Sandi Saksena is a multiple award winner, a Tor with the Universe. This entrepreneur is an accelerator, Mentor Negotiator, Motivator, Facilitator, Orator, Curator Moderator, Tutor, and much more. She offers all of the above to people who want more out of their lives be it money, career, relationships, health wellness, etc. She is President of Ladies in Business Global 2022, Ambassador of UAE Women Empowerment World Leader Summit, and UNGC Sustainability goals India. She is also the Brand Ambassador of Myashad Woman Founder of Laksh-ME, a Trust in India focused on the Financial Independence of Women, and a Permanent Trustee of Manzil Centre for individuals with special needs. This positive-minded and committed person is a long-time resident of the Gulf, having lived in Kuwait, Bahrain and now in Dubai for over 60 years. Financial difficulties pushed her to find a job, which in itself was challenging as she had to overcome the age bias she was 44, and the fact that she had no previous work experience! In her career as a personal financial planner, Sandi devotes her time energy, and expertise to empowering women through financial literacy, planning, and counseling. In addition, as a leader in the community, she serves as an advisor, ambassador, and president on various international women/youth leadership empowerment platforms. This entrepreneur believes that building trust, loyalty, sharing and giving, and dealing with integrity and honesty are essential ingredients to success in both the personal and professional arena. She states she has an MBA in life as personal experiences and insurmountable challenges are your best teachers! They make you stronger and more resilient. She is a regular contributor to the media on topics related to personal finance, Powerhouse Global Magazine, Executive Women and a blog on World is One, WION, a popular well-respected international news channel, and the Nagrikfoundation.in, Bltiz India, The Times of UAE. Sandi is a frequent main platform speaker moderator and host at international conferences and is frequently quoted in the business pages of local and international publications. As a mentor, she runs workshops on Leadership, Relationships, Value of Self, and core focus – Financial Independence & Empowerment of Women Sandi continues to add jewels to her crown. She won many awards of which, Woman of Substance LEGENDS (DWR 2022), Certificate of Award Lifetime Achievement award Berkeley Women’s Investment Forum 2022, VVIP Ladies in Business Global 2022, The Best Woman Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement award 2019 Berkeley Middle East, Most Empowering CEO club member 2018 by CEO Clubs International are just a few Sandi believes every woman whether earning/generating income or not is responsible for her financial future and shares her insights on how one can start on that path. She lives by the following You have to be Odd to be Number 1. Each of us is as unique as his fingerprint so don’t fit in when you were born to stand out.
د. زينة غصوب الأسود
Dr. Zeina Ghossoub El-Aswad is a Professionally Certified Executive, Leadership, and Wellness coach. She has over 20 years of coaching experience, with over ten years of using Emotional Intelligence (EQi), Wellness, and Self-leadership as her staple approach to individual and group clients. Dr. El-Aswad practices in Lebanon and the United States with clients spanning the five continents. She is the founder and former president of the International Coaching Federation Lebanon Chapter (ICF-Charter Chapter Lebanon). Her practice in Lebanon is through her healthcare center Vie Saine SARL. She is also a Partner and Chief Wellness Officer of her USA-based Coaching Company Vital Signs Vital Skills LLC. As a result of Dr. El-Aswad’s efforts, she has recently established two ICF Certified Coaching schools that follow an ACSTH curriculum focusing on physician performance (VSVS-ACC). She established another coaching school in Lebanon called Coach2Transform. She serves as a faculty on the College of Executive Coaching in California, was the program director for the behavioral health sciences at the LAU Medical School in Lebanon until October 2020 when she moved to Houston, and as a course coordinator for the Cooper Smith Career Counseling College in New York. Success is a learning process; Dr. Zeina has a Ph.D. in human behavior and counseling with a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition. She is an MCC (Master Certified Coach), a CWC (Certified Wellness Coach), a Certified Transformative Coach, an Emotional Intelligence Certified trainer (MHS EQi-2.0 and EQ 360), and a certified administrator for the Myers and Briggs personality assessment instrument (MBTI). She has completed recently her certification from GTCI (Global Team Coaching Institute) as a Team Coaching Foundations Certified Coach. She is also a TESI administrative guide (Team Emotional and Social Intelligence Survey). Being a well-published author, Dr. El-Aswad has co-authored multiple best-selling books, several scientific articles on the Effect of Emotional Intelligence and Wellness on Physician Burnout, as well as several web-based educational courses. Her