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Leadership Development & Executive Coaching for Sustainable Performance in the UAE & GCC

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Training Centre of the Year
Corporate LiveWire Awards
2025
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Best Organisational Development Firm
MEA Markets
2025
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Training Provider of the Year
HRD Congress
2023

Strategy Does Not Fail Because of Ideas.

It Fails Because Leadership Systems Are Reactive.

Forward Training & Consulting partners with executive leaders and their teams across the UAE and GCC to design assessment-driven leadership systems grounded in organizational psychology, behavioral science, adaptive leadership, and Human Sustainability.

It is structured capability design for long-term performance.

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From Reactive Structures to Interdependent Systems

Most organizations operate in reactive leadership cycles:

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Pressure
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Control
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Short-Term Execution
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Cultural Fatigue

High-performing organizations operate differently:

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Clarity
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Emotional Regulation
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Strategic Alignment
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Sustainable Growth

The difference is not talent.
It is system design.
We work at that transition point.

Our work helps executive leaders and their teams shift from isolated authority models to interdependent leadership systems where:

Teams operate with psychological safety and disciplined accountability.

Decisions are regulated under pressure.

Leadership behavior aligns with long-term organizational capability.

Culture becomes a structural outcome — not a communication initiative.

Leadership development in today’s environment requires more than individual capability. It requires leadership systems thinking across individuals, teams, and enterprise structures.

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Assessment Intelligence

Effective transformation begins with clarity.

We deploy globally validated psychometric assessments across the UAE and GCC, including:

  • Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360)

  • Leadership Circle Profile

  • Resilience at Work (R@W)

  • DISCflex and behavioral profiling

These tools measure what most organizations fail to quantify:

Leadership reactivity patterns

Adaptive capacity under pressure

Executive and team decision dynamics

Organizational capability gaps

Outcome:

Clarity before intervention.

Data before development.

Executive & Team Coaching

Leadership systems fail when coaching remains individual-only.

Our ICF-aligned executive and team coaching engagements are designed for:

Senior leadership teams

C-suite and board-adjacent roles

High-potential leaders in critical transformation phases

Coaching is not advisory rhetoric.

It is structured thinking that strengthens leadership identity, influence, team cohesion, and systemic accountability.

Outcome:

Shift from reactive leadership to adaptive leadership.

Stronger executive alignment.

More resilient decision ecosystems.

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Experiential Leadership Labs

Behavior does not change through insight alone.

It changes through structured experience.

Our experiential leadership labs across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and the GCC include:

Adaptive leadership workshops

Team alignment simulations

Behavioral decision labs

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® strategy sessions

Harvard Everest leadership simulation

These are not events.

They are integration mechanisms that embed leadership capability into operational systems.

Outcome:

Leadership capability translated into execution.

Human & Organizational Capability

Sustainable performance requires more than resilience initiatives.

It requires Human Sustainability.

The alignment of identity, influence, power, performance, and systems thinking across the organization.

Forward operates at the intersection of:

Organizational psychology consulting

Executive leadership development

Team interdependence design

Cultural intelligence

Organizational transformation across the UAE & GCC

Forward brings board-level advisory perspective, adaptive leadership expertise, and behavioral systems design into every engagement.

This work bridges:
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Individual leadership capability

Executive team alignment

Cross-functional collaboration

Enterprise-level transformation

Leadership is infrastructure.

When it fails, everything downstream absorbs the cost.

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​Who This Work Is For

Forward partners with organizations operating in complexity.

Leaders who:

Carry strategic responsibility under pressure.

Navigate transformation, growth, or structural shifts.

Understand that team dynamics influence enterprise outcomes.

Recognize that culture is shaped by leadership behavior, not communication campaigns.

Our engagements span executive leaders, senior teams, and organizations across the UAE and GCC who are strengthening human and organizational capability at scale.

We do not limit by sector.
We align by strategic intent.

Building Capability.

Sustaining Performance.

Leadership capability is not an initiative.
It is a system.

Forward works with leaders and teams across the UAE and GCC to strengthen how organizations function under pressure and sustain results over time.

Our Assessments Portfolios

EQ-i 2.0® Emotional Intelligence assessment icon – Enhancing leadership and team dynamics with Forward Training in UAE
EQ-i 2.0® & EQ 360

Emotional intelligence assessment for leaders and teams

Leadership Circle Profile™ assessment icon – Forward Training & Consulting’s tool for leadership development in UAE
Leadership Circle Profile™ (LCP)

360° leadership effectiveness assessment 

Resilience at Work® (R@W) assessment icon – Building resilient teams and leaders with Forward Training in UAE
Resilience at Work® (R@W)

Adaptive capacity and resilience measurement

DISCflex™ behavioral assessment icon – Improving workplace communication and performance with Forward Training in UAE
DISCflex DISC™

Behavioral styles and flexibility assessment

MBTI® assessment icon – Forward Training & Consulting’s tool for personality assessment and team building in UAE.
MBTI®

Personality preferences and team dynamics

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