporate change happen, there should be role models at every level of the organisation united around the same goal.”
The anatomy of change
Yılmaz Argüden is a successful name, well-known to the Turkish and foreign business world. The man behind a number of projects that are now used as models world-wide, Dr. Argüden continues to carry out effective projects in international organisations and establishments. He is an executive who has attracted a lot of attention for his volunteer activities and social responsibility initiatives, in addition to his professional work. He believes that progress is impossible without focusing on change and without desiring to renew that which exists. “To make corporate change happen, first the corporation should be persuaded of the necessity and urgency of the change. An effective way to do that is to ensure that performance is compared against external best examples rather than internally. In other words, it is to make benchmarking part of the corporate culture.” According to him, for change to happen, first an impressive vision needs to be manifested, which he describes as “a fantasy that portrays an attractive dream about the future which is target-oriented so as to provide guidance for decisions, but flexible enough to encourage initiative-taking. It must also be easily to explain and realistic enough to create excitement in those subject to the change.”
Who is Yılmaz Argüden?
Serving as the chairman of ARGE Consulting and Rothschild in Turkey, one of the leading investment banks in the world, Dr. Argüden was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum for his commitment to improving the state of the world. His has a wealth of experience in a broad range of areas, from the private to the public sector, as well as in international organisations, NGOs and academia. Holding seats on the boards of directors of various organisations, Dr. Argüden also shares his experience by teaching a strategy class on Bosphorus University’s and Koç University’s MBA programs, as well as through his books and newspaper columns.
Speech Topics
• Strategy
• Institution Building
• Change Management
• Board of Directors
• Governance
• Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Management
• Shaping the Future
James
Dorsey
Journalist, Researcher
Biography
Well-known journalist James Dorsey is a renowned Middle East specialist. Reporting on current affairs from Turkey for many years, Dorsey’s journalism career keeps going from strength to strength.
A well-known journalist in the Middle East, Dorsey writes for Hurriyet Daily News, The Huffington Post and The Daily Independent. Dorsey is a Western Asia senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. He is currently working on a book that will share the title of his widely acclaimed and quoted blog “The Turbulent World of Middle Eastern Soccer.” Dorsey also sits on the executive board of the “Institute of Fan Culture” at Wuerzburg University.
As a prolific journalist, James Dorsey has become one of the most well-known writers in the Middle East. Dorsey has also been complementing his career in journalism with other roles for a while now. He writes an influential blog, where he looks at the Middle East’s soccer industry. He was the mentor to Klaus Schwab when he was the executive chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Summits of the World Economic Forum, held in Casablanca, Amman and Cairo between 1995 and 2004. He provided media training sessions for senior managers and important figures, including Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Minister of Foreign Trade and his senior staff, as well as teams working for the World Water Forum and the World Bank Institute. He has conducted seminars in many countries, including Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, South Africa, Ethiopia, Mali, Kenya, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, France, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru and Argentina. In September 2011, he was the moderator at the Singapore International Community Engagement Conference and in September 2012 he gave the opening speech at the 20th EU Conference on Sports Management, held in Aalborg, Denmark.
Who is James Dorsey?
James Dorsey studied economics at Amsterdam University and Tropical Agriculture at Wageningen Agriculture University. His 40-year career in journalism and consulting has taken him all around the world. Between 1983 and 1987, he worked for United Press International as the bureau chief in Athens, Ankara and Jerusalem and the senior correspondent in the Middle East and London offices. Between 1987 and 1991, he worked as a Washington-based diplomatic and national security affairs correspondent for Washington Times. Between 1993 and 2003, he worked for The Wall Street Journal as the senior correspondent for the Middle East, Central Asia and the Balkans, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Riyadh. Dorsey lived in Istanbul for a long time during this period and he reported on current affairs from Istanbul. Dorsey speaks English, German, Spanish and Dutch fluently, and has a theoretical knowledge of Arabic, Turkish, French and Hebrew grammar.
Speech Topics
• Life in the Middle East, Turkey – Middle East Relations
• “Fan Club” management in politics and sports
• Security – soldier – civilian relations
• Political and economic analysis
• Sports and the economy of sports
• Relations between sports and politics
• Sexism in sports
• International politics and relations
• Macro interpretation of mass movements
• The Olympics, F1 – “mega events” and their effect on countries
• Media relations
Itır
Erhart
Istanbul Bilgi University Academic, Social Entrepreneur
Biography
Istanbul Bilgi University Academic, Social Entrepreneur, Marathon Runner
Itır Erhart started charity-runs when she saw a slogan on a Chicago bus stop in 2004: “Difficult to run? Try chemotherapy!” She ran eight marathons and 20 half-marathons to raise funds and create awareness on behalf of NGOs. She is among the founders of Step by Step, Turkey’s first charity-run initiative. Erhart gives stimulating speeches on the effects of creating corporate teams and running for NGOs on corporate communications, sense of belonging and motivation and shares the ways to organize such events and their media echoes with her audience. Erhart focuses on the significance of acting as a team and speaks on ways to raise funds and create awareness through sports.
Step by Step reaches 12 thousand members!
Step by Step, with its 12 thousand members as of 2016, continues to mobilize individuals for social issues through endurance sports and encourages NGOs to be more transparent and accountable. Individual and corporate runners of Step by Step raise funds for their selected NGOs through sports. This model, globally known as “charity run”, is implemented in Turkey for the first time by Step by Step. Step by Step runners raised TL 11 million 700 thousand from 90,000 donators and touched the lives of 60 thousand people since 2007. Using the system, each runner sends messages to 200 people to explain his or her cause. This helps raising funds and create awareness.
Itır Erhart was listed for the “Making a Difference” program in 2009 for her works in civil society issues and granted with the Ten Outstanding Young Persons jury’s special award in 2010. In 2014, she was named as an Ashoka Fellow.
Erhart gives lectures on social gender, human rights, sports and media at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Communication and runs workshops “How To Create Social Benefits” and “How To Improve Self-confidence” at The School of Life Istanbul.
Who is Itır Erhart?
Itır Erhart was born in 1975. She was graduated from Işık School. She majored in English Language & Literature and Philosophy at Boğaziçi University. She graduated from the same school with an M.A. degree in Philosophy and continued at Cambridge University’s Philosophy program. She was graduated with an M.Phil. degree and started teaching at Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2006, she was graduated from Boğaziçi University’s Philosophy Department with a Ph. D. degree. In 2015, she became an associate professor.
Speech Topics
– Raising funds through sports
– Creating awareness through sports
– Making a difference Step by Step
– Sports as a connective initiative
– Making a team
– Social Gender 101
– Do women know about offside? (Sports & Social Gender)
– Civil Society & Accountability
Özhan
Atalay
Management Consultant
Biography
Özhan Atalay helps companies save their future and he is an expert on issues of loss and high costs. Atalay, ex-general manager of Century 21 Turkey, makes presentations and provides consultancy services on niche areas including sales rules, psychology of human behavior and leadership. He has a book named Guide to Failure for Managers and teaches people how to make a difference in competition for business success.
Atalay played a role in reorganization of many companies and helped them in reaching the right information, detecting mistakes, developing practical solutions, taking action and getting results. Atalay makes brilliant speeches to professionals seeking constructive solutions in the business world and he is recognized as an expert in increasing efficiency, profitable growth, recovering companies, reducing costs, institutionalization, course change, making companies profitable, organization and change of strategy.
Atalay started his career at STFA İnşaat A.Ş. and went to England for language training after his military service. He came back to Turkey and joined the team involved in opening Swissotel Istanbul. He founded Skor Management Consultancy and provided services on installation of IT/ERP systems, increasing efficiency, financial consultancy and international tax planning. With his English partners, he adapted the global EPR system Omicron Financials to Turkey under the name Skor Financials, provided sales and maintenance services and sold the company four years later to continue his career in other fields of expertise.
Who is Özhan Atalay?
Özhan Atalay, born in Istanbul, was graduated from the Business Administration of Istanbul University. Atalay serves as CFO at Teknoloji Holding, Assistant General Manager at Schindler Asansör AŞ, General Manager at Premdor Masonite Kapı Sanayi AŞ, Assistant General Manager at Muratlı Karton A.Ş. and General Manager at Vega Services Inc.
He is an expert on companies which fail to make profit although there is no problem with the business model as well as those which want to increase profits. Atalay serves as Independent Professional Board Member as per the new TCC and CMB. He is married and a father of two.
Speech Topics
– How to prevent drivers of loss for companies?
– Cost reduction, profit increase, market share growth, profitable growth for profitable companies
– Institutionalization, standardization
– Increasing efficiency, reducing costs
– Saving a company
Akan
Abdula
Brand Consultant, Digital Strategist
Biography
Marketing professional with more than 17 years of work experience in advertising, marketing strategies, brand management and market research.
Founder of FutureBright Group of Companies (Istanbul&Dubai): FutureBright Research, Behavior Institute, ZMET Institute, House of Impact & Pure Input .
FutureBright Group of companies serve more than 400 global&local brands.
Outside of work he is often quoted by the media, speaks at several conferences a year and writes for marketing periodicals.
He joined Bilgi University, where he is currently instructing on Consumer Psychology and Behaviour to graduate students.
His strategic thinking was covered by many world known periodicals and newspapers, among which UK’s Famous Daily Telegraph.
He is a multiple Golden Effie receiver.
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