In this podcast episode Nermine Zakhary and Sherif Samaan share their experiences and insights on playing to one's strengths, identifying strengths, mental fitness, effective communication, and leadership. The guests emphasize the importance of discovering one's strengths, reflecting on past experiences, and setting one's vision. They also stress the significance of mental fitness, effective communication, and experiencing pain, uncertainty, and chaos to grow as a leader. This conversation is relevant for c-suite leaders navigating their next move and anyone in transition looking to understand their strengths and bring them forward.
 
Nermine Zakhary:
Nermine Zakhary is a Certified People Acuity Coach™ & Positive Intelligence (PQ) Coach, specializing in helping others strategically apply their strengths to accelerate their performance, energy, relationships, and results.As a PQ Coach, Nermine adds the important layer of helping clients grow their mental fitness (the capacity to handle life's challenges with a positive mindset), the next step in ensuring lifelong application of strengths.Nermine coaches individuals and small groups. She also facilitates workshops to teach strengths strategies to clients so they can define their optimal zones -- and thrive there.Nermine comes to Strengths & PQ coaching with 15+ years of experience in the training industry at Highland Hospital and Xerox Corporation. She holds a Master's Degree in Education, specializing in Instructional Design for Online Learning.
 
Sherif Samaan:
Sherif Samaan is an IT executive in the higher education sector with over 25 years of experience in leadership and strategy. Sherif has led projects across the globe, including New York City, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. Sherif has also served as Associate Vice President and Deputy CTO supporting and leading enterprise application strategy across the local and global NYU campuses.
In recent years, Sherif became an ICF certified independent executive coach; working with and helping to transform IT leadership and their staff at several higher education institutions,enabling them to think more strategically while improving their communication, leadership, and collaboration skills with their campus communities; as well as helping them create their career roadmaps while creating more effective IT team structures.
Sherif currently works for CampusWorks as the Director of Enterprise Applications at Drew University in New Jersey, where he is building out a leadership program for all IT staff and student workers.
 
Company websites:
www.Strengths-Edge.com 
www.businesstransformationtech.com
 
Linkedin:
Nermine:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nerminezakhary/Sherif:https://www.linkedin.com/in/silverfox62/
 
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