An academy for C-levels, board members, and executives — globally. QANAQ Academy brings together academicians and business professionals, domestic and international, and turns their expertise into niche programmes that help senior leaders buy experience — not just information.
A senior leader closing a deal in Frankfurt competes with a counterpart who has closed twenty of them. A board chair preparing for the EU AI Act competes with European boards two years ahead. The competitive advantage cannot be built with only local instructors. It must be transferred — from those who have already done the work, in the markets where the work matters.
Senior leaders in Türkiye and the broader region no longer compete only against each other. They compete in cross-border M&A, EU regulation, sectoral benchmarks, and global capital markets — against peers who have grown up in those markets.
Generic, locally delivered executive education cannot prepare a leader for a market they do not operate in. Knowledge from elsewhere requires educators from elsewhere — composed with people who have done the work internationally.
Every QANAQ programme is built with international academicians and business professionals — paired with domestic expertise — so the experience that transfers is the experience that competes. This is the discipline we exist to deliver.
This is why QANAQ Academy exists.
Not to teach what is locally available. To bring what is not.
Half of our contributors operate inside Türkiye — knowing the regulations and ground-level realities. The other half operates abroad — across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia.
Their combined expertise is turned into niche programmes built around the specific area where your company or executives need to lead — in the global market.
Every QANAQ engagement begins with an analysis of your organisation's operating structure, regulatory environment, and strategic objectives. We strengthen institutional decision-making capacity — we do not transfer information.
Structured review of sector, risk profile, and participant level. No content is written before priorities are clarified.
Content is structured around real business scenarios, case studies, and your strategic priorities. Bespoke — never standard.
Engineering, legal, technology, and financial perspectives integrated. Where required, multiple expert academicians co-deliver.
Interactive delivery — scenario work, decision simulations, applied sessions. Participants are decision-makers, not passive listeners.
Post-programme impact analysis. Where required, programmes are revised or extended with advanced modules and advisory.
The most valuable thing for a senior leader is not more information — it is experience from elsewhere. The knowledge of how other companies in other markets have already solved the problem in front of you. Experience can be bought. QANAQ Academy sells it.
Every QANAQ programme is built around six dimensions: knowledge, know-how, experience, regulation, technical skills, and application. Carefully designed. Delivered by the right people. Adapted to your sector and your geography.
We compose every programme team with foreign qualified professionals who have actually run the work in target markets — paired with academicians who understand the field. The result is not a course. It is a transfer of real, operational experience.
Each family delivers niche programmes — built around what the buyer needs to lead next. For individuals, certification. For companies, bespoke programmes. For boards, our flagship coaching system.
Academic certificate programmes for business professionals and those seeking international career mobility. Online and in-person. Internationally recognised.
Explore Certifications →Bespoke academic programmes — delivered to your teams or your customers (B2B2C). Online and in-person. Designed around your sector and operational reality.
Explore Corporate →QANAQ Academy's flagship offering. Management strategy developed for the company, paired with coaching of the board as a collective. Built around the institution.
Explore Board Coaching →
The executive training a company needs depends entirely on its target market and its operational capacity. No two leadership teams need the same programme. No two boards face the same global challenge.
Taking these programmes from international experts who have already operated in your target market makes our work distinctively valuable — and ours alone.
We do not pull from a catalogue. We prepare the programme architecture with care, around the specific problem your leadership team must solve next.
We identify and bring together the right training partners — domestically and abroad — and organise them around your engagement. You meet a team that has been composed, not assembled.
Senior leaders need to buy experience from elsewhere. The experience of other companies, in other markets, who have already solved the problem in front of you. That experience — knowledge, know-how, regulation, technical skill, and applied practice — is what QANAQ Academy develops, prepares, and delivers.
Each programme below is built around a specific challenge senior leadership teams face when their company operates — or wants to operate — at global scale. None is pulled from a catalogue. All are illustrative of the work we do, organised by the competence at stake: market entry, corporate transactions, tax, regulation, governance, finance, distribution, risk, and leadership.
For food and beverage producers scaling exports into East and Southeast Asia. Covers halal and import certification regimes, cold-chain and shelf-life compliance, distributor selection across fragmented markets, and the pricing and labelling decisions senior leaders must own before the first container ships.
View Programme & Apply →For industrial manufacturers entering or scaling in the EU. Covers the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, CE marking, supply-chain due diligence, and the operational changes senior leaders must commission across procurement, production, and reporting.
View Programme & Apply →For manufacturers and service firms entering Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the wider GCC. Covers local agency and ownership rules, government tender qualification, Emiratisation and Saudisation requirements, and the relationship architecture that determines who wins contracts in the region.
View Programme & Apply →For leadership teams whose export volumes have outgrown their commercial discipline. Covers Incoterms 2020 risk allocation, letters of credit and trade finance instruments, customs valuation, and the contractual decisions that quietly determine export margin.
View Programme & Apply →A bespoke programme for family-owned conglomerates pursuing acquisitions abroad. Covers deal structuring across jurisdictions, governance through transition, regulatory clearance in target markets, and post-deal integration risk.
View Programme & Apply →For executive teams building an acquisition pipeline rather than reacting to bankers. Covers thesis-driven origination, valuation discipline, competitive bidding behaviour, and the board approval architecture that prevents value-destroying deals.
View Programme & Apply →For companies entering foreign markets through partnership rather than acquisition. Covers JV structuring, control and deadlock mechanisms, IP and technology contribution, exit and divorce clauses, and the governance that keeps alliances from quietly failing.
