Canay Atalay

Canay is a leadership event host-moderator, global cultural innovation strategist, conscious business model designer, keynote speaker and writer. She assists global brands, startups, companies and organisations with cutting edge open innovation strategy using new methodologies to re-invent and transform their leadership cultures and businesses.

She specialises in business, experience design, learning and human innovation domains, serving to create awareness and increase capacity for conscious businesses and meaningful lives.

She provides entrepreneurs and leaders the chance to adopt a future-proof mindset in their business decision making, starting with human values of her Conscious Business Model Design and Innovation methodology.

In speaking engagements, and online event and workshop facilitations, Canay creates journeys for audiences to envision their roles and define concrete actions, with a pragmatic and multidisciplinary approach to transformation on an individual, organisational and societal level.

She is also the co-founder of Conscious Learning Tribe (CLT) and The Unconference, a platform for community of leaders and game-changers striving to accelerate the transition to more conscious, sustainable, inclusive, meaningful, and holistic futures. The CLT mission is to create a better planet by offering cutting edge experiences and insights for emerging or current leaders, unifying all in a global tribe.

A graduate from Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology (MIT) and Bogazici University, Canay has helped leading brands and startups design and develop over 250 digital services’ experiences, business models and digital transformation programs, across more than 15 countries across the globe. These include Bayer, BBVA, Coca Cola, Mastercard, Nike, P&G, Pfizer, Unilever, United Nations, Turkish Airlines and Vodafone. Previously, she has worked as the country leader of Fjord Design & Innovation at Accenture Interactive.

She is a mother of two and a vegan for peace, living in Ibiza.