25 years professional experience on developing business plans for micro, small, medium and large scale enterprises.

Experience on developing entrepreneurship for women. Provided coaching and mentoring for start-ups, organized and delivered seminars, trainings, consultancy services with respects to confidence building practices, business idea generation, preparing feasibility, business plans and monitoring small businesses with a view to rendering them sustainable/profitable organizations;

Experience in planning and delivering trainings for more than 18 years. Trained 6000+ people in various disciplines including but not limited to Project Cycle management, preparation of logical framework matrices, Contracting, Monitoring and Evaluation of Projects, Team Building/Performance Enhancement, marketing, Foreign Trade, entrepreneurship in general and women entrepreneurship in particular;

Experience in training and consulting services SMEs for grant scheme applications, coaching on preparation of sustainable business plans, developing entrepreneurship;

Considerable knowledge and experience on delivering trainings on Foreign Trade, brand management;

Knowledge and experience in organizing economic and social surveys, local (micro) and regional (macro) economic analysis, preparing market assessments for various sectors for SMEs, conducting benchmarking local, regional and national studies;

Assessment of potentials for SMEs internationalization capacities with sectoral and regional perspectives;

Conducting due diligence studies for small industries, making gap analysis and needs assessment studies and reporting.

Specific Professional Experience:

Experience in Technical Assistance projects as a Long Term Expert in delivering management consultancy services and institutionalization services for more than 15 years.

Experience in private sector development projects for more than 15 years.

More than 10 years’ experience on business center start up, organization and management, SME management experience for more than 20 years. Considerable knowledge of Turkish Business Law. Consultancy and training experience for more than 10 years, in all over the Turkey in HR, PCM, business planning, Foreign Trade, marketing, entrepreneurship