Fahd Alhattab

Award-Winning Leadership Speaker, Coach, and Consultant

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Why Book

Fahd and his team through their research have identified the tried and true ingredient that set high performing teams apart from competitors — they had leaders who prioritized team performance over individual success. He named them Unicorn Leaders.‍
Delivered through captivating and actionable keynotes, Fahd now retrains managers to become architects of effective teams through his principle of Unicorn Leadership.
Uncover the secrets to adaptability, remote work, diversity, and lifelong learning. Embrace change, seize opportunities, and shape a future of unparalleled success.

Biography

Fahd is a startup workplace expert who brings the insights of Unicorn companies to everyday leaders. He transforms managers into leaders who build high-performing teams that scale—teaching how to lead multi-generational teams. He specializes in transformative leadership and team dynamics training for high-growth startups.

Before turning 20, Fahd raised over $1 million for local charities and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20. He went on to co-found multiple tech ventures, including a mobile tech startup and a student entrepreneurship center at Carleton University that helped launch over 50 startups. Through these experiences, he mastered the art of balancing disruption with leadership.

Through his 15 years of experience building successful startups, running startup incubators and leading global teams, he’s identified the tried-and-true ingredient that sets high-performing teams apart from competitors—they have leaders who prioritize team performance over
individual success.

He calls them Unicorn Leaders. Fahd has spoken to over 100,000 people across North America on leadership and has been named Rising Star Speaker and Most Entertaining Speaker by the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. In recognition of his expertise and impact, Fahd has also earned the prestigious Certified Speaking Professional® (CSP®) designation — the highest earned recognition awarded by the National Speakers Association (NSA).

Today, Fahd is the CEO and founder of Unicorn Labs, which is helping tech startups scale. Through strategic facilitation with their proprietary Founder Operating System, and build their teams through the Six Levels of High-Performing Teams.

Programs

Unlock Your Leaders’ Potential & Build High-Performing Culture

Your managers hold the key to 70% of employee engagement; making their leadership capacity the cap on your organization’s growth.

Gone are the days when vision-setting was solely in the hands of the C-suite. It’s the managers and their teams who navigate the execution, tackling challenges like turnover, disengagement, and the demands of a dynamic hybrid workforce. So when organizations are looking high and low for the missing piece in their organizational culture that they believe will lead them to the constantly elusive destination of success, they are usually overlooking the key hidden in plain sight.

What is it?: Elevating the ratio of extraordinary to lousy managers.

Amid the battle for top talent, managers embody the untapped potential to bridge the gaps in recruitment, retention, and engagement. By transforming managers into visionary leaders who thrive in times of industry change, investing in leadership development becomes your organization’s most impactful investment, maximizing the untapped potential within your talent pool.

In this electrifying keynote, attendees will dive into the six levels of high-performing teams and discover concrete strategies for empowering themselves to become exceptional leaders who forge unstoppable teams.

Get ready to ignite a leadership revolution and cultivate a future-ready culture of unparalleled success.

The audience will learn:

Build Unstoppable Teams That Grow & Win: The Six Steps to Building a High Performing Team

Why do certain groups add up to be greater than the sum of their parts while others add up actually to be less? The critical insight is that interactions between individuals matter significantly more than the talent of the individual people in the team. Empower your managers with the game-changing insights of the Six Levels of High Performing Teams, enabling them to unite all your exceptional individuals into a cohesive and agile powerhouse that yearn to make a difference.

Your managers hold the reins of your organization’s culture, serving as the driving force behind your company’s triumphs. However, too often, managers are promoted based on tenure rather than their leadership prowess in creating high-performing teams.

The result? Oversized, overburdened individual contributors who yearn to break free and lose their passion to lead. The burnout trickles down like an insidious virus on your organizational culture.

