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HRSE (HR Summit & Expo)
21 - 22 October 2025

Ghenwa Habbal
Business & Organisation Psychologist | Leadership Coach at Ford Middle East & Africa
Speaker

Profile

Ghenwa Habbal is the Regional MENA Talent Management & Employee Experience Lead/ Manager For Ford Middle East. A multi-award winner in the realm of Leadership, Resilience, Human Resources & Coaching. She is a Global HR professional, Talent Management & Employee Experience advocate, as well as a Workplace, DEI, and Culture enthusiast and advisor, a certified Brain-Based, CBT, and Resilience Coach, and a Co-Author of the book “Shaken Stirred But Deterred”. Furthermore, Ghenwa is a renowned jury member, a judge at multiple international organisations, a Keynote Speaker, and a moderator. She holds an MSc in Business Psychology with coaching and was recently awarded as Best Influential Coach and recognised as Asia’s Top 100 Women Power Leaders. Her career spans two decades of working to advance start-ups and Fortune 500 companies by applying HR human-centered leading strategies best fitted for VUCA environments.

On her mission to “Inspire to Aspire”, Ghenwa, a trusted LinkedIn voice, and an influential figure, has been starred on TV talking about Women in Leadership while Navigating VUCA. She has been also a regular feature on Talent Management, Inclusive Cultures, Resilience, Transformative Workplaces, Women in Leadership, at various HR summits and round tables across the region. Recently, her articles, podcasts, and interviews have been featured at the HR Observer, LifeMost, and at NEXUS – her blog – YouTube, Spotify and can all be tracked via LinkedIn. An authentic and highly engaging speaker and moderator and is aspiring to run hundreds of workshops to touch and fuel people’s minds and souls, their powerhouse.

A multi-hobbies human, whose activities are centered around her well-being, lived, and worked in the heart of the Middle East and today is anchored in the vibrant heart of Dubai, UAE. Ghenwa continues to build a wide diverse global village of real connections as she longs to live tales of poise and adventures where she touches people’s lives and creates her legacy. Her work is publicly available for everyone who wants to hone their skills and truly own their professional development as she believes giving back to the community is what organically got her there.

Agenda Sessions

  • Change in the Eye of the Storm: Leadership Strategies for a VUCA World

    13:50