Rasha Kenawi is a senior Economist and Advisor to Governments turned Leadership Development Expert, Trainer and Corporate Culture Consultant. She is one of the awarded Top 50 Most Influential Women during 2020. Rasha holds a Master’s degree for Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, a program for mid-careers that is known to prepare leaders among the world for a greater impact. She also earned an extra distinction of her achievement of the HKS certificate in Management, Leadership and Decision Sciences, which demonstrates a high level of training.
Rasha became obsessed with transforming organizations and their people who are seeking higher performance level. Her end goal is to develop moral leaders around the world and to design resilient businesses that survive through tough times. She started this career with Harvard Kennedy School as a Teaching Fellow on “Leadership and Public Narrative”.
Rasha is now working with global brands as a highly-rated Executive trainer and Transformational leadership consultant. She is also traveling around the world as a Business Coach to leaders to help transform executives/middle-managers/employees of multinationals or family business CEOs into highly effective leaders and to guide emerging and established young leaders and startups to grow their business. She is also very interested to transform women, grow their leading skills and help them go beyond the glass ceiling and fight the stereotypes. Rasha works with Government entities to help them lead into more innovative solutions. She is a motivational speaker with interest in innovation and social change. Her passion is to design, deliver and facilitate leadership programs through developing workshops on Transformational Leadership, as well as creating organizational culture of values, expectations and practices that will guide them, achieve the required transformation and create performance growth.
Rasha holds another Masters for Economics from the American University in Cairo. In the last 20 years, she was a Senior Independent Consultant in Public Policy with a demonstrated history of working with different Governments. She published articles on Egypt’s economic issues and has been speaking at different conferences and international organizations on authentic leadership. She worked as Senior advisor to different Egyptian Ministers, Ambassadors of the USA to Egypt and to the International Labor Office in Geneva. She was awarded by Assistant Secretary Of the USA, David Welch Outstanding Performance award for her contribution, as the only Egyptian member on U.S. Embassy side, to the success of negotiations between the State Department, and the Government of Egypt on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement between the two countries.