Elvan Omay

Elvan Omay, founder of the initiative Mümkünlerin Kıyısında (On the Shore of the Possible), focuses on helping adults make sense of periods of transition. Over a twenty-year corporate career she held roles such as editor-in-chief of National Geographic Türkiye and head of corporate communications at the daily newspaper Hürriyet and at Özyeğin University. She then turned to education and personal development, founding and running the Istanbul branch of The School of Life. Blending observations gathered in the field and insights drawn from her own transitions with adult development, the psychology of change and design thinking, she developed the “Eşik Bilgeliği™” (Threshold Wisdom) approach. A graduate of Business Administration at Boğaziçi University and of the Executive MBA programme at Özyeğin University, Elvan designs programmes and processes that strengthen a sense of belonging, of participation and of the future for individuals and communities in times of change. She shares the fresh possibilities found within complexity at mumkunlerinkiyisinda.com.