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Managing Partner
Managing Partner
“Challenging the limits of the mind and finding the truth in one's life purpose is possible with powerful questions.” – Ayşegül Drahşan After graduating with honors from the English Business Administration program at Yeditepe University, she spent the early years of her career at leading advertising companies and media agencies in Turkey. In 2005 she joined FED Training & Consulting as Sales Manager. She supported the implementation of Transformation, Customer Experience and Innovation projects for Koton, İşbankası and Sabancı Group companies, and the organization of conferences held in Turkey with thousands of participants by international speakers such as Tom Peters and Michael Raynor. In 2009 she moved to TMI Turkey, then represented by PDR Group, as Sales Manager. In 2011 she received the "Initiative of the Year" award for the Hyundai Sales Academy Project. Appointed General Manager in 2015, Drahşan won the "Business Developer of the Year" award in 2016 with Renault France's global R-Touch Attitude "Excellent Customer Satisfaction" project. She completed ICF-approved Professional Coaching at Adler International Learning in 2017 and ICF-approved Advanced Coaching in 2020, earning the CPEC title. For more than 15 years Ayşegül Drahşan has managed corporate training processes for thousands of companies in Turkey and around the world and supported companies in training and consulting, while continuing her individual and corporate coaching work. General Manager of PDR International since 2015 and General Coordinator of PDR Group since October 2019, Ayşegül Drahşan is married, a mother of one, the author of the book "Bize Bir Eğitim Lazım" and one of the co-authors of the book SHIFT!.
PDRICMA Dean of Faculty
PDRICMA Dean of Faculty
Funda Ö. Bener graduated from the Business Administration department of Boğaziçi University in 1987 and worked in the banking sector between 1988 and 2001. Completing her master's degree in Business – Organizational Behavior at Marmara University in 2006, she researched the role of effective communication in resistance to change and wrote her thesis on leadership. Having completed her coaching training in 2009, Bener continues to coach as a PDRICMA faculty leader with the ICF MCC credential. Between 2012 and 2016 she worked as Training and Development Manager at Carrefoursa, took part in founding Carrefoursa Academy and led the team that ran the academy. In the academy's first year, the team she led produced projects that won the TEGEP Leadership Development special jury award and the Brandon Hall bronze medal for "best video learning". In 2018 she completed the Logotherapy training and exam focused on "Man's Search for Meaning" and earned the title of Academic Associate in Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy. In 2019 she became an online Coach Hub Certified Coach. She has taken part in social responsibility projects such as mentoring for Boğaziçi University and Darüşşafaka students and coaching support for KAGİDER businesswomen. She provides volunteer coaching for ICF Turkey's collaborations with Bizbize Women Entrepreneurs and the Turkish Informatics Association, and has coached two women leaders on a volunteer basis under Coach Hub's agreement with the IOM (International Organization for Migration).
PDRICMA Faculty Leader
PDRICMA Faculty Leader
A transformation-focused professional with more than 25 years of experience in coaching and human resources. Alpargu entered professional life through the HR and training departments of companies such as Toprak Seramik and Şişecam during her undergraduate studies, and began her career as an HR and Training Specialist at Meteksan Sistem, part of Bilkent Holding. She then held management roles in recruitment, performance management, organizational development and talent management at multi-location technology and call-center companies. She continued her corporate career as "Human Resources and Training Group Manager" and moved full-time into consulting and coaching in 2018. Holding the ICF PCC (Professional Certified Coach) credential, Alpargu has adopted a versatile coaching approach through training in Professional Coaching, Educational Coaching, Relationship Coaching and Mindfulness Coaching. She has specialized in Enneagram Coaching in particular, offering organization-specific solutions on how personality types affect work, leadership and team dynamics. In her coaching she aims to unlock people's potential, support leadership development and contribute strategically to organizational transformation. Alpargu is also an Assessment Center practitioner accredited by Talogy (affiliated with the British Psychological Society) and Baltaş; she designs competency-based assessment systems and runs leadership development programs. Key Coaching Competencies: ✔ Corporate Coaching (manager and leader development) ✔ Enneagram-Based Coaching (personality types, team harmony and leadership potential) ✔ Mindfulness Coaching (focus, awareness and stress management) ✔ Career and Performance Coaching (competency-based development and feedback processes) With a holistic approach that integrates human resources and coaching, Alpargu contributes to the sustainable development of individuals and organizations.
