Evrim Kuran

Keynote Speaker

Evrim Kuran's Biography

Kuran has a BA in English Language & Literature at Hacettepe University and an Executive MBA degree at Sabancı University. She studied Behavioral Economics, Culture of Innovation and Design Thinking at Harvard Business School where she received a Certificate of Management Excellence. Since 2000, Evrim Kuran has been conducting generational research, organizational attractiveness, DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) studies, and reverse mentoring programs.

Kuran has worked with many local and global employer brands. She is the Country Leader for Türkiye of world’s leading employer branding research and consulting company, Universum. She is also the creator and the curator of People Make the Brand conferences since 2013. Kuran is a Board Member of YetGen Coop - an initiative focusing on developing 21st century skills for youth, an Advisory Board member of People Management Association of Türkiye (PERYON), Sabancı School of Management, KAGİDER, TEVİTÖL and LEAD Network Türkiye, as well as a member of Global Relations Forum (GRF). Evrim Kuran teaches Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at MEF University. She is also an Independent Board Member at Mondelez International Türkiye.

Besides her career as a consultant, she is also a keynote speaker and a columnist and her articles are published at certain national and global publications and portals. She is also the author of four books, Telgraftan Tablete (From Telegram to Tablet) in which she wrote about the five generations of Türkiye, Z: Bir Kuşağı Anlamak (Z: Understanding a Generation) which scrutinizes generation Z through various research findings, Onlar Göçtü Buradan (They Moved From Here) in which Kuran focuses on the brain drain among the new generations of Türkiye and Başarılı Bir Kadın Olduğum için Özür Dilerim (Sorry For Being a Successful Woman) which covers her research on impostor phenomenon.