publications focus on Emotional Intelligence, Executive and Self-Leadership, Executive and Wellness Coaching, Team Building, Self-development, Corporate Wellness, and Individual and Group Wellness. Throughout her career, Dr. Zeina has shown a commitment to helping others. As a result, she is the founder and creator of a Non-Profit Organization (Ghalletna) that has helped, for over twelve years, and continues to help feed and clothes families and individuals in Lebanon on a yearly basis; She is a member of the “Blessing Foundation” in Beirut (a mentoring company for Women in Business) and LLWB (Lebanese League for Women in Business). Dr. El-Aswad’s Clients Portfolio includes Executives and C-Level personnel from companies such as Sunbula (KSA), Debbas (Qatar), Roche (Lebanon), McGill University (Montreal, Canada), WellKom International (London), The Professional Development Academy, PDA (USA), Methodist Hospital Systems (Houston, USA), HCA Healthcare (Texas, USA) and many more. Her work has seen her be recognized by the International Coach Federation (ICF Global), American Medical Association (AMA), Harvard Institute of Coaching, Mayo Clinic, McGill University, and Stanford University. Today, Dr. Zeina El-Aswad is working on developing her successful coaching approach into a replicable model. This approach, which centers on one’s love and understanding of one’s self, has seen her have some of the highest degrees of success and appreciation from her clients. She is also currently expanding the VSVS program and is launching the VSVS app as well as a healthcare industry worksite wellness program at HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood targeting physicians and residents in training. She is also working on publishing VSVS data on the effect of coaching physicians targeting their burnout, and the return on investments for healthcare institutes after concluding a two-year intervention program with Envision.
The Future of Aesthetics – Global Trend Report
Are we really in the era of the ‘End of Aging’? Last week in Dubai Allergan Aesthetics brought together over seven hundred aesthetic practitioners for the EEMEA Educational Summit. Allergan Aesthetics develops, manufactures, and markets a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Their aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skincare, and more. The company launched the global trends report which was developed to understand what is shaping the aesthetics industry of tomorrow. Through the report findings, Allergan Aesthetics aims to support practitioners and the industry to prepare for the future and the evolving needs of patients, their expectations, and advancements in aesthetic medicine. Consumer interest in medical aesthetics continues to rise, with the number of non-surgical aesthetic procedures conducted worldwide growing by almost two million between 2017 and 2020. This growth is expected to continue, with 23 million dermal fillers and 14.6 million body procedures predicted by 2025. In parallel, physicians globally saw more younger patients, more patients from a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds, and more male patients than ever before. Agnes Lim, Area VP, Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company in EEMEA comments, “A geographical intersection among Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, Dubai is one of the most diverse and tremendously fast-growing environments on the planet. Our patient population is expanding and diversifying, which means their expectations are also evolving. And we need to keep up! What matters now is our determination not just to maintain the high standards we have set, but to push on and set new benchmarks for the future”. The Future of Aesthetics global trends report was commissioned by Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, and developed by Wunderman Thompson Intelligence. It provides aesthetics practitioners and consumers with an understanding of the 10 trends emerging globally in aesthetics that assist in forecasting how the industry will evolve in the next 5 years. Three of the main trends which have emerged from the report offer an insight into how the aesthetic industry is evolving rapidly to deliver the customer’s needs. 1. The End of Aging Consumers are starting aesthetic treatments earlier to delay signs of aging, while at the other extreme, science is bringing the possibility of regenerating one’s cells closer. 2. Diverse Individuality People of all ethnicities are seeking out aesthetic treatments and should see themselves reflected and represented in clinical trials, the practitioners that treat them and the clinics they attend. 3. Aesth-Ethics: Aesthetics should be regulated and safe for all patients. Practitioners are focused on pulling the industry up by setting the standard. The industry must ensure that education and training is of the highest quality and trusted information is provided to patients so they can make informed and safe choices on their treatment. For more information on the Allergan Aesthetics, Global Trend Report please login onto www.allerganaesthetics-me.com
أكثر سعادة في الحياة ، سأقدم لك السر البسيط.
