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Keynotes and Corporate Training
Give your audience a keynote they remember
A method they use
I spent thirty years mastering what captivates an audience and what makes it reach for a phone. Theater, film, live television, global stages.
When people started asking me to teach them how I did it, I reverse engineered thirty years of stagecraft and turned instinct into a framework people can learn, practice and use. That is what I bring to your stage.
I take a limited number of speaking dates each year. If you have a date, send it even if the rest is still taking shape.
Organizations that have hired me
to train, keynote, host, perform or record.
Six talks, each one tailored
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01Lead with Charisma
Expertise gets you into the room. Charisma determines what happens next.
Leadership Summits · Corporate Conferences · Executive Development
- The experience
Information is everywhere. Expertise matters, but it doesn’t automatically create influence.
You can have the best strategy and the brightest minds. But can you make people care, believe, and act?
Drawing on 30 years of stagecraft, I bring The Celebrity Charisma Code™ to life through storytelling, humor, and live demonstrations.
- Key takeaways
- Lead with Presence: Build credibility and trust through how you show up.
- Influence Beyond Authority: Connect, engage, and inspire action without relying on your title.
- Activate Your Charisma: Apply the Five Banks and Master Key to real leadership challenges.
- Customization
Tailored to your industry, leadership level, and the charisma skills your audience needs most.
- Format
30 to 60 minutes | Interactive keynote or keynote + Charisma Lab™ workshop.
02Stage Mastery: From Davos to the Boardroom
Executive Summits · Leadership Conferences · Corporate Events
- The experience
Your audience starts forming an opinion before you’ve finished your first sentence.
Your voice, body, timing, and energy determine whether they lean in or tune out.
After 30 years captivating audiences on global stages, I bring professional stagecraft into the boardroom, teaching leaders to command attention, adapt in real time, and perform under pressure.
- Key takeaways
- Own the Opening: Capture attention from the first three seconds.
- Master Your Instruments: Use voice, body language, and silence with intention.
- Perform Under Pressure: Handle difficult questions, read the room, and maintain energy.
- Customization
Built around your leaders’ real presentations, board meetings, investor days, and high stakes appearances.
- Format
30 to 60 minutes | Interactive keynote or keynote + executive intensive.
03The Power of Charisma in Storytelling
Your data proves the point. Your story makes people care.
Deep Tech · Innovation · Research · Investor Events
- The experience
You understand your technology. Does your audience understand why it matters?
Brilliant research and groundbreaking ideas can lose people in the first thirty seconds.
Drawing on my experience training founders in NATO’s DIANA deep tech and defense accelerator, I demonstrate how to turn complex information into stories that connect, convince, and stay with people.
- Key takeaways
- Make Complexity Compelling: Communicate technical ideas without losing accuracy.
- Build Stories That Land: Structure research, data, and pitches around what matters to your audience.
- Make It Memorable: Use storytelling and charismatic delivery to create understanding and belief.
- Customization
Built around your organization’s research, technology, presentations, and real pitches.
- Format
30 to 60 minutes | Interactive keynote or keynote + Technical Storytelling & Charismatic Delivery workshop.
04My Fame Didn’t Cross the Atlantic. My Charisma Did.
From being recognized by millions to becoming invisible overnight.
Women’s Leadership · Reinvention · Identity · Belonging
- The experience
What happens when everything that once made you visible suddenly disappears?
I went from being recognized by millions in Türkiye to feeling invisible in America. Same talent. Same experience. Different world.
Drawing on my personal journey and years of working with immigrant communities through The Immigrant Story, I explore what happens when our identity, confidence, and sense of belonging are challenged.
Because your circumstances can change overnight. Your value doesn’t disappear with them.
- Key takeaways
- Reclaim Your Identity: Recognize your worth beyond titles, status, and recognition.
- Find the Courage to Be Seen: Move from invisibility to meaningful presence.
- Turn Change into Possibility: Use your experiences to rebuild confidence, connection, and opportunity.
- Customization
Women’s leadership, career transitions, cultural adaptation, and organizational change.
- Format
30 to 60 minutes | Inspirational keynote or keynote + interactive workshop.
05Selling a Feeling, Not a Ticket
People remember how you make them feel long after they forget your pitch.
Sales Kickoffs · Client Leadership · Business Development · Partner Events
- The experience
Your clients can compare features, prices, and promises in seconds. So why should they choose you?
Because people don’t just buy what you’re selling. They buy into the person selling it.
This keynote explores the charisma behind trust, connection, and persuasive communication, turning sales conversations into relationships people want to continue.
- Key takeaways
- Earn Trust Early: Understand the signals that shape first impressions.
- Listen to Influence: Read your clients, recognize what matters, and create genuine connection.
- Sell Through Story: Move beyond features and make your value meaningful.
- Customization
Built around your sales cycle, client relationships, buyer expectations, and real sales challenges.
- Format
30 to 60 minutes | Interactive keynote or keynote + sales communication workshop.
06Beyond the Box
You can’t think outside the box if you don’t even know you’re in one.
Innovation · Leadership · Global Teams · Organizational Culture
- The experience
Everyone wants fresh thinking. Until someone challenges the way things have always been done.
Every organization has invisible rules, assumptions, and habits that shape how people think, communicate, and make decisions.
