Claim Your Space and Build Your Personal Brand

Personal branding is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity. In this keynote, Yeliz demonstrates how to establish yourself as a recognizable, authoritative, and distinctive personal brand. Drawing on her success as a content creator, author, and former Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, as well as her consultancy framework, The ICON Method, she shows how anyone can develop their own iconic personal brand. Yeliz explores: How to position yourself within an organization or as a founder How to attract opportunities rather than constantly chasing them How to establish and maintain visibility as an expert This talk provides practical strategies to elevate your personal brand, professional presence, and credibility, ensuring that you are seen, sought after, and remembered. Above all, it encourages you to confidently claim your space and show the world more of who you truly are.

Women's Empowerment in Action – Leadership, Sisterhood & Everyday Impact

What it truly means to empower women, every day, through the actions of everyone. In this keynote, Yeliz explores women's empowerment through her own life and career. She shares the impact of the women who recognized her potential, opened doors, created opportunities, and gave her a seat at the table. She explains why everyone has a role to play in supporting and uplifting others. This talk is designed for both women and men. Yeliz explores: How organizations can create a culture that empowers women The patterns and barriers that hold women back How men can become active allies in advancing gender equality How a single conversation, opportunity, or open door can change someone's life This keynote is relevant for events focusing on leadership, diversity, organizational culture, and equality. It is an inspiring, emotionally engaging, and action-oriented talk that encourages everyone in the audience to recognize their role in empowering women, not just occasionally, but every single day.

Speaker and Moderator on Leadership and Empowerment

Yeliz Çiçek

Yeliz Çiçek demonstrates how self-confidence, visibility, and mindset are key to personal growth and leadership. Drawing on her personal journey and experience at the top of the media industry, she inspires audiences to think big and confidently claim their place. Her style is energetic, sophisticated, and empowering, delivering insights that resonate and inspire action.

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Languages: Dutch

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Yeliz Çiçek is a leading expert in self-worth, women's empowerment, personal branding, and personal leadership. She demonstrates how identity, visibility, mindset, and style reinforce one another, and how recognizing your own value can open doors that once seemed out of reach.

Combining journalistic insight, creative vision, and extensive knowledge of the fashion and media industries, Yeliz operates at the intersection of leadership, storytelling, and personal development. Her talks resonate, inspire action, and leave audiences thinking: “I can do this too.”

From a Working-Class Neighborhood to Vogue Netherlands

Yeliz grew up in a working-class neighborhood and developed a strong inner compass from an early age, shaped by optimism, perseverance, and a deep belief in what is possible.

Driven by this mindset, she built a successful career in fashion journalism, interviewing hundreds of women, from leading entrepreneurs and television presenters to actors and media personalities. Along the way, she became one of the recognizable voices in the Dutch creative industry.

At the age of 35, she was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Netherlands. In this role, she introduced a fresh, inclusive, and contemporary editorial direction, developing a storytelling approach that gained recognition and praise. Her work at Vogue is known for championing representation, authenticity, and new perspectives.

Anything Is Possible

Yeliz is the author of Alles is mogelijk (Anything Is Possible), in which she shares her journey from a working-class neighborhood to the top of the fashion industry.

The book offers an inspiring and accessible roadmap for anyone who believes that, with the right mindset, strategy, and determination, any dream can become a reality.

How to Get the Job (Done)

She is also co-author of the bestselling book Expect Miracles and host of the popular podcast How to Get the Job (Done), where she welcomes female leaders and creatives for honest conversations about careers, ambition, and personal growth.

Yeliz's Key Topics and Areas of Expertise

Yeliz delivers keynotes and training sessions on topics including:

Self-Worth & Personal Leadership: Developing the confidence to believe you deserve a place at the top.
Women's Empowerment: Claiming your space, setting boundaries, and stepping confidently into leadership.
Personal Branding: Strategically positioning yourself within an organization or as an entrepreneur.
Storytelling & Identity: Understanding how your personal story shapes your strengths, direction, and influence.
The Power of Style: How fashion can strengthen your mindset, presence, and authority.
Entrepreneurship & Financial Awareness: Managing money, recognizing your value, and taking yourself seriously.
Career Development & Visibility: Creating opportunities by confidently communicating who you are and what you stand for.

Yeliz as a Speaker and Moderator

On stage, Yeliz is known for her energy, warmth, and commanding presence. She combines personal stories with professional experience, journalistic insights, and practical tools.

Her approach is both inspiring and action-oriented, offering audiences confidence, direction, and concrete strategies they can apply immediately.

She communicates with clarity and style, always thoroughly prepared and attuned to her audience. Her talks bring together empowerment, mindset, realism, and vision.

Yeliz is a sought-after speaker for leadership events, corporate conferences, women's networks, creative industry gatherings, and entrepreneurship events.

As a moderator and event host, Yeliz brings calm, elegance, journalistic insight, and a genuine sense of connection. She has moderated numerous panel discussions and interviews and particularly excels in conversations with influential women, entrepreneurs, and creative leaders.

Her ability to truly listen, ask insightful follow-up questions, and create an open, welcoming atmosphere makes every conversation engaging, meaningful, and inspiring.

Themes that Yeliz Çiçek focuses on

Sessions

In this powerful and personal keynote, Yeliz takes the audience on her journey from a working-class neighborhood in Nijmegen to becoming Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Netherlands. It is a story of courage, vision, perseverance, and believing in something greater, even when no one else can see the possibilities.

Yeliz openly shares the qualities that helped her rise to the top of the fashion and media industries, from discipline and creativity to self-confidence and self-worth. She explores the mindset needed to achieve ambitious goals when success seems out of reach and you lack the traditional credentials or connections: how you think, how you act, and how you make intentional choices that bring you closer to your future.

This talk inspires audiences to make the most of their lives and careers, dare to think bigger, and take action with the belief that anything truly is possible when you give yourself permission to succeed.

Personal branding is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity. In this keynote, Yeliz demonstrates how to establish yourself as a recognizable, authoritative, and distinctive personal brand.

Drawing on her success as a content creator, author, and former Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, as well as her consultancy framework, The ICON Method, she shows how anyone can develop their own iconic personal brand.

Yeliz explores:

How to position yourself within an organization or as a founder
How to attract opportunities rather than constantly chasing them
How to establish and maintain visibility as an expert

This talk provides practical strategies to elevate your personal brand, professional presence, and credibility, ensuring that you are seen, sought after, and remembered.

Above all, it encourages you to confidently claim your space and show the world more of who you truly are.

What it truly means to empower women, every day, through the actions of everyone.

In this keynote, Yeliz explores women's empowerment through her own life and career. She shares the impact of the women who recognized her potential, opened doors, created opportunities, and gave her a seat at the table.

She explains why everyone has a role to play in supporting and uplifting others. This talk is designed for both women and men.

Yeliz explores:

How organizations can create a culture that empowers women
The patterns and barriers that hold women back
How men can become active allies in advancing gender equality
How a single conversation, opportunity, or open door can change someone's life

This keynote is relevant for events focusing on leadership, diversity, organizational culture, and equality.

It is an inspiring, emotionally engaging, and action-oriented talk that encourages everyone in the audience to recognize their role in empowering women, not just occasionally, but every single day.