Sarah is a seasoned Management Consultant and coach with 20+ years hands-on experience. She has worked in various sectors and industries with the following emphasis:
- HR Transformation and Strategy: Led the transformation of the HR Role from Personnel to HR Business Partner in several private sector organizations. Participated in the development of the HR strategy for Dubai Government and worked on the development of organizational strategies, operational plans and budgets
- Policies and SOPs: Successfully led and participated in the development of HR public policies within Dubai Government (impacting 45 entities and 45K+ employees) such as Succession Planning, Career Management, and Learning and Development. Overlooked the development and implementation of internal HR Policies; Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); Workflow Processes & Business Processes Blueprints for HR System Module throughout her tenure in the public and private sector
- Organizational Design/Development: Developed Organizational Design & reviewed Restructuring requests to ensure development of lean and efficient structures encompassing defining mandates and directories to job scoping, job evaluations, defining job roles and competency mapping. Worked on projects related to Organizational Performance, ISO accreditations and Quality and Excellence
- Capability Building: participated the development of Competency Framework, Career paths, IDPs and Occupational Classifications within private and public organizations and managed the HR functionality and HR employees’ competencies assessment project across 35+ Dubai Government Departments and 400+ employees
- Assessment: Assessed successors (full spectrum of HoD to CEO) for Mohamed Bin Rashid Centre for Leadership Development deploying several assessment tools such as role plays, CBIs, case studies and group discussions and assessed exceptional employees with the Dubai Government Excellence Program (DGEP)
Coaching: Coached Individuals within the public and private sector across Asia, Europe and North America with emphasis on talent and successor coaching deploying the Result based Coaching and CoachMe model
Education, certification and training:
- ICF: PCC- Professional Certified Coach
- EMCC: SP- Senior Practitioner Coach
- MHS: EQ-i 2.0, EQi 360
- BMC: CoachMe Team Coach, Boards and Executive Coach
- NLG: Result Based Coach
- IHRS: Assessors Skills
- HRCI: HRBP
- Grenoble Ecole de Management – Pursuing Doctorate in Business Administration (Current)
- Cornell – HR Director’s Program
- American University of Beirut (AUB) – Master’s Degree in Public Administration (HRM)
- American University of Beirut (AUB) – Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration