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Nasif Kayed Founder and CEO of The Arab Culturalist

Culture is Everything & Everything is Culture

Nasif is a business consult providing Cultural Intelligence workshops and expert advice on Arab and Emirati culture and doing business in the GCC. Nasif holds an Advanced Certification in CQ® from the Cultural Intelligence Center in the United States where he lived for more than two decades, and is a dynamic motivational speaker and facilitator. By 2007, had developed over 40 companies and ventures and donated his skills to coaching others on how to grow their business, and advised his business associates on how to relate in a multi-cultural business environment. He was a pioneer in advancing his communities non-profit organization by serving on the Board of Directors and chairing many committees where he developed various cultural awareness programs for community leaders, schools, universities, and religious and governmental institutions. Upon returning to the GCC the place of his birth, he spent 8 years as Managing Director of the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Cultural Understanding.

TestimonialsClients & MediaPresentations

• Culture 101Introduction to Arab and EmiratiCulture, common norms andvalues, typical misconceptionsand answers to questions aboutreligious rituals, local customsand gestures and dress.• Business EtiquetteDoing business in the MiddleEast with an overview of culturalnorms and differences betweendifferent regions, do’s anddon’ts and how to successfullynavigate and succeed acrosscultures and multi-cultural envi-ronments.• Business EthicsEthical differences and percep-tions in a multi cultural environ-ment and techniques for creat-ing a corporate culture thatenhances workplace morale andteamwork across cultures.•Cultural Intelligence• Unconscious Bias• One Humanity Lecture• Various Keynote Addresses• Conferences & Events

• CorporatesPricewaterhouseCoopers PhilipsChanelItunesApple MEKellogg’sShell OutpostAstertonKaspersky LabFalcon and Associates• UniversitiesHult MBADuke UniversityCarlson School of ManagementUniversity of North CarolinaUniversity of ChicagoHarvard Business School• Media & TelevisionEsquire Magazine7Days Dubai Columnist VisionMagazineDubai TVBBC TravelMaster Chef AustraliaHousewives of Melbourne TheNationalGulf NewsKhaleej TimesQuantas Airlines Dubai PromoDubai Week in China 2015/2016

• PricewaterhouseCoopersNasif is a very knowledgeableand inspiring person... Igenuinely believe that nobodycan explain the UAE and GCCcultures the same way Nasifdoes.•UAE Embassy,Washington, DC

Nasif is truly one of the mostinspiring people I have met. Ihave led numerous delegationsfrom the US Government to theUAE in the last eight years andhave consistently made sure toinclude a visit to, and meetingwith Nasif•GlobcomI would definitely recommendNasif for any inter-cultural orinterfaith conference alongwith his team.... With people like him peace will set in the world.•Search AssociatesNasif is an inspirational andenlightening presenter andleader in the field of crosscultural understanding.

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