ICON is a consulting firm that provides executive coaching, assessments, training and development solutions to help clients turn their potential into high performance. They offer comprehensive solutions customized for each client, from consulting to assessments to training and executive coaching. ICON works with clients to design and implement solutions using a team with international experience and a local understanding of Middle Eastern markets and culture.

1. INSPIRING SUCCESS
Executive Coaching Consulting & Advisory Assessments Training & Development

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Overview

3. ICON
- You know your business well -
OUR JOB is to
 Add value to your decision making by contributing new data, analyses,
and perspectives customized to your situation
 Provide you with Solutions and Tools
 Help you implement Solutions

4. Our Business Proposition is Simple
We will help you
Turn Your Potential into High Performance
 Offering Comprehensive Solutions, from Consulting to Assessments, to
Training and Executive Coaching
 Designing Solutions customized specifically to your company
 Helping you implementing these Solutions

5. Why ICON
 World-Class Talent. Our team and deep network of professionals combine top-tier
international education and work experience.
 Local Understanding. With personal and professional backgrounds in the Middle
East, our team understands local markets and culture.
 Strong Work Ethic. We take pride in consistently performing at the highest
professional standards and delivering on timelines.
 Actionable Recommendations. We work with our clients to find solutions, engaging
employees at all levels to ensure buy-in and a commitment to implement.

6. Practice Areas/ Solutions
 Core Growth
 Process Reengineering
 Performance Dashboards (KPIs)
 Acquisitions vs. Shedding off
 Preparing for IPOs
 Building High Performance Leadership
 Building Visionary Strategy
 Building High Performance Teams
 Building Trust
 Staff Efficiency
Consulting
Training
 High Performance Organization
 Sales Aptitude
 Operational Efficiency
 Right Person in the Right Job
 Leadership Potential
 Cultural Change
 Role Definition
 Realizing Potential
 Corporate Governance
 Leading Performance
Assessments
Executive Coaching

7. Turning Potential Into High Performance
ImplementationAssessment Solution
Realized Potential
Measurable Results
Added Value
High Performance
Designing Relevant
Solutions
Organizational
Solutions
- Consulting
People Solutions
- Executive Coaching
- Training
Assessment of
business
potential
Organizational
Assessment
People Assessment
Gaging Potential
Our core competency is helping you uncover POTENTIAL and then
Turning Potential into Performance

8. Icon Team Collective Experience
10 50of top
Global
Banks
40 500of top
Fortune
companies
Collective Clients Experience
Collective Work Experience
4 25of top
Regional firms
3 15of top
Global Energy
Providers

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ICON Academy

10. ICON ‘s Unique Capabilities
Experience is comprised of:
• Training engagements with premier firms
• Extensive experience in leading and facilitating courses
• High Performance driven training workshops
• Significant years in the field
Rated among the Top 3
Global Training Providers
Industry Specific
Experience
ICON Academy Team
Senior, Experienced
Professional Facilitators
Implementation
Expertise
Measurable Results

11. 360Solutions – ICON Academy
• We are rated as ‘the’ top leading training provider globally
• We excel in Leadership and Performance Training and Coaching
• Since 1998, we have been helping people across the world with their
professional and personal development..
• We have 500 strategic partners throughout the world.
• Our extensive library of curriculum has been used by companies such as
EXXON Mobile, SHELL, BP, AMOCO, NASA, Colgate, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, Proctor & Gamble, Ford Motor Company and hundreds more.
• Our senior trainers have extensive experience, are practitioners, experts
and thoughts leaders in their areas of specialty and actually practiced
what they preach. In short, people who’ve ‘walked the talk’, are Bilingual
and with an average experience of 25 years.

12. Partial List of Clients

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Bios of Some of Our Trainers

14. Roger K. Allen PH.D.
Head of Organizational Design Practice
Co-Founder and Senior Consultant The Center for Organizational Design
Roger K. Allen, Ph.D., author, consultant, coach, teacher, is a respected expert in leadership,
communication, team development, and personal and organizational change. Roger and Preston Pond
founded the Center for Organizational Design in 1992 in order to help businesses create high
performance/high commitment organizations. Some of Roger’s past and current clients include AT&T
Capital, Ashland Chemical, Burson Marstellar, Coach Leatherware, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
(several radio stations), Denver Museum of Nature and Science, DSM Dyneema, Honeywell, Kaman Industrial
Technologies, KeyTronic, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Proctor & Gamble, The US Forest Service, Qwest, and many
others. Examples of a few recent consulting projects include redesign of a $1 B distribution company from 200
branch offices to around 20 customer support centers; redesign of a plant that manufactures high
performance textiles to double production capacity; assessment and redesign of several public radio
stations; successful trust building with alienated board of trustees; chartering and improving performance of
several executive teams.
Roger is a prolific innovator of training and organizational development methodologies and products. He has
written numerous publications, workbooks and leaders’ guides on the topics of leadership, personal
effectiveness, high performance teams, strategic planning, organizational assessment and design, and
interpersonal dialogue. Roger and Preston Pond have certified over 800 independent consultants nationwide
to use their consulting and development products.
Roger intervenes at the personal, team and organizational levels to create high performing companies.
Using his engaging style, he has also delivered hundreds of workshops, retreats and seminars around the
country which have been acclaimed as among the most powerful learning experiences available
anywhere.

