AI Issue 11 2017

52 Acquisition International - November 2017 Leapership Consultants Group is a team of Leadership and Performance consultants bringing a scientific approach to Leadership Development based on Neuroscience, Genetics and Psychology. We invited Dr Antoine Eid to tell us more about the firm and the techniques it employs which have earned it ‘Leading Leadership and Management Consultant of the Year - Middle East’ in our prestigious Leading Adviser Awards 2017. stablished in 2013, Leapership Consultants is a leading team of consultants from different industries working together to address various development needs in different parts of the world. Antoine discusses the group’s service offering and how it works collaboratively to ensure success for everyone it works with. “Here at Leapership Consultants, we have worked in over 23 countries with different types of organizations and industries giving us a wide international experience, which we put to good use through our offices in Dubai, Cambridge and Beirut. As part of our role within the industry, we work closely with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, at the University of Cambridge to promote Leadership Capacity building for a Sustainable future, economy, people and environment. “Our innovative solutions include validated DNA- based Leadership Testing, as well as psychometric tools. We work together with organizations to identify Talents, Strengths and Brain Preferences and build development plans and capacity building accordingly.” Since inception, Leapership Consultants have utilised an innovative and unique approach to leadership, which Antoine is happy to discuss with us. “When we started this group, we made a strategic decision based on our observation of market needs to specialize in Leadership Assessment and Development and move away from soft skills training commonly available in the market. To ensure we become the market reference in this area, we partnered with world-class providers including the University of Cambridge, Emergenetics International, AAI, Central Test and Karmagenes. “Our partners help us provide a wider spectrum of measurement tools able to cover all areas from genetic identification of potential to neuroscientific discovery of brain preferences all the way to Company: Leapership Consultants Group Contact: Dr Antoine Eid Address: 12th Flr, Sarkis Group Bldg, Dbayeh, Lebanon Phone: 001 961 45 45 3 45 Contact Email: [email protected] Website: www.leapership.com Leapership Consultants Group: Leading the Pack E 1711AI93 behavioural, cognitive and skills analysis. Then comes our experiential approach to facilitating the learning. Our delivery is very personalized and always customized to every client while avoiding typical PowerPoint style lectures. Leadership to us is a practise not a theory and we make sure every concept is explained through a designed group activity.” “Moving forward, Leapership Consultants have a number of exciting developments ahead which Antoine is keen to share with us. “Looking to the future, we are on an ongoing mission to keep up with the latest neuroscience and genetic research and integrate new findings in our leadership development solutions. This is proving to be very challenging, but exciting at the same time given how fast the science is growing currently. “Recently, we have been working with an amazing team at the University of Cambridge CISL, to provide a Strategic Leadership Tour in the Middle East which will start in February 2018 in Dubai, Riyadh, Doha and Kuwait. We will be bringing through this tour the greatest minds known to advise international organizations to share their knowledge with local leaders. Additionally, we also have a great partnership with a wonderful team of brilliant genetic scientists based in Switzerland to help us provide and administer Leadership DNA testing. We believe this is going to be the future of Leadership Development and we’re proud to be the first to introduce it to the Middle East market.”