ALBEN AKADEMİ · MEDIA & RESEARCH RESOURCES
Global Authority & Research
Alben Akademi is a Türkiye-based corporate development organisation combining behavioural change, leadership, communication, assessment, mentoring, consulting and applied field research.
Based in Istanbul and operating since 2021, we bring these disciplines together to help learning translate into sustainable workplace behaviour. This resource brings our learning commitments, open-access research and external publications into one place.
International Learning Principles
Alben Akademi is an official Signatory to the IFC Principles for Learning.
The public signatory list records Alben Akademi on 14 October 2026. The principles provide a shared framework for effective, inclusive, scalable and sustainable learning practices.
View the official signatory list → Read the Principles for Learning →
Applied Research · 2026 Benchmark
Corporate Development and Behavioral Change in Türkiye: 2026 Field Benchmark and Applied Research Report
Authors: Serkan Alben & Sercan Alben
Publisher: Alben Akademi
Publication date: 8 October 2026
193 substantive qualitative documents · 396 structured evaluation records retained after deduplication · 312 anonymised participants
The 2021–2026 corporate field archive examines leadership, communication, learning transfer and the organisational conditions that support behavioural change.
Research boundaries. This is observational applied field research. It is not nationally representative, makes no causal training-effect claim and does not constitute peer-reviewed scientific validation.
Read the English benchmark → Read the Turkish benchmark →
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23205565
Research Discovery & Open Access
The report is published by Alben Akademi. The services below provide archiving, persistent identification or research discovery and metadata visibility; they are not the report’s publishers.
Zenodo — Open-access repository record for the report.
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DOI / DataCite — Persistent identifier and registered publication metadata.
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OpenAlex — Research discovery record, Work W7221035786.
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OpenAIRE — A matching metadata record is available through the OpenAIRE discovery API. Its returned status is under curation.
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External Editorial Profile
Sercan Alben: Making Leadership Training Stick
The Platinum Capital · 17 October 2026 · TPC Editorial Desk
An external editorial profile discussing Sercan Alben’s approach to leadership development and the workplace conditions needed for learning to become behaviour. The publisher notes that its awards profiles draw on nomination information and public sources; this profile also identifies information supplied by Alben Akademi.
Leadership Recognition
Sercan Alben — Leader of the Year Nominee — The Platinum Capital
The published profile identifies Sercan Alben as a nominee in the Leader of the Year category of the TPC Awards 2026.
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Press Releases & External Publications
The following are externally hosted press releases, presented separately from editorial profiles.
openPR
Türkiye'de Kurumsal Gelişim ve Davranış Değişikliği
October 2026 · Press release
A public release introducing the 2026 field benchmark, its authors and open-access research links.
Free Press Releases UK
Türkiye field benchmark finds leadership systems lag behind team development
14 October 2026 · Press release
An English-language release presenting the benchmark and its observational research boundaries.
Founders, Authors & Corporate Development
Serkan Alben and Sercan Alben are Co-Founders of Alben Akademi and authors of the 2026 benchmark. Their leadership and research sit within the same corporate development organisation.
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For Media & Editorial Enquiries
international@albenakademi.net
Journalists and editors may contact Alben Akademi for research commentary and field-based perspectives on workplace behaviour, leadership development, learning transfer, communication and corporate development. Research interpretation is provided with its methodological scope and limitations.
