Dr Sayd Farook

Dr Sayd Farook

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Dr Sayd Farook is an impact driven strategy and transformation executive seeking to serve institutions, individuals and causes that are passionate about the social good.

Sayd is a Board Member and Senior Partner for the global strategy consulting firm, Dinar Standard, which among other contributions, publishes the annual benchmark publications State of the Global Islamic Economy Report and the Global Islamic Fintech Report.

He is also the Chief Executive of Unity Grammar - an independent Islamic college established with the intention to nurture pioneers of the future.

Immediately prior, Dr Sayd Farook was responsible for Group strategy at Crescent Group which comprises Crescent Wealth, Crescent Finance, Crescent Institute and Crescent Foundation.

From 2015 to 2020, Sayd was Strategy Advisor at The Executive Office of the Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai HH Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for 5 years. Prior to that from 2010 to 2015, Sayd oversaw & executed the global Islamic markets strategy at Thomson Reuters (now London Stock Exchange Group) for five years as Global Head – Islamic Markets.

In addition to his executive roles, Sayd founded & sits on the Board of Trustees as Vice Chair, for the Responsible Finance & Investment (RFI) Foundation. He also sits on the board of Australia for UNHCR.

Sayd is an early stage investor in more than a dozen mission oriented start-ups through Falcon Network, a venture investment network he co-founded. As a personal passion, Sayd focuses on nurturing leaders who have the potential to deliver exponential impact through their influence and resources. Sayd loves to support (and currently supporting) several education & refugee initiatives.

Sayd’s core skill set is in conceiving visionary ideas and bringing them to life with the strength of mission driven teams - starting with envisioning, articulating the proposition, engaging strategic stakeholders and then launching transformative propositions into the world.

Sayd has a Ph.D at the intersection of Behavioral Economics and ethical banking (UTS), a 1st class Honors in Business (BBus) and a Degree in Law (LLB) from the University of Technology Sydney.

Dr Sayd’s God given blessings - Envisioning, strategy, go to market, incubation, executive leadership advisory / facilitation.

His sectoral strengths - Financial services, Government, Education, Islamic Economy / Finance

Specialties: Leadership,Strategy, Innovation Execution, Innovation Ecosystems, Financial Economics,Management, Product Management, Islamic Finance,Banking & Capital Markets

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    New York, Dubai, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney

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    Greater Sydney Area

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    Global

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    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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    Australia

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    Bingley, United Kingdom

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    Australia

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    United Arab Emirates

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    Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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    Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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    Dubai

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    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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    Bingley, United Kingdom

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    Dubai, Bahrain

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    Bahrain

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    Various

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    Three different papers that tested various hypotheses around variations in income smoothing (behavioural anomaly caused by misaligned incentives) by ethical banks and risk exposures due to capital structure differences between ethical banks and conventional banks.

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    The MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP) is a multi-year program for multi-organization, cross-functional teams. The program is designed to help regions facilitate economic development and social progress through the creation of an actionable strategy to support innovation-driven entrepreneurship (IDE). As part of the program, participants attend three day workshops twice a year for at least two years, where they are exposed to the theory and practice of developing regional…

    The MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP) is a multi-year program for multi-organization, cross-functional teams. The program is designed to help regions facilitate economic development and social progress through the creation of an actionable strategy to support innovation-driven entrepreneurship (IDE). As part of the program, participants attend three day workshops twice a year for at least two years, where they are exposed to the theory and practice of developing regional clusters of innovation-based entrepreneurship.

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    The Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML), a multi-course certificate program for PreK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Business School (HBS).

    Bridging the fields of business and education, CSML integrates world-class faculty and research in managing teams and organizations with best practices in educational leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to…

    The Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML), a multi-course certificate program for PreK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Business School (HBS).

    Bridging the fields of business and education, CSML integrates world-class faculty and research in managing teams and organizations with best practices in educational leadership, to provide school leaders with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to effectively lead and drive change improvement in schools.

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    Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage, delves into why we lead the way we do. It is different than other executive education leadership programs that focus primarily on building a distinct set of skills and tactics. Instead, you'll reflect on your deepest assumptions and most strongly held values. You'll then consider how those values and beliefs may have limited you in the past.

    The program also challenges you to look beyond formulating quick technical solutions…

    Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage, delves into why we lead the way we do. It is different than other executive education leadership programs that focus primarily on building a distinct set of skills and tactics. Instead, you'll reflect on your deepest assumptions and most strongly held values. You'll then consider how those values and beliefs may have limited you in the past.

    The program also challenges you to look beyond formulating quick technical solutions that try to solve deeper organizational issues. Instead, it asks you to examine yourself and the competing commitments and loyalties in your organization or community.

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    This course focuses on data analytics, new urban systems, real-time simulation, and urban design strategies that can enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance urban districts.

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