Culture, Mission, Vision and Values

Company culture is the backbone of any organization, setting the tone for how employees interact, innovate, and drive success. It goes beyond the mission statement, shaping the day-to-day behaviors, values, and attitudes that define a company’s identity. In a rapidly changing world, where industries are being transformed by AI and digital innovation, culture becomes the guiding force that allows businesses to stay agile, resilient, and competitive. A strong, cohesive culture isn’t just a “nice-to-have”—it’s the critical foundation for sustainable growth and success. When culture aligns with business objectives, it empowers employees, enhances collaboration, and drives innovation. Without a deliberate focus on culture, even the best strategies can fall short.

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Rahşan Karan

Strategic Consultant, Mentor & Coach | Expert in Growth, Sales Strategies, Change & Team Development

Deniz Ergen

Sales & Growth Consultant, Mentor & Executive Coach, Change Facilitator

Burcu Basan

Master Certified Executive & Team Coach, Leadership & Organization Development Consultant

Cultural Assessment and Diagnosis

We thoroughly assess your company’s existing culture to identify what’s working and where misalignments may exist with your overall business goals. Through employee surveys, leadership interviews, and behavioral analysis, we uncover the underlying factors driving workplace dynamics.

Cultural Transformation Strategies

We create tailored, actionable strategies to evolve your company’s culture, aligning it with business transformations and long-term objectives. Whether you’re integrating new technologies or embarking on rapid growth, we help instill cultural values that support success.

Leadership and Cultural Alignment

True culture starts at the top. We work with leadership teams to ensure that they not only understand but also embody and promote the cultural values that define your company. Through executive coaching and workshops, we help leaders become champions of the company’s culture.

Culture-Driven Performance Management

We integrate your company’s cultural values into performance management systems. This ensures that team members are recognized and rewarded not only for achieving their targets but also for embracing and demonstrating cultural behaviors that drive success.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs

A diverse and inclusive culture fosters creativity, innovation, and employee satisfaction. We help you design and implement DEI initiatives that not only support diversity but also weave it into the fabric of your company’s culture.

Cultural Adaptation in Times of Change

Especially in today’s fast-paced, AI-driven world, organizations must evolve continuously. We support companies in adapting their culture to new technologies, business models, or mergers, ensuring that culture remains a strength during periods of transition.

Employee Engagement and Motivation

Culture is the foundation of engagement. We develop engagement strategies that connect your employees to the company’s mission and values. We help create programs that inspire and motivate your workforce to feel empowered, valued, and committed to the organization’s success.

Fostering a Growth Mindset

We help cultivate a proactive mindset among employees, enabling them to embrace challenges and drive continuous improvement.

Innovation and Collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration is essential for innovation. We create an environment that promotes idea-sharing and collaboration across teams.

Mission

A company’s mission isn’t just a statement—it’s the driving force that shapes the organization’s direction, decision-making, and long-term vision. When a mission is clearly defined and aligned with the company culture, it acts as a powerful guide for employees at all levels. The mission provides a sense of purpose, while the culture creates the environment that fosters motivation and collaboration to achieve that purpose.

Mission Review and Realignment

We help you assess whether your company’s mission still reflects your core values, goals, and market realities. Where needed, we work with you to refine it, ensuring that it remains relevant and aspirational.

Mission Integration into Culture

A strong mission must be more than words on paper—it needs to be lived and breathed by every employee. We help companies ensure their mission is integrated into everyday actions, behaviors, and decision-making across the organization.

Leadership Alignment with Mission

For a mission to be effective, it must be championed by leadership. We coach leadership teams to embody and communicate the mission in a way that resonates with employees and motivates them to align their efforts with the company’s long-term vision.

Mission-Driven Engagement

Employees perform best when they believe in what they’re working towards. We help create programs that connect employees with the company’s mission, ensuring they understand how their roles contribute to the bigger picture and fostering a sense of purpose.

Vision

Your company’s vision serves as the guiding star, providing direction and purpose for every decision, strategy, and action taken. A clear, compelling vision not only inspires and aligns your teams but also sets you apart in the marketplace, driving long-term growth. With our vision consulting, we help you craft a forward-looking vision that is both aspirational and actionable.

