Saima Arfeen

Strategic Talent & Leadership Development Consultant | Executive Coach at ICS Learn Facilitator

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Saima Arfeen is a UAE-based Strategic Talent and Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach with over 20 years of experience partnering with organisations to strengthen leadership capability, develop future-ready talent, and deliver measurable performance outcomes. She works across sectors including aviation, energy, finance, telecoms, government, and diversified conglomerates, supporting organisations through growth, transformation, and capability uplift.

An ICF-certified Executive Coach and certified practitioner in Hogan and SDI®, Saima also holds professional credentials with CIPD and ILM. She combines deep coaching expertise with strategic HR insight and extensive facilitation experience to design and deliver high-impact people and leadership solutions. Her work spans senior leadership coaching, behavioural and management capability building, psychometric and behavioural assessment, and large-scale talent development initiatives aligned to business strategy.

Saima is recognised for her pragmatic, engaging, and inclusive facilitation style, enabling leaders and emerging talent to translate insight into sustained behavioural change. She brings extensive experience in organisational design, performance management, competency frameworks, and competency-based recruitment, alongside the application of Hogan, SDI® and other psychometric and behavioural assessment tools to inform leadership development, succession planning, team effectiveness, and talent decisions. She has also led complex graduate and early-career development programmes across both public and private sector environments.

Her client portfolio includes organisations linked to sovereign wealth funds such as PIF, Mubadala, and OIA, as well as leading governmental, multinational, and regional organisations focused on strengthening leadership pipelines, enhancing people practices, and building psychologically safe, high-performing cultures.