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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).
Deniz
Türkali
Actrist, Script Writer, Writer
Biography
Deniz Türkali is an experienced actress and screenwriter who has made many contributions to Turkish cinema. Türkali currently gives acting and specking lectures and plays for DOT Tiyatro and 2. Kat Tiyatro. She is now editing her book “Dishes of My Life” and Murat Çelikkan has written the story of her life. A series of talks which are now in the process of preparation will also be available shortly.
She also has two scripts, namely “Mine” and “The Petit Sparrow”. Türkali has a special place in her life for cinema. Türkali, married to director Atıf Yılmaz for the second time, was born to a family of art and literature. Her father, well-known author Vedat Türkali, played a significant role on her cultural and political approach.
Her life was filled with cinema and her days at Nişantaşı High School can be considered as a turning point. She started acting in those days and studied acting at the Conservatory just after she was graduated from Şişli College. After two years in Turkey, she continued her education in London. She worked with Dario Fo and Franca Rame in Italy. While engaged in music, she was also an editorial consultant for Milliyet Publishing. In 1980, she returned to acting. She continued music too. Her passion in music helped Türkali achieve success in solo plays. She hosted radio shows, wrote columns, played in cinema and TV movies and wrote scripts. She was a journalist for “Kaktüs” magazine, daily Milliyet and Hayat magazine. She write articles on various issues for Milliyet, Hürriyet and Radikal newspapers. She played Prudence Duvernoy in The Lady of the Camellias. She was also engaged in business and managed 5. Kat Restaurant and Leyla Café.
Who is Deniz Türkali?
Deniz Türkali, born in Istanbul in 1944, studied at Nişantaşı High School and Şişli College. She attended the conservatory in London. She wrote articles on social and political issues as well as pieces on the cinema of European Union countries in “Kriter” magazine. She recorded an album named “Şehvet” and played in many cinema movies and TV shows including Galip Derviş, Hürrem Sultan, Gece Melek ve Bizim Çocuklar, Eylül Fırtınası and Dudaktan Kalbe. Deniz Türkali was interested not only in cinema but also music. Her first marriage was with the Italian singer Ernesto Casalini and her daughter Zeynep Casalini is also an artist. Deniz Türkali spent almost half of her life with Atıf Yılmaz. This marriage continued until Yılmaz’s death.
Speech Topics
CAN ANYONE PLAY?
DO WE KNOW HOW TO USE OUR BODY LANGUAGE?
Remembering our as children, we can see that playing is just not that difficult.
Playing is at the focus of every aspect of our lives. It is not always on the stage or in front of a camera. Sometimes we find ourselves “playing”, intentionally or otherwise. Just ask yourself, are there not so many things you say pretending to believe them when you actually don’t? In business life, social interactions, family relations, friendships… Whatever we do, we are bound to play. First, for the sake of courtesy… The day started badly for you, you have a headache, you argued with your lover; you arrive at the office and your friend or manager says “good morning”. No matter what you feel, your response will be a fake smile and a “good morning”. You can play well or you can play badly. If your manager sees the trouble in that smile, then you are in trouble. Two times more of the same and it will not be a good impression for you.
This is where the body language matters. The difference between playing and faking is not just the tone of the voice but also the use of body language. What matters in the most significant play of life is that you should not make others see. If the people can see that you play, you have failed… In other words, you play badly. Persuading people on authenticity is not easy. If even you don’t believe in what you say, it is very easy to be noticed. Clichés like “good question” or “that is just what I think” are in the past. Sentences and tones are very important. Sports don’t help with a good use of body language. Each attitude, each move, each mimic means something. So, how do we play well?
IS THERE TIME FOR LOVE AS A MOTIVATION?
I asked a dear young friend of mine, “Do you flirt with your wife?” He replied with a little surprise, “I never have time for that.” “So sad” I thought. I encouraged him, “Please, always find time for this.” If business life interrupts even the flirt at home, we either do not know how to “flirt”, which brings along many other problems; or we don’t feel the need, which is an even bigger problem. Those who focus solely on business cannot succeed in the long term. Focusing and concentrating on a single aspect of life is never the key to success.
Living is an art. Never miss the little pleasures which make business more enjoyable. You cannot work with a long face and a curse. You need your creativity in every aspect of your life. The more “endorphin” we secrete, the more dynamic we are. Love is when happiness peaks. I know that this is not always possible, and not for everyone. But let’s think this way; love is a state of soul, so we are not in love with someone. First we fall in love, then comes someone… Even when there is nobody, it’s that mood of love that matters. This is what will motivate you and peak your “endorphin” level. The secret of success is in the details. It’s those details that motivate us and make us effective.
