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Bahar
Saygılı
Triathlon Athlete, Academician, Consultant
Biography
Bahar Saygılı is an accomplished national triathlete. She competed in Ironman 70.3 in Las Vegas in 2012 and Mont-Tremblant – Canada in 2014. She is also a volunteer ambassador of triathlon in Turkey. Bahar Saygılı shares her experience in sports with a TV audience with her shows. Saygılı hosts and produces her show and gives speeches to special audiences and at various events. Saygılı shares her experience and knowledge on motivation, nutrition and sports and makes an example of the positive effects of sports on life with her never-ending energy. She is interested in diving, underwater hockey and equestrian… She has a wide palate of other interests including gastronomy, trekking and travelling. She enjoys life with many small details on earth.
Saygılı is a Level 1 Triathlon Coach and trains young triathletes. She benefits from her education in sports publishing and marketing and makes a difference in a number of sectors. Bahar Saygılı is a versatile athlete in triathlon as well as a versatile person in her business and personal life. She was granted with ITU (International Triathlon Union) Level 1 Coaching Certificate in 2012 and served as host, translator and consultant at various events. She produced and hosted “Hyperactive” on World Travel Channel from 2011 to 2012 and “Adrenaline” sports show on TRT OKUL from 2012 to 2013. Saygılı gave a speech at Tedxİstanbul with the main theme of ”momentum” in 2014 and explained marathon runners how their nutrition should be before 2014 Istanbul Marathon.
Saygılı was named as “Athlete of the Year” by Bakırköy Municipal Administration in 2004 and “Athlete of the Year” in women’s category in the next year at Anadolu Bil School Communication Awards. Saygılı represented Turkey at the national level for ten years at international events from 2006 to 2016 and was a part of Turkish Women’s Junior Finswimming National Team from 2001 to 2004. Achievements of Saygılı include the second place at , 2016 Ironman Africa Cup, first place at the national leg of 2015 Istanbul Triathlon, first place at women’s juniors category and sixth place at the open category at Abu Dhabi Triathlon in 2012 and third place at women’s juniors category at 2010 Alanya Triathlon European Final Cup.
She was the first Turkish national to represent Turkey at Hawaii Kona World Cup in 2016.
Who is she?
Bahar Saygılı was born in Istanbul on March 21, 1986. She was graduated from Istanbul Atatürk Anadolu High School in 2005. In the same year, she came first in the skill test and accepted by Marmara University’s Physical Training Department. She attended lectures at University of Athens in 2006 and 2007 through the Erasmus Student Exchange Program. In 2009, she was graduated from the university. Saygılı continued her academic career in parallel with her career in sports and had her master’s degree from Marmara University’s Health Sciences Institute in Training Sciences in 2015. In 2015, Bahar Saygılı was named as “Turkey’s Fastest” by Pepsico/Turkish Athletics Federation. She has been an academician at Marmara University’s School of Physical Education and Sports and giving lectures on triathlon since 2012.
Speech Topics
Motivation
– Benefits of sports in life, reflections of physical and emotional stability in business life.
– How chasing your interests and passion helps you with your achievements.
Nutrition and Sports
– How should the diet of athletes be? What are the key factors?
– Physical effects of sports and healthy nourishment
Murat
Özbilen
Management Consultant, Chairman of the Board, Güvercin Communication Services
Biography
“The key to management is the identification of the skills and competencies required to manage the business as it is and to create corporate mechanisms that will guarantee adequate representation of interests in the management structure.”
Managing family businesses
Murat Özbilen has extensive experience in project management, spanning a career of more than 20 years. He holds the Institute of Industrial Engineer’s Mitchell Fein-Outstanding Leadership and Profession Award, and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honour Society’s Junior Researcher Award. He is currently a faculty member at Rotterdam University in the Netherlands and SRBII in Belgium. Özbilen possesses extensive experience particularly in operational improvement, auditing, the development and integration of organisational and technological systems, hand-over planning in family businesses, and strategic management projects. Özbilen has in-depth experience of the management of family businesses. According to him, unless entrepreneurs are able to convert their entrepreneurial spirit into management skills once companies are set up and a place in the market is established, their presence starts to hurt the management, which to begin with would have been a major contributor to the business. Then arises the question of whether to hand over the job to professionals. However, this does not mean a complete withdrawal on the part of the family from the management. “Family businesses are very dynamic when they are set up. The boss is, at the same time, also the manager. They fully communicate all their value judgments and opinions about the business. Once a company like this becomes established in the market, it must transform the impact of its entrepreneurial spirit into the ability to manage.”
Who is Murat Özbilen?