View Programme & Apply →For boards and CFOs managing tax exposure across multiple jurisdictions. Covers Pillar Two global minimum tax, permanent-establishment risk, withholding and treaty optimisation, and the reputational dimension of tax strategy that boards now own.
View Programme & Apply →For groups whose cross-border intercompany flows have grown faster than their documentation. Covers OECD transfer-pricing methods, benchmarking, documentation defence, customs–tax alignment, and managing simultaneous audits across jurisdictions.
View Programme & Apply →For audit committees and boards that must oversee tax without being tax experts. Covers tax risk appetite, the questions a director must be able to ask, disclosure and transparency regimes, and the line between optimisation and exposure.
View Programme & Apply →For manufacturers whose products cross regulatory borders. Covers packaging and labelling law across target markets, ingredient and origin declarations, extended producer responsibility and packaging-waste regimes, and the recall exposure leaders must design out.
View Programme & Apply →For leadership teams trading in a fragmented geopolitical environment. Covers sanctions screening, dual-use export controls, end-user diligence, and building a compliance function that protects the company without paralysing commercial teams.
View Programme & Apply →For executives whose businesses move personal and operational data across GDPR, KVKK, and Gulf regimes. Covers lawful transfer mechanisms, breach response, vendor and processor liability, and the board-level accountability that data law now imposes.
View Programme & Apply →For boards of banks, insurers, healthcare groups, and energy companies deploying AI at scale. Covers EU AI Act compliance, model risk governance, accountability frameworks, and the questions a non-technical director must be able to ask.
View Programme & Apply →For boards of companies that have outgrown their founding governance. Covers board composition for global operations, independent director recruitment, committee architecture, succession, and the shift from owner-led to institution-led decision-making.
View Programme & Apply →For boards that must oversee risk before it becomes crisis. Covers enterprise risk frameworks, risk appetite setting, scenario and stress oversight, crisis decision rights, and the board's distinct role when an incident escalates.
View Programme & Apply →For executive teams that sense the market is shifting beneath them but cannot yet name how. Covers structured market-vision development, identifying strategic gaps against competitors, scenario planning, and translating a long-horizon view into commissioned action.
View Programme & Apply →For leadership teams deciding where to expand next. Covers structured market-attractiveness scoring, regulatory and political risk weighting, entry-mode selection, and building the evidence base a board needs before committing capital to a geography.
View Programme & Apply →For established companies whose business model is being challenged by digital entrants. Covers business-model diagnosis, platform and ecosystem strategy, build-buy-partner choices, and the governance of transformation without destabilising the core business.
View Programme & Apply →For boards and senior executives of contractors and developers running projects above $500M. Covers project finance structures, sovereign and offtake risk, multilateral lender requirements, and the governance discipline megaprojects demand.
View Programme & Apply →For companies preparing to raise growth equity, debt, or to approach public markets. Covers capital-structure strategy, investor narrative and data-room readiness, valuation negotiation, and the governance maturity investors now require before they commit.
View Programme & Apply →For companies whose growth depends on third parties they do not control. Covers distributor versus agent versus subsidiary trade-offs, exclusivity and territory design, performance and termination clauses, channel-conflict management, and the law that governs ending a relationship badly.
View Programme & Apply →For leadership teams whose pricing has drifted market by market. Covers global price architecture, currency and inflation pass-through, channel and key-account pricing power, grey-market control, and the margin discipline that pricing governance protects.
View Programme & Apply →For executive teams managing the first 18 months after a cross-border acquisition. Covers operating-model integration, retention of senior local talent, communication architecture across geographies, and the leadership behaviours that determine whether synergies materialise.
View Programme & Apply →For executives leading teams and partners across multiple cultures and time zones. Covers cross-cultural decision-making, negotiation styles across markets, building trust at distance, and the leadership adjustments that separate exported management from genuinely global leadership.
View Programme & Apply →The twenty-five above are illustrative. Most of our work begins with a brief — a problem your leadership team must solve next. Tell us yours.
Commission a Programme →QANAQ Academy brings together two groups that rarely teach side by side: academicians with rigorous domain knowledge, and business professionals who run the work day-to-day. For each programme, we compose the team that fits the brief.
Domain experts drawn from leading universities and senior research positions — domestic and international. They bring rigorous methodology, current scholarship, and the academic standard that gives QANAQ Academy its name. They define what the field knows.
Senior practitioners — executives, sector specialists, advisors — in active practice across borders. They bring operational reality, market context, and the working-level judgment that turns knowledge into outcomes. They define what works in the field.
QANAQ Academy was founded on a single observation: standard training models do not match institutional reality. Each organisation operates under its own sector dynamics, regulatory framework, and strategic priorities. Our programmes are built not from templates, but from structured needs analysis, an ecosystem of expertise, and the real scenarios our clients face.
If you carry senior executive experience or substantive corporate-technical expertise built over a career — and you want to make it available to companies and leaders across the world — we would like to hear from you.
Below are the two tracks we open applications for. Each has its own criteria. Read what we look for, then submit your profile.
For academic staff and senior researchers in your domain. We are looking for people who can take their scholarly depth and turn it into programmes designed for boards, C-levels, and senior executives.
For senior executives, former C-level leaders, board members, and sector specialists. We want people who have actually operated at the level they will teach — and who can translate that experience into programmes for others doing the same.
Not sure which track fits? Get in touch directly.
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