Ziya Şakir Yılmaz

Success Engineer · Author · Keynote Speaker

An idea on stage.
A model for Monday.

Give your audience a way to turn ambition into action, pressure into a decision, and experience into a system.

Turkish / English45 / 60 / 90 minutes5 TEDx talks · 4 public recordings
Ziya Şakir Yılmaz speaking on the TEDxReset stage
TEDxReset · 2025

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The moment that reframed success.

5 TEDx talks · 4 public recordings

Four keynote conversations

Your audience.
Their next move.

01

Engineering Success

45 / 60 / 90 minutes · Format agreed for your event

For: Company kickoffs, entrepreneur events and teams turning goals into action.

The question: Can success be designed?

What participants leave with: The Ben Yasası principle, moving from complaint to system building, and a clear starting framework for building a first working system.

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02

Bulletproof Mindset

45 / 60 / 90 minutes · Format agreed for your event

For: Teams facing change, sales pressure, rejection or uncertainty.

The question: What can we choose when we cannot choose what happens?

What participants leave with: Recognising the inner saboteur, using the language of NOT YET–DESPITE–POSSIBLE, and practising a 90-second pause–notice–choose response.

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03

The Engineering of Sales

45 / 60 / 90 minutes · Format agreed for your event

For: B2B teams, sales conferences and dealer meetings.

The question: Are we presenting a product or diagnosing a problem?

What participants leave with: A practical framework for diagnosis, value, evidence, decisions and follow-through.

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04

Leadership: Multiplying Impact

45 / 60 / 90 minutes · Format agreed for your event

For: Leadership teams, management programmes and family businesses.

The question: What continues to work when the leader steps back?

What participants leave with: A way to develop other leaders through observation, demonstration, development, stepping back and multiplication.

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Before the event

We listen before
we take the stage.

01

A shared brief

Who is in the room, what are they facing, and what should they be able to do afterwards?

02

A relevant conversation

The theme, examples and language are aligned with your audience and event purpose.

03

A usable next step

A clear framework and three practical actions connect the talk to the work that follows.

Meet Ziya

Experience,
made useful.

Ziya Şakir Yılmaz is Türkiye's first Success Engineer, author of four books and a five-time TEDx speaker. Born in a village without electricity, he spent 16 years in international sales and management (the last eight as a country manager at a global healthcare company), worked with 84 countries, and has since built a 70,000-person organisation. His keynotes leave the room with one model and three next steps.

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Ziya Şakir Yılmaz · TEDxReset

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