Dr. Nahla Khaddage Bou-Diab

As an expert in managing change, transforming culture, and driving effective strategy formation, Dr. Nahla Bou Diab has been recognized as a credible leader, earning 12 awards for leadership excellence since 2015. Dr. Nahla is considered an expert in building organisational resilience. She has earned her Doctoral Degree from University of Liverpool, for her research on ‘Spirituality in the Organisation’, which was recognized as an important contribution to both scholarly and practitioner knowledge. She is the Head of Women Empowerment for the World Union of Arab Bankers, and in that capacity, Nahla broke new grounds by launching the first charter for Gender Diversity in the Arab World. The charter was approved and formalized by WUAB’s board of directors, and has been featured by OECD in their June 2020 publication. Dr. Bou Diab has been featured in the media on multiple occasions to share her expertise on organisations, gender diversity, and managing change.

With over 40 years of experience in senior management in North America and Middle East, Nahla led the restructuring of several organisations and Central Banks. Nahla moved to Lebanon in 1997 where she launched the Management Consulting Services for one of the Big 4 consulting firms. She taught ‘Change Management’ in the Executive MBA program at American University of Beirut for 10 years, until 2017.

Dr. Bou Diab joined the C-suite of a local bank in the year 2000 with the aim of proving that culture has a tremendous impact on an organisation’s resilience despite the complexity of the environment it operates in. She is an active mentor at Endeavor, and volunteers her time to support SMEs by helping young entrepreneurs to effectively drive their business. Dr. Bou-Diab is the chairman General Manager of her own company “Oneness Offshore”, a company aimed at assisting individuals and professionals to learn how to shift from survival mode and remain in creation mode, in order to unleash their personal power and achieve personal and professional resilience.

Dr. Bou Diab was honored by many entities and publications. Most recently, she was featured in an international magazine ‘The 10 Most Empowering Women in Business 2022’.