Since I began my journey in happiness and well-being research and started to conduct coaching sessions, I discovered something new every day regarding people’s perception of happiness in life, from the way they deal or understand their own happiness, a part of coaching sessions, I have shared my own experience, and how was my challenges in life to reach the way whom I am now. Here are some of the simple secrets I discovered. First, communication, yes, how to communicate and cope with the situation, people around you, work, difficult times, sickness, enjoyment, even how to communicate things to yourself, as most of us learned to work hard, in order to be happy but, NEIL PASRICHA, said the word in his great book, “the equation of happiness”. Just be happy first, with the things you have now, with your current life, with your status, with your health, and move on, most of my students, keep waiting to feel this feeling or moment in happiness, as they have paused, till happiness come and take their hands to smile, please don’t wait, just feel the gratitude given to you, and then start your plan, achieve, help others, take care of your health and take care of your beloved ones, and enjoy the moment, communicate with the spirit around you to feel the difference, enjoy your cup of tea with you mother, enjoy the conversation you had with friends, enjoy your work and overcome the obstacles, enjoy working with team, with differences, I know work environments has many challenges and obstacles, and I have faced it many times, but with the way I managed myself how to communicate with others, and fits with myself, I discovered, there is nothing worth it to be upset for, just communicate and understand that all this is a phase and it will go, focus and enjoy your productivity every day. If you have projects or tasks in work and you have completed four or five of them, enjoy the achievements, and make a list to complete others to be happy, not to think of the missing 5 or 6 tasks not done, you have the time when you are well-organized and happy, your peace of mind will assist you to communicate all this in every mindful way. Promotion or raise is great, but your self-esteem is unvalued also, the way you look at yourself when you look behind 5 years ago, and how you have developed your skills, your communication, your life, and you’re still developing further and further and enjoying each moment of this success, as per the ISO standards, to have continual improvements, which all we are looking for, to improve every day, when I asked my students do you have a self-motivation, most of them they were looking for others to start, again don’t’ wait, communicate immediately to your mind to motivate, read books, watch motivational videos, YouTube, TikTok, and be kind to yourself in a way you feel that it will help you, and add value to your life. As mentioned by NEIL PASRICHA, we tend to over-emphasize others’ opinions because of a lack of self-confidence. Our self-judgment leads us to (i) hide things about ourselves, or (ii) apologize for them. True confidence is about having a high opinion of yourself and others. It requires self-acceptance, just accept the way you are and keep developing, when I look at myself ten years ago, and how people keep judging me, even when I started my Ph.D., they also judge, what you will do with this certificate, I realized at that moment that I have a self-confidence not to listen to this kind of comments, and keep moving, and surround myself with great support people, all of us needs to have this kind of people, family or friends keep this support system near to you to have their backup and another way of motivation. Another small secret, I would like to share is to spend your valuable time doing what you love or enjoy, yes, just do it and think about how you will add value to yourself and others, most of the therapist treatments now in the USA, encourage their depression patients, to do things by giving, “give to get”, volunteer, it’s not only by donating money but also time, efforts, when you go to help others, I am sure that you will feel 10 times happier when you see yourself that you helped others. Keep the balance in your life, work well, sleep well, eat healthily, and do some exercise at least walking for 10 minutes, daily it will make you feel better and energetic, and don’t forget that it will increase your happiness hormone level “dopamine”. Again, as per the happiness equation book, just “be you”, when someone asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, it assumes that you have only 1 goal in life, which simply isn’t true. Instead, you can be you, that every day you have too many things to do not only 1 goal, be an ikigai, i.e., a current purpose that gets you out of bed in the morning. The book itself ikigai, inspired me personally and others, when I conducted workshops and highlighted the purpose of life, ikigai, in a simple way I give them myself an example, I love happiness and well-being coaching, I am doing it after working hours, I enjoying it, I am good at it, and people appreciate it, still I didn’t leave an international impact as public influencer figure, but who knows, I am still making my happiness happened with the people around me, keep happy and enjoy life, there are so many things we can do it here.
