I believe that individuals have the power to strongly influence companies’ success, and I am passionate about empowering them to do so. I’m committed to creating a work environment that is inspiring and allows people to be the best versions of themselves.

Thanks to my 20+ years of HR Management experience in Israeli as well as global companies I am able to dedicate my focus and attention to what matters most in my opinion; enabling the organization and its teams to shine and be successful and at the same time seeing and understanding the “big picture” and adapting to changing environment and market trends.

Sanjay has over 22 years’ experience both within Organization Development and Human Capital consulting as well as successful track-record as a corporate Human Resources line executive within Middle East.

Sanjay is currently managing diverse client portfolios across Oil & Gas, Retail, Financial Services and family-owned businesses. Sanjay has held several leadership roles in Ernst & Young as well as in Kornferry Hay Group (formerly Hay Group).

Sanjay has successfully led and executed projects in the areas of organization development, digital transformation,competency modeling, performance management, HR Business Process Re-engineering, operating model/organization structuring design, executive rewards, compensation and benefit designing and surveys, talent management, assessment / development centers and job evaluation.

Sanjay’s skills include Organization design principles; Rightsizing approaches; Designing HR Architecture & Business Process Reengineering; Total Rewards Management; LTI design and administration, Performance Management; HR Analytics, and HRMS/ HRIT Expertise.

Sanjay has managed several SMART HR Digitalization projects for diversified multinational businesses as well as Oil & Gas companies. Sanjay has recently led major projects to develop and implement Digital Transformation road-map for the Human Resources Functions. During the course of these initiatives, some of key outcomes were improvement in Employee experience delivered through smart Digital HR services as well as improved efficiencies and effectiveness of the HR function.

Sanjay advices various Boards of Directors for large corporates on implementation of Total Rewards – LTI programs for Executive retention. He has lead several design and implementation projects providing Equity plans for senior leadership team.

Sanjay is a Post-Graduate in Business Administration from Australia and Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. He holds life-memberships at World at Work as well as Society of HR Management, USA.

Keith Jones and Tessa Sharp are professional facilitators with a background in applied psychology and business. With 60 years combined experience working with leaders in 40+ countries, they have developed a new approach to organisational learning and human transformation, addressing the complexities of embedding and integrating behavioural change.
Their award-winning book PROVOKE; The Art of Transformative Facilitation – creating dynamic learning in the corporate world highlights their approach. Rigorously researched and practitioner oriented, they unapologetically encourage commissioners and practitioners alike to reflect on the established orthodoxy of corporate learning as a means to navigate the very real potential of this highly dynamic and complex field.

Keith and Tessa interviewed many senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies and asked them what significant pieces of learning had contributed to their leadership success? Many cited experiences, (rather than formal training), that had directly shaped their ability to thrive in their senior roles today. This led the authors into an inquiry into the nature and psychology of adult human transformation and what contributes directly to the creation of sustainable and meaningful learning. Over the years, clients commented on the difference of Keith and Tessa’s approach and the impact it had on the senior participants they worked with.

Their work and their writing is changing the nature of the conversation about how adult human beings truly learn and thrive through engaging all aspects of one’s intelligence; cognition, emotion, feelings, sensations, intuition and will.

“Humbling and awe-inspiring in equal measure, this journey has changed the way we talk about leadership and learning, with an increased focus on accessing the deeply personal nature of authenticity and integrity for each and every learner, and a clear route-map of how to get there.”
Keith Jones

Christine Belanger has 20 years of Human Resources experience within the Banking, Engineering, Governmental, Healthcare and Private Sectors.

Christine holds a BA in Psychology from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), a BSc in Psychoeducation (Educational Psychologist) from Montreal University and a Certificate in Human Resources Management from HEC Business School (Montreal, Canada). She is a Certified Coach and a Chartered Member of CIPD.

Christine is currently working for Mubadala Health as their Senior Director, Rewards, Performance & Workforce Planning. Outside of work, Christine shares her knowledge and expertise through different HR conferences and events speaking engagements, provides career coaching and mentors university graduates as they are ready to start their professional journey.

Assisting organisations undertaking transformation and reward solutions to identify and manage their talent, organisation structure, job evaluation and grading through the process.

Undertaking several leadership programmes with clients to support Succession Planning and Talent Management. Alex has been working on key projects with both public sector and multinational organisations.

Developed an HR strategy and performance- related pay and grading structure for an international organisation in the transport sector to be rolled out on a global basis.

Interviewed managers of multinational companies to provide an objective view of the roles’ grade using the Korn Ferry Hay Job Evaluation Methodology.

As the lead role in Work Measurement in the region, Alex represents the Middle East office within the extended Global JE network. She has trained numerous clients in the use of the Korn Ferry Hay Guide Chart and Profile Method of job evaluation, job analysis the principles of salary management and performance management.

Alex has worked across many business sectors enabling her to offer clients a broad perspective of the issues they face. Alex’s core expertise lies in the field of Work Measurement which includes job analysis, job family models, job evaluation and grading and the link to the wider reward issues that clients may face. Having spent 27 years in Korn Ferry UK, Alex joined Korn Ferry Middle East in 2008 and currently heads up the Work Measurement practice.

Alex has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology.

