Umut is the Chair of AC Turkey and Co-founder of the House of Human. He is the writer of “Mastering of Life: Happiness”, “Professional Coaching” and “Coaching Tools” in Turkish. He is the co-creator of first Turkish Coaching Model “KAMÇI!”. Umut has more than 5000 hours of coaching experience and 20 years of experience as a trainer.

As a philanthropist he is leading the “Coaching for The Future” act in which more than 14000 students are being coached. He served more than 400 firms to make cultural changes. He has a PhD on “The relationship between self efficacy perceptions and performance in organizations and the moderator role of personal profiles. A case study on employee coaching” and is an AC accredited Master Executive Coach and Coaching Supervisor.

Meral is the Regional Vice Chair of the Association for Coaching in Turkey and a Supervision Leader.

She has more than 26 years of experience in management, sales, customer relations and communications. She is an AC Accredited Master Coach, AC Accredited Coaching Supervisor, Trainer and founder of Gelişim Gezginleri Training.

Meral's focus in the AC is to encourage coaching of individuals and organizations, to organise awareness-raising activities in excellence and quality of coaching, to promote the AC effectively and to provide the highest quality service to members.

Meral’s passion is to mediate the development of people and companies and achieve their desired goals. Through her coaching, mentoring and supervising practice, Meral focuses on developing personal leadership, managerial, and competency-based skills to help individuals and coaches discover their potential, barriers to their performance, and to create a personal development roadmap.

Ruhan Akın is the AC's Head of Operations, Marketing & Communications in Turkey

She is an AC Accredited Master Executive Coach and Coaching Supervisor as well as an internationally accredited coach and consultant, team coach and trainer of the Professional Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision Programs.

In her 23 year career in the retail sector within international companies, she has a broad experience especially in the fields of Customer Relations, Call Centre Operations, Human Resources and Management, Leadership and Coaching and supported her teams as a coach and trainer. She coaches in the areas of Leadership, Management, Customer Relations, Sales, Communication and Personal Development.

She is the founder of Armente Training and Consultancy

Banu is an AC Accredited Master Coach and AC Accredited Supervisor, ICF-PCC and she is also a specialist in Coaching Proficiency Exam in Turkey. She received her BSc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Master’s degree in International Business Administration. She has worked for fourteen years for Henkel International, as the manager of the Industrial Engineering Department.

Having been educated in both eastern and western schools, Banu is one of the very few holistic life, executive family coaches and coach master instructors capable of successfully synthesizing modern knowledge with timeless wisdom. She is the founder member of the European Women’s Management Development Turkey, writer for a magazine, author of three books, and continues to write articles on coaching.

Figen is an accredited coach with ICF-ACC. She also completed NLP Training in an accredited institution. She completed her undergraduate education in Eskisehir Anadolu University İ.İ.B.F Business Administration Department. Pedagogical Formation was completed at the Faculty of Education of the Baskent University. She completed her master's degree in Educational Administration and Supervision at the Faculty of Education. Graduation thesis "The Effects of School Managers' Coaching Skills on Their Jobs"

Between 1999-2014, she worked as the regional sales manager, the sales manager in Pharmaceutical, Direct sales and Textile sectors. Engaged as a property owner in the direct selling industry. She completed Human Resources Management – Finance and Business Management training at Hacettepe University She completed his Professional Coaching Training at 212 Degree Coaching & Training Academy. She works as Trainer-Coach at 212 Academy in Ankara. She has also the Lego Serious Play Facilitator Certification. She is a licensed trainer of “The Butterfly in Your Palm”.

Nurdan is an Executive & Team Coach, EQ Assessor. With over 25 years of experience in defense sector she has developed sound experience in team leading, process design, project and program management and business development. Having 15 years of experience in project management she managed various defense projects as well as organizational improvement and design projects. She has Team and Executive Coaching certificates and is an ICF-PCC coach. Having AC RLAC certificate, she also delivers RLAC Training to business people. Being an internationally certified EQ Assessor, she designs and delivers EQ trainings and workshops. She perceives personal development and awareness as a lifelong journey. She coaches leaders and managers for better leadership skills. Having values of sharing and contribution to the society, Nurdan takes parts in social responsibility projects. In this respect she is coaching entrepreneurial women, university students and young women. She has been actively supporting AC Turkey team since 2019. She is the co-founder of JNK Coaching.

