Rich Feller Ph.D. LPC, JCTC,http://www.richfeller.com, Professor, Counseling
and Career Development and one of Colorado State
University’s 12 University Distinguished Teaching Scholars Emeritus has served as President of the
National Career Development Association. His consulting includes work with NASA, Hewlett Packard,
United Nations, National Football Association, American Association of Retired People, Jackson Financial, National Science Foundation, Modern Elder Academy and others within all fifty states and on six continents. His
publications include three books, 6 film series, and over 125 articles and book chapters. He’s called a “world class professor” in What Color is Your Parachute (the world’s most popular career book).
A former school, vocational, and admissions counselor, and coordinator of graduate programs in Counseling and Career Development, and the Student Affairs in Higher Education program he taught within the Organizational Performance and Change graduate program. Co-founder of the Who You Are Matters! board
game, virtual experience, Online Storyteller and Wayfinder, he serves as Advisor to Youscience, Executive Director of the career network (founded by Dick Knowdell) and lead trainer for the Job and Career Development Coach program. He is Pearson’s Career Decision Making System co-author, created www.stemcareer.com and career consultant to Semester at Sea with international consultations with Sudan, Thailand, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia, Canada and Europe.
Rich has delivered keynotes, trainings, and consultations to organizations in
all 50 states and on 6 continents,
Session Name: Who You Are Matters! Game Play
Goals and Objectives :
1. Participants will analyze and evaluate their life element stories about their Personal Qualities, Strengths, Desires, Other People, Assets and Natural Interests that create awareness useful in the coaching process
2. Demonstrate increased ability to show empathy, provide direct affirmative communication, and deliver constructive feedback.
3. Create and use their Clarification Sketch to go deeper into their life clarification and intentional exploration
Abstract :
Who You Are Matters! is a highly interactive group intervention of meaningful conversations using the www.onelifetools.com narrative framework. Written takeaways about “what’s next” possibilities include small action steps. Participants connect by storytelling about Personal Qualities, Strengths, Desires, Other People, Assets, and Natural Interests in a structured and safe environment.
Summary :
The OneLifeTools HEROICg Narrative Assessment System guides individuals through a narrative career & life clarification process rooted in their life story, followed by a guided exploration of their most promising possibilities.
The HEROIC Narrative Assessment System bridges the latest career theory and thinking with a proven framework used successfully with thousands of people from 80+ countries of origin. It is guided by more than 10 other theories and practices.
People’s careers and lives go through cycles of stability and change. The HEROICg Narrative Assessment System helps clients navigate transitions and make clear, confident and well-informed choices that lead to better outcomes, and happier and more fulfilling lives.
This program is both a full experience for participants as well as an introduction to narrative assessment.
Working for sustainable development and poverty alleviation are a passion and constant string in Dr. Hanan Elguindy’s work experience for more than twenty-five years, through which she managed to build up a diversified experience supported by a variety of academic studies. Her working experience included working extensively in Egypt, Arab Region as well as some African Countries; through several International Institutions such as: World Bank, European Commission, UN Women, UNDP Regional Office for Arab States, Education Development Fund of Egypt’s Cabinet of Ministers., UNDP Egypt, UNDP Kuwait, Kuwait University, Bahrain University, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, UNDP Libya, ILO office of Egypt, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNFPA, PLAN International, CARE International, and BBC World Service Trust.
Dr. Elguindy has been in charge of leading, supervising and managing variety of programs: including inclusive participation and institutional strengthening, Women empowerment, child protection, career development, promotions of rights of disabled persons, NGOs Governance, climate change, building the capacity of the Ministries of International Cooperation, Investment, Manpower, Environment, and Social Solidarity. This is addition to working extensively with the aim to enhance youth employability, vocational education, solid and hazardous waste safe management; empowering women through entrepreneurial activities; empowering civil sector, media for development; combating gender-based violence and Community based rehabilitation; Institutional Development, small scale and minutes projects for youth and women and decent jobs for women, youth, and persons with disabilities. This experience includes participation in relevant strategies and policies, capacity building, initiatives development, implementation and supervision and assessment for various related development topics.
