Emirati with over 10 years of experience in HR field in telecom industry and has managed several projects involved leadership upskilling & employees capacity building. He holds Masters degree in HR and Leadership from University of Dubai, MBTI-step II practitioner and Certified in Kirkpatrick four levels evaluation model. Khalid is Manager Talent Management, he oversees talent attracting, retaining and development activities. He is passionate about talent development and actively seeking collaboration with experts to thrive and apply best practices.

Susan is an internationally recognized Speaker, award-winning Talent Development Expert, and Author. In the last 20+ years Susan has spoken in over 40 countries on 6 continents, developed and trained over 500 workshops and helped over 150,000 people around the world transform their personal and professional lives.

Susan specializes in Training Architecture to improve the performance of people, custom designing programs in The Art of Persuasion, Leading with Emotional Intelligence, Managing Generations in the Workplace and, Resilience, to name a few. She has worked with such organizations as Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Philips, Medronic, and SABIC to design global training programs that raise individual and organizational performance. Her experience ranges from Healthcare, Medical Devices, Banking, Mining, Pharma, Timber, Oil & Gas as well as training the Ministers of several foreign nations.

Susan is an Instructional Designer and Master Trainer. Global Training Transformation’s programs have won the CSTD Gold Award for Excellence in Training (Vendor Category) as well as having a Leadership Program custom designed for a Central Asian client named as one of the top 5 Leadership programs in the world by HR.com

Partika Raj is a versatile high energy HR professional with over 20 years of global experience in the field of Human Resources and Talent Development. She has proven capability to consult and collaborate with various organizational functions and business heads, aligning with them to understand business objectives, identifying, prioritizing and determining corresponding Human Resource needs.

Prior to joining SHRM MENA, she has held a series of Learning/HR development roles with organizations Emirates PWC, NBD, GE, Aon Hewitt & WNS.

Partika has an accomplished track record of achieving results beyond the organization’s expectations, with a firm grasp in leadership development research and trends. Her expertise covers her proven ability in spearheading organization effectiveness programs, simultaneously keeping to the best practices concerning learning initiatives. She is a highly articulate communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills, with an experience of working within a highly diverse cultural environment.

Partika is a Chartered MCIPD, SHRM SCP, Postgraduate in Human Resource Management with a bachelor’s degree in psychology

Her success formula is understanding and fully utilizing the ‘Return on People’ concept by unleashing the employees’ full potential, thus ensuring that an organization will receive the support it needs to grow. Her my aim is to establish productive business relationships and to implement action plan strategies to address opportunities related to talent gaps and needs.

David is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading HR practitioners and is a respected thought leader, business communicator, and government advisor.

Combining curiosity with his extensive experience in leading organizations, he is uniquely positioned to consult and support organizations to “shake up” thinking in responding to human capital trends through the one asset that will always matter – People. In his previous role as a Global Chief People Officer, David is credited as one of the key leaders in delivering a historic business turnaround, In doing so, he is one of very few HR leaders to have had the opportunity to deliver a truly global Cultural Transformation program at pace and at scale. David is widely known as a “disrupter” and thought leader. In 2014, the Financial Times reported his prediction that, within a decade, major global economies would be facing labor shortages on a scale which would impact business growth – a “workforce cliff”. This disruptive insight gave progressive employers the time to prepare for what became a reality. David was Global Chief People Officer for McDonald’s; Group Manager for Organisation Development at H J Heinz; European Director, Recruitment and Leadership Planning at SmithKline Beecham/Glaxo SmithKline; and Corporate HR Director at the retailer Tesco where he also led the Global Talent function. For four consecutive years David was voted ‘Most Influential Practitioner’ by HR Magazine, receiving their lifetime achievement award in 2012. He was also the first HR professional to be named ‘Business Communicator of the Year’ by the Institute of Internal Communications – a title previously awarded to leading business figures such as Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, and Virgin founder Richard Branson. David earned his Bachelor’s Degree at Lancaster University and his Master’s Degree at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School which has recognized his ongoing contribution as a Visiting Professor with an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Middlesex University. In 2011, David was appointed by the UK government to act as a Commissioner for the Commission for Employment and Skills – a role he held until the change of government in May 2015. Previously he had served as a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute; a virtual academy of leading academics and thought leaders created to advise and advance public service. He has also advised officials and politicians at both the European Commission and the European Parliament. David is a Chartered Companion of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development – their highest honor – where he served for four years as Vice President of Learning, Training and Development. He is also a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) whose mission to “create the conditions for the enlightened thinking and collaborative action needed to address today’s most pressing social challenges”. In the USA he graduated as a Fellow of the prestigious CEO Perspectives program. Born in 1968 in Wigan – an industrial town in the Northwest of England – David grew up as part of a family of retailers, and amongst his earliest memories are “helping out” in his grandfather’s grocery store. He is married and has four children. He also recently became a proud grandfather.

