Following Kabataş Erkek Lisesi and Marmara University, he graduated from İstinye University, Department of Psychology with the honors degree. During his Clinical Psychology Master's degree at Near East University, he simultaneously received psychotherapy training from the ISST International Schema Theraphy World President and successfully completed the International Schema Psychotherapy Certification Training. During his Clinical Psychology Master's degree at Rumeli University, from which he graduated with the honors degree, he received Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy trainings along with the clinical supervision process. He completed his compulsory internship in the field at Moodist Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital Psychiatry Service. After his student years, he started his full-time professional career at Yapı Kredi Bank. He was promoted twice in the first 3 years and was appointed as a manager at the age of 24. During this period, he managed teams of 60+ people as well as seasonal workforce teams and processes of 150+ people. He also played an active role in human resources projects, recruitment and interview processes.

After working at Yapı Kredi for 8 years, he was transferred to Garanti Bank. He worked as a manager in the payment systems business units, marketing and product management for many years. He ensured the implementation of many important national projects and products in the finance sector.

Lastly, he worked as a senior manager in the Card Payment Systems and Non-Branch Channels Group at Denizbank within the marketing and product management responsibility area. He managed business partnerships with 18 different sports clubs, one of which was Manchester United, and numerous third-party organizations, 21 different products and a credit card customer portfolio of over 210,000. During this period, in addition to managing his team, he undertook the profitability, sales, activation, promotion and field target achievement processes related to his products through 700+ different bank branches, 450+ mobile sales representatives, the Telemarketing business line and the Communication Center. He managed the areas of product, P&L, marketing, brand, advertising, digital channels, campaign design and implementation, cancellation prevention, budget, legal integration, project and business development. Throughout this process, he achieved superior success by achieving growth at a rate more than twice the sector growth in the products he managed.

He was awarded the Interactive Media Awards International Achievement Award with the Bonusnet portal he designed from scratch in 2009.
He also won the 2015 Achievement Award from the international payment system organization Visa during his DenizBank term; he received the award at the Vizyonist award ceremony in October.
He provided numerous trainings focused on psychology and leadership development to over 20,000 participants working under the roof of Koç University, one of the most important educational institutions in Turkey, as well as in the largest corporate companies and holdings operating in our country. He gave hundreds of inspiring speeches; he organized conferences, webinars and seminars.
He has had his articles published in many newspapers and magazines, primarily Radikal, since 2008. The total number of reads of his articles has exceeded 200,000.
His first book, “Don’t Give Up”, which deals with the subject of potential and personal awareness, quickly became a bestseller and had its second edition. His second book, which is based on psychology, “Sapere Aude – Psychology from Thought to Feeling”, hit the shelves in December 2017 and became a bestseller.

Expert Clinical Psychologist Emrah Yolaç has 25 years of management and leadership experience. He is a member of the Turkish Psychologists Association and also a member of the Advisory Board of İstinye University and a part of the Self Made Human Family.