What drives you?
The vision of a healthy world of work.
The best advice you ever got?
Not believing everything I think. (Especially helpful for self-critical thoughts ;-))
What are you learning right now that you’re not so good at yet?
As a mum of two little boys, I still have a lot of palaeontology to practise – especially dinosaur names.
What would you change if you had the power to do so?
Breaking stigmas around mental health.
Which superheroine power would you like to have?
I would love to have the superpower to speak all the languages of the world. That would not only be pretty cool, but also very practical.
Dr. Neşe Oktay-Gür
Neşe Oktay-Gür is a psychologist and works as a coach and consultant. She helps people to be professionally successful and mentally healthy. She helps companies to provide an appropriate environment for their employees. She studied psychology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where she also completed her doctorate. During her doctorate, she taught at various universities. After her doctorate, she worked as a therapist in various psychiatric clinics.
During her parental leave, she accompanied her partner on a foreign assignment to South Africa. During this time, she discovered how much there is to do in terms of mental health outside of clinical work and decided to set up her own business as a coach and consultant. In her digital practice for coaching and consulting, she has been helping ambitious people to find their balance through coaching sessions since 2022. She gives talks, workshops and seminars for companies. She also trains managers in dealing with their own feelings and those of their employees.
She is an advocate for mental health on LinkedIn and was recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice Work Life Balance in 2023. She was also recently named HR Top Voice at Personio and was recognized as a young innovator for mental health in 2024 by the Wirtschaftsjunioren as part of the 4×4 under 40.
Topics
Mental health, psychological safety, resilience, stress, self-doubt
Languages
German, English, Turkish
Formats
ReferenCES
- Allianz: Fostering Psychological Safety for Ethnic Minorities in the Workplace
- BARMER: Various lectures and workshops on stress, communication and mental health
- K12: Distortions of perception
- ELUCYDATE: Modul “unconcious bias”
- DGTLS: Mental Health Awareness
- Deutsches Rotes Kreuz – Caring for ageing relatives as a psychological burden
- Arbeitsagentur: Mindfull@Work
What drives you?
The vision of a healthy world of work.
The best advice you ever got?
Not believing everything I think. (Especially helpful for self-critical thoughts ;-))
What are you learning right now that you’re not so good at yet?
As a mum of two little boys, I still have a lot of palaeontology to practise – especially dinosaur names.
What would you change if you had the power to do so?
Breaking stigmas around mental health.
Which superheroine power would you like to have?
I would love to have the superpower to speak all the languages of the world. That would not only be pretty cool, but also very practical.
