Biran Yilancioglu
I’ve rebuilt myself more than once. I was promoted into my first leadership role at 21. Twelve years into a corporate career, I left it to build my own coaching business in Turkey. Then I moved to the UK, to a country where I didn’t know a single person and had no professional network at all.
People assume the hardest part of that move was the language. It wasn’t. The harder part was walking into rooms where nobody already trusted me, where I had to rebuild my credibility from nothing, more than once, in a language that wasn’t my own.
That’s not a story I tell for the sake of vulnerability. It’s the reason I do the work I do. Confidence isn’t something I found once and kept. I’ve had to rebuild it at every one of those turns, and I’ve spent the years since watching what actually helps other women do the same.
What I've learned
Over twenty years I’ve worked inside corporate leadership and coaching, first at HSBC and Bayer, then independently. Along the way I’ve trained and coached hundreds of people. Most of them senior, most of them simply capable and quietly doubting themselves.
I’ve delivered coaching and training programmes for organisations including BCG, BP, Bayer, Genomics England, the FCA, UNICEF, IFAD and the NHS. That’s the credibility part.
But the pattern I kept seeing had nothing to do with seniority or sector. It was the same thing, over and over: capable women making themselves smaller than they needed to be.
I am an ICF MCC, Co-Active coach, EMCC Senior Practitioner, and a certified coaching supervisor.
What I do
I coach and write for professional women who are accomplished on paper and still doubt themselves in the room, at work, at home, in the moments that matter most. Not to hand you a script. To help you notice the pattern, understand where it came from, and stop performing confidence you could just as easily build.
