UPCOMING EVENTS
Roberta Saffels is a leadership strategist, researcher, keynote speaker & Founder of the Positive Impact Hub in Qatar. She did not begin by studying leadership. She began by caring for people, & she kept noticing that someone could recover, regain perspective & return to the same environment, & then the environment would begin its work again. So she works on what leaders make possible around them. Expect warmth, real curiosity about what is already working, & a question about the conditions around you before anyone talks about fixing you.
Roberta holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania & a BA in Psychology from Haigazian University. She holds the CoachME Team & Board Coaching Certificate from BECKETT McINROY, is a Master Coach Criacional with IGT International Coaching, & holds a Leadership Coaching Certification from the International Leadership Coaching Academy. She is a certified Inter-Cultural Intelligence (ICI) partner with KnowledgeWorkx.
Roberta brings more than 20 years of experience across more than 50 countries. Earlier in her career she served as Vice President for People Experience across Latin America, supporting staff in 13 regional offices, with staff care & wellbeing as part of her responsibility. Today she designs & delivers leadership learning journeys, workshops, executive coaching & culture work for organizations in Qatar, the GCC & internationally. She also teaches on the faculty of The Flourishing Center.
One principle runs through her work: understand before you prescribe. Leadership ideas travel easily, & something can be supported by research & still require interpretation when it crosses cultures, institutions & social systems. So she starts with what is already creating value, then looks at where the conditions around people are limiting what their strengths can produce. Her focus includes positive leadership, mattering, wellbeing at work & intercultural intelligence. The work is experiential: people practice in the room what they will need the week after.
Roberta speaks & writes on the conditions leaders create around them. For her research at the University of Pennsylvania, she sat with twelve Qatari leaders & listened to how they understood leadership through their own experience, rather than measuring them against an imported model. She writes the newsletter Leading for Positive Impact.
Roberta created the Positive Impact Hub in Qatar, which brings together research & leadership development around one premise: study what is working, learn from the context in which it works, & make that knowledge useful to people who are trying to lead well. Each year its Positive Impact Leadership Summit brings leaders together in Doha around that idea.
Her curiosity travels with her, whether she is with a board in Doha or a room full of people who have never met. The question underneath it all stays the same: what are the conditions that allow human beings & the systems they create to thrive?
Countries worked across
50+, & counting |
Years of practice
20+, & still curious |
Regional offices once in her care
13, across Latin America |
Leaders in her Penn research
12, all Qatari |
Line she keeps coming back to
Understand before you prescribe |
Where she began
Caring for people |
Home base
Doha, Qatar |
Newsletter she writes
Leading for Positive Impact |
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