Award-winning Brand Advisor. Futurist. Coach. Keynote Speaker. Female Founder Activist.

Powering brands. For good.

Building brands people love, leaders who thrive, and ideas investors chase.

“If I was ever losing a million, I would bring Oz in to turn it around ”
— Vice President, CNN International
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Strategy, leadership, and execution doesn’t live in a deck anymore; they live inside the business, and most agencies and holding companies simply can’t move at the speed modern brands require.

Brands need clarity, alignment, and leaders who make decisions with confidence.

What brands need now is clarity you can feel, alignment you can trust, and decision-making that lands with confidence.

That’s where I come in. I partner with founders and senior teams as an embedded strategic ally - translating brand, leadership, and investor narratives into real-world action and I do it at the intersection of strategy, creativity, futurism, systems thinking, and coaching.

As a deeply embedded strategic partner, together, we cut through noise, build the operating rhythm behind the vision, and lead transformation that’s grounded, human, and built for what’s next - especially in emerging industries where identity is still forming and the future is still being written.

Let’s face it.

The old agency model is dead.

“Resilience now needs to be cultivated, deployed, engaged with more than ever. But above all else it needs to be embedded within one’s self. Ozlem is one of the few people I know that can do this with people, brands and leadership teams and has done with the Future Laboratory with impressive and unrivalled effect.”

— Martin Raymond, Co-Founder, The Future Laboratory

“Ozlem is incredible, I trippled my revenue in 10 months after working with her in 2025’ ”
— Gonul Valiyeva, Founder, G-Studio, ING Bank Health Advisor
“Ozlem supported me in achieving a 50% uplift in my revenue in 2025”
— Emily Buttun-Lynham, Founder EB Coaching

In 2025 90% of my clients achieved 2X-3X revenue growth

Reimagine your Brand's Future
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‘FOR OVER TWO DECADES I HAVE STARTED AND SCALED BILLION DOLLAR BRANDS FROM THE UK TO THE MIDDLE EAST’

Proud to say I was formerly Head of Research MTV Germany; Head of Marketing, CNN Turkey; Planning Director, G2 Advertising London; Exited founder of Turkey’s leading award winning brand design consultancy, BrandSeers; Head of Strategy, The Future Laboratory, London.

Plus what many of you know me as, Founder of the The Resilient - now recently relaunched as The C-Suite Club, an inner circle for ambitious female founders.

Discover the C-Suite Club

Current and Past Clients

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Whether its global airlines, national finance FMCG or local hospitality...

Brands are no longer only associations of desire. They are declarations of the world they seek to build. That’s when brands shape culture and are built to last.

‘Most brands today are trapped in Horizon 1 running faster just to stay still. But the future belongs to those who build from a deeper power. I help brand leaders reclaim that power. To shift from reaction to regeneration, from performance to purpose, from AI’Slop’ to human meaning.

When brands own their power for good they don’t just survive. They achieve compound growth while shaping the future.’

Oz

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Today I partner with leaders committed to powering good,

Coach and educate founders and founders-to-be, and inspire communities and teams with keynotes and workshops.

Strategic Partner at orient(ai)tion, Los Angeles - helping leaders embed AI strategy into growth and innovation

Founding Advisory Member of Female Founders Rise, a community of 10,000k Female Founders.

Entrepreneur in Residence Warwick Innovation District, UK

  • 2025 NPS Score: 9.8

  • I have trained and delivered keynotes to over 3000+ Leaders, Founders/Students.

  • Stevies Award Winner: Best Corporate Communications…

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  • Build strategic muscle, develop brand POV, connect brand to culture, innovation and communications, structure teams, build creative processes.

  • Brand Narrative, Investor Opportunity Narrative, Pitch Deck Story and Design

  • 2–4 week brand sprints for teams with no time for a 6-month agency process. Brand platform, messaging, cultural positioning, innovation north star, creative direction principles.

  • Creative Strategy to Inspire Creative Teams, Creative team building for creative elevation, creative process design

‘Oz doesn’t consult, she ignites transformation for brands and teams’. Building a brand? This is how you can work with me:

  • Brand positioning, Innovation direction, future scenarios, cultural strategy, creative elevation, team capability uplift, transformational decisions and risk assesment

  • Long-horizon brand futures, disruptive positioning frameworks, trend synthesis into brand actions, product and service innovation, communications and marketing strategy.

  • Brand Framework, Pillars /DNA (positioning, values, tone of voice, Personality), Thought Leadership Strategy, Consumer Content Strategy
    Brand Experience Strategy

  • 1:1 Executive Mindset Coaching designed to elevate leadership clarity, confidence, and influence—strengthening the inner resilience and alignment needed to lead transformative change with composure, creativity, and purpose.

