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While I was a student at Istanbul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, I joined the Physics Club within the university and started to organize international physics congresses, simultaneously I was writing science-oriented articles for the Journal of Science Utopia. I stepped into the business life in those years, I was conducting brand research in a marketing company and working as a part time crew member in various exhibitions and congresses. Shortly after, I joined the team of Siyaset Meydanı - a much respected television forum which was broadcast live.
After receiving my bachelor's degree, I continued my education in England and wrote my first resume with the support of the consultants at the employment agency. Soon after I started working as a waitress in a fancy restaurant located around the business centers. In a short time, I was first promoted to purchasing manager and then assistant manager positions by making profitable deals with the large companies located around. This was a huge relief for my boss too since I was a lousy service staff. Compared to a student living abroad, my standard of living has risen considerably, and my worried family took a deep breath.
I’ve developed my “leadership in tough times” and “crisis management” skills painfully and deeply, when the tourism agency, which I started as the congress project manager after my return to Turkey, had trouble with its business processes due to administrative errors. I met the world of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) before it was named, and experienced how vital solution-oriented agile management is by being unemployed while making marriage plans.
But thanks to my resilience, I soon succeeded in stepping into the most established agency in the industry that I always dreamed of. For ten years at VIP Tourism, I learned, taught, researched, produced, shared what I produced, planned, and managed hundreds of corporate events with a great team. While my title became more inclusive in the horizontal organizational structure shaped by good intention, knowledge, skill and competence, my passion was renewed with each project. Even though I worked 24/7, my business and private life never clashed as I was able to grow with an inspiring leader and valuable teammates.
Then, I worked as congress and event manager and business development director for more than five years at PERYÖN- Human Management Association of Turkey, which I started with the spirit of social responsibility. Apart from the content production & organization of the Human Management Congresses and PERYON Award Journeys I also took an active role in all communication processes of the association. I expanded my position’s definition by constructing target-oriented corporate content, writing and/or editing highly interactive media posts and communication texts reflecting the agenda for businesspeople. By integrating the analytical thinking supported by my education with positive communication, I structured data-based, human-oriented processes.
Today, I combine my experience in human-centered management, internal communication, event consultancy and content production under the roof of corporate communication to shape and share the company’s faces and words so that the efficiency and happiness of dynamic organizations can increase.
I find peace in sailing, I enrich my life with my beloved husband and 4 chatty cats.
Because "The one who walks with love can carry the world on his back. The one who walks without love carries a shell assuming it’s his body!" - (Tapduk Emre)
