Mehmet Akal

Mehmet supports leaders to understand today’s digital economy and business transformation. He helps leaders to update their personal leadership in a digital age and to transform their company’s culture. He delivers corporate innovation programs. He is an experienced digital facilitator for remote teams.

Business background

Mehmet was founding partner of Prolivus Learning and Development Solutions in Istanbul,Turkey in 2008. He has been a senior consultant for The Oxford Group since 2019.

He designs and delivers C-level and middle manager level training and immersive development programmes to enhance understanding of the digital economy, disruptive business models and emerging technologies.

He also help leaders to develop their personal leadership in order to innovate and operate like a start-up. He incorporates design thinking, lean start-up for enterprises, design sprints, business model design and jobs-to-be-done methodologies into his programmes.

He was founding partner of Girisim Training and Consultancy in Ankara, Turkey between 1998-2008, working extensively with start-ups and SMEs on their effort to establish or scale up their businesses. Mehmet participated in major entrepreneurship development programmes funded by EU, UNDP and World Bank

Areas of expertise

Design and delivery of ‘Leading in a digital age’ blended development programme, cultural transformation, new ways of working and corporate innovation programmes. Experienced in designing digital workshops and learning experiences utilising digital facilitation and collaboration tools like Mural, Howspace, Slack, Zoom and GSuite.

Education and professional memberships

Columbia University – USA / Executive Education on Digital Business Strategies.

MIT Sloan – USA / Executive Education on Digital Transformation – Platform Business Strategies.

Hacettepe University, Turkey – BA in Business Administration and Management.

Non Violent Communication.

Gestalt Fundamental Concepts and Methodology.