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About Me

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My Story

With over 20 years of experience in international banking and consulting, I worked with global clients, led teams, and navigated high-pressure environments shaped by complexity, transformation, and constant change.

These experiences gave me deep insight into both the visible and invisible pressures leaders carry: responsibility, pace, decision-making demands, and the internal pressure that often accompanies high performance.

Over time, I became increasingly interested not only in what leaders do, but in how they relate to themselves while leading. I saw how inner pressure, limiting patterns, and constant mental noise can quietly shape leadership, relationships, and decision-making.

Today, as an ICF PCC-certified Executive and Leadership Coach, I support leaders in navigating complexity with greater clarity, groundedness, and sustainable impact.

My work combines corporate understanding with transformational coaching, helping leaders strengthen how they relate to themselves, their leadership, and the systems around them. Rather than pushing leaders to become someone else, coaching creates space to lead more intentionally and in alignment with who they already are.

Clients often describe my coaching presence as calm, grounding, reflective, and challenging in a supportive way. I create a space where leaders can step back from urgency, think more clearly, and reconnect with a more conscious and impactful way of leading.

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Regal Spark

In high-pressure and fast-changing environments, leaders often operate from constant urgency, internal pressure, and inherited patterns of thinking that shape how they lead, decide, and relate to others.

Coaching creates space to step back, reflect, and lead more intentionally. Not by becoming someone else, but by strengthening clarity, groundedness, and alignment with who you already are.

The name Regal Spark reflects a belief that clarity, strength, and authentic leadership already exist within us, even when they are overshadowed by pressure, fear, or self-doubt.

When leaders create space to confront limiting patterns and relate to themselves more consciously, they often reconnect with a more grounded, intentional, and impactful way of leading.

As leaders transform how they relate to themselves, the impact extends beyond the individual. It shapes teams, relationships, decision-making, and organizational culture.

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Corporate & Leadership Experience

   Working Experience 

  • Regal Spark Coaching                                         2024 - Present

      Amstelveen, The Netherlands      

      Executive and Leadership Coach 

      Systemic Team Coach Practitioner 

  • OakTreeMe                                                    2024 - Present

    Eindhoven, The Netherlands      

    Leadership Coach and Facilitator

  • Speexx                                                            2026 - Present

   Munich, Bavaria, Germany    

   Business Coach

  • RSM Netherlands Consulting Services B.V.            2018 - 2023

      Hoofddorp, The Netherlands      

      Director - Business Consulting/Risk & Compliance

  • Credit Europe Bank N.V.                                         2007 - 2018

      Amsterdam, The Netherlands

       Department Manager (VP)/

       Structured Trade &Commodity Finance 

  • Yapi  Kredi Bank- UniCredit Group                          2002 - 2007 

       Istanbul ,Türkiye          

       Account Manager- Corporate Banking

   Education

  • United International Business School                       2005-2006 

       Barcelona, Spain                                               

       MBA: Specialization on International Management

  • Bogazici University                                                   1996-2002 

      Istanbul, Turkiye                                             

      BA: Economics

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