I am an iconoclast who has consistently challenged the status quo. I am often identified as a  Medical Doctor, Social Entrepreneur, TED Speaker and marathon runner, but my hidden superpowers are fashion aficionado, changemaker, and influencer.

As a physician, I learned how to diagnose and treat illnesses often under extreme pressure with incomplete test results and related information. The skill proved enormously helpful while diagnosing bottlenecks in businesses. Medical doctors learn how to approach a problem and break it down methodically; I did precisely that with my business cases.

My Social enterprise helped me to flex my project management muscles so that I learned how to calculate NPV, strategic planning, and allocation of resources under a strict budget and time constraints. I learned how to do regression analysis, cost-benefit analysis and discounted cash flow models. The experience helped to boost my confidence in my analytical abilities. Besides, starting my enterprise and scaling to win international awards and recognition made me believe in the power of setting and achieving meaningful professional goals- something that I fall back on often when the going gets tough.

Additionally, working in the non-profit sector not only taught me how to adjust to a new industry but also garnered valuable lessons in empathy and self-awareness through interactions with disadvantaged women and girls. The opportunity also led to other exciting new directions for me to enhance my communication skills including speaking at a TED Ex event that eventually initiated my love story with public speaking. I started talking about my experiences as a woman, medical doctor and business person and my account somehow hit a nerve and people responded positively.

As a social entrepreneur, the thrill and excitement of seeing females being transformed from a state of learned helplessness where they previously felt trapped, broken and hopeless to individuals who could earn an income and stand on their own feet was a profound experience. Though working in the social sector is exceptionally rewarding, and you meet fantastic people, it comes with its own set of challenges, and while I continued to run my organization, I wanted to explore more possibilities.

Hence, I went back to school.  At Harvard University, I had the opportunity to perfect my leadership skills and perfect my management skills. I took extensive courses at Harvard Business school, Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. The general management course taught by professor Joseph fuller was particularly helpful in developing better strategies for management and adopted an inside-out approach for general managers. I learned the importance of disconfirming data to off-set confirmation bias and hence discover blind spots that are often overlooked and lead to failure of people, organizations, and businesses.

From an outsider’s perspective, my choices may seem haphazard and somewhat disconnected, but I have learned that there is a common thread in my professional experiences: Creative Problem Solving.

Whether it’s finding the underlying cause of symptoms of the disease or uncovering the bottlenecks in business development or implementing projects for refugee women and girls in Istanbul, the underlying theme remains the same; I love using my creativity to find solutions to problems that seem insurmountable.

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