Hanane Benkhallouk

Hanane Benkhallouk is an award-winning senior consultant with a broad scope of expertise and exposure to international markets.

She counts 20 years of a diverse thriving career journey that started in New York city before moving to Dubai in 2005. Her multi-industry working experience included being in charge of innovation and entrepreneurship programs across the Arab World, at the Mohammed bin Rashid AlMaktoum foundation, which was the turning point in her career shift, Hanane works today as the Executive Director of Sustain Leadership consultancies.

A culture change and certified innovation strategist, Hanane supports corporates, government institutions, NGOs and SMEs, in building human-centric business models and creating cultures of innovation in order to sustain their leadership, while maximizing impact.

Hanane pioneered a multitude of initiatives that stemmed from her passion to cultivate entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, accelerate the gender balance agenda, and advance the MEA region towards a knowledge-based economy.

More recently, Hanane founded Tawazoun, (which means balance in Arabic) the first think-do tank and platform in the Middle East that aims at cultivating balanced people, work environments and societies.

Hanane received many awards, including, the Gamechanger award in 2019 from the Middle East Institute of Excellence in Dubai, as well as the Saphira award from her native country’s government of Morocco in 2016, to name a few.

Hanane is recognized as a thought leader, a global conference speaker, and a published author, with 2 co-authored books, and her own recently published “SEEDS of change” some of her articles were also published on Harvard business review Arabic, and Forbes Middle East and Arabian Business among others.

Very active on advising organizations on their Sustainability strategies. Very engaged on advancing the gender balance agenda, and on developing youth to create jobs and to embed social impact in their business models as aspiring entrepreneurs. My focus is on creating more awareness on SDG and designing outreach programs and initiatives to help to accelerate them.