Meet the Team

We are a global team of leadership psychologists specialising in executive coaching, team development, and deep leadership profiling.

Advisors

Gurnek Bains is the CEO and Founder of Global Future Partnership. In 1990 he co-founded YSC, a global leadership consultancy, that he led for 25 years as CEO and Chairman to a position where it now has 20 international offices and a client base comprising over half of the FTSE100.
Gurnek is a trusted adviser to some of the most prominent business leaders in the world, the author of two books – Cultural DNA and Meaning Inc – as well as chairman of the internationally-acclaimed contemporary dance company, Akram Khan.
He lives in London with his Australian-born wife, Kylie, and his two Arsenal-supporting children.

Gorkan Ahmetoglu is an Assistant Professor of Business Psychology at University College London (UCL) and the co-founder of Meta Profiling Ltd. He has previously held the positions of Director of Management and Entrepreneurship, Director of Digital Entrepreneurship, and Director of Consumer Behaviour at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Dr Ahmetoglu is the author of Personality 101 and the editor of the Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship. He has published numerous articles and reviews in leading academic journals including Harvard Business Review and Management Today.
He is a leading expert in psychological profiling and a business adviser / speaker in the areas of talent, entrepreneurship, innovation, and consumer decision-making. He is an associate to the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab at Harvard University.

Stephan is a practicing organizational scientist and the Director of Product Development and Innovation at RHR International. His research specializes in creativity, entrepreneurship, and social identification in the workplace. In his role, he leverages the latest in behavioral and data science as well as technology to create products that drive workplace performance.
He has worked with world-leading consultancies, FTSE 500 firms, and international banks to introduce rigor to their talent management and assessment strategies. He has experience coaching C-suite stakeholders through the power of evidence-based practice for effective people decisions.

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