Thursday 17 November 2011

Three days of the Mosaic Summit

Three days have passed just like a jiffy. Different people, various nationalities with unique personalities and wonderful capabilities have joined all together to create the Mosaic summit. The summit is organized properly, the food is delicious and most importantly, the speakers are tremendously excellent.

First day, we had nice introductory speeches from the Mosaic management, Alison and Jonathan. Then we heard from Dr.Saif Al Hajari the Vice Chairperson in Qatar Foundation and His Excellency the Ambassador of UK, John Hawkins .

After that Stephen Howard, the CEO of Business in the Community gave a wonderful speech about his personal leadership journey.


With Stephen Howard




Finally it was the amazing Robert Swan who also amazingly spoke about his personal leadership journey. We were also introduced to Professor Binna Kandola, the Senior Partner in Pearn Kandola.

With Robert Swan


As delegates, we started building the pieces of the Mosaic from the first day of our journey to Qatar and before we even reach its airport. Our differences melted with each other to create a harmonic and unique summit.
The second day we had Proff. Kandola and Stuart Duff taking about the leadership and involving us in very exciting exercises. There was also Farah Williamson, Middle East Director at the Social Investment Consultancy. Farah inspired us by her patience and great work to help people who are suffering from poverty.

In the third day of the summit is special. Most of the delegates dressed nicely representing their national dresses. Variety of styles and colors were all merged and united in the summit and created a fantastic mosaic shape. Prof. Kandola and Stuart gave kept us active intellectually and physically by the speeches and exercises of leadership.

The most exciting part of the day was when we had a visit to Katara, the spectacular cultural village in Qatar. In the begging, we had a speech from Prof. Kandola. Then we had a speech by Ayesha Al Mudehki, Executive Director of INJAZ Qatar. There was another speech by a lecturer from the British Council (unfortunately I can't recall his name).

With Tayseer and Ayesha Al Mudehki
Finally it was the time for us to explore Katara. It is an amazing place facing the sea that is carrying some traditional boats from the gulf countries. We listened to some traditional gulf bands and music, watched the light show and had a visit to the boats exhibition. Then we had a wonderful Egyptian food and enjoyed being away for fun.

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