About

Dr. Nahla Khaddage Bou-Diab is a culture and leadership expert, Chairman and General Manager of Oneness Mgmt, and CEO of AM Bank – the bank that applies her research.

An advocate for organizational change, Nahla has developed a step-by-step methodology to assist leaders in transforming their company’s culture and ensure organizational resilience. She has implemented this methodology across the globe in multiple industries and in her personal day-to-day management and has earned 13 awards for Leadership Excellence since 2015. Given its proven success, Nahla aims to encourage Leaders to embrace cultural change.

One of Nahla’s core life principles is that we were designed to live as a collective; she believes there is no such thing as an “individual” achievement. Nahla is grateful that her achievements have been acknowledged with personal awards in addition to those awarded to the companies she’s managed. Click here to view the full list of awards she has received ›

Nahla has held several senior roles in multiple sectors, including global consulting, banking, retail and others, and spearheaded the Gender Diversity Group for the World Union of Arab Bankers. In this role, she developed the first Charter for Gender Diversity in the Arab World. Prior to her career in finance, she launched the Management Consulting services for global leader Ernst & Young (EY) in Beirut.

Starting her career at 17 as a typist in Canada, by 21, Nahla progressed to a National Manager at a leading IT company, overseeing operations and performance at a senior level. She achieved this rapid progression despite many challenging cultural and personal barriers.

Nahla has a Doctorate in Business Administration, Culture and Change Management from the University of Liverpool.

While she worked to attain her doctorate, Nahla was a professor at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut, developing and teaching a Change Management course under the University’s Executive MBA program.

Nahla is also Head of Gender Diversity at the Executive Level for the Banking Sector in the Arab World for The World Union of Arab Bankers and a published author. She has recently published two books: the first is Untamable and the second is A Leadership Shift.