Gain clarity, trust your strengths, and create sustainable success through coaching that both supports and challenges you to grow.
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Executive and Leadership
Coaching
Transform Your Mindset & Career
ICF-certified Executive Coach | 20+ yrs in corporate | 15 yrs in leadership​
Experience how coaching can support your growth.
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Does This Sound Like You?
​​​You’ve achieved a lot in your professional life, and yet, something inside tells you there’s another level waiting.​​​
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You want to trust your decisions fully and lead with calm confidence.
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You have the expertise, now you want to amplify your impact and inspire others more deeply.
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You’re looking to reconnect with the spark that brings meaning and joy to your work.
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You want to step into your new leadership role with clarity and balance.
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You aim to build genuine connection and understanding across cultures.
If any of these resonate, coaching can help you reconnect with your clarity and confidence and take the next step in your growth.
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You don’t have to stay where you are.
This is your moment to take a new path, one that helps you lead with confidence, see with clarity, and create meaningful, lasting change.​
How We'll Work Together
Coaching brings the most benefit when it’s fully chosen, not imposed.
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That’s why I offer a step-by-step approach, giving you the chance to explore if we’re the right match, discover whether coaching is for you, and commit as far as you’re ready, while seeing how far our work together can take you.
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Sessions are available face-to-face or online, in English or Turkish, giving you the flexibility to shape your coaching experience in the way that suits you best.
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Here’s how we’ll create your transformation, step by step.
Step 1 - Discovery Call (45 mins)
Explore if we’re the right fit​
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Focus: A safe space to talk about your goals, challenges, and needs.
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Value: See if our partnership feels right for you.
Step 2 - Coaching Preview (3 bi-weekly sessions)
Explore Coaching through Experience
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​Focus: Gain clarity on your current challenges and direction
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Value: A low-commitment way to try coaching, build awareness, and make a conscious choice about continuing your journey
Step 3 - Transformational Coaching Program (3–6 months)
Go deeper for lasting change
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Focus: Deeper mindset shifts, confidence, and sustainable change.
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Value: Strengthen your presence, build emotional resilience, and lead with clarity and confidence; not pressure. With consistent reflection and accountability, you’ll shift the patterns that limit your impact and create long-term results aligned with your values.
Songül Balaban
My goal is to help you create sustainable change that brings both success and inner peace.​
I bring together two worlds: over 20 years of corporate and leadership experience in banking and consulting, and my work as an ICF-certified executive and leadership coach. I know first-hand the pressures and complexities of leadership, especially when balancing ambitious career demands with personal well-being.
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Having worked and lived across cultures, I deeply understand the journey of expat professionals and executive women who strive for success while navigating while balancing high expectations and their own inner standards.
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My coaching style is intuitive, transformational, and impactful.
I create a safe and supportive space where you’ll feel seen, heard, and also challenged, so you can quiet the noise of your inner critic, see yourself more clearly, view challenges through a new lens, and build the confidence to move forward.
What Clients Say About their Coaching Experience
Here’s what clients say about how coaching has impacted their growth and leadership.
​​Jeri W. - Human Resources Business Partner
How would you describe Songul's coaching style? What are Songül's strengths as a coach?
Songül is an excellent listener which allows her to reflect back very important observations. She is warm, empathetic, and brings deep personal experience from her career. She also instinctively knows when to push and when to wait.
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What changes did you experience/notice as a result of coaching with Songül?
I got a lot of clarity for myself on some very important items that had been in my way. I have taken very concrete actions as a result of our work together.
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Testimonial:
Songül has a very warm, supportive, empathetic style which makes it easy for the client to dive deep into topics quite rapidly. She is an excellent listener who helped me hear myself very clearly. She knows how to create space for thinking, and yet knows how to come back and ask the next question at the right moment to unlock the learning. I would highly recommend her to anyone ready to move forward with their topics!​
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Mica S. - Managing Partner
How would you describe Songül's coaching style? What are Songul's strengths as a coach?
Songül brings a bounty of skills and experiences to create a brave space for exploration and true collaborative coaching. She made me trust myself by following the logic of my busy mind and allowing complexity to exist. At the same time, she was delft at maintaining focus on my desired outcomes of our coaching.
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What changes did you experience/notice as a result of coaching with Songul?
Songül helped me through a critical phase of my professional transformation. I needed to make sure I was making choices that helped me reach my desired outcome. With her support I was able to prioritize my time, maintain healthy boundaries and manage my thinking to ensure I achieved my goal.
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Testimonial:
Songül is a deep listener and soulful coach. She provided a solid structure where I felt comfortable unspooling everything that was cluttering my thinking and knowing she'd help me reel it all back in a way that was more manageable. She helped me to find some very helpful new lenses that will continue to support my personal and professional growth.​
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