Professional Summary
A seasoned Human Resources Consultant and coach with 20+ years hands-on experience. Served renowned organizations within the Gulf in various sectors and industries with the following emphasis:
• HR Transformation and Strategy: Led the transformation of the HR Role from Personnel to HR Business Partner in several private sector organizations. Participated in the development of the HR strategy for Dubai Government and worked on the development of organizational strategies, operational plans and budgets
• Policies and SOPs: Successfully led and participated in the development of HR public policies within Dubai Government (impacting 45 entities and 45K+ employees) such as Succession Planning, Career Management, and Learning and Development. Developed and implemented, across my career, internal HR Policies; Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); Workflow Processes & Business Processes Blueprints for HR System Module
• Organizational Design and Excellence: Developed Organizational Design & reviewed Restructuring requests to ensure development of lean and efficient structures encompassing defining mandates and directories to job scoping, job evaluations, defining job roles and competency mapping worked on projects related to Organizational Performance and Quality and Excellence
• Capability Building: participated the development of Competency Framework, Career paths, IDPs and Occupational Classification and managed the HR functionality and HR employees’ competencies assessment project across 35+ Dubai Government Departments and 400+ employees,
• Assessment: An assessor for successors (full spectrum of HoD to CEO) for Mohamed Bin Rashid Centre for Leadership Development deploying several assessment tools such as role plays, CBIs, case studies and group discussions and assessed exceptional employees with the Dubai Government Excellence Program (DGEP)
• Coaching: Coached Individuals within the public and private sector across Asia, Europe and North America with emphasis on talent and successor coaching deploying the Result based Coaching and CoachMe model.
Education and Certifications
Education :
Grenoble Ecole de Management – Pursuing Doctorate in Business Administration (Current)
Cornell – HR Director’s Program (2011)
American University of Beirut (AUB) – Master’s Degree in Public Administration (HRM) (2002)
American University of Beirut (AUB) – Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration (HRM) (1999)
Certifications :
ICF: PCC- Professional Certified Coach
EMCC: SP- Senior Practitioner Coach
AC: Accredited Professional
MHS: EQ-i 2.0, EQi 360
BMC: CoachMe Team Coach and Executive Coach
NLG: Result Based Coach
HRCI: HRBP
IHRS: Assessors Skills
Professional Experience
Freelance Coach – Coachhub | Sep 2023 – Present
Freelance Executive Coach – Hult Ashridge Executive Education | Modern Health | Sep 2022 – Present
Entrepreneur, Middle Management and Successor Coach | Management Consultant | Jul 2017 – Present
Working as a freelance coach and strategic HR consultant handling high end HR projects in Riyadh
Member of the Nomination Committee for the ICF Global Professional Coaches| April 2021 – Present
Working as the member of the Committee attending to the recruitment of board members and developing the competency framework and rubric mapped to the yearly need of competencies within the board
Director of Education | ICF-Saudi Chapter |Sep 2017 – Dec 2018
Worked on ICF’s Ignite project within KSA
HR Consultant | Dubai Government HR Department | Nov 2009 – Jun 2017 – Dubai
Participated in the development of the Dubai Government HR Strategy and Department’s Strategy
Managed and worked on several high-end HR projects, frameworks and policies
HR Specialist | H.H The Ruler’s Court | Mar 2009 – Nov 2009 – Dubai
Managed crucial and high-end developmental projects while supervising the Recruitment and Planning function
HR Manager | Dubai Golf City | May 2008 – Mar 2009 – Dubai
Managed the HR and Personnel Function
Overlooked the implementation of HR Developmental systems and frameworks
HR Manager | Robust Contracting Co | Sept 2007-May 2008 – Dubai
Established the HR Department and streamlined HR processes and operational functionality
Overlooked the implementation of the ERP system and ISO standards for the HR functionality
Freelancer | Sept 2005 -Sept 2007 Developmental – UAE & Kuwait
Worked with startups to establish their HR Departments (Manuals, Policies)
Management Development Specialist | NBK| Nov 2004 – May 2005 – Kuwait
Worked on Succession Management plans via the deployment and assessment of developmental initiatives
HR Department Head | Belhoul Corporate Office L.L.C | Oct 2002-May 2004 – Dubai
Established the HR Department and streamlined HR processes and operational functionality
