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Consulting & Training

Leadership Training Drawn From 40 Years in the Field, Not From Theory

Corporate training, executive coaching, speaking and panel moderation. Every programme is redesigned around your sector, team structure and objectives.

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Services

How I Can Help

Four ways of working, all drawing on the same source: teams personally managed, sales closed and negotiations led across Türkiye, Europe and the United States.

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Corporate Training

Practical workshops designed around your team. Participants leave with methods they can use the next day, not with theory.

Executive Coaching

One-to-one development sessions for newly appointed and experienced managers alike. The agenda is set by the manager's own live cases.

Speaking

Opening and closing keynotes for conferences, summits and company events. In Turkish and English.

Panel Moderation

Moderating corporate panels, summits and interviews — drawing people out while keeping the discussion on track.

Programme Areas

Four Core Areas

The programmes I have delivered to companies and universities since 2006. The modules under each heading can be taken individually or combined into a single programme.

Leadership and Management

For newly appointed managers and senior leaders: holding a team together, delegating, and deciding under uncertainty.

Leadership and Management
Managing Teams and Motivational Leadership
The Art of Leadership — Becoming an Inspiring, Effective Leader
Strategies for Leaders and Managers in Difficult Times
Authority and Delegation
Leadership in a VUCA World (in English)

Sales, Negotiation and Communication

For sales teams and customer-facing functions: the whole process, from sitting down at the table to closing the deal.

360-Degree Selling and Sales Communication
Negotiation Technique
The Customer Is the Boss
Communication Skills and Relationship Management
Internal Communication

Real Estate and Sector Programmes

Tailored to real estate, construction and HORECA — drawing on licensed real estate advisory work in New York and corporate projects in Istanbul.

Real Estate Sales Training
Introduction to Real Estate
Building Portfolio and Finding Clients in Real Estate
Mortgages in the United States
Construction Project Finance
Franchising
Behavioural Training for the HORECA Sector

Personal Effectiveness and Brand

Modules focused on individual development: managing your own time, visibility and long-term reputation.

Building a Personal Brand
Effective Time Management
Sustainable Development

Beşir Kemal Ustaoğlu working with participants in a corporate session

In the Workshop

What Happens in the Room

My programmes are worked through together, not presented at. Each topic opens with a framework, then is discussed through the participants' own cases.

The aim is not to leave with a full notebook, but with a few concrete methods you can apply when you are back at your desk the next day.

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Format Options

How We Work

We set the scope and duration together, based on what you need.

Workshops

Half-day or full-day hands-on group sessions, for going deep on a single topic.

Corporate Programmes

Multi-session, longer-term programmes designed for your organisation — for teams aiming at lasting behavioural change.

One-to-One Consulting

Individual sessions for managers and leaders. In person in Istanbul, or online.

Where I Have Taught

Universities and Organisations

Since 2006 I have taught real estate marketing, leadership, negotiation and competency development at Boğaziçi University and other institutions, and previously taught at Kadir Has University. On the corporate side I have advised the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and a number of real estate companies.

Boğaziçi University — since 2006

Kadir Has University — past

Ondokuz Mayıs University — IDEA'26 Career Summit

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality — consulting

Beşir Kemal Ustaoğlu presenting certificates in a university programme

A moment from a university programme.

Clients

Organisations I Have Worked With

I have delivered training and consulting to organisations across the public sector, universities, retail, energy, textiles, real estate and manufacturing.