{"id":5525,"date":"2017-11-15T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2023-04-10T19:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:41:33","slug":"cigdem-penn-learn-to-embrace-your-fears-turkishwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/cigdem-penn-learn-to-embrace-your-fears-turkishwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ci\u011fdem Penn \/ Learn to embrace your fears \/ TurkishWIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Throughout her entrepreneurial career in three countries, Cigdem learned to make tough choices and to never be desperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"CCi\u011fdem Penn | Learn to embrace your fears | Turkishwin\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8zfRy84MhE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After a few years in corporate roles, Cigdem started Xsights, a global research and consultancy firm, from her living room and took control of her work-life balance. \u00c7i\u011fdem is an experienced researcher with fifteen years of expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. She is well versed in both high-profile and international projects. A graduate of Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, \u00c7i\u011fdem focused on change management and resistance to change in the context of organizational culture and started her career in management consulting. She then moved into market research and worked in two of the biggest agencies in the UK. In 2006, \u00c7i\u011fdem started her own research consultancy, Xsights in London and opened the Turkish branch in 2010. She has been delivering results-driven research ever since, both in Turkey and internationally. \u00c7i\u011fdem is a member of ESOMAR, the Market Research Society and the Turkish Researchers Association and is the founding president of the Turkey and Nepal Business Council. \u00c7i\u011fdem has lived in Kathmandu for three years consulting with the United Nations, is now based in Turkey. \u00c7i\u011fdem Penn, a frequent public speaker and an occasional columnist, speaks French and English fluently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout her entrepreneurial career in three countries, Cigdem learned to make tough choices and to never be desperate. After a few years in corporate roles, Cigdem started Xsights, a global research and consultancy firm, from her living room and took control of her work-life balance. \u00c7i\u011fdem is an experienced researcher with fifteen years of expertise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsights.co.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}