Hi there, I am a senior product manager with 9+ years of experience in B2B & B2C product development mainly in fashion & retail industries. I have consultancy and product management background. Seasoned in cross functional stakeholder management and driving product ideation into impact.

If you are an aspiring product manager or looking for tips to master in product management, I would be happy to share my experience to help you achieve your goals!

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey and located in Berlin more than 5 years and love it!

My Mentoring Topics

  • Product Management
  • Product Strategy
  • Product Discovery
  • Product Management in B2B products
  • Cross functional stakeholder management
  • Nonviolent communication
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Transition into Product Management
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16.April 2023

I had a smooth and productive dialogue with Ilksu. She attentively listened to my questions and provided insightful answers. I am looking forward to continuing our communication and working together to achieve our goals

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Marshall B. Rosenberg, Deepak Chopra

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Radical Candor - How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
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Featuring a new preface, afterword and Radically Candid Performance Review Bonus Chapter, the fully revised & updated edition of Radical Candor is packed with even more guidance to help you improve your relationships at work. 'Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives.' – Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In. If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all . . . right? While this advice may work for home life, as Kim Scott has seen first hand, it is a disaster when adopted by managers in the work place. Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google before moving to Apple where she developed a class on optimal management. Radical Candor draws directly on her experiences at these cutting edge companies to reveal a new approach to effective management that delivers huge success by inspiring teams to work better together by embracing fierce conversations. Radical Candor is the sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the one side and ruinously empathetic on the other. It is about providing guidance, which involves a mix of praise as well as criticism – delivered to produce better results and help your employees develop their skills and increase success. Great bosses have a strong relationship with their employees, and Scott has identified three simple principles for building better relationships with your employees: make it personal, get stuff done, and understand why it matters. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of first-hand experience, and distilled clearly to give practical advice to the reader, Radical Candor shows you how to be successful while retaining your integrity and humanity. Radical Candor is the perfect handbook for those who are looking to find meaning in their job and create an environment where people love both their work and their colleagues, and are motivated to strive to ever greater success.

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