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Souzan Bachir

Credentialed by International Coach Federation (ICF) as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) in 2009; Souzan Bachir spent 15 years out of 25 years of her professional carreer working on strategic concultancy, coaching and training. In addition to being vice president of ICF Turkey Chapter, Souzan is an experienced consultant, coach and trainer on emotional awareness, relationship management, intercultural communication and team coaching. She designs and implements Team and Executive Coaching Trainings and Leadership Workshops both in Turkey and for multi-national companies around the world. Souzan gives coaching and consultancy services in English, Arabic and Turkish.

Souzan Bachir was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1966. She completed the primary and secondary schools in Aleppo Fransiscaine French School and attended high school in Jeddah College for Girls in Saudi Arabia. After she graduated from Business Management department at Middle East Technical University, she gained her master degree on International Business Management from Yeditepe University in 2002.

She began her professional career at United Nations Development Programme as a Project Supervisor. She then worked as the Project Coordinator at United Nations World Food Programme. After she completed her duty as an Ambassador’s Press Consultant at the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic, she moved to Istanbul in 1996 and started to work in Temsa Termomekanik Sanayi Inc. as an Export Specialist. She was then appointed to the position of Regional Manager in charge of Middle East and North Africa and eventually served as the International Marketing Manager. In 2003 she established Su Foreign Trade Marketing and Consultancy Company with a focus on international marketing consultancy.

Souzan’s professional development includes coaching training by the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), she has completed 116 hours of training of ‘Co-Active Coaching’ in 2006. In 2007, she became authorized assessor and facilitator of Neo Pi-R Personality Inventory and started to work as a “Freelance Assessor” at Assess – Assessment Center. She has additionally received training in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching in 2008 by the Center for Right Relationship and was certified by the same organization in 2009. She is also a graduate of the year-long Co-Active Leadership Programme of the Coaches Training Institute. She is also a certified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). In 2012, she completed Process Work Intensive Program and got the certificate of Process Oriented Psychology. In 2013, Souzan underwent training in Advanced Neuroscience Coaching, Transactional Analysis, Coaching Supervision and Coaching Psychology.

Since 2006, Souzan has acquired more than 2500 coaching hours in executive coaching, team coaching and personal coaching, as well as 350 hours in intercultural coaching. Souzan has coached a group of entrepreneurs as part of Endeavor Turkey project that was coordinated by the International Coach Federation (ICF), Turkey Chapter. Currently, she works as a volunteer coach for students of the Association for Supporting Contemporary Life (Cagdas Yasami Destekleme Dernegi) within the framework of the Social Responsibility Project of ICF Turkey. In addition to this, she has presented a seminar on “Time Planning and Management’’ for the students of Association for Supporting Contemporary Life - Starfish Project (Deniz Yıldızı Projesi). Furthermore, she has organized workshops on leadership and awareness, intended to reach women and mothers in Turkey and abroad. She has given a workshop based on ‘’Awareness and Life Coaching’’ to the students of Kultur University Management Club.

Souzan Bachir has attended several panels and discussions as a speaker on ‘’International Trade and Investment Opportunities in Middle East’’ at DEIK, ITO, Mersin Chamber of Commerce, Halep Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Okan University. As well as attending 1st Coaching Conference of ICF with her speech on ‘’Systems Coaching’’, Souzan has given a speech on the subject of ‘’Coaching Cultural Diversity’’ at European Mentoring and Coaching Conference in Venice, Italy.

With her colorful personality, optimistic point of view and clarity of vision, Souzan peps up others in the most correct way. She is a succesful life guide who can motivate her cochees in line with their goals.