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ABOUT

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EPISTEMIST is a high-integrity private consultation and executive strategy advisory boutique founded and led by the trilingual Swiss-Turkish psychologist Onur Yavuz (MSc, University of Zurich). Born in Istanbul and raised between Zurich and Istanbul, with further professional chapters in Australia-Pacific and Germany, he brings more than a decade of international management and psychological consultation experience to the practice.

Through its three distinct service brands – PRAXIS4, EPISTEMIST LABS, and EMPIRICAL EXECUTIVE – the boutique provides private individuals and board-level policymaking leaders with qualified, methodical guidance anchored in state-of-the-art psychological research and strategic management best practices. The work is supported by the founder’s long and successful top-tier strategic leadership career, extensive personal consultation experience, scientific background, and access to trusted specialists when needed.

The founder continues to hold a senior global strategic leadership role at the world’s most iconic top-end automotive manufacturer, following a decade in corporate strategy and group-wide business transformation at the same organization.

Live session bookings follow a strict first-come, first-served principle.

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PRAXIS4
Qualified Psychological Consultation

Research-grounded psychological support delivered with more than a decade of multilingual consultation experience, driven by cognitive-behavioral and systems psychology paradigms, focusing on but not strictly limited to questions of:

  • Personal Clarity & Decision-Making in Private Life
  • Psychological Challenges of Expatriation, and Migration
  • Daily Habits & Productivity
  • Self-Confidence
  • Stress, Anxiety, Burnout-Prevention
  • Interpersonal Communication & Conflict Skills
  • Private Relationships
  • Workplace Relationships
  • Family Dynamics & Life Transitions
  • Identity Dynamics
  • Multiple Issues / Broader Social Systems

Delivered by secure, encrypted mail conversations, or likewise secure live audio-visual teleconference sessions.

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EMPIRICAL EXECUTIVE
Evidence-Based Executive Counseling and Strategy Advisory

Boardroom-level leadership counseling, strategy building, stress-testing, and decision architecture for C-suite, executive-committee leaders, and policymakers navigating complex, high-impact environments.

EMPIRICAL EXECUTIVE guides individual leaders and executive teams on success-critical dimensions including:

  • Leadership presence, influence, emotional intelligence, and realization of social power
  • Psychological drivers of political leadership and impact
  • Psychometric leadership profiling, incl. values, cultural imprint, and performance impact
  • Business or brand strategy formation and review
  • Strategic and tactical decision-making under uncertainty
  • Strategic future-scenario building and evaluation informed by qualitative and quantitative insights
  • Quantitative architectures of strategic decision-making with hypothesis-driven or exploratory (AI) models
  • Bespoke scenario-based wargaming clinics for top-executives and policymakers
  • Strategic change design, target operating model and transformation counseling
  • Critical conflict and negotiation simulations using validated behavioral and psychometric instruments
  • Qualified conflict mediation for senior leadership settings

Detailed schedules and pricing are provided after the free 20-minute goodness-of-fit call. No strings attached.

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