Managing Partner, Merit Academy, MEA & The Lead Partner Strategic Consulting,
Baker Tilly MEA and Managing Partner, Baker Tilly,
Oman Office. The developer of the “Strategic Management Process: How to Assess, Formulate, Implement and Control Your Strategy” program and the author of its textbook. The program is mapped by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI, UK) and recognized in relation to the management and leadership against their Professional Standards.
Abbas Al-Humaid, The Founder
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Books Authored
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Years of Professional Experience
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Years in Training & Personal Development
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Years in the Financial Industry
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Years in leadership positions
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Years in strategic & management development
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Strategic, management, & financial consultancy projects
TESTIMONIALS
Richard Lobley
Vice President, Strategy, Projects & Controls at Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation“Abbas has a unique blend of entrepreneurial instinct and capability, combined with "blue chip" consulting skills and experience. Abbas approaches all his projects with great energy and enthusiasm, utilising his extensive network to the full to achieve business success.”
Jose L Lora
Ex-CEO, Inma Property Development LLC“Abbas Al Humaid has collaborated extensively with “Inma Property Development LLC”. Abbas is very detail oriented and helped us to establish our market position, our core goal system and the core competencies required to develop a sustainable competitive advantage. We are thankful to Abbas for his leadership qualities and his attention to details which were instrumental inhelping the team to focus. We wholeheartedly give Abbas our recommendation as a person who is a problem solver and has added great value to our organization.”
Marjorie Gardyne
CIPD, CMC, FIBC, FCMI, CMgr“Abbas has been the driving force introducing accredited professional management programmes throughout the Gulf region. He has a high intellectual capability bringing experience and structure along with the gravitas needed to lead the organisation. He is strategically orientated, and his personality could be described as: Eager, Forward Thinking, Organized, and Compassionate. Abbas is strategically orientated, demonstrates masterful knowledge and possess diverse management skills to achieve positive results for the organisation.”
Dr. Tareq al Suwaidan
A Kuwaiti writer, historian, businessman, and Muslim scholar"The book is a creative idea and a distinct effort. I have noted quotations from thinkers of other doctrines other than your own, and this is something we commend for you."
Loic Wallaert
Adviser to the Mazars Group Executive Board"Abbas Al-Humaid fully shares our values and demonstrates the commitment to excellence and professionalism that we seek in our partners."
Dr. Yahya Abu Zakaria
Arabic journalist"Abbas Al Humaid is a researcher and a creative writer. He sailed in the realms of innovation and epistemological creation. He is not just an expert in the management, financial, and auditing consults and leadership of enterprises and strategies, he is also well versed in the Arabic and Islamic culture. He led serious attempts to formulate a renaissance for the Arabic and Islamic world."
Dr. Nick Clifford
PhD, MBA, MCMI, FRSA, Senior Fellow, Manchester Business School, UK“Abbas has acquired a considerable educational background which provides him with the necessary academic and theoretical knowledge of strategic management to be authoritative in his views. He is well versed in the theory of strategy and strategy formulation –working in a large corporate organization has provided him with the knowledge and experience to work effectively in such environments. He is also creative and has written on the subject of strategy and the need for better strategic thinking across the corporate world.”
Adrian French
Ex-Business Development Manager, Chartered Management Institute, UK“I have known Abbas now for 3 years. He is very business focused and always acts in a very professional manner. He can be relied upon to deliver high quality, accredited management programmes for his clients.”
Hussain Al Lawati CMgr,
CEO Creative Soul Group"Whether when I was in a variety of jobs and a variety of corporate roles on the senior management levels, or when I was running my own business as an entrepreneur, Abbas gave me the opportunity and the edge to convey this information to the circles around me, whether that is youngsters’ new generations or SME’s from a leadership perspective and also from as I said theories in the commercial world."
Dr. Wissam Steitie
CEO Manchester Innovation and Technology Academy"Abbas is one of the best leaders I worked with, he is really talented and has lots of competencies and skills.I learned a lot from him, and i refer my "success" to his way of planning my career path.I wish him best of luck in his life, and one day i will work again with him."
Lynda Purser
Ex - Director Institute of Management Consultancy, UK“The Institute has also awarded Mr. Abbas Ali Mahmood a fellowship of the institute of Management Consultancy, UK (FIMC). FIMC is the highest level of professional membership and is awarded to those who can demonstrate evidence of a significant contribution to the management consultancy profession."
Alan. D. Whitman
Chairman, Baker Tilly International BoardFrom business schools to leading consulting firms, there
is no shortage of strategy concepts and techniques.
Abbas cuts through the confusion in a coherent and
cohesive way with a step-by-step approach and relatable
examples that are far from theorizing. He does this all
in the context of today’s fast-paced environment.
Zulfiqar Hamadani
the CEO of Tanmiah Food Group, Saudi Arabia"I spent my weekend reading and admiring your wonderful book. The way you have captured
the complex strategy formulation, execution, and control process in such simple terms is
masterful and a pleasure to read.
Mago JB Singh
Group Managing Partner Baker Tilly Middle East & Baker Tilly JFC GroupI have read through the book more than once and feel that Abbas has put the book in a most
simplified manner giving illustrations and practical examples and, in this way, he has made
the most complex subject of strategic planning and its implementation very simple for the
reader to understand and then implement. His walk through approach is really commendable,
and I wish you, the readers, good luck in formulating your Strategic Intent Goals and its
implementation, taking input from Abbas’ book.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
ABBAS AL-HUMAID BIO
He is an experienced C-level dynamic leader, visionary strategist, and tactician with a successful history of delivering unprecedented growth approaching 30 years. He is recognised as a thought leader, innovator, and expert in defining, evolving and executing business strategies. As a highly experienced consultant and 56 top-tier global adviser, he has aided governments, and public and private companies to realise their economic goals across a broad range of industries.
Abbas successfully led two comprehensive change assignments for two large governmental groups with billions of US dollars in total assets and successfully developed five startups.
He was the first Gulf States national and one of just a few thousand management consultants globally authorised by the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (an UN – sanctioned nongovernment organisation) to practice as a management consultant.
Abbas was one of the only two consultants outside of the UK who has been accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI, UK) in September 2010 to assess candidates for the prestigious accreditation: Chartered Manager (CMgr) – the ultimate accolade for any practising professional manager.
He has led several significant programs for developing the strategic and leadership skills of hundreds of managers and CEOs over several years, assessing a number of them for the Chartered Manager (CMgr) accreditation. These programs were based on the strategic management and leadership programs of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI, UK).
Abbas has led an effective program focusing on strategic reform commissioned by a large corporate group for senior executives across the corporation (5O businesses, in 6 sectors).
Abbas obtained a range of fellowships, academic and world professional qualifications such as “Certified Public Accountant” (CPA) from the USA, “Certified Management Consultant” (CMC) from the UK, “Chartered Manager” (CMgr) from the UK and “Certified Fraud Examiner” (CFE) from the USA. Abbas holds two BA degrees, one in accounting and the other in economics, and a postgraduate degree in Business Administration from the HeriotWatt University in the UK.
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