Dr. May AlTaee brings over 18 years of experience in various areas including learning and development, research, innovation and digital transformation. Dr. AlTaee joined the Abu Dhabi School of Government (ADSG) in November 2019 and she is currently the Acting Academic Programs Director in addition to her role as the Learning Technology Director. Under her leadership, the school of government assumed a strategic role and launched mega projects serving the public and governmental sectors, among the most prominent projects: Digital learning for All, Abu Dhabi Digital Skills Program and AD Next-Gen Youth Development Program in future skills. Prior to joining ADSG, Dr. AlTaee was the Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies & Research, she supervised the accreditation of strategic graduate and undergraduate programs in technological innovation, which contributed to obtaining the local (CAA) and international accreditation (ABET). Dr. Al Taee received the Sheikh Rashed Award for Scientific Outstanding and two of Zayed University’s highest honors; membership in the Sheikha Fatima Honor Society and the ATHENA leadership award. She hold a PhD in Knowledge Management from the University of Birmingham, UK & and Master’s degree in Management from Bath University, UK.

Further to an established management career with British Airways, in both Operational and HR functions that included talent management, organizational design, L&D and recruitment disciplines, Sandra then worked with major blue chip organisations in the USA/Europe/Middle East both as a consultant and in senior management positions. She has a strong commitment to leading, coaching and guiding individuals to exceed and grow in their skill development. Sandra holds a BSc (Honours) degree in Psychology and a MSc degree in Occupational Psychology.

• Founder member Tanfeeth, a subsidiary company of Emirates NBD Group focused on back office and contact center operations
• Drafted framework for the organization to achieve excellence in operations and contributed enormously towards vision, mission and values design
• Formulated essential policy framework on governance, people policies, contracts, technology road map etc.
• Lead customer experience transformation for the organization by approach of measuring right, simplification of process and pro-active complaint handling – components that led change.
• Started as a transformation expert for contact center with view to transition from current state to state of art contact center
• Initially developed a three-year strategy to accomplish critical aspects of contact center deliveries including cost efficiency, high rate of CSAT, first call resolution, empowerment, skill matrix, performance evaluation & rewards, enhancement of services
• Managing approximately 1500 staff members of Emirates NBD and Emirates Islamic contact center and collections to facilitate change and create an energetic environment for enhancing organizational performance
• Restructuring the contact center to a multi-channel, beyond voice capability, integrated with other banks’ channels to bring the bank on the digital realm
• Managing end to end collections and recoveries of portfolio of delinquent customers, delivering the best loss rates in the
• Grew outbound sales from channel contributing 8% to currently contributing 15% of retail sales for products sourced
• Formed an energetic direct reporting team to perform tasks independently outside their boundaries

Sallyann Della Casa is one of the 4% of women globally who has a patent pending method and algorithm (for measuring soft skills) as a sole inventor.

Sallyann holds degrees and certifications in Law, Organizational Behavior and Urban Planning. She speaks five languages and is a published author. Her education spans the globe from Harvard University to Franklin College to University of Toronto.

Sallyann spends her days obsessing about GLEAC, her technology company, which measures and develops soft skills gaps for any job (current and future) in 10 minutes a day. GLEAC’s clients and partners include Prada, Accenture, Korn Ferry, Monster etc. GLEAC will be featured in the Dubai Cares, The Future is Human pavilion at Expo2020.

Sallyann Della Casa is also the Founder of the Growing Leaders Foundation. In partnership with the UNDP, thousands of at-risk youths and adults annually benefit from her Foundation’s work delivering soft skills in the Caribbean Latin America and Mena region.

She is currently based in the APAC region. Her Foundation has worked with many of the largest companies in the region from Mubadala, DP World, DU, Nestle, PWC etc. In 2016, she served as the only female in C-suite position at Careem to help stabilize the workforce and shape its organizational culture. Careem was purchased by Uber for 3.1b in Jan 2020.

Sallyann is having the time of her life right now ensuring every human, regardless of their background and degree, will not only have an equitable seat at the job table, but can also invite someone to sit…

Dr. Regis Chasse is the Dean of the Leadership Institute at Majid Al Futtaim, a Dubai-based lifestyle conglomerate with over 44,000 employees across 16 MENAP countries. He is accountable for all aspects of the Leadership Institute which supports the strategic transformation agenda of the Group. He oversees three schools: School of Leadership Development, School of Analytics and Technology, and the School of Great Moments (Customer Experience).

Previously, Dr. Regis Chasse was member of the Capgemini University executive committee, and Director of Curriculum for Capgemini Group until December 2017. He was responsible for building the strategic capabilities necessary for Capgemini Group to achieve its objectives and ambitions in the near and long term. He was managing a total of 50 curricula grouped in 4 domains: Executive and Leadership Education, Professional Excellence, Technology Expertise, Sector and Service Line Excellence. In 2017, Capgemini global curriculum reached over 225,000 employees across 42 countries, either virtually, regionally or centrally.

Dr. Regis Chasse began his career as a software engineer and project manager, while graduating from the “Ecole Privee des Sciences Informatiques” (E.P.S.I.) in Paris, France, with a Master in Computer Science (french-eq.). He then moved to the United States in 1993. He completed a Master in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska. He then joined Capgemini Group in 1998.

Recently, he has completed both a Master of Education and a Doctorate of Education through the PennCLO program at the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral dissertation discusses “the value of professional certifications for Corporations”.

Dr. Chasse is also a seasoned conference speaker on the topics of continuous learning, learning innovation, communities of practice, digital age learning and learning effectiveness evaluation. Dr. Chasse was a member of the Employer Subject Matter Expert Team (ESMET) advising the US Department of Education on the “Jobs for the Future” initiative.