Kandar Consulting is a boutique advisory practice focused on leadership, communication and organizational change.
AdvisoryLeadership DevelopmentStrategic CommunicationsOrganizational TransformationStakeholder Engagement & Strategic PartnershipsExecutive Coaching & Facilitation
Serving leaders and teams across government, corporate and nonprofit sectors.
Doha, Qatar • MENA • Canada • International
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We work with leaders when the stakes are high: during growth, a major transition, increased public visibility or when people are no longer moving in the same direction.
Our work is practical and tailored to your needs. It may be a leadership development program, a communications challenge or a team that needs to reset how it works.
We help organizations strengthen how leaders communicate, build more inclusive ways of working and make change easier to navigate across the organization.
The strongest strategy succeeds when people understand what it means for them.
Engagements are shaped around the challenge in front of us rather than a standard program.
Strategic advice for leaders dealing with critical decisions, organizational change or difficult stakeholder environments. We provide perspective, challenge assumptions and help leaders think through options before action is taken.
Practical development for leaders building authority, navigating difficult situations and leading through change. Programs can include emotional intelligence, executive presence, difficult conversations, intercultural communication and inclusive leadership.
Communication that helps people understand what matters and what comes next. This includes executive messaging, internal communication, stakeholder communication, sensitive reputational issues and communication during change.
Helping organizations build stronger relationships with the people and institutions that matter to their work. This can include internal partners, external stakeholders, communities and government entities where expectations, values or ways of working may differ.
Support for organizations moving through change, new ways of working or periods of uncertainty. The focus is on the people side of implementation: how change is understood, where resistance is emerging and what leaders need to do to ensure continued progress.
Focused support for leaders and teams dealing with sensitive challenges, difficult conversations or decisions that have stalled. Coaching and facilitation can prepare a leader, strengthen a team or help move a difficult issue forward.
Sometimes the need is obvious. Often it shows up in smaller ways.
Kandar Consulting helps leaders and organizations identify where support will create the greatest value, then build the strategy and capability needed to move forward.
Al Jazeera Media Institute
Interactive training focused on message structure, audience connection, confident delivery, storytelling and communicating under pressure. Participants practise shaping a clear message, reading and engaging their audience, and staying composed when the stakes are high, so they leave with skills they can use in their next presentation, interview or public appearance.
AKTOR Group of Companies
A practical training program focused on leadership, communication and emotional intelligence, what each requires in practice and how they influence one another. Participants explore how self awareness, communication and emotional intelligence shape leadership effectiveness and team relationships.
University of Calgary in Qatar
A practical executive session helping senior leaders understand generative AI, identify useful applications and consider responsible adoption. Leaders explore where tools like ChatGPT can strengthen their own work and their teams, and which questions of accuracy, ethics and governance to weigh before bringing them into the organization.
Founder and Executive Advisor
Aminah Kandar is a leadership and strategic communications advisor with more than 20 years of experience across Qatar, the MENA region and Canada.
Her career spans media, higher education, policy, nonprofit and corporate environments. She has advised senior leaders, led communications through major institutional change, developed regional and global partnerships, and designed learning experiences for executives and professionals.
Her work is grounded in strategic judgment and a close understanding of how leadership decisions are experienced by the people expected to carry them forward.
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Institutions and partners Aminah has worked with across Qatar, the MENA region and Canada.
Tell us what you are trying to move forward or where the organization feels stuck. We will take it from there.
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Aminah Kandar, EMBA
Founder and Executive Advisor
Serving government, corporate and nonprofit sectors.
