Isık Serifsoy has graduated from Bogazici University Business Administration.
She started her business career at Alarko, one of the pioneering companies in Turkey. She
has worked in Komili, Apple, and Bilkom as a manager in the import/export, purchasing, and
operations departments.

In 1995, she was a partner in the introduction of Packard Bell and Handspring to the Turkish
market, both worlds leading brands in the IT sector. She played an active role in both
brands' market penetration, marketing, and distribution.

After many years of experience in the IT sector in upper managerial positions, in 2005, she
continued her career as Assistant General Manager responsible for Production at Betasan
Bant San. The leading company in sanitary bandages in Turkey. At Betasan, she used
innovative techniques in production, quality, purchasing, and planning to achieve
considerable improvements in the workflow as well as the efficiency of production.
In 2009 she became the General Manager of Euromed Group, the pioneering healthcare
company that has started distant reporting in radiology.

In 2012, she continued her professional career as a coach after completing the Association
for Coaching (AC) approved program at Istanbul Bilgi University. She has worked for 5 years
as group director at a business owners’ platform BNI (Business Network International).
In 2017 she joined Engage & Grow an Australian-based company, and became a master
coach on employee engagement. Since 2019, she has been the Global CEO of the same
company.

She has “Agile coaching/leadership/HR certificates” and “team coaching” certificates from
AgilePeople and GTIC.
She has a book on leadership – creating high-performance teams. It is published in English
and Turkish. – Cacti, Thorns, and Blossoms.
She lives in Istanbul and is the mother of a daughter, 30. She has 2 cats. She loves art,
collects paintings, and already joining training on ceramics. She can help mothers as a
coach /mentor.

She can coach them in order to create their own business, or for the ones who already have
a business, she can coach or give mentoring for sustainable results.

In 2021 she published her book Be Relentlessly Yourself in both English as well as Dutch and in 2022 Power of Purpose-driven Teams and Organizations.

She loves people and it’s her passion and mission in life to inspire and set her audience and clients in motion and help them transform their lives by remembering their inner power of being. She works with both men and women, individually as well as in groups, who feel somewhat stuck. She inspires them to create clarity from within and increase their self-awareness so that they can take up their space. This will allow them to become successful in what they do and above all experience a feeling of fulfillment.

I'm an executive coach, advisor, and entrepreneur, with nearly 30-year experience at an
international level: guiding businesses, institutions, and professionals to define and pursue
their goals, making them achievable in the most effective way. 
I'm used to working in diverse and multicultural environments. Like a world traveler, I have
participated in projects worldwide: Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Belgium, Poland,
Lithuania, Morocco, UAE, USA, Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Argentina, to
name a few.
I have a Degree in International Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona,
and a Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE) from the University of California, Berkeley.
​I'm a certified Gallup Strengths Coach. I teach at Eada Business School Barcelona in the
Department of Strategy, Leadership, and People, as an Adjunct Professor of Economy,
Geopolitics, Strategy, and Innovation. While coaching organizations, teams, and individuals
is my main activity, I'm currently involved as an entrepreneur in the development of a few
projects,
One of the most exciting for me is being an Empathy Evangelist at EmpathifyU, to be part of
the leadership in its international growth.
I'm active in Venture Capital at pre-seed and seed levels. I'm an Affiliate Member of the
European Business Angel Network.
My main talents are related to strategy, creativity, building relationships, and the curiosity to
keep learning from life and people. I live in Barcelona, though learning from different
perspectives and cultures is one of his main interests.

Daria discovered her passion for human resources from her first job.
With 10 years of experience in the field and over 7 in IT recruitment in multinational
companies, she has developed her expertise in end-to-end recruitment processes,
onboarding, sourcing, and account management.
She has also been involved in Employee Engagement, training administration, and career
development activities.

Over the past 9 years, I have built my career in tech by coding, leading, coaching,
mentoring, and training.
I now help others do the same.
I worked hard for a long time to leave my mark in the tech industry:
-> building products worth millions with my team by coding and coding as a Software
Engineer
-> as a woman in tech, I worked towards bridging the gender in tech by coaching and
mentoring women in tech in their tech and soft skills
-> influencing client's business decisions and driving company culture change as a Software
Consultant
-> leading high performing teams in a constantly changing Agile environment, under the
pressure of client stakeholders as part of the day-to-day team operation as a Tech Lead
Then I burned out and quit my full-time job.
This is when I found a new, more sustainable way to make use of all my skills to have a
bigger higher positive impact in the tech industry:
-> Helping women get their first job in tech
-> Helping Tech Leads lead

What does this mean? I guide people to discover their authenticity in order to become whoever they desire to (becoming the “best version” of yourself is so last year; you should become whoever you feel like) in any kind of game: career, business, personal life because 
I believe that all transformation is change, but not all change is transformation. Once you
have gone through a transformation, you are not going back to old patterns.
In this coaching process, we go back to the roots. We discover patterns, expand awareness,
map fears and belief systems, and discover the self-defense mechanisms that hold you
back.We use neuroscience coaching tools in order to rewire your brain to work FOR you, not on
survival mode (body scan visualizations, playing with fears, role plays, environmental design,
and so much more). You gain knowledge of the neuroscience that lies beyond processes like proscrastination, fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence, and disconnection from the authentic self, and how this  processes can be used to your advantage. When we are driven by unknown processes, we cannot influence them. By revealing them to you, you gain back your influence (it was ALWAYS with you), and you will act from a place of consciousness, not only from a place of reaction. You will understand the beneficial practices of mindfulness and why they are SO important in
ANY coaching practice. Remember: this is a process. Transformation doesn’t happen in 2 coaching sessions. Be patient and kind to yourself! Always!