15. Chip Wilson
Head of Training Practice
Founder and CEO of 360 Solutions
Chip Wilson is a visionary who has an overwhelming passion for helping others develop their
entrepreneurial spirit. With extensive knowledge of the training and development industry,
Chip regularly has the opportunity to share his skills and successes with others.
After college, Chip began his business career under the umbrella of a Fortune 500 company.
Unfortunately for them, Chip wanted the challenge of an entrepreneurial lifestyle. So, at the
age of 26, he started his first training and consulting business in his hometown of Des Moines,
Iowa. After two successful years, Chip sold that company for a substantial profit.
He then became the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a consulting company in
Waco, Texas where he was responsible for over 700 accounts nationwide. In his time there,
Chip contributed greatly to the company’s bottom line, but desired a career that was more
personally and professionally rewarding.

16. Dr. Osama Al-Ali
Partner, Head of Strategy and Leadership Practice
•Dr. Osama Al-Ali was in at the beginning of the IT revolution before it was even known by that name.
His early working life in the 1980’s was spent as a Business Systems Analyst and Head of Technology
before embracing academia as Assistant Professor of Applied Sciences at Arabian Gulf University in his
native Bahrain.
•In the mid 90’s he took his expertise – in computer applications and information systems – into the
world of banking as Vice President and Gulf Business Technology Head of Citibank. The internet
explosion at the turn of the millennium further increased demand for Dr. Al-Ali’s specialist knowledge of
banking software and Intranet solutions. Since then he has provided a wide range of consultancy
services to Governments, Corporations and Institutions, offering expert advice on Executive
Management, Corporate Strategy & Performance, Business Development, Airports and Project
Management and IT services.
•Dr. Al-Ali serves as a business adviser and coach to many businesses and CEOs across the Gulf region,
and in addition trains on executive leadership, systems dynamics, and innovation using TRIZ. 15
•Dr. Al-Ali earned his Bachelor and Masters of Science in Computer Science & Engineering from the
University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Post Doctorate in Systems
Dynamics and Human Cognition from the Media Lab. He also completed the Executive Program at
the IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

17. Founder & Managing Director
• Salma Sakhnini graduated with an MBA from Yale University and a BA from the American University of
Beirut (AUB) and holds the Master Franchise for 360 Solutions - the leading training company globally- for
the GCC region, and is a Certified Executive Coach from the International Coach Federation (ICF) and
Center for Executive Coaching.
• Salma founded and manages her own group of companies that include an industrial manufacturing
business, a consulting practice, and a training and coaching firm. She previously held a number of senior
leadership positions including, working as Vice President with Citibank and as Chief Operating Officer
with Rasmala Investments.
• She is renowned for being "The Strategist for Success". Salma has advised, coached, and mentored
seasoned leaders in Strategy, Success and Business Growth. She helps her clients transform their
businesses and lives, and turn their potential into prosperity.
• Having transformed the performance in businesses she ran and in her own companies by implementing
strategies that increased sales, streamlined and aligned the business, and boosted profitability, Salma
became an expert on transforming potential into high performance.
• Salma’s passion for making a difference in people’s lives has led her since the age of seventeen to always
play an active role in the community through working on issues closest to her heart, education,
empowerment, women, and youth. In striving to heighten awareness and make an impact, she works
closely with different constituents of the community on issues of development while actively working with
and coaching reform and strategy teams.
• She is a strong believer in nurturing the partnership between the community and the private and public
sectors and in the role business must play in giving back to the community. She has also lectured at the
American University of Dubai and held executive workshops on many topics.
• She is a mentor and a model of success and continues to be an active speaker at various regional and
international conferences.
Salma Sakhnini

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Board of Advisors

19. Dr. Farouk El Baz- Chairman
World Renowned Scientist, Research Professor & Director
Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, U.S.
Rima Zaitoon
Senior Associate Director:
Principal Gifts &
International Fundraising,
Yale University, U.S.
Husam Hourani
Managing Partner: Head of
Banking & Finance,
Al Tamimi & Company, UAE
Farid Mohamad Ahmed
Secretary General,
Dubai World, UAE
Mohamad Bin Brek
Chief Executive Officer,
Hospitality Asset
Management,
Jumeirah Group, UAE
Advisory Board
Mohamad Shroogi
President,
Investcorp, GCC
Fatma Al Mansour
Chief Executive Officer,
Reem Finance, UAE

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Partial List of Courses

21. Partial List of Courses
 High Performance Leadership
 Employee Engagement
 Effective Communication
 Managing Change
 Conflict Management
 Becoming the CEO of Your Own Life
 Skills for High performance Teamwork
 Strategic Management
 Customer Service Excellence
 Diversity Appreciation
 Presentation Skills
 Team Building

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