Aref is an executive and team coach, working in the area of enabling and empowering leaders. His exposure to diverse culture and industries made him strongly anchored in the belief that the unfolding of one’s full potential through inner-evolution and self-development is nature’s way and therefore inevitable.

An Executive Coach with 13 years of experience working with Boards, C-Suite, and Mid-level Management both in private and public sectors around the Middle East.

Aref’s areas of expertise include Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Team Coaching, Family Business Succession Planning, Organization Change Management, Personal Development and Transformation.

Being a strong advocate of creating a coaching culture at all levels in organization, Aref has developed and facilitated programs to help managers and teams develop their coaching skills.

Aref’s exposure to Tavistock work in group relationship and T-group facilitation through the study of Applied Behavioural Science combined with his practice as a Gestalt Therapist, Transactional Analysis, Shadow Work and Archetypes’ are some of the tools in his arsenal to understand and influence the human psychology to create the desired behaviour and results.