I am an interesting mix of soft and hard skills.
10 years experience as a powerful and ambitious team leader and player, leading and
inspiring teams to achieve targets. In positions as Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Project
Manager, and Team Manager.
5 years experience as a Performance and Leadership trainer, Course Facilitator, and
Communication & Leadership Coach. Developing personal communication and listening
skills, maintaining team motivation, solving conflicts, and reducing stress.
Languages: English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian!

With my first job at 16, over 20 years in human resources, a passion for people, and a career
based on integrity, honesty, courage, and ambition, covering many leadership roles, I
founded Dare (Development Advice & Resources ) in 2016 being truly aware that they can
bring value to many people and many companies through what they do best: discovering the
potential in people and making it work to achieve their goals. Working with people from all
over the world (I have been holding human resources and management workshops in Asia
since 2015, and I am a professor of business and HR at Link Academy in Bucharest) is
amazing. Therefore I aim to offer excellence in everything I do: recruitment, organizational
design and development, training, evaluation centers, career coaching, and human
resources consulting. I also write for various online publications, I am an authorized trainer
and evaluator and partner of two companies whose tools I use in the processes of design
and organizational development, recruitment, evaluation centers, etc. I really like being fully
supported by my family every day. I believe that my mission is to do good, contribute to
positive changes in people's lives, and bring humans back into "human resources."
The year 2020 was an extraordinarily good for me because I managed to do things that I had
not been able to do until now for various objective reasons, and the online was beneficial
from this point of view. I took several certifications in training, facilitation, and evaluation, but
I also started a certification as a pastry chef/confectioner and took the first steps in
developing my second passion, namely, cooking and cake. 2020 is also the year we set up
Sweets & Spices (https://www.facebook.com/Joyforfood) precisely to offer people the
combination of sweet and salty, necessary for a beautiful and healthy life.

Diversity is about accepting and leveraging the differences in people; it is not about making
women think or act like men to get ahead.
I would much rather have women assert confidence like men while remaining authentic and
true to who they are; to move up the corporate ladder or run their own businesses.
I help aspiring leaders and entrepreneurs remove self-imposed limitations by unlocking
potential and cultivating leadership qualities, entrepreneurial mindset, and effective work
habits to compete in this digital era. I provide practical tools and real-life experiences, leading to results, long-term change and
effectiveness, and IMPACT.
Skills: Leadership development, Entrepreneurship, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Change
Management, Executive Coaching, Keynote Address, Moderating, Program directing.
I’m a Co-Founder of Fourth Wave, a Technology company operating in the United States
and South Africa that leverages disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning to reduce bias in the interview and hiring processes in corporations.
As a former Executive Director and Board Member of African Resonance Business
Solutions, a Financial Technology company and a Johannesburg Stock Exchange Listed
Company subsidiary, I understand the dynamics of women leading in male-dominated
industries. I’m a Leadership Solutions Associate of the Center for Creative Leadership and a
lead facilitator for the London School of Economics on a leadership & Entrepreneurship
program for Pan African C-Suite Executives and the Board of Directors.
I consider myself an embodiment of empowerment.
I empower individuals with the knowledge and tools they require to succeed in their
professional, business, and personal lives.
My style is energetic, thought-provoking, content-rich, and often humorous.

Lestat Monroe is the Founder of the Romanian Diversity Chamber of Commerce, and he has spent two decades building successful businesses in printing, online retail & real estate and advising investors in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He is active in the field of anti-discrimination on several fronts.
Paris-born citizen of the world, Lestat has spent two decades building successful businesses in printing, online retail, and real estate, as well as advising investors in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Turning heads and changing mentalities, he is one of the leading activists for LGBTQ+ rights in Romania and the region.
An artful soul with a keen eye for beautiful things, he took on the position of Art Director for Cow Parade, the world’s largest public art event, in 2005. In this capacity, he promoted and helped athletes with mental disabilities in collaboration with the Nadia Comaneci Foundation, run by the international superstar gymnast.
In 2016, he founded Orasul Meu, Culorile Mele, a Romanian NGO committed to improving the quality of life for children and all types of families in Romania. They are the first NGO in Romania to offer an environmental solution to the Covid 19 pandemic by collecting masks to generate energy via their program MyBox.
Most recently, Lestat has teamed up with Dentons, EBRD, Fokker, ING Bank, Kaufland, Mega Image, Raiffeisen Bank, Visa, and others to form the Romanian Diversity Chamber of Commerce -- the first business organization of its kind in the world created to promote diversity of all kinds in business.
Finally, Lestat is the proud co-parent of Lucrezia and Orazio, his 11-year-old twins.

With innovation at the heart of what I do, I help businesses realize their potential by developing a tangible strategy and a client-centric approach to the solutions. Together with a team of experts, I help small & medium enterprises and startups with business optimization and software solution implementation