About Us I Innovas Consulting Group I United States

Innovas Consulting Group provides innovation & management consulting, advising and coaching to corporate groups, executives and entrepreneurs to accelerate growth. It combines, its team's experience and skills with best practice and scientific approach in everything it does.

Ahmed Fahmy - Founder & Senior Advisor

Yasser Haridi - Senior Advisor

Dennis Kight - Senior Advisor

Carrie Lannon - Senior Advisor

The Team

Get to know the team

Ahmed Fahmy is a Chief Innovation and Organization Development Officer with over 29 years of rich global transformation experience at Fortune 500 companies. Fahmy has developed and led the brightest teams and organizations to transform multiple industry businesses worldwide, creating new opportunities for organizations and talents. He led the creation and commercialization of businesses, realizing new revenue streams exceeding $1.5B for multinational corporations and SMEs. His success is credited to working with and through people and innovative methods to approach and solve complex challenges.

With his passion and continuous inquiry into innovation, people, and lifelong research, Fahmy has developed his craft around transformative innovation that creates growth opportunities for people and organizations. His expertise is founded on two areas. The first is his ability to observe and accelerate leveraging the best traits in executives and facilitate their self-navigation to help them shed light on their full potential opportunities in their professional lives and solve problems. The second is his continuous lifelong education, training, and practice, shaped through his 'pracademic' research.

Leveraging methodologies that incorporate best practices, science, and international experience, Fahmy founded Innovas Consulting Group. The global consultancy accelerates businesses' and executives' growth through innovation-driven consulting, advising, mentoring, coaching, and executive education programs with top-qualified coaches.

Fahmy works with social innovators and organizations to help sustain and scale sustainability innovation globally. He has also academically authored the Do No Harm Innovation concept, Inquiry-Centered Leadership, novel concepts, and frameworks for problem-solving, design thinking, and system-thinking, contributing to responsible knowledge and growth.

Fahmy has worked in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe and currently lives in the USA, leading a global business. He has been committed to working with executives eager to grow their leadership credibility, influence, and impact. His experience covers several industries: High Technology, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retailers, Oil and Gas, and Government Agencies.

Fahmy holds a B.Sc. in engineering, an MBA, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC-ICF), a Doctoral Researcher, and a Global Practitioner at the University of Strathclyde. He is also a certified partner for several professional leadership, talent, and emotional intelligence assessment providers. Fahmy is multilingual and can coach in English, French, and Arabic.

Yasser Haridi has 25 years of rich experience in leading change and development for renowned multinational organizations such as Siemens, Lockheed Martin, and NASA, where he developed practical skills in strategic planning, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, and management integration.

Over the past decade, Yasser has realized well-recognized achievements in the Information Technology Business Management arena. As the CIO's chief business architect, he led the organization on a transformational journey with three main objectives: To get the internal technology house in order; leverage advances in emerging technologies to drive innovation; and reimagine the role of the CIO to focus less on technology management and more on enabling the business strategic goals. His vision's successful implementation improved the organization's credibility and accountability in governance and operations, providing rigor to make sound business and timely investment decisions. Improvements led to an average of 50% reduction in time and cost of planning, reporting, and operational activities and processes.

Yasser is leading decision making and driving results in many areas across the OCIO. He is leading the Program and Project Management function, focusing on bringing together strategies, assets, insights, and technologies to surpass customers' expectations and develop integrated systems. Under his leadership, the local CIO's programs and projects have achieved a collective 90% success rate over 3 years.

In the area of Strategic Planning and Performance Management, he leads strategic forums designed to draw a clear linkage between the current state of I.T., today's operational challenges, and tomorrow's strategic objectives in a language everyone can understand. He is continuously engaged with leadership teams across the organization to balance actuality with inspiration, introducing innovative ways to reshape processes and potentially transform the business without losing sight of feasibility, complexity, and risk. With an emphasis on Digital Transformation, Business Intelligence, and data-driven decision-making techniques, his efforts have led to an increased 85% customer satisfaction of local CIO products and services, for data quality, pricing accuracy, and timely information.

Yasser is a certified Federal Enterprise Architect, and he holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering, and an MBA in Technology Management. His accomplishments were crowned with NASA special recognition, exemplary and achievements awards in support of Nasa's critical programs.

Dennis Kight has more than 25 years of global experience working with executives, business leaders, and high potential individuals. He has worked with leaders based in the US, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia.

Prior to transitioning to executive coaching full-time, Dennis established and led the Middle East and Africa Human Resources organizations for Motorola and Cisco Systems where he partnered closely with business leaders and executives. Most recently, Dennis led the Executive Development organization for IBM’s Middle East Africa organization and implemented a strategic framework focused on identifying and developing a strong executive pipeline for all of IBM’s business units in the region.

Dennis is certified in behavioral, leadership, and team assessments, and leverages a portfolio of business-tested and proven toolkits to address a wide range of leadership challenges. A sample of areas that Dennis coaches leaders on includes:

Engaging and Mobilizing Employees
Resolving Conflict
Developing Leaders/Succession Planning
Communicating with Impact
Influencing Effectively
Setting Strategic Direction
Developing Strong Relationships Throughout the Organization
Leading Change
Creating a High-Performance Culture
Achieving a Healthy Integration of Professional and Personal Lives
Emotional Intelligence

Dennis holds a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University along with a Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Development. He is a Certified Executive Coach and is an ACC credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation, and a BCC credentialed executive coach with the Center for Credentialing and Education. Dennis is also certified in ProfileXT Leadership assessment and Genos Emotional Intelligence assessment tools. He is a former Member of the Board of Directors, ICF UAE Chapter, and is a founding member of Coaches4Good, a collaborative community of coaches based around the world.

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Carrie Lannon has more than 25 years' experience in both startup and multi-billion-dollar Fortune 500 corporate environments as a corporate public relations and senior marketing executive. She has coached C-suite clients throughout her career, from prepping a CEO to appear on CNN to training an executive director for a TED Talk to teaching a vice president how to develop an expert's reputation in a new industry. As a personal branding consultant, Carrie combines her communications background with the styling instincts she developed working with renowned fashion brands.

Through a discovery process, Carrie delves into each client's experiences, interests and goals to create a cohesive brand story and image. Her branding process yields sustainable results because she incorporates each client's talents, personality, and life experience – no posing or pretending. She shows individuals how to consciously and purposefully craft their communications and interactions to achieve the reputation they desire.

Carrie was the national public relations director for ULTA Beauty, a 1000+ store group named one of the fastest-growing companies in America by Fortune and Forbes during her three-year tenure. She established ULTA's public relations department and oversaw communications, social media and publicity for the publicly traded company. Communication roles included speaking to the media on volatile issues, solving reputation challenges and developing crisis responses for ULTA's CEO.

As Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. (MMPI), Carrie developed a sponsorship department for MMPI's large-scale consumer shows, securing over $1 million in sponsor revenue in year one through strategic branding and communications.

Before her corporate work, Carrie ran her marketing agency, Lannon Communications, for 12 years. The agency created brand activations for a roster of renowned lifestyle clients, including Tiffany & Co, Prada, Equinox Fitness Clubs, Kate Spade, Draper & Kramer, Mercedes-Benz and W Hotels. Her role included presenting client CEOs to the media.