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Honey Al Sayed
Honey Al Sayed is an award-winning media expert, creative social entrepreneur and certified executive coach, with more than 20 years of experience in the Middle East, the United States and Europe. An accomplished bilingual (English, Arabic) communications professional, Honey brings a wealth of expertise in all aspects of media, arts, culture, as well as public speaking and coaching. She offers a visionary’s perspective, which, combined with her entrepreneurial spirit and transformational leadership provide distinct benefits to both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, as well as academic institutions and media enterprises.
She is the founder of Honey& a coaching, consulting and learning facilitation business as well as MAP – Media and Arts for Peace, a global education and talent initiative.
Teach, train the trainers: knowledge <-> know-how <-> soft skills
International affairs – Communication Media & Arts – Personal and Executive Coaching – Learning Facilitation and Training – Creative Consulting
The path to peace: negotiation < - > facilitation < - > mediation < - > arbitration
Creativity – Storytelling – Culture – Leadership – Empathy – Transformational Change
Honey Al Sayed
Honey Al Sayed is an award-winning media expert, creative social entrepreneur and certified executive coach, with more than 20 years of experience in the Middle East, the United States and Europe. An accomplished bilingual (English, Arabic) communications professional, Honey brings a wealth of expertise in all aspects of media, arts, culture, as well as public speaking and coaching. She offers a visionary’s perspective, which, combined with her entrepreneurial spirit and transformational leadership provide distinct benefits to both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, as well as academic institutions and media enterprises.
She is the founder of Honey& a coaching, consulting and learning facilitation business as well as MAP – Media and Arts for Peace, a global education and talent initiative.
Teach, train the trainers: knowledge <-> know-how <-> soft skills
International affairs – Communication Media & Arts – Personal and Executive Coaching – Learning Facilitation and Training – Creative Consulting
The path to peace: negotiation < - > facilitation < - > mediation < - > arbitration
Creativity – Storytelling – Culture – Leadership – Empathy – Transformational Change
Honey in her own words
Honey Al Sayed is the founder of Honey& coaching, consulting and learning facilitation business. She also founded MAP – Media and Arts for Peace – a global education and talent initiative. She is an award-winning media expert, creative social entrepreneur and certified executive coach, with more than 20 years of experience in the Middle East, the United States and Europe. An accomplished bilingual (English, Arabic) communications professional, Honey brings a wealth of expertise in all aspects of media, arts, culture, as well as public speaking and coaching.
After breaking new ground in Syria’s media scene with the #1 rated morning show “Good Morning Syria” for 6 years with 7 million listeners, Honey was forced to leave to the United States in 2012, where she co-founded SouriaLi, an independent, non-profit, online radio where she worked as a producer, host, and media consultant. Displaced by war more than once in her lifetime, Honey has shared her personal and professional experience through courses and learning facilitation at academic and research institutions such as: at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington D.C., the University of Denver, Eastern Mennonite University, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) where she developed an online course on the role of the media and arts for peacebuilding.
Honey is regularly invited as a keynote speaker and commentator on women’s empowerment and the role of media in social change. She has appeared at the United Nations, GCSP, U.S. National Press Corps, the United Nations Foundation, the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Institute of Peace, among many others.
Honey is an Associate Fellow at the GCSP, and she holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and a Bachelor of Science in Communication Media from the Lebanese American University.
She offers a visionary’s perspective, which, combined with her entrepreneurial spirit, resilience and transformational leadership provide distinct benefits to both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, as well as academic institutions and creative enterprises.
Honey in her own words
Honey Al Sayed is the founder of Honey& coaching, consulting and learning facilitation business. She also founded MAP – Media and Arts for Peace – a global education and talent initiative. She is an award-winning media expert, creative social entrepreneur and certified executive coach, with more than 20 years of experience in the Middle East, the United States and Europe. An accomplished bilingual (English, Arabic) communications professional, Honey brings a wealth of expertise in all aspects of media, arts, culture, as well as public speaking and coaching.
After breaking new ground in Syria’s media scene with the #1 rated morning show “Good Morning Syria” for 6 years with 7 million listeners, Honey was forced to leave to the United States in 2012, where she co-founded SouriaLi, an independent, non-profit, online radio where she worked as a producer, host, and media consultant. Displaced by war more than once in her lifetime, Honey has shared her personal and professional experience through courses and learning facilitation at academic and research institutions such as: at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington D.C., the University of Denver, Eastern Mennonite University, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) where she developed an online course on the role of the media and arts for peacebuilding.
Honey is regularly invited as a keynote speaker and commentator on women’s empowerment and the role of media in social change. She has appeared at the United Nations, GCSP, U.S. National Press Corps, the United Nations Foundation, the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Institute of Peace, among many others.
Honey is an Associate Fellow at the GCSP, and she holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and a Bachelor of Science in Communication Media from the Lebanese American University.
She offers a visionary’s perspective, which, combined with her entrepreneurial spirit, resilience and transformational leadership provide distinct benefits to both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, as well as academic institutions and creative enterprises.