Ebru Bilir Yalçınkaya, PCC, PhD(c) Neuroscience

Leadership • Organizational Transformation • Neuroscience • AI at Work | Helping CEOs & CHROs lead transformation that actually sticks · Neuroscience × Leadership × AI at Work

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Organizations do not transform. People do. That's easy to say. Much harder to make real. Here's what I've seen working with leadership teams: most transformation efforts stall not because of strategy — but because of how people actually think, decide, and change. Or don't. If you're leading a transformation, building a leadership culture, or trying to make change stick — the missing piece is usually human behavior. Not tools. Not frameworks. People. I work with executive teams to close that gap. Bringing together neuroscience, behavioral research, and real-world experience from the field — so that what gets decided in the boardroom actually lands in the organization. If this sounds like the conversation you're trying to have, let's connect.

Experience

  • Nörobilim Kadınları Derneği Yönetim Kurulu Kurucu Üye at Nörobilim Kadınları Derneği
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Leadership & Organizational Transformation Expert with Neuroscience and AI perspective at agile42
    Sep 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

    I deliver agile coaching and training services. I support companies and people to grow agile mindset by delivering training, coaching, mentoring and consulting services in Turkey and abroad. I deliver services both remote and on site

  • Avea (12 yrs 4 mos)
    • Agile Coach/Organizational Development/Human Resources group
      Jan 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

      To enhance agility in Avea, which means delivering products and service with high speed and quality, focusing on value when delivering.To find out processes and organisational units for Agile transformation. Working as an internal consultant in Avea's Agile Studio with sales, technology, human resources and customer care groups and responsible for - Internal trainings on Scrum, Scrum Master and kanban, Product owners - Competency development programs for Scrum teams, Scrum Masters and product owners. - Coaching service for teams, Scrum Masters and product owners. - Learning platforms for the entire organization, including Agile Café, Agile Library, Agile Summit and Agile Studio Intranet Portal. - Organizational agility assessment and agile organization design.

    • Change Management Office
      Sep 2012 - Dec 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Work to ensure that the results achieve lower costs and higher revenue, lean, agile, nimble and achieve a sustainable structure, more accurate and efficient use of resources entrusted to provide. • The main objective is to provide a positive impact on EBITDA, a holistic company-wide perspective to achieve this goal to be responsible for the management of large transformation programs, for this purpose the identification and implementation of the initiatives. • In this context, find and implement solutions that will change the way of working Prioritize and identify Cross-functional business transformation initiative, s identification, • Establishment of cross functional virtual teams that will execute transformation initiatives• directing project teams and cross-project coordination, • monitoring and reporting of projects - Agile approach and , coaching, Scrum Master, supporting Business Unıts for the agile adaption

    • Consumer Sales Support Department Manager
      Jan 2008 - Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Controlling and giving the operational support to all consumer sales channels and sales executives, managing consumer channels life cycle. With my 26 staff ,responsible  To give operational support to Consumer, Alternative Channel Regional Line Managers and to give assistance regarding Sales Support issues in order to ensure the quality of all Consumer, Alternative and Sub-Dealer Channel operations  To make the necessary communications to dealers, and update them about the new products, procedures, campaigns, and all other issues related . To coordinate the communications between related departments and consumer sales chanels.  To manage sales channel orders and and ensure the distributors and other sales channels get these products properly on time by coordinating logistics.To follow the stock of sim-cards and POP products .  To inform dealers and sub-dealers and consumer sales group about the compensation earnings , penalties, premium cut offs and enable dealers and subdealers to monitor their own performance, reply disclaimers about these subjects according to standarts.  To collect data from own consumer sales channels and the competitors. To analyze the collected data by the dealer audit group such as providing input for the analysis of territorial features of the demand, the distribution channels and the analysis of competitors behaviour, analyzing the data and presenting evaluations to the related groups

  • Specialist at 2004-2006
    Feb 2004 - May 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Flagship Sales Supervisor 2002-2004

  • Operations Consultant at McDonald's Corporation
    Dec 1997 - Dec 2001 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    responsible of operating several McDonald corporation restautants.responsible for profit and loss statements, people plan, training, quality control, service level, sales of the restaurants.