The 20-member council met at Jumeirah Group’s headquarters in preparation for HITEC Dubai, the region’s largest hospitality technology showcase Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®), the world’s largest hospitality technology conference brand, will be coming to Dubai, UAE on November 14-15, 2017 at the Conrad Dubai. Produced in partnership by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), the…
By Patty Ann Tublin, Emotional Intelligence, Communication and Relationship Expert For more information on work-life balance strategies, check out what Barbara Corcoran of SHARK TANK fame wrote about my Amazon best selling book: “Dr. Patty Ann rolls up her sleeves to tackle what just may be the last frontier for women who yearn to create…
The United Arab Emirates has one of the most welcoming business environments in the world. And the government is constantly striving to make the country more welcoming to new businesses. EASE OF DOING BUSINESS: In its ‘Doing Business 2017’ report, the World Bank notes that the United Arab Emirates has recently made it even easier…
On Friday, May 12, 2017, news broke about the ransomware attack which infected more than 200,000 systems in over 150 countries. The attack affected National Health Service centres in the UK, Renault production facilities in France and government agencies in Russia and China, just to name a few. Hackers responsible, suspected to be from North…
Alia was born in Pakistan and raised in North America (Canada and the United States). Her entrepreneur ways sowed its seeds as early as 2000 when she set up a media and marketing company in Los Angeles. In 2011 she furthered her Islamic studies in Jordan, at Amman’s Qasid Institute. Alia moved to the United…
Suraj Padmanabhan from Thumbay Group received the HR professional of the year (private sector) award at the MENA HR Excellence Awards held at Sofitel The Palm Dubai on May 1st, 2017 as part of the 12th Human Capital Forum. He was awarded for his exceptional performance in aligning the HR function with the organisation’s strategic…
“I am the daughter of a Palestinian refugee and my mother gave me my survival instinct. She made me tough.” It takes a special kind of entrepreneur to raise $11million for a start-up venture, but that’s exactly what Joy accomplished when she launched Fetchr, an Uber-like GPS-tracked parcel delivery app. Joy began her career in…
Maya Hojeij is Editor in Chief and Presenter of “Mal” daily business news show on Dubai TV and has produced and presented Yawm.com Show in 2012. Between 2002 and 2011, Ms. Hojeij was a Business News Presenter at Al Arabiya news channel part of MBC Group., she was part of the launch of AL Arabiya…
By Emeline Roissetter, Founder – Professional Coach, MomentuM Coaching Being an empathetic leader does not mean you are too emotional or too soft. Being an empathetic leader is actually a difficult skill to acquire and most likely the most powerful in every leader’s toolkit. Being empathetic means you are able to recognise and share other…
By Tracy May, Managing Director at TPC Leadership Traditional ideas about leadership are being challenged as never before. The old ideas of leadership as a set of fixed competencies belonging to those who are ‘pale and male’ are decidedly ‘stale’. In the volatile, ambiguous and diverse workplace of today, there is a growing appreciation that…