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Fight Club: Does AI Understand Culture?
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how we work, learn and connect, but can it truly grasp something as nuanced as culture?

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Ferhan Alesi
Ferhan Alesi
United Kingdom, Turkey | language: English, Turkish, German, Italian
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  • Intercultural Communication
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Leadership Development
  • Negotiation & Influencing Across Cultures
  • Team Performance
  • Psychological Safety

Ferhan Alesi

About

Ferhan Alesi is a facilitator and coach for Country Navigator. She has a diverse background in business, cultural communications, and public affairs, having delivered programmes worldwide on management development solutions, advocacy, team-building, global leadership, DEI, and cross-cultural management. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Hotel Management and Tourism, as well as a SIIC Certificate in Intercultural Communication. Ferhan has dual nationality, Turkish and Italian, and resides between Istanbul and London.

Areas of Expertise

  • Intercultural Communication
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Leadership Development
  • Negotiation & Influencing Across Cultures
  • Team Performance
  •  Psychological Safety

Experience

  • Over 25 years of international experience in corporate training and capacity development across Europe, the U.S., and the Middle East.
  • Designs and facilitates programmes and workshops for global and local corporations, focusing on leadership development, cross-cultural management, and communication.
  • Delivers interactive workshops and seminars on communications, problem solving, Intercultural Communication, strategic communications, influencing in matrix structures, diversity and inclusion, gender equality, and team-building.
  • Lived, studied, and worked in multiple countries including Kuwait, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the UK, Turkey, South Korea, and the U.S.
  • Coached and trained executives worldwide in interpersonal, cross-cultural, and leadership skills.
  • Clients include Coca-Cola, P&G, Vodafone, Novartis, Siemens, IKEA, Colgate-Palmolive, Sanofi Aventis, Novo Nordisk, MAN AG, AstraZeneca, MSD, B/S/H, Bosch, DaimlerChrysler, Mercedes, HSBC, BP, and many more.

Testimonials

5-Stars

Ferhan is such a positive, inspiring and motivating intercultural coach who helped me go through my transition smoothly from Turkey to the United States. She's very well educated, experienced and aware of the transitional difficulties regardless of the country or business specialty and can feel you very deep using her highly effective empathy skills.

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