Furthermore, she had the opportunity to be nominated as a Fulbright scholar to obtain her Master’s Degree on Public Administration, Leadership, Development and Public Policy focused on sustainable development in Egypt from the New York-based Syracuse University, in the US, one of the top schools in public administration and citizenship affairs. This is in addition to studying the role of international organizations in development through her doctoral thesis in the UK based London University. Her university education was in English languages from Alson Faculty, that supported her in preparing for a career path in development and supported by academic studies as post graduate diplomas from the American University in Cairo, in human resources planning and management, public policies, leadership, negotiation and conflict resolutions.
Dr. Elguindy in 2022 became a certified senior expert in International Management Systems through Blackburn Institute in UK and became a certified lead auditor for Educational Institutions (first patch in Egypt) through Examplar Institute of Australia. These two certificated have been accredited from National Quality Institute in Egypt with no expiry date.
Haila Mohammed AlRakaf – MBA – PCC – GCDF/CCSP
I am a Human Capital Maximizer. I do connect myself with youth and professionals, to unlock their potential and maximize their development and performance through using coaching and counselling models, innovative tools, and psychometric assessments.
In general, I have 18 years of experience gained through working as a general manager, performance management consultant, behavioral – based interview assessor, psychometric assessment provider, youth and professional career development counselor, and leadership coach, trainer, accreditation surveyor, project manager, clinical pharmacist in several organizations such as Ministry of Human Resource and Social Development, King Abdullah University Hospital and King Fahad Medical City.
In regard to coaching and counselling, I accomplished more than 4000 hours since 2019 through projects on national and international level. I had significant impact within different organizations such as Saudi Food and Drug Authority, Saudi Telecom Company- Solution, SABIC, Takamol Holding, Princess Noura University, General Authority of Zakat and Tax and Customs, HRDF, AL Nahda Association, Economic Families Association, Traof Charity, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Municipal Rural Affairs and Housing, Imam Mohamed ibn Saud Islamic University.
• Works in the field of designing business strategies and institutional and societal innovation.
• It also focuses on developing leaders for institutions in the public, private and social sectors through an integrated methodology that includes a system of competencies, tools, and measurement of leadership performance.
• Interested in designing human-centered works in the business and community sectors.
• Contributed to the establishment of many development initiatives and projects and an executive advisor to many institutions and companies in the Arab region
• He carried out many consultations and field research work in the field of business development and strategies for many medium and large companies in the Arab region.
• Author and co-author:
• The integrated approach to preparing leaders
• Social Innovation Series, Social Innovation Laboratories, Design Thinking. community leadership.
• Founder of Saber Business Design, which has developed many quality projects in the Arab region
Lakeisha Mathews, Ed.D, is Director of the Career and Internship Center at the University of Baltimore and is also the owner of Right Resumes & Career Coaching, a career development business focused on providing professional documents, career coaching and training for mid-level and mid-management professionals in a variety of industries.
Dr. Mathews holds several industry certifications including Certified Career Coach, Certified Resume Writer, Global and Career Development Facilitator, and Executive Career Coach among other designations. She holds an Ed. D. in Higher Education Leadership & Innovation from Wilmington University, a M.S. in Human Resource Development from Towson University and a B.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland College Park.
Lakeisha is committed to the field of career development and in 2011, she was elected as president of the Maryland Career Development Association. In 2016, Lakeisha co-authored a chapter in the book Find Your Fit, published by the Association of Talent Development. In 2017 she was elected Trustee-at-Large for the National Association of Career Development (NCDA) and formally served as the Trustee for Higher Education Career Counselors & Educators. She is currently the President-Elect of NCDA and will begin her presidential term in October 2022.
Lakeisha is a native of Baltimore, MD and seeks to give back to the greater Baltimore community by
serving on non-profit boards and supporting workforce programs. Lakeisha has provided pro bono
employability skills training to disadvantaged youth and currently supports the Baltimore City Youth Works program and Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Corporate Internship Program, to provide work opportunities for at-risk youth.