USING TIME, USING LIFE
How do we use our lives? Limited to a period of time which may never be lived again. These two dynamics coexist. Every individual has a unique but somewhat similar approach to the concepts of time and life. Our lives somehow connect…
Grasping the use of life and time itself “takes some time.” It also takes some time to realize this and say “time passes so quickly.” While we try not to lose control of our lives, we should also remember that we are in interaction with other lives we need. Whatever we do, we can make a mess out of our lives if we do not know how to use time. Not just ours, also the lives of people we work or live with…
A key issue in business life is information sharing and management. Sharing and managing time is equally important. How can we manage business life without wasting time? How can we prevent wasting time? How is that possible?
Remember that “Money is time, time is money!”
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Every touch in our life is an interaction. Whatever you do, communicating well will bring you success, happiness, joy, strength and healthy relations. Do you think that a little care and patience, a positive approach and a strong language will do?
Ebru Baybara
Demir
Social Gastronomy Chef, Social Entrepreneur
Social Gastronomy
Sustainability
Success story
Teamwork and leadership
Biography
Chef Ebru Baybara Demir, the winner of the 2023 Basque Culinary World Prize (BCWP), which is called the Nobel of the gastronomy, became the first chef to bring this honoured award to Turkey. Recognized for her remarkable contributions to social gastronomy over the past two decades, Chef Baybara Demir has been acknowledged for her innovative solutions to societal challenges and needs, especially the socioeconomic repercussions of the migrant crisis, combating the impact of climate change on soil rejuvenation, and promoting local development through the perspective of gastronomy. Prior to her first prize, Chef Baybara Demir was ranked among the top 10 best chefs in the world at the Basque Culinary World Prize two consecutive years.
Ebru Baybara Demir has moved to Mardin in 1999 after completed her bachelor’s degree in Marmara University, Department of Tourism Management. Ebru Baybara Demir took the road to Mardin with a dream to meet the city with tourism and established the very first touristic restaurant in Mardin by the change she created, Cercis Murat Konağı, with twenty-one women who believed in her. Demir, who has conducted extensive research on Anatolian cuisine for more than 15 years, has made many social gastronomy projects happen in the region, especially in Mardin, beyond being a chef, with the philosophy of “The taste of the meal on the table comes from the soil it takes and from the lives it benefits”. Within this period, she achieved loads of prizes on both national and international levels. She presented Turkey in World Gastronomy Tourism Forum held by UNWTO and 5th Food on the Edge Summit that brought gastronomy elites and authorities together via the projects she conducted in the field. Realizing the firsts in the field of social gastronomy with measurable results, Demir also draws attention to the creation of sustainable local economies from the protection of the natural balance of seed, soil and water in its projects, and the ability to create a livelihood for everyone who works from the process in which the product reaches the consumer from the soil. Ebru Baybara Demir, under the roof of Soil to Plate Agricultural Development Cooperative, of which she is among the founders of Mesopotamia’s oldest wheat, Sorgul Wheat, Şemim Soaps, El Ele Elden Ele (Hand in Hand) Store and online sales platform, as well as local products with new initiatives to be implemented in a short time. She continues to work for the ideal cooperative model that brings together local cuisine and local human resources to create a role model in the national and international arena.
Ebru Baybara Demir carries out the Biodegradable Waste Project, which started in Diyarbakır and spread to many provinces of the country under the “We Are Healing Life” motto. “Biodegradable Waste Management Project from Soil to Soil” is a regenerative agriculture project that includes improving the soil, supporting the farmer and contributing to the production of healthy food by transform the biodegradable food waste consisting of vegetables and fruits in the market into compost. Within the scope of the project, the usable foods collected in the marketplaces are brought to the soup kitchens and inspected under the supervision of a food engineer and are used with a 2-stage production as “Canned and Packaged Products” and “Hot Meal Production”.
She is the only Turkish Chef that her documentary “12 Zero-Waste Chefs of the World” was made by HBO Max which is American online content platform. Ebru Baybara Demir was awarded the Aenne Burda Creative Leadership Award at the DLD Munich Conference held in January 2023. Demir has been presented to women with brave, optimistic, innovative, creative and inspiring qualities since 2006.
Speech Topics
- Social gastronomy
- Sustainability: Biodegradable Waste Management Project from Soil to Soil
- Social entrepreneurship: Respect for the local
- Producing women
- Success story
- Teamwork and leadership
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.
Saffet Emre
Tonguç
Historian, Travel Writer, Professional Guide
Biography
“Passion for travelling comes from seeing the world as a jigsaw puzzle. Every trip will be a piece in this puzzle.”
Passion for travelling is genetic
Saffet Emre Tonguç travels, takes photographs and writes. Tonguç made it his profession to leave his home behind and travel. He explains his feelings thus: “passion for travelling is genetically coded into people. For me, this desire has broadened my horizons and perspectives. For most people life consists of working and acquiring property. For me, the important thing is to acquire mental affluence.”
