Nabeela Elsayed

Steer your organization to new heights

Navigate complex changes, drive growth .

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Avoid handholding or direct management. Nabeela quickly understands your unique problems and offers immediate, well-thought-out solutions with minimal back and forth. She approaches problems with a scenario mindset, providing clear pros and cons to ensure highly effective outcomes.

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Leverage global experience

Benefit from Nabeela's extensive experience across 41 countries, global multinationals, non-profits, and Silicon Valley startups. Hiring Nabeela means partnering with a highly recognized and accomplished industry professional.

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Receive tailored solutions

Customize your approach with Nabeela's tailored services. She works with you to identify your specific needs and customize solutions that meet those needs, ensuring a perfect fit for your business and team.

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Embrace Innovation
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Nabeela leverages her wealth of experience while continuously adopting modern technology and approaches. By partnering with Nabeela, you gain a professional who remains at the cutting edge of technology, digitalization, and agile business practices.

A stratigic and operational partner to reach your organization's goal

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Leading and growing a business is challenging, especially in today's volatile environment. But you don't have to face these challenges alone. Nabeela combines over two decades of experience leading global multi-billion dollar P&Ls as a CHRO and COO with over a decade as a strategist and executive coach to be your partner through all the hard stuff.

Whether you are a start-up in the scaling phase or a multinational S&P 500 corporation, Nabeela’s advisory and consulting services can support you across many disciplines.

Nabeela offers strategic and operational leadership on a fractional basis, bridging gaps without the overhead of a full-time executive. If your company is scaling but lacks in-house expertise or needs top-tier guidance, Nabeela’s tailored solutions ensure sustainable growth and operational excellence. 

Leverage a seasoned partner to drive performance and navigate complex changes with confidence. Nabeela partners directly with CEOs to build strategies, align teams, and enhance operational capacity.

Solutions tailored to your organization's unique needs

Fractional Executive Leadership

Nabeela Elsayed brings exceptional expertise in fractional executive leadership, having operated as CHRO and COO with multi-billion dollar P&L responsibility. 

Collaborating with Nabeela means instant access to impactful strategies, knowledge, and expertise.  

Nabeela's support extends to diagnosing and executing strategies across a broad spectrum of operations, corporate affairs, government relations, communication, ESG digital, and people practices. 

Whether you are a start-up aiming to scale to the global stage or a mid-large company seeking strategic leadership, Nabeela provides the support and leadership your organization needs to thrive.

Nabeela Elsayed's Fractional Leadership offers you:

Fractional Chief Operations Officer

  • Operations Streamlining
  • Workflow Design & Strategy
  • Costing and Budgeting
  • Vendor Management
  • Expense optimization
  • Strategic Plan Review & Redesign
  • Operational Implementation & Planning
  • Approach to Project & Change Management
  • Real Estate and Physical Asset Strategy
  • Fostering consistency and operational repeatability
  • Excellence in execution
  • Continuous improvement approach
  • Agile ways of working

Fractional Chief People Officer

  • Optimize organizational design and operating model
  • Talent management models and processes
  • Support with critical succession and recruitment processes
  • Total Rewards strategy and approach
  • Strategic people planning & advisory
  • Organizational change planning & execution
  • DE&I strategy and implementation
  • Co-worker relations processes
  • Policy, procedure and process mapping and optimization
  • Culture and leadership design and implementation

Leadership Development

Whether you need executive leadership or development for frontline and mid-managers, Nabeela has done it all. 

She has designed leadership training in the Metaverse and delivered in-person programs using a blend of classic and cutting-edge techniques.

Rooted in the latest research and adult learning principles, Nabeela’s programs are crafted to move hearts, challenge thinking, and deliver tangible results. 

She can help design and implement leadership development programs that inspire, engage, and drive success.

Nabeela Elsayed’s Learning & Development Expertise offers you:

  • A strategic perspective on skills development for an ever-evolving learning landscape 
  • Multi-modal approach for a hybrid organization 
  • Front-line skills development for hourly employees
  • Community-based approaches to develop culture and shared learning experiences 
  • Common nomenclature and learning outcomes to drive organizational change.
  • Costing and investment models for strategic investment 
  • Advisory on when to build in-house solutions or pursue off-the-shelf solutions for learning & development. 
  • Specialized expertise in women's leadership development
  • Specialized expertise in internationally adaptable learning and development 
  • Specialized expertise in workplace well-being, diversity, equity and inclusion practices, and other domains. 

Strategic Advisory and Consultancy

The average lifespan of a company has been cut in half and the success rate of top executives has diminished.  

According to the Harvard Business Review two out of five new CEOs fail within their first eighteen months. 

Being a leader at the top is hard but you don’t have to do it alone. 

If you're a CEO or C-Suite Executive, going through a leadership transition, or working through a large organizational transformation, Nabeela’s strategic advice and counsel offer invaluable support and partnership.  

Nabeela Elsayed's Strategic Advisory and Consultancy offers you:

  • An unbiased external perspective. Gain insights from an advisor who brings a fresh, objective view.
  • A sounding board and confidant. Receive honest feedback and thoughtful support on critical decisions.
  • Strategic counsel and connections. Leverage expert advice and access to valuable industry networks.
  • Strategy planning. Develop and refine your organizational strategy to navigate complex business landscapes.
  • Enterprise rhythm and calendar planning. Create a seamless operational rhythm to enhance productivity and align with your business goals.
  • CEO / C-Suite talent planning and development. Ensure your top executives are prepared and developed to lead effectively.
  • Board preparation. Equip your board with the knowledge and tools needed for strategic decision-making.
  • Strategic partnerships. Identify and cultivate partnerships that align with your strategic objectives.

Nabeela has led retail and digital transformation at INGKA Holdings (IKEA) and Walmart Canada.

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