Of most importance is Lakeisha’s client-centered approach to career coaching. Hearing success Stories continues to be the favorite part of her job as a Higher Education Administrator, Educator and Career Coach!
Mona is a Career Development Facilitator, Capability Building and Talent Development Consultant at several organizations in Egypt. She facilitates training and coaching programs that facilitate self-discovery and identify essential components of career success.
Mona is also an Encouragement Consultant and a certified Relationship Coach from Mars Venus Coaching. She also has a special experience in developing and delivering character building programs and retreats for young ages and teens.
As an Instructional Designer, Mona support organizations in designing engaging learning journeys and talent management events.
Mona has more than 12 years of professional experience in the consultation field conducted various organization and culture transformation projects for more than 20 local and multinational organizations in different industries.
Dr. Abdulrahman Alhuthlul
VP for Training and development at Judicial Training Centre.
CEO of Takween Centre for Training Students
— Ph.D. in Higher education Administration from Saint Louis University in the U.S.
— Master’s in management and Educational Planning from Imam University in Saudi Arabia.
Enthusiastic Human Resources and Administration veteran with more than 15 years ,39 experience in FMCG
looking forward to resuming her career with a more challenging opportunity within the field.
Ahmed is rapidly becoming the career development leader and expert throughout the Middle East. He is the founder of Career Development in the MENA Region. He began the first career development project in Egypt funded by USAID in 2006. Then he extended his efforts to other countries in the region. Later he worked in other countries in Europe and Asia and worked in the USA and Canada. His main focus as enriching Arab individuals, teams, organizations, and even countries with the required knowledge, materials, tools, and experiences to benefit from a professional career development process—all translated and adapted for the Arab culture.
Randa is a graduate of Business School class 1999, started off her work journey upon graduation through many industries. With more exposure to different business, the more she gained experiences on both levels; humane & business.
Hospitality, manufacturing & banking were main fields of work along Randa’s first 14 years of experience and claims her own track of record. Banking is occupying many years of her track where she climbed ladder of occupational ladder reaching AVP, embedding her strategic vision & innovative ideas into business benefits.
Randa started to invest in Career Development & guidance by Year 2013, being certified from National Career Development Association – USA.
Randa is among the ‘Global Connections Committee’, functioning & representing Arabs & their passion for life & profession development.
Randa is working for ‘Ahmed Moustafa Foundation – AMF’ as Programs & Networking director, implementing AMF’s scope into tangible objectives and liaising humans across life matrix aiming for sustainable change.
Dr. Sujata Ives, PhD GCDFI, OWDSI
Chief Executive Officer, Center for Global Alliance & Leadership Expansion
Associate Chair, International Committee of the American Counseling Association
Leadership Support Liaison, Global Connections Committee of the National Career Development Association
Coordinator, Community-based sector of the World Council on Intercultural & Global Competency
Executive Advisor, NFL Alumni Performance Lab Board
Senior Service Fellow, Society for Human Resource Management
Session Name: Career Development Mindset in Entrepreneurship
Goals and Objectives :
Participants will be able to:
1. Understand relevant UN SDGs in the MENA region of the world as the backdrop to career development. Mainly SDGs #5, 8, 10, 11, 17.
2. Incorporate Intercultural Competencies into the career development discipline in the MENA region.
3. Replicate a model of collaboration around the world: the creation of First Arab Career Development conference, Egypt 2023 through the GCC and career developers in the MENA region.
Abstract :
These foreign-born presenters will address the UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030. The Goals are a collection of seventeen interlinked global goals designed to be a “”shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future””, and were created to be achieved by the year 2023.
In order to keep up with the demands of a competitive global stage, the presenters will bring you relevant tools for discussion and implementation for the work you currently do, and to also meet these goals by the intended year.
Summary :
The SDGs emphasize the interconnectedness of global environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development by putting sustainability at the center, and emphasizing that we do not live or act independently and without ripple effects.