Tonguç has been on numerous expeditions and journeys to more than one hundred countries. He says that Turkey should in theory be one of the world’s premier travel destinations, but there are major deficiencies in the way the country is promoted abroad. “Turkey is the shortest distance between points A and B. For this reason, an amazing number of civilisations left their mark on the country. One of the most reliable guide books, Lonely Planet, says ‘If you want to see Greek ruins, go to Turkey, not to Greece; if you want to see Roman ruins, go to Turkey, not to Italy’. This is so true! But we are not aware of this and we don’t appreciate it. I have been to more than one hundred countries; of all these places, Anatolia made one of the greatest impressions on me.”
Who is Saffet Emre Tonguç?
Saffet Emre Tonguç started working as a tour guide in 1987 whilst studying tourism. Since 1990 his amateur photographs have appeared in various international publications, primarily in the USA and Australia. He was a narrator on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” In 2005, he received the Rotary Club’s Professional Excellence Award. He has travelled to around one hundred countries both for professional reasons and personal interest. He was named Turkey’s most well-travelled tour guide by the Turkish Association of Tourist Guides in 2005. He holds the award for “Best Travel Writer 2006.”
Speech Topics
- 101 places to see: In the World, in Europe, in the USA and in Turkey…
- Istanbul and night
- Wealths of Turkey
- Exclusive routes
Bihter
Ayyıldız
Lüks Marka Danışmanı
Biyografi
Bihter Ayyıldız, iletişim dalında farklı şapkaları olan bir reklamcı, gazeteci, danışman ve pazarlama uzmanı. Fransa’da aldığı sanat tarihi eğitiminin ardından, reklam sektöründen marka iletişimi tecrübelerini lüks markaların iletişimlerinde kullanmak üzere sektör değiştirdi. Moda ve lüks marka severlerin yakından takip ettiği Ayyıldız, önemli markaların yol arkadaşı. Profesyonel hayatına gazetecilikle başlayıp stratejik pazarlama danışmanlığı yapan Ayyıldız, son zamanlarda yoğun mesai harcadığı influence marketing ve uzantısı olan Love and Hate Marketing’le pazarlama iletişiminin sınırlarını zorluyor.
Bihter Ayyıldız, Saint Benoit Fransız Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra, Fransa’da Charles de Gaulle-Lille Üniversitesi’nde sanat tarihi eğitimi aldı. Fransa’da bulunduğu süre zarfında Paris’te Latin-Jockey Tour’da VIP incoming yönetimi ve Nice’de Cigale Orientale adlı firmada özel davet organizasyonlarına imza attı. Lüksün ve modanın anavatanı olan Fransa’da geçirdiği yıllar profesyonel hayatını şekillendirmesine de katkıda bulundu. Türkiye’ye döndüğünde MARKA Reklam Ajansı ile başlayan kariyerine Balizza ile devam etti. Ardından Tiffany & Co., Omega, Montegrappa, Jaquet Droz, Davidoff, Pequignet, Montblanc gibi dünyanın en değerli lüks ve mücevher markalarının pazarlama ve PR yönetimini üstlendi.
Aynı zamanda Vatan Gazetesi hafta sonu ekleri Bizim Kahve ve Vatan Pazar’ın yanı sıra Milliyet’te köşe yazarlığı yapan Bihter Ayyıldız,Tempo, XOXO ve Luxos gibi dergilere de yazılar yazdı.
2020 yılının başında kurduğu BA Projectz’in çatısı altında global ölçekli lüks markalara ve kültür sanat projelerine stratejik danışmanlık vermektedir. Güncel haber sitesi www.plumemag.com ‘un da kurucusu olan Bihter Ayyıldız’ın uzmanlık alanı Sürdürülebilir marka ve iletişim stratejileridir. Konuşmalarında da lüks kavramını ele alan, lüksün tarihteki yolculuğuna dikkat çeken Ayyıldız, stil sahibi olmanın püf noktalarını, trendlere dair bilgiler aktarıyor.
Konuşma Konuları
- Influencer Marketing
- Influencer İletişimi
- Love and Hate Marketing
Lüksün tanımı değişiyor peki ya kendisi?
Alışılagelen lüksün tanımı değişiyor. Deneyim ve duygusal etkileşim ise, en katı kurallara sahip köklü markaların kilit noktasına dönüşmüş durumda. Dijital iletişimde yenilikçi olup, mağaza içi deneyimde öncü adımlar atan markalar yerini koruyor. Lüks tüketicisi çok üstün kalite malzeme ve essiz tasarım kadar samimi bir içerik iletişimi de arıyor.
- Dijital çağda lüks perakendecilik
Günümüzde dijitalleşme her yere nüfuz etti. Moda dünyası da bundan nasibini aldı. Tüketim artık dijital kanallar aracılığıyla gerçekleştiriliyor. Eğer bu kanallar aracılığıyla da müşteriye dokunmazsanız yok olup gidersiniz.
- Stil sahibi doğamayız ama olabiliriz
Audrey Hepburn ve Grace Kelly gibi bir ikonu kopyalayarak ya da stil danışmanlarıyla çalışıp başkasının hayal gücünün, zekasının ve zevkinin yansıması olan parçaları üzerinde taşıyarak stil sahibi olunur mu? Yoksa stil sahibi olmak kişinin genetik kodlarında mı vardır?
- Gardıropta “Top Ten”
Yıllar değişse de gardırobun değişmeyen ikonik parçaları neler olmalı? Hangi parçalarla zamansız bir şıklık yaşamanız mümkün.
- Sanat ve lüks: Markaların bitmeyen aşkı
Lüks markaların sanatçılarla olan iş birlikleri lüks tüketicisinin her zaman çok olumlu cevap verdiği bir formül. Fakat çok sık tekrarlandığı zaman, ticari algıya neden olup, müşteri gözünde sorgulanan bir alan olmaya da açık.
- Sadeleşme/100 ürünle yaşanır mı?
Sahip olduklarımızın bizi esir almasını daha çok dile getirdiğimiz dönemde, azalarak çoğalmak konusu üzerine düşünceler tartışmaya çok açık.
- İşte bunlar hep lüks…
Yüzyılı aşan hatta bazıları neredeyse 2 asra yaklaşan markaların da dünyanın dört bir yanındaki taleplere cevap vermek için üretim ağlarını geliştirmesi aynı ürüne gereğinden fazla kişinin sahip olabilme fırsatını doğurdu.
- Çağdaş Moda – Kavramsal Moda
Moda artık sadece tasarım ve kumaştan ibaret değil. Tüm bunların yerine çağdaş sanatta olduğu gibi fikir aldı.
- Marka olmak ya da olmamak
Marka olunmaz doğulur diyebiliriz. Bir markanın sadece ürünlerinin kalitesi ve popülaritesi o markanın değerini maalesef belirleyemiyor. Günü doğru değerlendiren ve geleceğe yatıran markalar dışındakilerin pek şansı olmayan bir dönemdeyiz.
- Doğru parçalara yatırım (Minimum parça maksimum şıklık)
Eskilerin bir sözü vardır: Nicelik değil, nitelik önemlidir. İngilizler de “Ucuz ürün alacak kadar zengin değilim”, derler. Bu sözler boşuna söylenmiş değil. Doğru ve sürdürülebilir bir gardırop kendinize yapacağınız en iyi yatırımlardan biri. Ve bunu çok az parçayla yapmak mümkün.
Videolar
Gül
İrepoğlu
Architect, Art Historian, Writer
Biography
Prof. Dr. Gül İrepoğlu studied architecture at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. When she was a doctoral student, she started to work as an assistant at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Letters in Istanbul University. She completed her doctorate in 1984. She became an associate professor in 1991, a full professor in 1997. She gave her classes on “the Renaissance Art”, “Baroque Art”, “Neoclassic and Romantic Art”, “European Art in the 19th century”, “Ottoman Art in Westernization” “Comparative History on Art” and “Ottoman Miniature Art”.
Prof. İrepoğlu retired from Istanbul University after she served 26 years. She has numerous publications on the Painting Art in the 18th – 20th centuries, Portrait of Ottoman Sultans, Artistic relationship between East and West and History of Jewelry.
Prof. İrepoğlu is the board member of UNESCO Turkish National Commission as well as the chairperson of special committee of Cultural Heritage. She is also the trustee and the chairperson of TAÇ foundation (Türkiye Anıt Çevre Turizm Değerlerini Koruma Vakfı). She has prepared and presented television programs “Şehir Mekân” and “Sanat Mekân” on TRT2 between 2005 and 2007. Prof. İrepoğlu is also a fiction writer and has published many books such as: “Gölgemi Bıraktım Lale Bahçelerinde” (2004), “Cariye” (2007). She has given conferences in Turkey and abroad.
Selected books:
Feyhaman Duran, (Istanbul 1986).
Levnî, Nakış-Şiir-Renk / Levnî, Painting Poetry colour, (Istanbul 1999).
Padişahın portresi: Tesavir-i Ali Osman / The Sultan′s Portrait, Picturing the House of Osman, (as co author), (Istanbul 2000).
Lale Devri′nin bir Görgü Tanığı: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour/ An Eyewitness Of The Tulip Era: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, (Istanbul 2003).
Gölgemi Bıraktım Lale Bahçelerinde, (Istanbul 2004).
Zeki Faik İzer, (Istanbul 2005).
Cariye, (Istanbul 2007).
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
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