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Made in Casablanca, Shaped in New York City, Thriving in Dubai since 2005, this is my journey across 3 great cities I am privileged to call home.
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Made in Casablanca, Shaped in New York City, Thriving in Dubai since 2005, this is my journey across 3 great cities I am privileged to call home
I count 20+ years of multi-industry management experience, and a career history working within Fortune 500 companies, governments, and non-profit organizations across a multitude of industries from financial services and investments to retail and franchise development with international exposure within Europe, U.S. and the MENA region East and Arabian Business among others.
I have always believed that “we don’t build businesses, we build people and then people build businesses.” This has influenced to a great extent my leadership style in my corporate experience, and was cultivated further when I had the privilege to work with the main team at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for knowledge, where I was in charge of innovation and entrepreneurship programs across the Arab World.
I shifted my career in 2014 to embark on my entrepreneurial journey full time, with the founding of Sustain Leadership Consultancy. I am an active contributor to the entrepreneurship eco-system, recognized as an advocate for transformational leadership, gender balance, women’s advancement, diversity and inclusion, and social innovation, I also sit on the advisory boards of several SMEs and NGOs.
I received many awards, including, the Game changer award in 2019 from the Middle East Institute of Excellence in Dubai, as well as the Saphira award from her native country’s government of Morocco in 2016, to name a few.
I am a published author, with 2 co-authored books, and my own recently published “ SEEDS of change” that earned number 1 best seller on Amazon.ae. As a thought leader, some of my articles were also published in Harvard business review Arabic and Forbes Middle East and Arabian Business among others.
Founder & CEO at Bolt Consultancy | 2x TEDx speaker
I have the privilege of having known Hanane for more than 5 year now...She and I have participated in many business conferences and symposiums and shared the same panel at some. Most recently we participated in Celebration of Entrepreneurship event organized by Abraaj Capital/ Wamda on the 8th/ 9th November 2010 in Dubai. Hanane commitment to her work is unmatched. She infuses her endeavors with energy and passion and I have known her to see any task she undertakes to a completion. Hanane is an exceptional human being whose acquaintance is enriching and I have strong belief that she will add value to any business undertaking she engages herself in.
Chief Executive Officer at Jadara Training and Consulting
I have had the pleasure to be mentored by Hanane and I must say, what a delight she is to work with. She has been helping me with my journey as an entrepreneur and I cannot thank her enough for her guidance. One advise I always give to my fellow entrepreneurs is to have as many mentors as possible as this is a great way to learn and succeed in your journey. Hanane is one of the few people I have met with a beautiful soul. Her positive energy and buckets full of wisdom makes her a great mentor. Thank you Hanane for your time and patience. God bless
Fashion: Doing Good Better
Hanane Benkhallouk was born and raised in Morocco, driven by the ambition of her father to ensure the empowerment of their village’s people. She has dedicated her life to fostering progress, travelling across Africa, Asia and the Middle East to sow her “seeds” of change. Her noteworthy initiatives include Hubuntu (aligned with Ubuntu’s ideology “I am because we are”), Tawazoun (Balance in Arabic), Challenge to Change (supporting women in Palestine) and being a Founding VP for the global organization, Soroptimist International GCC Chapter as well as founding member of Link Mentoring Platform.
For 14 years, Hanane has been dedicated to cultivating the entrepreneurial ecosystem. She has mentored and supported 5000 entrepreneurs in 20 countries through incubators, accelerators and other programs. Not merely interested in constructing businesses, her goal is to develop entrepreneurs themselves; Her focus is on developing each individual rather than just their businesses as she believes it leads to higher-quality business growth in the long term. Strong individuals she believes are capable of creating even stronger companies.
With this in mind, she continues to invest in resources that help entrepreneurs grow in a holistic way – both personally and professionally.
In Arabic, French, and English, she delivers an engaging speaking experience with her command of the stage and ability to read the audience.
Among her clients as a speaker are UN Women, KPMG, PWC, Nestle, Grankraft Construction Group, GSK, Government of Dubai, Government of Morocco, and HSBC.
