Dr.Hayal Köksal was born in Balıkesir, Turkey in 1956. She graduated from Izmir Teachers' Training College in 1976 and Educational Faculty of Marmara University in 1985. She had her MA in English Language Teaching at Gaziantep University in 1992 and her Ph.D. in “Educational Sciences” in 1997. Dr.Köksal has been dealing with Total Quality in Education since 1992, and in 2000, she co-founded the Turkish Center for Schools of Quality with John Jay Bonstingl, the world-wide known Quality expert..

She has been lecturing at various outstanding Turkish Universities as a part-time INSTRUCTOR on the way of publizing quality-oriented education and working as an EDUCATIONAL QUALITY CONSULTANT, RESEARCHER and BOOK WRITER at the moment. She has already had eleven books.

She localized and coordinated the “Innovative Teachers” program of Microsoft Turkey and also trying to publicize the Students' Quality Circles philosophy, namely İmece Circles in Turkish, at Turkish schools. She conducted more than 800 İmece circles by now.

Dr.Köksal is a member of “ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)”, “English Language Education Association”, “The New Generation Village Institutions Society” (One of the founders and Vice President of Istanbul branch), “The association for Continuous Improvement” (The founder & the president). Dr.Köksal owns the Honorary Medal of the Ministry of Tourism due to her leadership of Archeological projects, golden and silver medals of “NYDT” in South Africa. She is the owner of “Business-Education Partnership Award” of the Center for Schools of Quality together with Microsoft Turkey. Dr.Köksal is the Turkey representative of the Center for Schools of Quality of USA, the Turkish National Youth Development Trustee (NYDT) of South Africa, the Turkey’s Director General of the “World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education (WCTQEE) of India”, and a member of the advisory board of “Center for Quality People and Organizations (CQPO) of USA”. She is also in collaboration with “The International Academy for Quality Circles (IAQC)” established by Donald Dewar, Dallas Blankenship and Dr. John Man. She won an award from the World Bank 2005 Turkey Innovative Marketplace competition through her “İmece Circles Project” in May 2005. On 4th December 2005, she was awarded by the “World Quality Leader” award by the WCTQEE. During the winter months of 2006, her project about Istanbul, took place among 75 projects which will lead Istanbul as a European Cultural Capital City through 2010. Her ICT Project which has been supported by Microsoft Turkey has gained great success among the national and international teams to train “innovative” students.