CEO & Master Certified Coach Executive Coach & EXA Therapist
Talyaa Vardar is the Programs Director and Lead Coach at the FLOW Coaching Institute. She is a certified executive coach, facilitator, and creative catalyst with years of experience helping individuals and organizations achieve more fulfilled performance and deeper awareness. As a founding partner of the FLOW Coaching & Leadership Institute, she successfully provides a creative space for individuals and organizations to transform and thus reach their loftiest goals.
Talyaa has a solid leadership background working in multiple industries throughout Europe and North America including with P&G, Grey Worldwide, and WPP Marketing Group. Her executive background in the creative industry enables her to blend her creativity with professional coaching. Her background includes coaching CEOs, General Managers, and Directors across a board of regional companies, as well as several multinational Fortune 500 companies.
Talyaa holds a BSc in Public Administration from ODTU (Turkey), and a MA diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change from EGS University (Switzerland). She completed her professional coach certification in Vancouver, Canada in 2008. Talyaa has more than 8000 hours of personal and organizational coaching, facilitation, and therapy. She has lectured the Coaching Through The Arts program at the Create Institute in Toronto and the Psychology and Art of Leadership program at Koc University EMBA. Talyaa is currently an international faculty member of ISTUD Italy and a board member at the ICF (International Coach Federation) Toronto Chapter. She is also a columnist at the HBR (Harvard Business Review) and Women’s Health magazines.
Personal Values
With her cross-disciplinary background, Talyaa’s strongest asset is her deep understanding of human states, her intuition, and her ability to hold a big picture perspective. She sees opportunities for her clients that always create a positive shift and a snowball effect in many aspects of their lives. She offers international know-how coupled with local expertise. Talyaa is a curious person who is deeply passionate about the creative potential that each person has and about cutting-edge instruments for human development. As a passionate mother, she also is an international faculty member of ACPI (Academy of Coaches Parental Institute in San Diego). She currently resides in Toronto with her family.