Profile

Oya Günay is an Executive Coach and Strategy Partner, working with leaders and senior corporate executives across Europe. She has more than 20 years of international business experience, specifically focused in financial services.

During her time working in Istanbul, London and Vienna, she held the positions of Head of Investment Banking Operations (Banque Paribas), CFO (ABN AMRO Capital Markets Turkey) and Regional Project Coordinator (ABN AMRO Bank London and Vienna). This business background gives her great insights into the challenges, goals, and opportunities of local and global executives from a wide variety of countries and let her move into Executive Coaching and Strategy Partnership in working across cultures.

Because of her years of diverse executive experience in the business world, Oya is an expert in partnering with leaders and senior corporate executives on finding solutions to discover themselves, maximize their potential and then move forward from the point where they are to the point where they aspire to be. Her expertise includes high potential leadership, financial and business understanding, change management, emotional intelligence, globalization and intercultural interaction. Oya is a graduate from Columbia University’s Advanced Executive Coaching Certification Program and a certified assessment analyst on the Neethling Brain Instrument: Thinking Preferences and Korn Ferry 360.

In addition to her role as an Executive Coach and Strategy Partner, she conducts academic research on the foundations of intercultural interactions and writes articles in that regard. She teaches in some of the seminar programs organized by the Istanbul Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey.

She lives in Vienna, Austria and speaks Turkish, English and German.