As the general counsel for 3M Türkiye, Halil Kardıçalı serves as the director of the Turkish legal department and member of the management operating committee. In light of a number of changes and restructuring plans by the business, with the human resources manager of the subsidiary being transferred, Kardıçalı takes on the HR manager role in addition to his responsibilities as general counsel: ‘This appointment pushed my boundaries as I had to show leadership in a capacity that I did not necessarily know the craft of’. This role has enabled him to develop his negotiation skills and played a crucial role to convince the business as to his ‘visions and solutions’ regarding creating critical change and improvements throughout the business. Kardıçalı highlights one of his achievements as his role in implementing a robust competition compliance system with a series of ‘to-the-point’ trainings, dawn raid exercises and easy to follow guidelines which created a safe environment in the company and mitigated many risks: ‘Convincing the operating committee to put the time and effort into the program and executing it with a good outcome was a major success especially when the budgets were very tight’. Another proud moment in his career was his first move into the operating committee as the youngest member of a very experienced and long-standing team. Relying on his expertise in law to guide, co-operate and challenge the veterans on the board certainly moulded him as a professional: ‘It took some time to build trust and to earn my stripes but it was a great learning period which allowed me to combine my expertise with my people skills to carve my place among the veterans’, says Kardıçalı.