The 17 SDGs are: No poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, industry, innovation and infrastructure, Reduced Inequality, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water, Life On Land, Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, Partnerships for the Goals. These goals were made more “actionable” by a UN Resolution adopted by the General Assembly, whereby the resolution identifies specific targets for each goal, along with indicators that are being used to measure progress toward each target. The UN wants each Goal to be achieved by 2030.
There are cross-cutting issues and synergies between the different goals. Cross-cutting issues include gender equality, education, culture and health.
Goal 5: Gender equality
SDG 5 is to: “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. In 2020, representation by women in single or lower houses of national parliament reached 25 per cent, up slightly from 22 per cent in 2015. Women now have better access to decision-making positions at the local level, holding 36 per cent of elected seats in local deliberative bodies, based on data from 133 countries and areas.
This section is an excerpt from Sustainable Development Goal 5
Through the pledge to “Leave No One Behind”, countries have committed to fast-track progress for those furthest behind, first.
SDG 5 aims to grant women and girls equal rights, opportunities to live free without discrimination including workplace discrimination or any violence. This is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
SDG 8 is to: “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”.
Over the past five years, economic growth in least developed countries has been increasing at an average rate of 4.3 per cent.
Addressing youth employment means finding solutions with and for young people who are seeking a decent and productive job. Such solutions should address both supply, i.e. education, skills development and training, and demand.
In 2018, the number of women engaged in the labor force was put at 48 per cent while that of men was 75 per cent.
Goal 10: Reduced inequality
SDG 10 is to: “Reduce income inequality within and among countries”.
In 73 countries during the period 2012–2019, the bottom 40 per cent of the population saw their incomes grow. Still, in all countries with data, the bottom 40 per cent of the population received less than 25 per cent of the overall income or consumption.
Women are more likely to be discriminated against than men. Among those with disabilities, 3 in 10 personally experienced discrimination, with higher levels still among women with disabilities. The main grounds of discrimination mentioned by these women was not the disability itself, but religion and ethnicity, pointing to the urgent need for measures to tackle multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.
In 2019, 54 per cent of countries had a comprehensive set of policy measures to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people.
Goal 17: Partnership for the goals
SDG 17 is to: “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development”. Goal 17 is included to assure that countries and organizations cooperate instead of compete.
Humanitarian crises brought on by conflict or natural disasters have continued to demand more resources and aid.
Being the Head of the Assessment Center & Executive Coaching within Abdin Consultancy Group, Ahmed
collaborates closely with big corporations (Siemens, L’zurde, etc.) C-suite Level Executives & top management
board (from CEOs, Project directors to department heads) to enhance their overall performance and improve
their managerial style as well as leadership capabilities.
Over the years, He developed a unique executive coaching style with managers that is based on 3 pillars:
1. Applying global Canadian/US assessments to assess all about the manager’s strengths, areas of
development, stress management level, team working style, leadership style, talents, and all areas of
improvement, where assessments result in accurate non-adjustable reports
2. Customizing a unique coaching/career counselling journey based on the manager’s reports addressing
their capabilities and helping them reach their potential whether in professional or personal domains.
3. Using digital-coaching platforms/tools that are user-friendly for following up after sessions to guarantee
managers’ engagement and achieving KPIs with maximized added value
Regarding Professional Experiences and Job Titles held in Career Development:
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• A Career Service Provider who graduated from the Global Career Development Facilitator Program
(GCDF 26) accredited by the leading career development association across the globe – the National
Career Development Association (NCDA) under the supervision of Dr Ahmed Mostafa Kamal (Feb.
2021)
• Assessment Practitioner with 6 years of in-depth experience in applying global psychometric and
career assessments with clients (One to One) and inventing algorisms between global assessments
through understanding common backgrounds between each one of them.