Murat Özbilen graduated from the Polytechnic University, New York with a BS in industrial engineering and an MS in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He continued his graduate studies in the US, the Netherlands and the UK in the fields of operational auditing, IT/IS and logistic strategy. A partner with BMC (Business Management Consultants), Özbilen is the company’s director for the Middle East, Africa and the Turkic Republics. He has held consultancy and senior executive positions at Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen, ARGE Danısmanlık and IBM Consulting Group.
Speech Topics
• Changing generations in family businesses
• Change management
• Performing in a multi-cultural environment
Dennis
Redmont
Journalist, Former Chief of the Rome Bureau, Associated Press
Biography
The famous journalist, Dennis Redmont’s, formula for good journalism is as follows: “be the first to reach the news, but get the right news. Write as fast as you can. Observe the highest ethical values and always give topmost priority to your credibility. Have a grip on developments in multimedia.”
Media changes, journalism stays the same
Dennis Redmont is a communications acrobat and a media wizard. He started his career as a correspondent and advanced to the senior management at the Associated Press (AP). He is also a professional who has served as senior executive in many private and publicly held companies in Europe and the USA. He is an experienced reporter and newscaster. He is a communications professional who has reported from over 80 countries during his career. He covered, photographed and reported on a wide variety of political and economic events ranging from dictatorships in Latin America to guerrilla warfare, and from the crises in the Middle East to the Papal elections.
Redmont says that the techniques of journalism have changed but not its essence. Though he says that advertisers and investors, basically the “business-management” side of journalism, have more influence now, for him, the struggle remains unchanged. He thinks that the principles of journalism have not changed since he graduated from college: “be the first to reach the news, but get the right news. Write as fast as you can. Observe the highest ethical values and always give topmost priority to your credibility. Have a grip on developments in multimedia.”
Redmont is an important witness to the evolution that the media have undergone. He closely monitors developments in Europe and the USA, and talks about all forms of media from individual journalism to social networks, and from news sharing to smartphones. He discusses topics such as the power of new media and their human impact, the personalisation of media, and inadequate control and ethics. Redmont also moderates panels and conferences on communication and media. He also offers media relations training in five languages. After quitting active journalism, Redmont has worked as a communications consultant for international corporations. As a university lecturer on media, Redmont splits his time between Italy and Turkey.
Who is Dennis Redmont?
He joined the Associated Press (AP) in New York and became the agency’s youngest correspondent in Lisbon in 1965. He reported from over 80 countries before working as a Rome-based executive for the AP covering the Mediterranean area. In 2000, he helped found a new Italian news agency, APBiscom.com. He served for four years as president of Italy’s Foreign Press Association, Stampa Estera. He teaches at the RAI Graduate School of Journalism in Perugia and at Sole 24 Ore Business School in Rome and Milan. He works as a consultant to international communication companies and also offers communications consulting to a large number of international companies.
Speech Topics
• New trends in media
• Presentation skills and communicating medical and scientific data
• Facing the TV camera: do’s and don’ts
• Mediterranean political and social trends
• Media conglomerates and new forms of global infotainment
Yaprak
Özer
Journalist-Writer, Founder, Indeks Content & Communications Consultancy
Biography
“Communication is an art that needs to be performed carefully. Communication that is destitute of high quality content has no chance of being successful. If the communication is not sustainable, it is useless as well as a loss. To achieve success in communication requires the “right content, right means, right media, right target group, right timing.”
Content makes the difference in communication
Journalist-author Yaprak Özer has had a number of different professions over her career. She has worked as a reporter, an editor, a director, a writer for newspapers and magazines, and as a TV producer and presenter. She has always positioned herself wisely with respect to changes in the media world. She founded her own business enterprise: İndeks Content Communication. The enterprise produces and manages content independent of the media.
Özer’s journalism career focused on macro-economic areas, such as management science, human resources, diplomacy and foreign news reporting. She was behind publications, such as “first” magazine-newspaper, and lent her support to Turkey’s first TV programme on “management science and human resources.” She has lectured, given speeches and published books in this field for many years.
Over the last years, Özer has intensified her activities and given more speeches on subjects related to communication and content management. She provides communication and content guidance on niche activities requiring deep expertise, such as investor relations and stakeholder communication. She also works on questions, such as, how to establish and manage communication based on developing and changing balances in the media, and what the correct media are for a given situation.
In addition to her work as a speaker within İndeks Speaker Agency, Özer works for national and international organisations as a moderator and gives media relations training sessions in English and in Turkish.