Vision Definition and Alignment

We work with your leadership team to define or refine your company’s vision, ensuring it resonates with your long-term goals and core values. This process involves aligning your vision with the evolving marketplace and ensuring that it inspires and unites all levels of the organization.

Communicating and Embedding the Vision

Having a clear vision is just the beginning; effectively communicating it across all levels of the organization is critical. We help you craft internal communication strategies that embed the vision in your company culture, ensuring every employee understands their role in achieving it.

Vision-Driven Strategy Development

A vision is only as powerful as the strategies that bring it to life. We support you in translating your vision into actionable, measurable strategies that guide your business decisions, innovation efforts, and market positioning. We ensure your vision is integrated into every part of your strategic planning.

Values

Company values are the foundation upon which organizational culture and behavior are built. They act as a compass for decision-making, influence how employees interact with one another, and shape how a company is perceived both internally and externally. Clear, well-defined values foster alignment within the team, enhance employee engagement, and strengthen the company’s brand identity. In an ever-evolving business landscape, companies that stay true to their core values are better equipped to navigate change, inspire innovation, and maintain long-term success.
Our consulting service helps organizations identify, refine, and integrate core values into every level of their operations. We work closely with leadership teams to:

Define Authentic Values

Collaborate to articulate values that truly represent the company’s mission, vision, and culture, ensuring they are meaningful and actionable.

Align Values with Strategy

Ensure that the company’s values are aligned with its long-term business strategy and objectives

Employee Engagement & Buy-in

Facilitate workshops and coaching sessions to engage employees at all levels, helping them understand and embody these values in their daily work.

Values-Driven Decision Making

Provide guidance on how to embed these values into the organization’s decision-making processes, from leadership actions to customer interactions.

Rahşan Karan

Rahşan Karan brings over 25 years of leadership and strategic expertise in sales, business development, marketing, and management. She has worked with global technology giants like Siemens, Dell, and Broadcom, and played a key role in growing AirTies, a pioneering Turkish startup, into a $100M revenue company. As Vice President at AirTies for 10 years, Rahşan was instrumental in building the company’s sales and operations from the ground up and expanding its presence to over 20 countries.
For the last 8 years, Rahşan has led her own consultancy, advising multinational corporations and scale-ups on growth strategies, sales and marketing, organizational health, and market entry into Turkey. In addition to her advisory work, she provides leadership and sales training, helping organizations build high-performing teams and develop strong leadership capabilities. She is also a certified Gestalt and ORSC (Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching) coach, dedicated to helping companies develop high-performing teams and effective leadership. Rahşan’s true passion lies in unlocking the potential of both people and businesses.
Born in Giresun, a picturesque city along Turkey’s Black Sea coast, known for its verdant nature and hazelnuts, Rahşan has a deep connection to nature and culture. She holds a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the Middle East Technical University (METU).
Beyond her professional life, Rahşan is fulfilling a lifelong dream by studying theater. She has a deep love for both nature and the arts; she is a collector of paintings and sculptures, practices ceramics, and enjoys outdoor activities such as sailing, hiking, and gardening. Her passion for travel leads her to explore different cultures, taste new cuisines, and engage with artists during her visits. As an audiophile with a deep love for all music genres, she has a special affinity for jazz music. She also enjoys cooking and gathering with her loved ones around large, shared tables, as food plays an important role in her connections with others.
Her commitment to nurturing talent extends beyond her career, as she actively mentors young entrepreneurs and students through platforms like ARYA Women Investment Platform, Endeavor, Ashoka, and the TEV ODTÜ Scholarship Fund, where she has been instrumental in shaping coaching and mentorship programs that have impacted over 1,000 students.
She has a tabby cat named Şans, which means “luck” in Turkish.

