Riza Kadilar

Topic: Digital Emotional Contagions

As we entered, for the first time, into a truly connected decade, with the internet of things, and also with billions of people globally sharing same platforms like TikTok, SnapChat, WhatsApp/Facebook/Instagram etc, it’s obvious that our anthropologically designed brains are no longer capable of getting the rest it needs. The general governing feeling of fear, ecological and financial anxiety, and a state of mind of not-being-enough together with the always-on-mentality with telepresence imposed as the new normal make the situation even worse. So how to cope with it? Unfortunately one size does not fit all. In this session we will seek new ways how to find individual solutions to this ever more relevant issue for us all.

Dr. Riza Kadilar is a PhD in Media Economics. After a BSc degree at METU in Industrial Engineering, he has obtained his MSc degree at Stanford University, and completed his MBA at HEC, Paris. He has also completed an executive management course in strategic bank
management at INSEAD. He has various advanced level diplomas in executive coaching and mentoring, and has recently attended online programs on leadership in digital age at Columbia Business School and INSEAD.
His past professional career includes senior level bank management experience in UK, the Netherlands, and Turkey, and since 2006 he’s been working for an international investment banking group as their senior country manager and representative for Turkey.

Dr. Kadilar is the global president of European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). He has previously been the president of EMCC Turkey between 2010 and 2017. He is a graduate of AoEC Advanced Diploma (London, 2009), and CTI’s co-active life coaching program (London,
2004). He has provided executive coaching to a large number of executives in Turkish business environment, and has advised in setting of up mentoring programs for various leading institutions.
Dr. Kadilar was previously a visiting professor at various leading universities including Boğaziçi University. He is the chairman of an education charity (the English Speaking Union (ESU) Turkey) and of a think tank (China Institute Turkey). He is a scientific committee member at Institut du Bosphore (TUSIAD), trustee and board member at Hisar Education Foundation.

He regularly speaks at international conferences on leadership and human capital development. He is the author of five published books and his articles on various subjects are regularly published at Bloomberg Businessweek Turkey.