Özer regularly gives training sessions to the senior spokespersons of large corporation and provides communication consultancy services for top management. She is renowned as a communications professional with international accreditation and an impressive portfolio of previous customers.
You can access Yaprak Özer’s last articles and commentary at http://yaprakozer.com/.
Who is Yaprak Özer?
Yaprak Özer completed her undergraduate education at Istanbul University. She received her Master’s degree and completed her PhD studies at Bosphorus University. She worked as a professional journalist for The Tennessean and USA Today, with an International Success scholarship. She received her vocational education in England and Japan.
She participated in the launch of one of Turkey’s first management and HR publications. She wrote columns for Hürriyet, Sabah and Milliyet dailies. She prepared and hosted economy, management, education and HR programs for TRT 2, CNN Turk and Bloomberg HT. She founded Turkey’s first content communication and content management company İNDEKS, which is also Turkey’s first speaker agency with a national and international portfolio. She lectured at Bilgi University on e-MBA and undergraduate programs. Özer was named one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow in 2003 by the World Economic Forum.
Currently Dunya, Daily newspaper & blog writer for yaprakozer.com
Speech Topics
- Tablet to Tablet Communication
As communication needs diversified, communication methods improved. As our lives have improved and changed, so to have our expectations of communication and also our perspectives on communication begun to differ. We are used to seeing and living our lives in a specific way, so going beyond the ordinary is tough but inevitable. It is important to remember that none of the studies produced specially for an individual or a corporation can be entirely valid for any other.
• Content Production and Management
Until quite recently, we focused almost solely on communication. However, communication cannot happen without content. The world we live in today is a world of “networks.” We live in a world of communication, in which we ourselves are the nodes tying it together. Technically, we connect hundreds of people but mostly we can communicate as neither an individual nor a corporation. The reasons for this are diverse: content is the keystone of communication. Quality is the keystone of content. Unmanaged content cannot provide communication and without content there will not be communication.
• Media Relations Management
Media relations are one of the most valuable areas of activity for corporations. We believe that everything we say is news and journalists serve to blinker our view. Our imagination is limited by and to several national newspapers and TV channels. Generally, we are only interested in the message we ourselves convey. We do not see what we look at; we cannot convey the things we need to say. However, some of us do communicate well.
Success Stories
Yaprak Özer filled a significant void in the market with her Success Stories TV programme. We sometimes have difficulty supplying successful concepts and sometimes we exceed our aims. Success has a different meaning for everyone. It is money for some of us, career, or love, or health for others.
Success also has different meanings for different corporations! The corporate culture of the organisation affects its definition of success. Therefore, the definition of success differs for each corporation. It could be turnover, profit, social responsibility, new partnerships, or big projects, among others.
Yaprak Özer offers something different in her speeches. She reveals examples of “best practice” for corporate and individual success. She also asks incisive questions to help her audience reflect on how they are operating. You have come to the right place if you are looking to be guided by insightful questions, both for in-house and sector meetings, as well as for public announcements.
- Moderator
Most conferences or panels fail due to the participants not being able to communicate with each other. The success of a meeting in the eyes of the participants is based on them having either an entertaining or great learning experience. Conveying lots of information intelligibly in a limited time is generally only possible with a moderator. Thanks to her journalism and TV experience, Özer is an excellent moderator, working both in Turkish and English.
Webinar speech topics:
Business World and Communication
• Investor Relations – Communication
• Sustainability – Communication
• Social Responsibility – Communication
Communication and Media
• Content Management Analysis
• Communication Management and Lobbying
• Reputation Management
• Crisis Communication
• Corporate Communication
• New Trends in Communication: Electronic-Digital-Social Media
Tijen
Mergen
Power of Happiness Platform Founder, Board Member of Doğan Journalism
Biography
As a highly successful professional, Tijen Mergen has worked in top management in various positions. She has also stepped into the world of media, and broadened our horizons with unique projects she has held.
Tijen Mergen surprised everyone when she suddenly transferred to the media from her professional management career. She continued to astonish with her activities, teaching “old dogs new tricks,” with her creative projects. Since she had already strengthened her management success and skills with her genius approach to marketing, sales and business development, it was not difficult for her to make the step into the world of communications. She managed to make communication and marketing work together in harmony. She served as head of the marketing and business development group and as an executive board member at Doğan Journalism between 2004 and 2010. Tijen Mergen took a leading role in the management of the sales and marketing activities of the corporation’s newspapers, Milliyet, Vatan, Posta, Radikal and Fanatik, as well as in the development of online journalism.