• Previous General Manager for a UAE Magazine (HR Revolution the Middle East), Ex. Head Resume
writing department for UAE and Saudi companies (Siratee and ElitesCV) and C-level Resume
Consultant for an Indian Company, who Reviewed more than 28k CVs & resumes worldwide and one
of a few professionals in the MENA region who is an expert in ATS (Applicant tracking systems) &
how to make compatible CVs/Resumes that can beat it.
• Leadership Trainer & Instructional designer who finished the (CPTD) curriculum from (ATD),
having more than 12 professional courses in career development areas and over 5000 training hours
(B2B/B2C) from 2015
• Career Coach with more than 500 clients (B2C), following the school of the International Coaching
Federation (ICF) (from 2016)
Regarding Productivity and Performance Management:
• Ahmed helps managers tackle their productivity problems that lead to overwhelming and reframing their
attitude for favourable unhealthy habits from overworking, overachieving, disengagement, mistakes
philosophy, and work-life imbalance, using 2 of the most effective global tools in the field of
productivity like Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen and Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Merging the GTD concept with atomic habits methodology to make the GTD system compatible with
the psychology of personality style for a person to make it a daily habit that is unconsciously done, and
transfers all of that into the training program and one-to-one coaching for public clients and managers in
big corporations.
Session Name: The Assessments Algorism (16 x 1) | A New Validation tool for more accurate & genuine assessments results
Goals and Objectives :
– Validate assessments results by career professionals in a scientific methodological method
– Introduce a new algorism that acts like a big picture for assessments correlations in the practical life
– Link between totally different 16 assessments that measure different aspects of people’s personality using one algorism
– Help career professionals overcome client cognitive bias while doing assessments
– Envision all the possible outcomes in other assessments for the same client from only 1 assessment
Abstract :
A new algorism for all career professionals, that links the results of 16 globally accredited assessments together; by analyzing only 1 assessment result, the Manual Algorism will generate all the Possible matching results in the other 15 assessments. No more Trail & Error or doubting client Genuity in self-exploration process.
Summary :
The career development process succeeds when it gives the client a whole 360 degree of self-awareness feedback, by addressing the client’s career/personal aspects, which can be summarized into the following elements: personality style, behaviours, attitude, emotions, beliefs, values, fears, needs, desires, matching jobs & careers, skills, values, talents, competences, leadership style, team working style and intelligence type, those elements collectively shape the self-awareness map for a person, Where psychometric and career Assessments are the globally approved method to measure such elements accurately
Assessments have two major problems, firstly, there is no correlation between accredited-assessments results that measure different self-awareness elements.
Secondly, the client has the upper hand in the assessment process, not the service provider, as there is no Common Manual to be referenced to ensure if the client is answering genuinely or not
Building on what previously said, I developed an INNOVATIVE ALGORISM, that takes more than 6 years of R&D, linking the results of 16 globally accredited assessments together, by analyzing only 1 assessment result (Like PSI); the Manual Algorism will generate all the Possible matching results in the other 15 assessments,
Where the Algorism general theory is inspired by 2 main concepts:
First: People is divided into four main domains
Second: most of the psychological-inner factors are developed in the first 12 years & affected by genetical and epigenetic factors
The List of used Assessments (PSI, MBTI, Disc, enneagram, psychology today, Gallup Clifton strengths, know dell (values-skills-occupational interests), interest profiler, career clusters, Belbin, Multiple intelligence, needs, fears, desires)
Certified Career Development Facilitator from NCDA
Working as freelancer Career Coach enabled him to help more people to find out their own ways
Beside career coaching, he worked as an IT specialist in different Saudi Arabian institutes
Mohammed Alkaff
left a long and lucrative career in career and self exploration to finally become a career counselor. Mohammed was certified in career exploration/awareness skills from the Vancouver College of Counselor Training (VCCT) in 2020 and has been counseling since.
Mr. Emad M. Helmy is known for his outstanding experience in the field of career guidance and counselling. Mr. Emad used to be an expert for international organizations, such as the German International Cooperation (GIZ), the International labor Organization (ILO), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). He is a Brand Ambassador for the Young Thinkers Program with Al Ghurair Foundation for Education. He provides his services in Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Serbia, and Kosovo. Mr. Helmy is one of the founding members of the Community of Practice for career guidance and counselling within the German Cooperation’ countries/projects.
