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ABOUT ME
Ghaleb is a Prominent scholar on Leadership and Public Policy in the Middle East, and for the past 15 years, he has been deeply involved in the development and practice of Adaptive Leadership™ in the Middle East region with tens of thousands of executives/students from across the region.
He taught at both Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (HKS) and London Business School (LBS) in their Adaptive Leadership programs and co-chair with Prof. Marty Linsky Harvard's Leadership for the 21st Century Executive program offered in the Middle East.
MY PASSION
One of the most fundamental characteristics of our era is that we as individuals are more empowered than ever before in human history. As a result, we all have the potential to make a difference. Together, our challenge becomes about how to unleash our full human potential to shape our future.
I have spread the work of leadership and taught what I know best to thousands of people in the region. But the realities of today suggest that we still have a leadership shortage in the world.
We are in shortage of people who aspire to learn, grow and be catalysts for change and genuinely believe in making a difference so they can transform today’s challenges into tomorrow's opportunities and today's dreams into tomorrow’s realities.
The world needs leaders who are aspired to transform the lives of the people they love and care for.
Unleashing your full potential has been my passion for the past twenty years. I have been fortunate to study, listen to and work with thousands of ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
There is no higher goal or greater passion for me.
WHO AM I
Ghaleb is a Fellow of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy & Management at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Managing Director of Cambridge Leadership Middle East Associates, delivering leadership programs across the Middle East.
He has co-authored an academic paper with Prof. Linsky of Harvard University titled “Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution” and wrote a leadership booklet titled “Leadership in A Changing World”.
As an advisor at Mohammed Bin Rashid Center for Government Innovation, he designed and presented an online e-learning program on “Government Innovation Labs”, hosted at Ibtekr online platform. He also served as the Director of Executive Education at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, where he designed and delivered many leadership development programs throughout the Middle East.
Ghaleb brings with him a decade of experience in diplomacy and international relations. In 2001 and for five years, he was assigned a diplomat and an accredited representative to the United States in Washington DC. He started his career as an intern at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and attended the 53rd, 57th and 58th Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly.
Ghaleb received two masters’ degrees: one in Public Administration from Harvard University and a second in Diplomatic Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of London, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Essex University, UK. In addition, he attended the “Art and Practice of Leadership” an intensive professional program” offered at Harvard for Adaptive leadership experts and consultants.
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