What do you do for a living? Tell us more about you. Leading projects that grow number of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram. What's the best piece advice you've received? “Face the fear and do it anyway." Dark chocolate or milk chocolate? Dark chocolate One thing you wish you have known earlier in your career? No one gets there alon... Continue reading
TurkishWIN Blog
Happy Day! As the TurkishWIN Team, we are loading our batteries with new ideas and surprises for you. Our MentorWIN Advisory Board is busy planning the year ahead for you. We thank them for their continued support: Ayşe Öktem, Bahar Moralıgil Kağıtçıbaşı, Seray Nasırlı, Mine Yücesoy, Yasemin Ergüder, Gülcan Demirkol Aytemur and Gamze Bayrakta... Continue reading
Your answer may be not yet! We started our Learning Circle with Seval Oz’s thought-provoking question: have you ever fired your car? As technology and human needs evolve, our society is becoming increasingly mobile. “How we connect the dots becomes more essential. In a world where time is of the essence, if I can’t move with ease f... Continue reading
We have become more and more aware that asking questions are the “cine qua non” of building positive relationships. With the help of countless techniques and methods we think we know how to ask questions. However, we often fail to accept our questions are just another form of telling - excepting the other party to hit the answer in our minds. In th... Continue reading
This month’s theme was careers in marketing! Our speakers: Müge Kütük (Danone), Merve Altundağ (Google) and Selin Karaçoban (Anadolu Efes), CampusWIN alumnae from different classes. Müge graduated from the Bosphorus University with a degree in Philosophy in 2016. As a student, she had a lot of internships at: Karbonat, Concept, Medina Turgul DDB, a... Continue reading
On April 19th, the Turkish Women’s International Network launched its eleventh international chapter in the Netherlands with a kick-off event featuring Emine Bozkurt. The evening started by a vibrant networking with the arrivals of the guests. At the beginning of the event the Netherlands chapter leaders Aylin Arslantas Bumin, District Market... Continue reading
Let us repeat the obvious on this glorious day: Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. We all have or need mentors along the way. Lucky for all of us, our MentorWIN program is getting better day by day thanks to many :) Here are our latest updates: Reverse Mentoring Summit We were one of the partners of the Bahcesehir University &am... Continue reading
How hard is it to start from scratch? Isn’t it beautiful to change the game and redefine yourself? TurkishWIN@London co-hosted the “Starting from Scratch” event with EY Turkic Network on May 15, 2018. It was a lovely spring day in London and despite the beautiful weather the room was full. Participants were from EY, TurkishWIN@London network ... Continue reading
This was the first reaction when people heard about Asi Burak’s master thesis. Asi is the CEO of Power Play and the Chairman of Games for Change. Image a world where video-games can tackle on social problems! On May 8 th , we attentively listened to Asi tell his story. He started his game adventure by designing and launching Peace... Continue reading
The only thing in life that is constant is change. We were inspired by trail blazing women this evening: Özlem Kestioglu Özel, Marketing Director of SAP South Europe &francophone Africa, Lale Saral Develioglu, Pladis Chief Marketing Officer, Sepin Inceer, Mindfulness Trainer for Children and Matilde Wol Gokay, Creative Director & Acad... Continue reading
We love to meet our CampusWIN Alumnae and find out what they are up to! On April 30th, our speakers were Gülşah Semiz and Gülce Turan in the last online meeting of the semester. Topic: Careers Abroad. Gülşah Semiz is now working in Boston at a technology company. She worked while completing her International Relations degree at Galatasaray Universi... Continue reading
Our San Francisco chapter is bubbling with activities – as always. This month they hosted a great Facebook live event with Dilek Dayinlarli on April 18 th . Dilek Dayinlarli is a woman of firsts! She is one of the few female venture capital firm founders in Turkey. One of the few women VCs in the world. Dilek is the first Founder of ScaleX Ventures... Continue reading
Our curator, Yaprak Metin, hosted Tülin Kahvecioğlu to talk about “Neuro Leadership” as part of our young professional learning series. The sooner a young manager knows about neuro leadership, the better! On April 17 th , had a feast for our brain and our soul. Tülin Kahvecioğlu shared her own story and her career choices to get our imaginati... Continue reading
We are in awe of our partner TUSIAD’s work and how this trailblazer NGO is paving the way for the business-government dialogue for a future-ready Turkey. So when it was time to learn about the Coordinating with Others competency, we were delighted to hold our CampusWIN Academy Day at TUSIAD’s headquarters in Istanbul. The day's sc... Continue reading
What is your story? How do you present yourself and your career break in an interview or to your close circles? On April 12 th , we hosted YenidenBiz members for a workshop on story telling. TurkishWIN is a longtime partner of YenidenBiz as our Founder Melek Pulatkonak is one of the co-founders of YenidenBiz, an NGO with the goal to help wom... Continue reading
