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Sema Süvarioglu

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Known For: Founder and Mangar, Pusula Training and Management Consultancy
Country: Turkey

About

Sema Suvarioglu is the founder and manager of Pusula Training and Management Consultancy. She graduated from Istanbul Robert College and received her degrees in Psychology (BA) and Clinical Psychology (MA) from Bogazici University. Ms. Suvarioglu started her career by directing qualitative market research and conducting focus groups at Unilever. Afterwards, she worked as a private psychotherapist. While working as a market researcher at Pars McCann Erickson Advertising Agency, she began her studies in a Ph.D. program on Organizational Behavior at Marmara University. She completed her Ph.D. dissertation on “Creative Problem Solving.”

Ms. Suvarioglu worked as a trainer and consultant in a consultancy company for seven years. She completed ACT’s (Advantage Coaching and Training) “Corporate Coach Program” and Erickson College International’s “Coaching Certification Program.” Since 1996, she has worked as a certified professional coach at Pusula. Over the years, she has taught at Bilgi, Sabancı, Marmara, Boğaziçi (BÜYEM), and Koc University in MBA and EMBA Programs.

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