Focusing solely on workforce diversity or quantitative metrics alone is unsustainable, according to her. To truly optimize the richness of diversity in the long-term, she believes that it is paramount to create an inclusive culture. Thus, her DE&I interventions and services are designed to make inclusion part of an organization’s daily operations in any given area where they operate. Utilizing diagnostic tools, she and her experts can analyze the interdependent systems and diversity components in a group setting. Through this methodology, employees, managers and leaders are able to increase their capacity for learning and identify limiting beliefs, thus enabling them to form diverse networks within their team to deliver outstanding results.
A range of topics related to DE&I have been covered by her such as: Unconscious Bias, Inclusive leadership, Balanced leadership (Gender Balance), DE&I strategies and Cultures of inclusion.
As the global community seeks to tackle sustainability issues, companies are feeling the pressure to adjust their practices. Hanane is an expert in this domain, able to provide invaluable assistance to businesses wanting to make progress. She understands that sustainability comes at a cost, but she also knows it pays off through cost savings as well as improved environmental and public relations. Thanks to her Doctorate thesis on ESG implementation and transforming business into human centric organizations, Hanane is equipped with the knowledge needed to help businesses adopt more responsible policies and procedures.
As a certified coach in innovation and neuroleadership with hundreds of clients from various sectors and countries, particularly in the MENA region, Hanane helps to build resilient mindsets in order to manage change. Her SEEDs methodology is tailored to each individual to improve personal development and equip them with the necessary skills using recent models and tools that are pertinent to their culture and industry. Moreover, Hanane is a specialist in systems coaching, believing team coaching produces better results for organizations that understand the combined strength of its members. Through her executive coaching career, she has worked with leaders from Fortune 500 companies, government institutions, NGOs as well as growth companies and startups.
As a transformation strategist, Hanane works closely with executives and other key stakeholders to develop and implement a comprehensive transformation plan. By analyzing the organization’s current situation, identifying areas for improvement, setting goals and targets, and developing a roadmap, she helps the organization achieve its goals. In addition to providing guidance and support to project teams, she supervises the implementation of new strategies, processes, and systems.
A key focus of hers is helping organizations become more agile, efficient, and innovative to compete in today’s dynamic marketplace. To ensure that the changes implemented are sustainable and lead to long-term success, she also provides ongoing support and guidance.
Hanane is a seasoned consultant, who runs her boutique consultancy – Sustain Leadership Consultancy – which specializes in strategic management, diversity & inclusion, digital transformation, leadership development and innovation cultures. By combining her local market knowledge with her expertise, Hanane works as a solution partner with organizations and individuals. She helps develop business strategies that give exceptional performance and pave the way towards lasting success; while also creating an inclusive and engaging work culture
Organizational Practices – Practices that govern how employees work together and interact with customers, suppliers, and partners.
As an innovation strategist, Hanane works with her clients to create cultures of innovation by providing assessments, consulting engagements, and leadership development programs that uncover barriers and opportunities for driving greater innovation. These programs equip organizations to pull the levers necessary for creating a more innovative environment: strategy and business model, leadership behaviors, and organizational practices. Through her company she furthermore provides broad-based training through which to ingrain these changes into the organization’s culture.
Her best-selling book and a number of articles, some of which have been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and other prestigious publications, have made Hanane a thought leader in the field of business and management. Additionally to writing, Hanane is a very active expert in her field, providing courses and webinars on business and management topics.
SEEDs of change provide guidelines to business leaders with a tool kit to help them shift mindsets and create new thinking that helps teams to cope with the current volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment, and develop agile strategies to continue to grow individuals and contribute to the business objectives.
Hanane is an exceptional mentor. She is able to mentor students, corporate employees, transitioning employees and almost anyone of any age. She has an engaging, empathetic attitude that makes her a pleasure to speak with. She has the perfect balance of professional and charismatic, which makes her an excellent speaker. On top of the fact that she is a mentor for Intelak Incubator, she is exceptional at customizing every course she teaches to the audience sitting in the room. She is the type of person who will go out of her way to customize her presentation based on our feedback points and needs to help us reach our goals at Intelak. We’re so lucky to have Hanane as a mentor !