At Doğan Journalism, she took a leading part in the development and management of all 12 of its websites. These websites not only provide journalism but also offer a number of services. They started making a profit very shortly after launching, sometimes in as little as two years. In addition to her operational activities, she was the mastermind and manager of the “Baba Beni Okula Gönder (Dad, Send Me to School)’’ campaign, which is regarded as the most successful social responsibility project of recent years in Turkey. Whilst continuing as head of the marketing group and as an executive board member for Hürriyet Journalism within Doğan Journalism, between 2010 and 2012 Mergen took a leading role in the launching of the newspaper, “Hürriyet Campus,” which is sold and read by the students of 47 universities. By putting her backing behind many projects, she has managed, in the gradually shrinking printed publication market, to improve the circulation of some of the newspapers she works for. She published a series of much-liked articles in Milliyet Cadde, in which she shared her experiences from her travels. In addition to her sales and marketing activities for Hürriyet Newspaper, she works on important social issues, such as promoting gender equality. She produced and presented the program “Bilgivizyon” on CNBC-e alongside her duties at Doğan Journalism between 2003 and 2004. Mergen has two sons aged 25 and 20.
Who is Tijen Mergen?
Tijen Mergen did a Master’s degree at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Bosphorus University. Beginning her career as a sales representative for Apple Computers in 1982, Mergen served as the sales director for NCR Turkey and held various senior management positions for NCR in Central and Eastern Europe for 13 years, working in 27 different countries between 1994 and 1998. Mergen then went on to work as the CEO of Bilkom Bilişim Hizmetleri Inc. and she was granted a public relations award by the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) for achieving awareness in 49 percent of the market through a project she developed called “iCan.” In 2000, Mergen also played an active role in the transfer of Bilkom Bilgisayar ve Eğitim Hizmetleri Inc. from Komili Holding to Koç Holding. She carried out this process very successfully and in the same year she won an award for “Professional Businesswoman of the Year” granted for the first time by Dünya Newspaper. Since 2003, she has served as executive board member and head of group for various Doğan Group corporations.
Speech Topics
Tjen Mergen advises her audiences on many subjects from entrepreneurship to media, social media and corporate social responsibility.
Entrepreneurship
• What is entrepreneurship?
• What is an entrepreneur? Does a culture of entrepreneurship exist?
• What features does being a good entrepreneur require? Are these taught?
• What does an entrepreneur need?
• Secrets to being a good entrepreneur
• What risks should be taken?
• What is the status of entrepreneurship in Turkey?
– What academic and public support is there?
– What opportunities for business incubators, mentorship, investor angels and venture capital are there?
– Entrepreneurship map of Turkey
The New Rules of Social Media and Marketing
• What is social media? Is it an opportunity or a nuisance?
• Why should I pay attention to social media?
• Are traditional marketing methods out-dated?
• The power of digital media compared to classical media channels
• What do we mean by social media? How deep does it go?
• Web 2.0
• The rules of social media
• How should I use social media, how should I tip the scales in my favour?
• How should I measure success and failure in social media?
Corporate Social Responsibility
• Definition of corporate social responsibility
• The historical process of corporate social responsibility; how did it emerge?
• Why is matching the right corporation with the right project important?
• How should the project be chosen? What are the keys to its success?
• How should the project be associated with the performance of the corporation?
• Communication strategies and implementation examples
• Success factors
• Measurement
• Stories of successes and failure
The Future of Media
• How does the changing societal structure affect changes in media?
• How do technological changes affect changes in media?
• The winds of change in the media in Europe, Asia and America
• How do social media develop?
• How do the internet and social media affect the classical press?
• “Convergence” and integration in media channels
• Local or global?
• New trends in TV, radio and print media
• Do print media have a future?
• How does the public use journalism?
• The future of the tablet in journalism
Why did I become a triathlete at 50 years of age?
• What kind of family did I grow up in?
• Academic years and business life
• Indispensable square of life (İSAB)
– Business life
– Social life
– Family life
– Private time, hobbies
• Why does your business life impede your social and family life? How to prevent this
• What does a balanced life look like? The source of happiness, ISAB
• Private time; the most forgotten value
• How much time should we allocate for sports? Who should do what?
Didem
Tınarlıoğlu
Founder of DFA Consulting and Education Service, Consultant Instructor
Biography
She has started her professional life in the first shopping mall of Turkey in 1990. At the same period she was attending to the faculty of economy and studied at “Working Economy and Industrial Relations”
She has worked in different companies which are the leaders of the market for 22 years in top management level. She has a long term experience on especially multi brand store managing, purchasing in whole categories, leading projects and internal training and team mentoring.