Günay is a coach, mentor, supervisor, teacher and storyteller. She is an AC and ICF accredited coach. She has experience working across different cultures and educational systems. In coaching she specialises in helping school administration officers, teachers, parents and students to find their way toward success, meaning and a far greater self-contribution to life with their stories. She trains new coaches towards their accreditations. She has her own program called “Coaching in Education”. She is an author and a lecturer in a university. She also has a consultancy firm helping to change the culture in firms via storytelling and coaching. As Head of Talent and Engagement for the AC Turkey team she supports social responsibility projects worldwide. She will be a host in supervision ACSGE calls and AC accreditation assessor.

Nese graduated from Hacettepe University Food Engineering Department in 2004. During her 16-year corporate experience journey, she took part in many different roles such as production, R&D, quality, marketing, factory management, human resources management and culture building. In 2015, she became the IRCA Approved ISO 9001 Quality Management System Lead Auditor. She was awarded the High Honor Award by completing the MBA Program at Antalya Bilim University Faculty of Business Administration in 2016. In 2019, she received AC approved coaching training and became one of the first certified Professional Coaches in the Antalya Organized Industrial Zone. In 2021, she received the ICF approved training and become Executive Coach. In 2021, she took an active roles in AC Turkey Talent and Engagement Development Team.

She is founder of “MeetingID” executive coaching brand which has; Vision; To raise awareness that will encourage people to take steps and produce in order to activate the potential both institutions and individuals have by centering development and discovery. To provide individuals and companies with preferences in the journey of transforming “WHYs” into “HOW”. Mission; With the slogan ‘Meet your ID’ , achieve positive development, increase productivity and be a reliable companion that motivates for the better in the period of reaching the desired identity. Nese, who is currently working as Deputy General Manager at Esas Holding also coaches corporate executives.

Çiğdem Sezer is an industrial engineer, mentor, coach, trainer and writer. She is the Regional Coordinator of AC Turkey in Adana. She has 23 years of experience in R&D - Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Rights, Project Management and institutionalization. She has joined and managed a lot of important national and international projects. She has been mentored and trained in R&D and Innovation, Intellectual Rights, Project Management, Project Writing and Entrepreneurship topics. She has provided consultancy and mentorship support to SMESs, Institutions and Organizations, and Entrepreneurs.

She is founder of Çiğdem Sezer Academy and she is helping to change innovation culture in firms. She serves teams, executives and entrepreneurs. Also, she supports university and high school students in designing their careers.

Additionally, she is a trainer of the Magician Physicists Group (SIFIGU). She carries out Innovation and Entrepreneurship workshopsin SIFIGU for groups of children aged 5-14 years. She is the writer of “Kızım Çizdi Ben Yazdım” (My Daughter Drew and I Wrote) and “İnovatif Çocuklar Yetiştirmek” (Raising Innovative Children).

Emine is an AC Accredited and MYK certified Coach, executive and student, team Coach, parent and communication Coach. She is also a TABDA Certified T&A Story reader, POY practitioner, NVC Facilitator, Ennegram analyst, Educator, Mentor and Supervisor.

She worked as a human resources manager in her 25 years of business life. She gives leadership, personal training, Parenting and Communication coaching training. Her purpose is to build internal communication culture in organizations.

She works in many associations of which she is a member, in the context of women's empowerment as a community volunteer. She implemented the “Who Am I and I Can Hear You” projects.

She is the founder of Fly Coaching and Consulting. She also be interested in Photography, mountaineering and aeronautics as hobby.

Arife Ceren Gürsoy has gained various work experiences in the field of Quality and Human Resources during her 13 years of business life. After finishing her Chemical Engineering degree with the valedictorian rank, she started her career as a Quality Engineer. She completed her Master's degree in Quality Management at Sakarya University and Human Resources Management at Bahçeşehir University. She has undertaken a leadership role in the realization of many projects by finding the opportunity to work in all areas of human resources.

With the coaching she undertook in 2012, she received the PCC (ACTP) title from ICF Global after completing her training.  Professional Coaching, Team Coaching, Executive Coaching, Practicum, Mentoring, Transactional Analysis, Nonviolent Communication, and Storytelling training are among the programs she has completed on her coaching journey. Further she acquired a different perspective in coaching skills on a Landmark Forum workshop which was given by Katherine Zakrzewski. After completing the Pearson certified Assessor training, she received the title of “Assessor” and also took on the role of assessor in the companies where she worked. As a volunteer coach she has taken on a lot of projects which are related to coaching and mentorship, and she continues in this role.

Gürsoy, who is currently working as Human Resources Manager at Mutlu Akü (Metair Group in South Africa), continues towards the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development CIPD Level 7 Advanced Certificate as part of her postgraduate degree.