Aker

About Aker

Asli is the founder of Niches Consulting & Coaching LLC, a Seattle-based firm specializing in leadership and organizational development. Asli is a true world citizen who brings her experience living and working in the U.S, Singapore, United Kingdom, Austria, Dubai, and Turkey to her global clientele. She specializes in helping individuals and teams increase their capacity to lead. Coaching: Asli works particularly well with leaders who embrace growth as a lifelong journey. She helps driven professionals increase their capacity to lead. Her clients build the necessary skills to inspire, connect and impact. Executive coaching with Asli goes beyond titles and assumes leadership is not a role but a decision. Her typical coaching profiles are high-performing individuals with growing missions, experts developing general leadership skills, entrepreneurial spirits learning to navigate organization dynamics, high achievers who are searching for their next purpose, and recovering perfectionists who want more from life. Consulting: Working with startups, nonprofits, and teams within larger corporations, Asli helps build mission-driven, strengths-based and inclusive teams. She partners with teams to create a culture where complex challenges are seen as opportunities, conflicts lead to growth, and differences stimulate innovation. Facilitation: Asli is an experienced facilitator in areas of leadership, self-awareness, mental fitness, building strengths-based teams, work-life balance, and personal growth. Methods, Certifications: Professional Certified Coach, Leadership Circle 360, Immunity to Change, Core Values Index, Mental Fitness, Polarity Management, Strengths Finder, Hogan Assessment, Adaptive Leadership - Case in point, CoResolve, Energy Leadership Index, Emotional Intelligence, Total SDI

Experience

1. Organisation Solutions Associate

   Organisation Solutions

   Jan 2013 — Present

Education

• The Manchester Metropolitan University

  Post Grad

  1993 — 1994

• Vienna International School

  IB Cerificate, Austrian Matura, VIS Diploma

  1986 — 1988

• Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

  BSc

  1989 — 1993

• The Manchester Metropolitan University

  MA

  1994 — 1995