Tell Us Your Name and What You Currently Do? My name Is Paula Jane Cox, I am a Learning and Development consultant, based in the UAE, working across all GCC countries and Arab states. Tell Us More About Your Background? My Initial career was in Sales, with a great foundation and training from Yellow Pages, […]
Tell Us More About What You Do? I am a management consultant, executive coach and trainer. Over the last thirty years I have researched and developed a methodology of best practices for staying clear, in control, and focused amidst multiple priorities, and the avalanche of information and input that accompanies the rapid changes in the […]
Stephen Melcior is the Managing Director at Wilson Learning Middle East. Tell Us More About Wilson Learning ME? I set up Wilson Learning in the region in 2008 together with a partner who has been working in Wilson Learning for more than 20 years and who is based in Johannesburg. After the initial phase of […]
Tell Us More About Your Background? I left school at 16 and immediately started working in a hotel close to where I lived in Sunderland, which is in the north-east of England. I worked as a chef for about 10 years and then moved to London to work with a training company. This is where […]
The great management guru, Peter Drucker, once said, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” To be effective, leaders must discern what they should spend their time doing, say no to the unnecessary, and delegate or outsource the things that don’t require their direct attention. Everyday, we hear from small business […]
About 4 years ago I was tasked with implementing training evaluation into the organisation I was working with. The training teams (and there are many in this organisation!) would be quite content to use “happy sheets” and knowledge tests as evaluations of training however, when the question “how do you demonstrate your value?” was asked […]
Tell Us About Your Background. Born and raised in Malta, moved to Dubai in 2010 to join Sukar.com, a tech start up company which eventually was acquired by Souq.com. I hold a Diploma in e-commerce. At Souq.com, I grew the operations from the ground up and set up 3 generations of fulfilment centres in 5 […]
This week, I had a conversation with a few trainers and consultants who asked, “Sohail, are joint ventures just for big businesses?” and I replied, “Joint ventures are just what they are called, a venture joining two or more companies with the same goal!” You see, many solo entrepreneurs work from a home office. Their […]
Tell Us More About Your Background? I am Alexandre Rigaud, the CEO and Co-Founder of STEP, the company behind FitWin. We operate worldwide and have enabled the launch of wellness white-label apps in over 10 countries across the GCC, Europe, and Africa. Innovation and entrepreneurship have always driven me to extend my potentials, which is […]
Tell us about FasterCapital. What do you do? FasterCapital is an online incubator, accelerator, and service provider for start-ups and small businesses. What we do is we support entrepreneurial journeys throughout their different and various phases. We offer technical and software development solutions for first-time entrepreneurs and for start-ups that are looking for a technical […]
