Kareem Hanaa

Talent Managment Consultant

Kareem holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from New Zealand where he has gained extensive corporate experience, the majority of which was in the banking industry. His expertise and skills have been an asset in the various assignments that he has conducted for some of the Middle East's leading government, semi-government organizations such as;

Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB)
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB)
Dubai Land Department (DLD)
Abu Dhabi Commercial bank (ADCB)
Al Rajhi Bank (KSA)
Abu Dhabi Securities & Commodities Authority

Kareem has furthermore led assignments for various United Nations (UN) bodies in the region, such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO Iraq) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP KSA).

Kareem has extensive experience in managing and executing consulting projects that involved delivering organizational change solutions. These have included organizational re-structuring, performance management, business process review as well as developing policies and procedures.

Additionally, as a human resource management practitioner and specialist, Kareem possesses extensive supervisory and executive skills in the areas of talent management, learning and development, competency planning, succession and manpower planning, balanced scorecards, performance management systems, job evaluation studies, compensation benchmarking and executive recruitment.

Furthermore, Kareem has implemented leadership assessment and development projects in a number of organizations, typically with the objective of identifying talent pipelines and strategic succession planning. Assessments where targeted to staff, managers and mid-level management using several approaches such as conducting assessment centers, structured competency based interviews and online assessments.