Clarity changes companies. Self-mastery changes Leaders. Narrative changes markets. AI informed strategy changes the future. Let’s chat.

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Looking to ignite and inspire positive change amongst your community and teams.

2026 Talks and Workshops:

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From Cannes 2025 to Creative UK Festival 2025, to London University, University Arts London, Warwick University, she has delivered keynotes to over 2000 leaders/students.

“Oz is like Brene Brown, her talk changed my life”
— CX Community Member
“It was an incredible workshop, everyone loved it. It’s given us not just something to think about, but also some really practical tools for our journeys.”
— Laura Jordan Bambek, Co-Founder, Unchartered
“Scale Beyond Imposter Syndrome was one of our best workshops”
— Emmie Faust, Founder Female Founders Rise
“Every student in the country should experience this workshop”
— Innovation MA student London College of Fashion
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    'Utterly inspiring, eye opening and palpable.'

    Women in CX Community

  • Ozlem is a real powerhouse. She lifted our brand story from a diluted and inconsistent state to a powerful, concise narrative that propelled growth.

    Paulina Trevo, Co-Founder, Lyfta

  • 'Resilience needs to be cultivated, deployed more than ever. Oz is one of the few people who can do this with brands and leaders, and to unrivalled effect.'

    Martin Raymond, Co-Founder, The Future Laboratory

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    'Absolutely brilliant. Incredibly provocative, powerful and expertly run. A great antidote to anyone who wants to harness their creative power for greatness.'

    Laura Jordan Bambach, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Unchartered Studio

  • 'If I was ever loosing one million, I would bring in Oz to turn my business around. She built a brand that exceeded our targets by 300%.'

    Vice President, CNN Turkey

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    'I tripped my revenue in 8 months, Oz is a phenomenal coach and mentor.'

    Gonul Valiyeva, Founder G Studio, Corporate Nutritionist & Fitness Trainer

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    'Oz has a rare ability to define a bold strategic vision while also driving detailed execution - her impact is undeniable.'

    Zoe Mobberly, Warwick Innovation District

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    Oz is amazing, kind and talented. Having her support the work we do since day one has been incredible. We now have 10,000 Members in our community.'

    Emmie Faust, Female Founders Rise

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    'Oz's advice is invaluable - she challenged us to think bigger and shape the future of community powered design.

    Atolye Strategic Design and Innovation Consultancy

  • Oz’s is visionary, rigorous and delivers brilliant execution with such calm.

    British Chamber of Commerce, Turkey

  • Award wining brand consultant, keynote speaker, mentor and coach talking about how to go beyond imposter syndrome to creative power. Her talk "Your Creative Awakening" at Creative UK festival spoke to next generation of creatives in advertising.

    'A cornerstone of The UK Creative Festival - remarkable, infectious, warm, and authentically vulnerable energy.'

    Sara Maddocks, UK Creative Festival

  • 'Oz is great. She challenged us in all the right ways. We have a brand which is now in the hands of many customers - and they LOVE it.

    Kerem, Co-Founder, Neol

  • Working with Oz has been transformational. She is A+++. I’ve experienced the fastest mental and emotional shift of my life through our work together.

    Caroline MacGregor, Co-Founder, UP-scale, Chief People Officer

  • Award winning brand consultant and keynote speaker Ozlem Tuskan giving a presentation to a community of female leaders and founder to empower tomorrows female leadership.

    'Oz is visionary and delightful. She understands the changing dynamics of consumer channels and how to adapt brand behaviour to lead markets.'

    Alper Gulecoglu, Coca Cola

  • 'Her approach ensures fluidity, resilience needed to pursue purpose as the north star''

    British Chamber of Commerce, Turkey

  • 'Oz is fantastic, she has supported me in being the best founder I can be and a 50% year on year revenue growth'

    Emily Button Lynham, Founder, EBC Leadership and Career Development Training

Are you a Female Founder in growth stage or Founder to be looking for coaching and mentoring support ?

  • 1:1 private mentoring and circle for female founders with a goal to 2x+ Revenue. If you are growing your business but lack the confidence and clarity on knowing the best strategic power moves, have ongoing burning questions and choices you need to make for your brand, product, service, business model, design, communications, thought leadership and fundraising this is for you. Here we make the right decisions that scale revenue, increase profit and /or raise funding to create greater freedom and choice for you and your life. Why else did you start your business?

  • A 1:1 Female Founder 6 month coaching and mentoring programme providing a safe space for inner transformation, growth and development that builds greater self-mastery, clarity, confidence and agency with which to start, grow your business and scale revenue. If you are looking to step into your creativity, gain leadership influence for greater impact, aligned with your essence while maintaining peace, harmony and joy, this is for you. Mapping and taking your big next move can be daunting, especially when you know it’s big and what the world needs. It doesn’t need to be that way. It gets to be easy.

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