Emad is a Certified NCDA / Career Service Provider and an FCD Instructor. He is an active member of national and international career guidance professional networks, such as the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IEAVG) – National Career Development Association (NCDA) – Network for Innovation in Guidance and counselling in Europe( NICE ). He holds a master’s degree in international education management from Ludwigsburg Germany, and Human Resource Management and Education degree. He is also well-known as an excellent facilitator, moderator, and trainer.
Mr. Helmy is the founder of Career Advisory Tools international.
• Experienced and enthusiastic career development facilitator with a passion for helping and inspiring others
• MBA holder from Eslsca University
• Career Development facilitator since 2011
• GCDF Career Development facilitator, CCSP certified Career Service Provider
• A skilled and enthusiastic career development facilitator with a desire to assist and inspire others.
• He is the co-founder of the Creative Kids Trainer (CKT) program and has trained more than 50 professional trainers around the Arab world.
• Many years of experience as a camp counselor and small-group instructor.
• As a motivational speaker for children and teenagers, he trained more than 175 trainees
• Committed to learning about varying educational philosophies, and motivated by my appreciation of the human spirit and our innate desire to learn.
• capable of sticking to lesson plans and fostering a learning environment in the classroom.
• Bringing forth dedication, a love of education, and the desire to positively impact the lives of leadership, English, and well -Being • Has experience with all modules of the training, both virtual and physical.
•Working as a digital training manager at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, November 2020 – Present
• Leadership, English & Well-Being Programs Coordinator, Digital Haya Karima, March 2021 – Present
• leadership and language coordinator at the Digital Egypt Builder initiative. December 2019 – November 2020
•MCIT Formal Instructor, April 2020 – March 2021
General Manager of GOODAT Consulting Company.
Business Consultant and Career Facilitator. A part-time Lecturer in The Business School at King Fahad University.
Certified Career Services Provider and Global Career Development Facilitator
Holds two master’s degrees in Business Administration.
Conducted more than 50 courses and bootcamps in Career Development, entrepreneurship, and straregy.
Worked with several organizations in Saudi Arabia managing natioal wide projects such as:
Human Resources Development Fund,
Aramco Entrepreneurship Center, and SME Authority
Brian Hutchison, Ph.D., LPC is Core Faculty of Clinical Mental Health in the School of Counseling at Walden University, USA. Dr. Hutchison received his doctorate degree in Counselor Education & Supervision from Pennsylvania State University and has worked as a career, school, and mental health counselor and clinical supervisor. Known as Global Career Guy he works as an academic, author, counselor, trainer, clinical supervisor, and speaker who focuses on how work and career development impact mental health, well-being, school engagement and social justice.
Brian is a recognized scholar of counseling, mental health, and career development. He has published in 17 different peer reviewed academic journals representing the fields of psychology, counseling, career development, college access, and education. His work is represented in 18 different textbooks by publishers such as Oxford Press, Routledge, Wiley, Jossey-Bass, and Information Age Publishing. His first book was titled International Practices of Career Services, Credentials, and Training, and his second is a high school textbook called School to Career.
Brian’s consultation and education work is designed to impact mental health and career development around the globe. He has spoken, trained, and consulted with people in more than 50 countries. He has led projects in the Philippines, Canada, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, India, and the United States. Most recently he has developed a school career development program in India, provided consultation/developed trainings on depression and suicide prevention in the Philippines, spoken to and interviewed students in Azerbaijan, and been interviewed for a web channel in Pakistan.
To learn more about Brian’s scholarship and global engagement, follow him at https://www.globalcareerguy.com/
Session Name: Building Blocks of a High School Career Program
Goals and Objectives :
1) Share the core components of a well designed high school careers program.
2) Demonstrate how to design a program using Career Development Age Level Expectations.
