Strategist and financial literacy advocate Ozlem Denizmen Kocatepe shares her goal-setting strategy to realize her dreams and takes us along the journey. Her current goal is to make a difference by improving financial literacy in Turkey.
This talk was recorded by Iltek Media.
Ozlem Denizmen Kocatepe is currently president for strategy at Dogus Holding and a board member in Dogus Automotive.
She started her career at Merrill Lynch Investment Bank as a Financial Analyst in 1994 in the US. Since 2000 she has served in a variety of positions in strategy management, business development and investor relations in the Dogus Group. Ozlem launched the ‘Para Durumu’ financial literacy initiative in an effort to increase personal budget management in Turkey. She was a delegate at the 2010 Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, held in Washington, D.C. and is a Young Global Leader of World Economic Forum. She is a graduate of the Cornell University Department of Industrial Management and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She participated in the “Influencing Techniques” program at Stanford, the “Leadership” program at GE Crotonville and the “Advanced Management “ program at the Harvard Business School. Ozlem is married and has two children.