Drawing on my cross cultural experience and work with diverse communities, I challenge audiences to recognize their blind spots, question the familiar, and discover the value of perspectives they never expected.
Because sometimes the person who doesn’t know the rules is the one who sees what’s possible.
- Key takeaways
- Recognize the Box: Identify assumptions and invisible rules that limit thinking.
- Challenge the Familiar: Turn different perspectives into fresh ideas and opportunities.
- Make Room for the Unexpected: Create environments where unconventional voices can contribute.
- Customization
Cross cultural teams, innovation, organizational change, and leadership.
- Format
30 to 60 minutes | Interactive keynote or keynote + facilitated workshop.
Experience it before your audience does
I teach people how to captivate audiences. Before you hand me yours, watch me.
Ways to work together
Keynote
30 to 60 minutesBuilt for your audience, your moment and the outcome you want.
Keynote and workshop
My strongest recommendationWhen you want inspiration to become behavior. The keynote opens the idea. The workshop puts it into people's bodies, voices and real work.
Executive intensive
Half day · Up to 12 peopleSenior leaders work their own material, on camera, with direct coaching and immediate adjustment.
Hosting and moderation
By eventThirty years of live television, international events and galas brought to your whole day.
Keynote and workshop · Portland
The format I recommend most, and the one that changes the most.
“You gave us gold dust.”
Niall GreenwoodCo Founder, Neuron · NATO DIANA accelerator
Founders worked on how they communicated complex technology, built connection and delivered their pitches with greater clarity and presence.
Participants later credited the work with changing how they pitched as they pursued investment, partnerships and opportunities.
Do not take my word for it
Hear it from the people who were there.
Hands down one of the best communication trainings I have ever participated in my entire career. The impact you are having on my team is amazing, humongous, out of this world.
Your session went beyond inspiration. It redefined how innovators craft their narratives, communicate with impact and build their charisma.
Demet's coaching illuminated unseen blind spots, transforming an engineer's presentation from technical confidence to genuine audience engagement and connection.
More voices
It is always such a pleasure to work with you and to experience the transformation you bring.
Demet is an amazing keynote speaker who had the audience in the palm of her hand.
I often attend events discussing familiar topics. This was the first time hearing about charisma specifically. I loved it.
Straight from the audience
Collected live in the hall through Talkadot, in their own words.
This session was a real eye opener. I realized how much impact we create in the first 7 seconds, not just by what we say, but how. Practical tools on voice, body language and presence made me rethink my communication style. Truly transformative and inspiring.
An absolute gem and a wonderful treat to listen to. She is so much fun to listen to and provides so much great content that is useful for anyone, even in such a short amount of time. She makes the conversations interactive and intriguing by using her multi talent personality. Strongly recommend her.
Very interactive and personable session. Demet is passionate to share knowledge, and her talk has a practice folded in so the theory of her framework sticks and connects.
The record
Thirty years, counted
Years on stage and on camera
Türkiye's Tony Awards for stage acting
Episodes of Türkiye's number one family sitcom
Turkish voice of Princess Tiana
Global stages hosted
Featured performer, inaugural edition
Former adjunct faculty, business school and MBA
Keynotes and workshops, native level
Global social community
From inquiry to stage
Four steps, no mystery.
Tell me about the event
Date, location, audience, intention and budget.
We meet
A short conversation about what you want your people to walk away with.
We build it
I brief with your organizers, then tailor the talk to your audience and your event.
I arrive and deliver
Prepared for your people, your context and your moment.
Tell Me About Your Event
Two minutes here saves us both a week of email.
The more you tell us, the faster we can understand what you are creating, what your audience needs, and whether I am the right person for the room.
My team reviews every inquiry carefully and will get back to you within two business days.
Have a date but not all the details yet? Send it. Dates go in the order they are requested.
Before you ask
How long is a keynote?
Thirty to sixty minutes. I would rather have forty five with real questions than sixty without. Longer than that and it becomes a workshop, and a workshop changes more than a keynote ever will.
Is every keynote customized?
Yes. I brief with two or three of your people before the date. The framework stays. The examples, the language and the questions your people are actually carrying all become yours.
Can a keynote include a workshop?
It is my strongest recommendation. The keynote opens the idea and the workshop puts it into people's bodies, voices and real work. That is where inspiration turns into behavior.
Will this work for technical audiences and engineers?
Engineers are where I do my best work. The gap between what they know and what an audience receives is the widest gap I get to close. The Power of Charisma in Storytelling exists for exactly that audience.
Do you speak virtually?
Yes, and I treat it as its own craft instead of a keynote pointed at a webcam. Thirty years of live television means I know what a camera takes away from you and how to get it back.
Do you speak Turkish?
Yes. Keynotes, workshops and moderation, native level, in English or Turkish.
What does it cost?
It depends on format, travel, audience size and whether you want an hour or a day. The inquiry form has budget bands. Choose the one you are working with and I will come back to you quickly on whether your date works, before either of us spends time on a call.
How are international bookings handled?
North America comes direct. The United Kingdom, Europe and MENA are handled by Speaker Agency in London. Choose your region in the form and it routes itself.
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Bring this to your stage.
Nine questions, about two minutes. It starts there.