Nilgun Kuruoz

Nilgun Kuruoz is an executive who has managed teams of various structures and sizes in 24 years out of her 26 years of experience, mostly in the leading institutions of the financial industry.

Although she answers the question “What is your profession?” as “I am a computer engineer”, in addition to information technologies she assumed responsibilities in different domains throughout her career and beared many titles from software developer to assistant general manager.

As a customer she managed IT product and services procurement and vendor relationships and also was responsible of IT and operations as one of the founding and managing partners of a startup that provided payment system services to the financial industry.

She worked with legendary leaders, did projects with renowned international consultancy firms, took part in projects that elevated Turkish Banking Industry to the cutting edge of technology and executed tough mergers & acquisitions.

Throughout her professional life, the role she enjoyed most and felt that she made the most difference is, leading transformational, large-scale, complex project and programs, independent of domain.

She has accumulated a unique know-how and skill set combining:

• Information Technology Management and Governance,
• Large-Scale, Transformational Programme & Project Management,
• Organisation and Business Process Management & Re-engineering,
• Service and Operations Management,
• Mergers & Acquisitions and
• Payment Systems.

She has successfully managed teams of several hundred people, also geographically distributed, multi-generational and multi-national teams. She enjoys clarifiying the right targets and the steps to reach the targets. She is skilled in unifying parties with communication problems, even from different cultures, around shared targets and enabling them to work productively.

She is strong in applied thinking and is focused on end customer experience.

Nilgün Kuruöz has founded Nilsight Consultancy to focus on creating transformation in corporations and individuals the rest of her career by providing consultancy, mentoring and coaching. She is a Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP™, CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach) and an ACC (Associate Certified Coach). Also she has completed the Co-active Leadership Program. 

For her detailed CV you can visit her LinkedIn profile.