Deniz Ergen

Deniz Ergen held various managerial positions in the Financial and Capital Markets sectors. Twenty four years of money market experience, last seventeen in banking. She most recently served as the Executive Vice President in charge of Retail Banking Sales at Finansbank A.Ş.
She is an Executive and System Coach with more than 11 years of experience. She works with individuals in all levels of the organizations, focusing primarily on managing the gaps between personal values and system values; trying to understand how these relationships can be better aligned.
She is a practitioner of ORSC (Organizational Relationship Systems Coaching). She guides individuals in understanding the relational intelligence present within a system and the collective structure formed by everyone in it. Her coaching helps individuals live more in tune with this understanding. In her one-on-one sessions with executives and team workshops, she focuses on ; be present, change awareness, the cycle of adaptation and modeling, the capacity-result relationship, the responsibility of unlocking potential, decision-making, and team management.
She believes that a strong stance is only possible through balanced relationships between the Mind, Heart, and Body, as well as the equal distribution of all intelligences. Being human is being aware thus accountable for his own thoughts, emotions and behaviors. This is possible only when we are the audience of what we play. Letting go of rigid patterns and being the moment itself, not easy yet necessary, leads to new, un-touched opportunities. We need to unleash.
Ergen’s vision is to contribute to the development of as many leaders as possible; in a lean, empathetic, unlearned journey.
Additionally, she loves being on stage.
Her hobbies include sailing, skiing, photography traveling and yoga. She is also an avid reader.

Burcu Basan

Burcu is an ICF (International Coach Federation accredited) MCC, Master Certified Executive Team Coach with 3500+ hours of coaching experience. Prior to her coaching career she worked in different multinational/cultural organizations with different roles in HR, establishing revolutionary HR Systems, performance evaluation & development, employee engagement, leadership development, managing HR systems during/after M&A’s to name a few. In 2013, HR systems implementation under her vision & supervision impacted the company to be one of the first GPTW.

She has holistic approach to leadership & organizational wellbeing – nutritional health to breath, psychological safety to yoga, need for success to thriving relationships – blended uniquely to serve the best interest of her clients. She has served 30+ different business partners internationally through the life-changing programs she has designed and lead. She always aimed high professional & ethical standards in coaching & consulting. In order to provide that for her clients she has been through intense self-development work with deep transformations while supporting her clients for their own breakthrough.

Burcu has deep professional interest and experience in leadership development, psychological safety, team dynamics & relationship systems, employee engagement, holistic wellbeing, mindfulness, resilience and change management. Burcu is a graduate of reputable coaching schools GCC (Gestalt Center for Coaching), CTI ( Co-active Training Institute), ORSC (Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching), Leading from Emerging Future (Ulab -MIT) and a certified practitioner of Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) & Team Diagnostics (TDI). She is a certified yoga § mindfulness instructor, a breath coach, health coach from Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She is a member of the coaching team of LHH, coaching C-level professionals from different industries. Burcu graduated from American Collegiate Institute (ACI) and studied several different disciplines of natural sciences, social sciences & management at Sabanci University.

Clients find that she meets them where they are through a daring, engaging and compassionate style. She has a grounded, authentic, joyous and holistic approach in her style of coaching to address the topics above and below the table, that eases the lead to change.

Areas of Professional Expertise:

  • Executive Coaching
  • Developing Women’s Leadership
  • Team Coaching
  • Organizational Development
  • Culture & Change Management
  • Leadership Presence & Development
  • Psychological Safety & Trust @ Work
  • Corporate Immunity
  • Team Dynamics & Relationship Systems
  • Holistic Wellbeing
  • Mindfulness
  • Resilience
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Organizational Alignment & Engagement

Education, Certification & Training Programs:

  • Path of Mastery in Gestalt Coaching
  • Gestalt Groupworks Program
  • Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Women’s Leadership Development
  • Coaching the Organization & the Leader- Dost Can Deniz, MCC
  • Harvard Business School Online – Power & Influence for Positive Impact
  • Leading from Emerging Future – U.lab MIT
  • Leadership Circle Profile Certification Program
  • Team Diagnostics – Team Coaching International
  • Coming Back to Center Workshop Tuscany– Gila Seritcioglu, MCC & Giulio Brunini
  • Health Coaching – Institute for Integrative Nutrition
  • ACTP Gestalt Coaching Program
  • Gestalt Applications In Life
  • Advayta Yoga Teachers Training & Mindfulness Training
  • Complete ORSC Series – CRR Global
  • CTI – Co-Active Coaching
  • NFS – Breath Coaching
  • TPCL – The Performance Coach
  • Sabanci University Management BA
  • American Collegiate Institute -Science
  • Callan School of English (UK)

Languages:

English & Turkish