Bozkurt Cendey is an International Coaching Federation-accredited leadership, executive, and team coach. He works with managers, leaders, and teams in organisational settings. His work focuses on helping individuals and teams develop greater awareness, strengthen proactive thinking, improve communication and relationship-building skills, and enhance effective leadership behaviours across different levels of an organisation.

 

A central principle in his coaching practice is the empowerment of individuals and teams. He supports clients to move beyond simply reacting to circumstances and to take a more active role in shaping positive change in their organisations, relationships, and professional lives, regardless of their position or level of hierarchy.

 

Bozkurt combines formal coaching methods with extensive corporate and leadership experience. This enables him to bring a broad organisational perspective to his work, while maintaining a coaching stance that supports reflection, awareness, responsibility, and practical action.

 

In addition to executive and team coaching, he delivers training programmes, workshops, and talks that support leadership development, organisational effectiveness, and future readiness. Throughout his professional life, he has worked with a strong emphasis on team spirit, creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and the development of people and organisations.

 

Bozkurt graduated from Marmara University’s Faculty of Business Administration. He completed an MBA at Koç University and a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at Kent University. He is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. His doctoral research explores users’ experiences and sense-making of artificial intelligence coaching in individual and organisational contexts, using a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology.

 

Before becoming a coach, Bozkurt had nearly 40 years of corporate and managerial experience across sales, marketing, planning, operations, tourism, events, communication, and training. He worked for nearly 20 years in different management roles at Setur, part of Koç Group. He later became a founding partner of Jules Verne Event Management, where he worked for seven years on creative and sector-leading event projects. Between 2003 and 2006, he worked in the education sector. He completed the final ten years of his corporate career as a senior executive within the OYAK Group.

 

Alongside his professional work, Bozkurt has a strong interest in music. He studied Sufi and Turkish music through his interest in the ney. His creative and inquisitive nature later led him to expand his musical work into other areas. He completed online programmes in orchestration, film and television music production, and recording techniques through Berklee College of Music. He also studied electronic music production at Birmingham DJ Academy. He continues to work on film music and orchestration.

 

Bozkurt completed Advanced Professional Coaching training at Adler, one of the internationally recognised coaching schools, and received the ACPC designation. He has also completed ORSC Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching, Erickson High Performance Team Coaching, and Erickson NLP Master Practitioner training. He continues to work in leadership coaching, executive coaching, team coaching, corporate training, workshops, and keynote speaking.