PDRICMA Faculty Leader
PDRICMA Faculty Leader
Since 1998, during her first 16 years in corporate life, she worked in turn in financial advisory at Commercial Union Life Insurance (Avivasa), corporate lending at İş Bankası, and HSBC Human Resources as Assistant Training and Development Manager/Trainer; she managed competency training, consulted for the Young Talent program assessment center, took on in-house coaching and project coordination in the renewed branch structure, and led the European region in launching the Values-Based Leadership project. She managed the bank's onboarding processes end to end. Since 2010 she has provided consulting and training to more than 20 organizations and has worked as an Assessment Center consultant. In the non-profit sector she has served as a trainer and consultant on projects for vocational high schools, and as a mentor in programs of several foundations and İstanbul Bilgi University. She provided career coaching to local and international students for 4 years at the Bahçeşehir University career center and delivered business-life skills training at the Yeditepe University Food Engineering department. Her corporate training topics include Coaching, Mentor – Mentee – Reverse Mentoring Skills, Feedback, Emotional Resilience, Stress Management, Teamwork, Conflict Management, Communication Skills, Self-Awareness and Motivation, Unconscious Bias, and Counter Sales for Bankers. She started professional coaching in 2018 as a Sola Unitas graduate and earned the ICF PCC credential in 2024. Also a certified Career and Vocational Counselor, Ece is the owner and content producer of 3 podcast channels: İşten Gelen, İşte ve Yaşamda Kendi Yolun and Bilsen İyi Olur. Focusing on human happiness in working life, she coaches managers, non-managerial employees, people changing jobs/positions/locations/specializations, and those just entering working life, around the changing business world and individual needs. She offers mentoring, training and coaching for coaches and adult educators. With the Impostor Syndrome Coach Practitioner training she received from psychologist Dr. Lisa Orbe, she provides effective support where this commonly observed condition is present.
PDRICMA Training Consultant
PDRICMA Training Consultant
He has held management responsibilities in various disciplines such as business development/sales, M&A, technology, product management/development and regulation at leading international and local companies (Turkcell, Superonline, D-Smart, IBM, Doruk), and has worked as a management consultant. In addition to managing multicultural teams, his experience with clients and business partners covers the USA, Japan, Europe and the Middle East as well as Turkey. He currently works as a management consultant on strategic development projects for start-ups/scale-ups. Throughout his working life he has enriched his interest in corporate employees beyond standard management approaches with coaching and mentoring. He completed Individual and Team Coaching and NLP training at Erickson Coaching International and mentoring training at Clutterbuck Associates; as an ICF-accredited coach he continues to work with organizations and individual clients in Turkey and abroad and carries out volunteer projects with NGOs. In line with his interest in future organizational models, he is an Agile Coach (scrum.org; Professional Scrum Master-I), a member of the «restartlab» think tank working on self-management/self-organizing teams, and a volunteer member of TEGEP.
PDRICMA Training Consultant
PDRICMA Training Consultant
She started her career as a Chain Store Manager at Nestlé Turkey and continued as Client Director at McCann Erickson and Trade Marketing Manager at Nestlé Turkey. Having been responsible for setting up McCann Erickson's Azerbaijan office, Gümüşlüoğlu worked as a trainer at FED Training & Consulting. She completed the programs Being a Storyteller in the Digital World and Managing Social Change (Mastercamp – Michigan University – 2020) and Bioenergy Specialist (Haliç University – 2020). After completing ICF-approved Foundation Coaching training and the Team Coaching program, Nihan Gümüşlüoğlu supports individuals and companies with coaching and provides training and consulting at PDR on Leadership, Performance Appraisal Interviews, Innovation, and Strategic Thinking & Planning. At PDRICMA, alongside coaching and mentoring services, she supports organizations with Team Coaching.
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