Mona is a commercially minded HR professional, with broad strategic and operational generalist experience, in fast-moving service environments. She is an experienced people manager, leader, and change management facilitator, who contributes to the wider picture whilst also establishing rapport and making changes to the people and the business on an individual level.

She has successfully undertaken major HR start-ups & organizational development assignments targeted at maximizing operational efficiency and productivity. Currently, she is the member of Ducab’s Executive Management Team, and participates in the development and refinement of the vision and long term strategy for the Company, and contributes to the overall process of corporate governance, and management decision making.

Currently:

• CHCO of Ducab
• Board Member of Imdaad
• Member of EGA EHCC committee
• Member of Hamdan Bin Mohammad University EHCC

As Group Chief Human Capital Officer (GCHCO), Najib Makarem leads the overall Human Resource strategy at BEEAH Group. He leverages his wealth of experience in consulting, strategic relationship building and people management to foster the BEEAH Group organisational culture, while building on workforce potential and workplace resilience. Najib was appointed as GHCO in June 2022, bringing over 20 years of experience in the Human Resources field to BEEAH Group. In this new role, Najib oversees all core HR functions with a focus on driving business results for the Group across its businesses, geographies and organisational levels. By collaborating with the Vice-Chairman and Group CEO as well as stakeholders across the Group businesses, Najib consults on organisational design, leadership assessment and development, team performance management, rewards strategies, manpower planning and rationalisation. While developing employee-focused strategies, he works towards aligning people with business goals to deliver tangible results.

Najib is also a seasoned planner, equipped to support HR requirements for large organizational projects and initiatives, from defining scope and requirements and analysis to financial forecasting and quality reviews. With BEEAH Group businesses growing into new geographies, forging new partnerships and breaking ground on new projects, Najib implements change management strategies while recruiting and hiring personnel to fulfil business objectives effectively. He also formulates employee-focussed policies to develop and retain existing talent within BEEAH Group, including succession planning, management and development of organisational competency, particularly for high potential employees. Najib is also responsible for implementing compensation and benefits plans, aiming to support employee performance across the organization.

Prior to joining BEEAH Group, Najib held various executive positions over the last two decades. Most recently, he served as Partner & Market Leader – Advisory Services at Korn Ferry Advisory. Previously, he also worked at Arabtec Holding PJSC, Willis Towers Watson, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young, and Arthur Anderson. Najib holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from The American University of Beirut, where he focused on Organisational Behaviour and Strategy.

Ronit Benbasat Rom is an Executive Board Member at Israel America Chamber & Wizo. She is a Global Executive people – CPO – thought leader.

Ronit is chairing the Global Human resources board role at WW Wizo (Women’s International Zionist Organization) and she is a very active board member of the Israel-America Chamber of Commerce and involved deeply with the Abraham’s Accords peace talks of the region from the business aspect.

Prior to that Ronit headed HR for Intuit Israel & all WW cyber employees. Before that she was part of the establishing team of Team8 a leading cyber security VC and was there as VP HR for all the VC Companies.