3) Share a structure for developing age appropriate career interventions.
4) Share a myriad examples of career interventions for high school students.
Abstract :
The high school years (~ages 13-18) are a fundamental time in human development as students prepare for transition to postsecondary career, education, and training options. Evidence suggests that a well organized, comprehensive curriculum is most effective in preparing cohorts of secondary students for positive career development. This presentation will provide the components and a comprehensive example of a high school career program.
Summary :
Participants will learn about comprehensive career programs designed for the high school level. They will be able to articulate the components of such programs and design both interventions and curricula for this purpose. All attendees will receive the Power Point presentation which demonstrates one such curriculum to use in their own school.
Dr. Rania Sawalhi has more than 20 years of experience in education (K-12 and higher education) as she worked as teacher, vice principal, principal of international school, strategic manager, researcher, and lecturer. During her work, she developed career guidance policies and procedures for the schools that she worked in. In addition, she designed career management skills and activities for Honors programs students in Qatar University. Rania has won several awards such as ICSEI/JPCC 2020 Innovation Award for designing a female empowerment program which included career readiness and social innovation, and she was a Study UK alumni awards finalist for social impact. In 2019, Rania completed her PhD in Educational Leadership from University of Warwick (UK)and published a number of research and books in peer-reviewed journals. Rania is a co-founder of Eduenterprise a non-profit organization registered in the USA and has launched the Educational Leadership Lab applying design thinking approach and launched Rushd educational leadership coaching e-platform, she is a co-founder of WomenEdMENA, and LIFE, and ICSEI_ELN co-coordinator. Currently, Rania is a programming manager in Qatar Foundation.
Session Name: Design thinking and career planning: Voices from Middle East
Design thinking and career planning: Voices from Middle East
This paper aims to provide participants with an overview of the design thinking methodology and to introduce practical applications in the field of career guidance and initiatives launched in Arab countries.
A career service provider who was graduated from a professional certified program designed to prepare professional career service providers, using the curriculum of NCDA “National Career Development Association” from USA.
He delivers his services through one-to-one sessions, group workshops, online sessions, events talk, and being guest in various media platforms to achieve the following:
– Help individuals to identify the most suitable job to their personalities, skills, and interest.
– Help individuals to draw their Career path
– Help those who are not satisfied with their current job to regain their job satisfaction,
– Help those who aim to change their career (shift career) to understand the reasons of their decision, then plan the transition in the right form without harming their career.
– Assist individuals in reviewing or writing their current CV
– Assist Individuals in creating a professional LinkedIn account, and understanding how to use it to find a suitable job
– Assist individuals to understand how to prepare well for job interviews
– Train coached in gaining skills needed to present visual content on social media platforms
During his career, he delivered coaching services with foreign embassies through programs presented by the American embassy in Cairo and the Finish Embassy in Cairo, he led a 25 career coaching team to present advising session in both Cairo and Alexandria mega events, he presented workshops and session in Alexandria Library &number of universities as Arab Academy (Alex) and Modern university for technology and information (Cairo), he delivered number of coaching sessions in mega events as Jobzella job fair and Career Hub , beside delivering various Job Hunting workshops.
And with 11 years experience in media, Hatem, worked in many well-known TV channels in Egypt and Arab Pan such as: CBC – DMC – CNBC Arabia – Alarabya Elhadath, till he worked as a Radio journalist at BBC.
Session Name: How social media can affect your decision in choosing a career ?
How social media can affect your decision in choosing a career?
Goals and Objectives :
As a career services provider delivering my services to youth, I noticed many clients had a narrow career vision as they believe that their future has to be limited in the jobs they recognize by the influencers and public figures they follow
This session will discuss:
1- Raising the awareness regarding how social media affect thinking about user’s career?
2- What they must understand about career decision process that help them filling the self and market awareness?
3- What is the career decision process that they can apply to find a suitable job that matches their skills, interests, and personality?
Abstract :
I know what you feel after browsing on social media, Admiring the influencers’ career asking how can I be like them, right? But if you think that this is the only career choice for you then you must think twice, join the session and discover your career potentials
Summary :
During this session, I will be keen on presenting a video regarding the problem of not having a clear vision of choosing a career, and show the negative impact of applying for a job without having any information about how it will match your personality, skills, and interest
Also, there will be number of statistics describing the impact of social media on a person’s way of thinking about their career as being affected by what seen on social media pages especially with the influencers and public figures
In addition, I will talk about the man 5 negative impacts of social media on people’s perspective on career and how that might turn to be an obstacle that pulls us away from the suitable job that matches our real personality
And at the end, there will be a discussion using career diamond model as a tool to give for the audience to help them understanding how to apply it on themselves
Note: During the session there will be number of discussions with the participants to let them talk about how being on social media affect their point of views regarding what they want to do in their careers? and how that might affect them when they don’t have a clear answer regarding how to do it, or where they can find such jobs that make them rich, popular and happy in a short time with the least amount of effort
Azza is a partner and co-founder of SkillLab. SkillLab provides equal opportunities for all people by connecting people, jobs, and education. Currently, she is responsible for partnerships in the MENA and GCC regions. Azza’s passion is to empower women, youth, and marginalized job seekers to turn their skills into careers
Before founding SkillLab, Azza worked as Information Management Specialist at UNFAO. There, she played a considerable role in leveraging and optimizing information management to effectively respond to humanitarian crises and produce modules for user-centered easy visualization of progress toward the three dimensions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 2030) — economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social inclusion, and comparison of performance across countries or regions.
Eman has more than 15 years of diverse experience between Banks, Compliance, Retail sector and
Government sector, freelancer trainer in business administration since 2009 & Certified as a career coach facilitator in the field of career development, GCDF from CCE.
Also, she is certified and accredited as global career development facilitator from the Center of
Credential and Education (NC—USA) 2018.
She is working as a freelancing practitioner, certificate from Ministry of human resource and social development in Talent acquisition, Document ID 9ce8ac5f.
Mohamed Hany helps more than +2000 Participants on career development skills
•Hani got his master’s degree on public policies and development projects Evaluation 2020 after graduating from the Faculty of Commerce—Accounting Department in August 2006
•Worked in multiple jobs before working as an Incubation support lead at MCIT Egypt, where he is enabled to support startups in their early stages
•In 2018, he was accredited as a national trainer for ILO SIYB and GYB programs.
•In mid-2017, Intel certified him as a trainer in creativity and innovative thinking.
•During 2017, he worked with Allo Company (Saudi Arabia) within the Department of Professional Development and worked on the development of many tools, which he presented in a form commensurate with the Arab world.
•In April 2016, he was accredited as a Professional Development Facilitator by (NCDA- Oklahoma—USA) and in the same year he was accredited as a professional mentor by CCE—North Carolina
•Work began in mid-2014 as a professional development facilitator to begin by helping young people in different governorates of Egypt in vocational planning
•In the beginning of 2013, He started working as a trainer at the Ministry of Youth on several joint training projects with various organizations (including Microsoft), Banycef Egypt, and the Ministry of Communications.
•He also worked as an accountant in the Ministry of Youth and Sports at the beginning of 2009.
Saad Abdulla Al-Kharji is a highly accomplished career development professional with over 14 years of experience.
He currently holds the position of Career Programs and Services Manager at Qatar Career Development Center (QCDC),
He is a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), and serves as a consultant at the Office of the President of the Civil Service and Government Development Bureau.
His journey in the career development field began as an operations officer at the Qatar Career Fair (QCF), where he played a key role in organizing the largest national career fair in Qatar, which was under the patronage of His Highness the Heir Apparent at that time. He has successfully led a wide range of career programs and initiatives at various levels across Qatar. Saad holds a Qualification in Career Development (QCD) from the Career Development Institute (CDI) and a Master’s degree in career guidance and development from the University of the West of Scotland.
He is passionate about empowering individuals to reach their full potential and achieve their career aspirations.