رالوكا بونا
Raluca Buna is a senior executive offering a record of verifiable success in business startup, business strategy, business restructuring & rebranding with a proven ability to build and manage sales and profits effectively. From accounting to marketing & branding, from print & digital publishing to event planning, from training & development to Public Relations & media distribution, and from brand management to corporate social responsibility, her extensive know-how has pushed her to cross borders and start multiple businesses she now leads or represents. She is the founder and General Manager of World Elite Solutions Inc., an independent media project including a broad range of media tools. Raluca’s journey initially kicked off in the world of financial administration in 2009 and has ever since succeeded in climbing up the organizational ladder by engaging in roles that span the whole spectrum of Business Management. Raluca then went on to launch The Exclusive, a unique concept created under the umbrella of World Elite Solutions to promote businesses across the globe through a tailored distribution network focused on investors. This journey was another step forward that led her to garner more comprehensive expertise in publishing and B2B strategizing since launching the publication in 2018. After more than a decade of collecting life and workplace experiences, in addition to showcasing her multi-dimensional versatility by experimenting on new grounds, including but not limited to diplomacy & international relations, journalism, real estate, logistics, and non-profit, Raluca’s growing interest in clean energy has pushed her to singlehandedly plan events and conferences – such as the Energy Strategies Summit – in the energy sector. She is currently collaborating with MEMO, she is a member of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), Lebanon chapter, and Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET); and a Global Peace Ambassador. Raluca is now focused on expanding The Exclusive to the MENA region and diversifying the content and sectors the publication covers. Moving forward, she aims to delve deeper into the challenging world of clean energy and contribute to implementing innovative, scalable solutions.
Hala Saab Chatila
“You have the ability to change someone’s life with your unique story, with your message. But in order to have an impact, you have to take action.” Each of us has the ability to change other people’s lives for the better. And when you take action to achieve your goals, you become an inspiration for others.
حافلتك، حياتك، اختيارك.
Today, I want you to take a deep breath, close your eyes for a minute, and imagine that you are the owner of a bus. Choose the most advanced model and imagine that you will drive it for the rest of your life. It is up to you to choose your destination. If you do not, any passenger will take you wherever they want to go, wouldn’t they? If you do not have your own dreams, you will work on executing the dreams of others. Once you know your destination, you know what are resources needed to get there: fuel, time, food, water, etc. If I know that I want to have a baby, I know that I need a partner and it needs 9 months to materialize, no matter how good, fast, smart or productive I am. Therefore, I manage my expectations. Not all passengers will reach the final destination with you; most might stop along the way, and that is fine. That is for you to know that they did not abandon you, but they simply reached their own destination. If a passenger rips the seats with a knife, you wouldn’t accept it, would you? So, any toxic relationship is to be terminated instead of collecting red flags. Any passenger on your bus must pay for the trip. You wouldn’t allow passengers for free, would you? So, the people you allow in your life must have an exchange of energy; money, emotions, services, knowledge, etc. If you encounter a roadblock, you can weather around it and then come back to the main road; you adjust your plan, not your destination. And finally, if you have had this bus all your life, you will keep it clean and do regular preventive maintenance, wouldn’t you? Your body is your vehicle for life. Maintaining it with proper mindful breathing, smart eating, working out, and managing your mental state is what would preserve it in the best possible state of health. Your bus, Your life, Your Choice, every single day. You have the remote control, use it.
Karen Rizk
“Be just the way you are without any filter & watch the magic occur” – Karen Rizk Proudly show your true colors. When it comes to being yourself, there can be a lot of pressure from the outside world as it tries to influence who you are. But when you deeply know yourself and the boundaries that you have set, you are more likely to experience a fulfilling and rewarding life. 🤍