Her last position was at the biggest non food retail group Boyner as a store manager. She was responsible of managing 450 staff and their improvements till she decided to listen the sound of her entrepreneur soul and create another path instead of staying at the same company.
She founded her own company under the name “Direm Consultancy Services and Training Ltd. Company” in 2015 to give service as consultant or trainer for the companies which are corporate or aiming to be cooperated.
The company has the certificates of ISO 9001-2015 Quality Management System and ISO 10002 Customer Satisfaction Management System.
And she is also working at Bilgi University as a trainer in the term based certification projects and she is also their corporate solution partner.
She is still working on long term projects with different companies in different sectors on improving managing skills trainings, service culture trainings and HR consulting. She is also able to serve the assessment and appraisal processes with her business partners.
She has individual “Coaching Authorisation Certificate” which was approved by ICF (International Coach Federation) and AC (Association Coach Federation)
Atıl
Samancıoğlu
Co-Founder & CEO at Kolektif Academy
Biography
After completing his undergraduate degree in 2010 in Boğaziçi University, Atıl Samancıoğlu worked for multinational companies for almost 10 years. He teaches mobile application development and cyber security courses online for more than 190.000 students worldwide in 170 countries. He is Bestselling Instructor in Udemy. He also teaches Android Mobile Development in Boğaziçi University. He helped thousands of students to get internships, jobs, build startups and much more! He is currently co-founder and CEO of Kolektif Academy. He regularly speaks at universities, congresses & conferences.
Speech Topics
- Futuristic View: Living in the Cyber World?
- The mystery of Cyber World
- The Practice of Ethical Hacker?
- Ways to establish secure bond with technology
- The use of coding
Yekta
Özözer
Management Consultant
Biography
“Many people think that creativity is out of their reach. However, we all have the ability to think creatively, but we need to overcome the factors limiting this. Innovation was thought to be based on the coincidental emergence of ideas, but we have discovered a mathematical formula behind it from our analyses of the world’s largest innovation databank.”
We are all creative
Yekta Özözer claims that creativity is not a skill particular to certain people, but that everybody is born with the ability to think creatively. However, corporate culture must be improved in order to reveal this and to allow innovation. He talks on subjects such as what corporations need to do to create an innovative corporate culture, how to improve and alter the perspectives of employees, and the reasons for the success and failure of corporations. He employs his trademark amusing and interactive style, based on his experience from the many professional projects he has carried out.
Innovation actually has a formula
Özözer provides accurate, non-probabilistic and proven methods to corporations to help them increase their level of innovation, based on the results of the world’s largest innovation data analysis, conducted using 3.2 million innovation samples that were examined by his own team. These methods can be utilised not only for product development but also for the processes involved in sales, production, operation, financial operations, HR and anywhere else in a corporation. Özözer also explains how animals solve problems that are similar to the problems faced by corporations, again with similar methods.
Who is Yekta Özözer?
Yekta Özözer studied at Bosphorus University and received a BSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He received his Master’s degree in financial affairs from Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow which he attended on a scholarship from the British Council. He possesses an in-depth knowledge of the inner functions of a number of organisations due to his practical business experience. He worked as a middle manager and senior executive for various companies including Citibank, Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola Içecek, Çelebi Holding and Avea. Since 2003, as part of ABC Consultancy and Training Ltd., he has been providing consultancy and training sessions on innovation, creative problem solving, management and motivation for national companies most of which are ISO 150 companies, as well as for 65 large companies outside of Turkey. He has written five books and many articles in Turkish and English on these subjects.
Speech Topics
At every event he participates in as a speaker, Yekta Özözer presents concrete examples that can be implemented by corporations. Özözer offers guidance in fields, such as, creative thinking, motivation and innovation.
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Innovation
• Proven Examples
• Data Analyses
Creative Thinking
• Concrete innovation techniques for improving the profitability of companies are conveyed to the participants.
• The opportunity to concretely improve the company’s profitability is provided by directly implementing innovation into the business instead of leaving it at the level of awareness.
• Querying Assumptions and Costs, Identifying Problems Correctly and Practical Tips
• Creative Problem Solving, Business Development and Cost Reduction Techniques for Individuals
• Advanced Creative Thinking, Profit Increasing Techniques
• Creative Thinking Techniques for Groups
Entertainment and Motivation at Work
• Rhythm at Work
• Music at Work
• Dance at Work
• Theatre at Work
• Photography at Work
• Drawing at Work
• Mini Competitions at Work
• Ways to make your business environment much more entertaining with amusing in-class and out-class activities through the use of the new concept of “entertainment at work.”
• Methods and materials: these trainings are organized with the strategic partnership of Motivateam Outdoor Training.
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