Ronit brings more than 30 years of wide managerial experience working in international high-tech companies leading : HR, Finance, Organization & Methos, Customer success, Administration. Among those companies are : LSI Logic, Intel, Cellcom and Cisco (Israel, Europe and San Jose, CA) and as VP Human Resources, she led all the company HR activities for Cellcom and Check Point (worldwide). Prior to this role, Ronit was the CEO of the Israel-America Chamber of Commerce Ronit was a Director at Maala, Israel’s leading organization concerned with business for social responsibility, which advocates corporate values and citizenship. Ronit is also a Director at the Israel-America Chamber of Commerce and the Educational Insights Project and was a member of the Council for Alut the organization for Children with Autism.

Ronit holds a BA in Social Work from Tel Aviv University and an Msc in Organizational Behavior from the Business School at Tel Aviv University. She also participated in executive MBA programs at INSEAD, IMD and the University of Michigan.

Belgin Ertam is currently handling dual role as the VP HR for GE Middle East, North Africa and Turkiye (MENAT) and Head of Organization and Talent Development for GEIM. She is focused in accelerating the leadership and talent growth together with driving the culture change in global markets and specifically in MENAT region. Belgin leads the HR council for the region and partners with MENAT HR leadership team to execute on Strategic HR pritorities, working closely with GE businesses to position the organization for success.

Prior to joining GE, she started her career at DHL Express where she took different roles until she was appointed as the HR Director in 2004. Then, Belgin worked for Microsoft for 5 years as the HR Director for Microsoft Turkiye. After Microsoft, she joined GE as the HR Director for Turkiye and also assumed the HR Business Partner role for MENAT Commercial Group for two years. She moved to Hong Kong in 2015 and held dual roles as Global Head of Organization and Talent Development and Senior HR Director for Global Functions. In this role, she had been responsible for driving HR processes and initiatives across the regions in 175 countries.

Belgin is a graduate of Istanbul University where she studied on Labor Law and Industrial Relations. She completed her education on Leadership at Harvard Business School.

Belgin had been the Executive Board Member of PERYON (Personnel Management Association) in Turkiye for 6 years. She founded a training group and led it for 4 years. She lectured on Human Resources Management at Yeditepe University. Due to her remarkable contributions as an HR practitioner, she has been awarded as one of the top 50 CHROs in Turkiye by Fortune Magazine. Belgin is married with two children.

Stephen M. R. Covey is cofounder of CoveyLink and the FranklinCovey Speed of Trust Practice. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and collaboration, he speaks to audiences around the world. He is the New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust, a groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting book that challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue and instead demonstrates that trust is a hard-edged, economic driver. The Speed of Trust has been translated into 22 languages and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

Stephen is also coauthor of the # 1 Amazon bestseller Smart Trust: The Defi ning Skill That Transforms Managers Into Leaders. Stephen asserts that trust has become the new currency of our world, and that having the ability to develop, extend, and restore trust with all stakeholders is the number one competency of leadership needed today. He passionately delivers this message and is dedicated to enabling individuals and organizations to reap the dividends of high trust throughout the world. Audiences and organizations alike resonate with his tangible, practical approach to trust.

Stephen is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his direction, became the largest leadership development company in the world. He personally led the strategy that propelled his father’s book, Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to become one of the two most influential business books of the 20th Century, according to CEO Magazine. A Harvard MBA, Stephen joined Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer and later became National Sales Manager and then President & CEO.

Under Stephen’s leadership, the company grew rapidly and profitably, achieving Inc. 500 status. As President & CEO, he nearly doubled revenues while increasing profits by 12 times. During that period, both customer and employee trust reached new highs and the company expanded throughout the world into over 40 countries. This greatly increased the value of the brand and company. Within three years of being named CEO, Stephen had increased shareholder value by 67 times in a merger with then FranklinQuest to form FranklinCovey.

Over the years, Stephen has gained considerable respect and influence with executives and leaders of Fortune 500 companies as well as with mid- and small-sized private sector and public sector organizations he’s consulted. Clients recognize his unique perspective on real-world organizational issues based on his practical experience as a former CEO.

Stephen serves on numerous boards, including the Government Leadership Advisory Council, and he has been recognized with the lifetime Achievement Award for “Top Thought Leaders in Trust” from the advocacy group, Trust Across America/Trust Around the World.

Stephen resides with his wife and children in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains.