Dr. Kasim Kanakri Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders … Today Areas of Excellence: Strategic Management, Innovation Management, Foresight, Happiness, Personal Excellence, Leadershi... Read Morep, Transformation, Business Excellence Dr. Kasim Kanakri is a Senior management consultant and Advisor with over 38 years corporate experience with government and private institutions throughout Shipping, Oil & Gas, Aviation, training and Consulting industries in the areas of Strategy, Human Resources, Business Excellence & Innovation. He is a Professional Balanced Scorecard Practitioner and Certified EFQM European Assessor. He is the author of various management concepts, framework and criteria for various business awards including the UAE Innovation Award, Taqdeer Award for Labor Welfare, Human Resources Building Award and the Happiness Award. He also led a team of Business Excellence consultants designed & created the First Excellence Policy & Methodology manuals based on the Government Excellence Program Criteria. He is a renowned speaker and seasoned trainer conducted more than 500 training programs and interactive workshops in Strategy & Balanced Scorecard, Innovation, Leadership & Transformation, Human Resources and Talent Management, Team and Personal Effectiveness, and Business Excellence for senior leaders, managers, specialists, assessors, and team members. In the past 2 years, he trained and qualified more than 400 innovation managers, assessors and team members on various innovation training programs including International Innovation Driving License (IIDL), Innovation Assessors training and Innovation Masterclass etc. He led corporate strategic planning project teams to complete more than 40 corporate strategic plans and over 200 cascaded plans for Dubai, Abu Dhabi, UAE Federal governmental and other emirates’ organizations. He also facilitated Excellence to a vast number of government organizations enabling these entities to win excellence awards as organizations, individuals, teams, and projects in various categories of Excellence Awards throughout the UAE.
Mr. Qaoud is a Senior Business and technical Leader with more than 15 years of experience spanning Telecoms, IT/ICT, Government and Media industries. He has held various positions ... Read Morein Telecoms spanning across business strategy, planning, network development and Quality management. A strategic advisor for organizations (start-ups, SMEs and LEs) directly advising their CXOs and Leadership on Strategy, business operating model, entrepreneurship, innovation, digital transformation and Customer Experience. Mr. Qaoud is a core member and a certified assessor for innovation, EFQM, TL9000, Tawteen and Taqdeer. Mr. Qaoud specializes in leading innovation, digitalization transformation leveraging latest technologies like artificial intelligence and business process automation and robotics improvement tools considering the two speed and bimodality models. Mr. Qaoud got the first TL9000 Expert certificate in the Middle East and was behind the first TL9000 QMS certification in the Middle East. He is fluent in English and Arabic. Professional Qualifications and Education • Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) • B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering • Executive program: Artificial intelligence: implications for business strategy (MIT) • Executive program: Manage Mentor (HBS) • Certified EFQM Assessor • Certified ISO9001 & TL9000 Expert • GIA certified Innovation Practitioner • Certified UAE Innovation, Emiratisation and Taqdeer Awards Assessor • Certified Project Management Professional |(PMP) Area of Expertise • EFQM Excellence Framework • Vendor and contract management • Risk and compliance management • Application of artificial intelligence in corporate strategies. • Business and Process excellence • Digital transformation • Product lifecycle management • Quality management development and execution • Telecom industry expertise • commercial planning and corporate strategy • Innovation assessment and advisory • Operations excellence and performance management • Project and change management • Org and operating model design • Business development Summary of experience • Team leader assessor in the UAE Emiratisation Award • Assessor in UAE innovation and Taqdeer Awards • Conducted various organization audits and assessments • Designed an innovation department operating model for a large enterprise. • Designed and developed process excellence strategy and programs • Led a large team to implement digital transformation for the legal department, developing a strategy and improving reporting metrics. • Led the development of Legal operation department concept for a large enterprise. • For a Dubai based SME, Mehiar managed an engagement focused on business development • For a large telecom operator in the middle east, Mehiar led the development and implementation of product lifecycle management framework for all products and services. • For a start-up European data management company, Mehiar acted as an advisor to raise a USD 130 M fund. • For a start-up US based company in the field of bio-technology, Mehiar is acting as an advisor for raising funds and create a setup plan in the middle east. • Designed and conducted various operating model transformation in telco and media industries
Dr Rita Younes holds a Doctorate degree in Business Administration from the Paris School of Business. She started her career as a Senior Marketing Research Analyst at Leger & Leger... Read More International and has more than 20 years of experience in the field of education, FMCG and service industries covering strategy, Innovation, market research and business development. Dr. Rita Younes is a certified EFQM assessor, a certified customer experience professional (CCXP) and a certified innovation practitioner. She has also more than 20 years experience in designing results-oriented market research with experience of conducting, analyzing and interpreting customer, competitor and market intelligence data. She actively participated in more than 30 strategic planning projects, formulating goals and contributed to the development of various customer value management strategies, developing and implementing interaction improvement, innovative solutions and business development. She has conducted many seminars and training programs in customer experience, institutional planning and effectiveness for education providers. As a member of the judging panel of various Business and Customer Experience Award, in the past few years, she was actively involved in the Innovation award as a team leader and consultant in assessing organizations’ innovation maturity cycle and providing innovative solutions for business growth.
Professional Trainer and Consultant in Innovation, Digital Transformation, Strategy and Excellence. With professional seasoned experience in working for, and delivering to, leading... Read More organisations around the globe including Australia, EU, Switzerland, and the Arab world. He brings to clients valuable knowledge and perspectives to help them innovate, develop individual capabilities, and compete in the digital age with agility and a fresh mindset fit for the complex business settings in the disruptive digital economy.
Dynamic professional with proven record of success in building and managing complex businesses, identifying and integrating manufacturing efficiencies, and driving business turnaro... Read Moreund. Skilled Trainer and Communicator. Corporate Advisor on Operational Excellence, Innovation, and Change Management. Passionate about training, developing and motivating leaders. Visiting Academic Faculty on Strategy and Project Management.
Su Kanakri is a GIA Certified Trainer, Certified EFQM European Assessor and professional BSC Practitioner. In the past 20 years she was leading the training and consulting team and... Read More responsible for the planning, scheduling, coordinating, resource allocation, and successful execution of more than 90 management consultancy projects, including Business Excellence, Strategic & operational Planning, Performance Management & Balanced Scorecard, Human Resource and Development, Organization Structure, Job Descriptions, Stakeholder Relations Management (Surveys and Mystery Shopping), and Performance assessment for various governmental organizations in the UAE. She has actively participated in more than 35 strategic planning, BSC and strategy cascading projects and facilitated the development of various SWOT, PESTEL, and business model generation for government and private sector organizations. She also participated in various Excellence Projects throughout the UAE (DGEP, ADAEP, DQA, EFQM). She has also been involved in various awards assessment and participated in the design and development of automated award assessment business solution. She is the co-author of various management concepts, framework, and criteria for various business awards, including the UAE Innovation Award, Taqdeer Award for Labour Welfare, and Global Taxi Excellence Award. In the past 15 years, she was involved in the research, design, and development of many professional interactive training programs focus on Strategy & Planning, HR & Talent Management, Leadership Development, and Customer Service Excellence etc. In the past 3 years, she has been involved in the training facilitation of more than 250 certified Taqdeer and Innovation assessors and various pubic and in-house GIA Innovation certification training programs such as GIA certified Innovation professionals, Design Thinking, Strategic Planning Professional and Innovation Masterclass etc.