As an executive coach and organizational consultant, Ipek Serifsoy helps leaders bridge the conventional and emergent worlds of business to become more effective in setting and realizing their goals.

Since 1995, Ipek has been working with individual executives and teams at some of the most innovative and successful organizations in the world, including Adobe, Agilent, Applied Materials, BEA Systems, Banker’s Trust, Chevron, Genentech, Pfizer, Estee Lauder, McKesson, Oracle, Pacific Bell, Qualcomm, Revlon, and Wells Fargo.

Ipek’s generative coaching style leverages the principles of dialogue, cognitive linguistics, positive psychology, emotional intelligence, as well as cooperative and appreciative inquiry. It’s a holistic approach that reflects her unique resume – which started with 10 years on Wall Street, engaged in mergers and acquisitions, private placements and investment management.

14 years ago she realized she had better things to do. Ipek earned an MA in Psychology and completed the Coach Training Program at Coach University. She mastered a broad palette of values–based assessment instruments including the Birkman Method, Booth 360, LJ Map, and The Enneagram. Ipek spent a year engaged in post grad studies at the NYT Theological Seminary, then 8 more in management consultancies before going out on her own. When not involved in coaching, consulting and workshops, she’s finishing up her PhD in Organizational Systems and spending quality time developing her daughter Sema’s values.