Most managers struggle to devote the necessary time to build truly effective teams. While they possess fragments of the puzzle, they lack the holistic understanding of how it all interconnects. It’s time to elevate your managers from mere managers to visionary leaders through the power of everyday acts: coaching, encouragement, and empowerment. Brace yourself for a keynote that enlightens managers, offering a pulse-check of team dynamics and unveiling a digestible framework for crafting high-performing teams.

Often, leadership isn’t about grandiose heroic actions. True leadership resides in the small, daily acts of service, manifested through coaching, encouragement, and empowerment. Experience the profound impact of leadership, and walk away inspired with tools to make it your own.

The audience will learn:

Disruptive Leadership for an Entrepreneurial Workplace.

In today’s fast-paced world, where the very essence of work is being redefined, it is crucial to embrace a new form of leadership—one that fosters innovation and defies the status quo. Enter disruptive leadership. This keynote from renowned Startup Leadership expert Fahd Alhattab unveils the power of disruptive leadership in the context of the entrepreneurial workplace, inspiring attendees to muster the boldness necessary to bring about impactful changes in their respective fields.

Drawing from his extensive experience in leading and growing startups, Fahd Alhattab will explore disruptive leadership, an approach that eschews traditional hierarchy and invites innovation at all levels. This dynamic leadership style, rooted in empowerment, creativity, and collaboration, fuels the engine of entrepreneurial workplaces, providing them the vigor to continually innovate and thrive in a volatile business environment.

Embracing Change and Disruption: It’s not about surviving change but leveraging it. Fahd will illustrate how leaders can turn the tide of disruption in their favor, promoting a culture of adaptability and resilience. In this constantly evolving tech landscape, leaders should embody change and inspire their teams to do the same.

Empowerment and Decentralization: Traditional leadership often rests on command and control, but disruptive leadership is about empowering others. Fahd will discuss how leaders can facilitate an entrepreneurial environment by decentralizing decision-making and promoting autonomy, inspiring individuals to step up and take ownership of their roles.

Fostering a Culture of Innovation: Disruptive leaders encourage constant innovation. They create safe spaces for their teams to experiment, take risks, and learn from failures. Fahd will demonstrate how to cultivate such a culture, enabling individuals to stretch their capabilities and pioneer breakthrough solutions.

Bold Decision-Making: In the realm of disruptive leadership, playing it safe is not an option. Fahd will inspire leaders to make bold, sometimes controversial, decisions that challenge conventional wisdom and catalyze growth. He’ll provide actionable insights into balancing the risks and rewards of such decisions.

The audience will learn:

Power of Community: Through Personal Leadership Drive Connection and Impact

The first step in your leadership journey is the decision to see yourself as an agent of change. Leadership knows no boundaries, as every individual possesses the potential to lead if they dare to embrace it and act upon it.

Get ready for an unforgettable keynote experience as Fahd takes you on a captivating journey of personal transformation and community service. From his arrival in Canada and the quest for a new sense of belonging, Fahd shares his compelling story of attempting to establish a march break camp for kids during high school. Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride, filled with exhilarating triumphs and daunting challenges, as Fahd unveils the profound impact one person can make.

Fahd’s profound commitment to community leadership will ignite a fire within your audience, inspiring them to tackle local and global challenges head-on. Prepare to be immersed in a captivating narrative of self-development, brimming with essential lessons on personal growth and leadership principles.

Having spent the last decade leading and studying teams, Fahd has learned what it takes to find the leader within us.

In this keynote, Fahd will teach the audience to how to own their brilliance, share their ideas and lead. As well as identify and overcome common pitfalls of leadership and teamwork using the six-levels of team development. This actionable talk gives managers the tools to transform any team into a high-performing machine.

Leaders will Learn:

Finding Your Leader From Within The 6 Steps to Embodying a Leader’s Mindset

We’ve created this myth to expect singular, grandiose, charismatic leaders to pave the way forward. Be the north star. But true leadership can emerge from anyone, anywhere.

It’s time to shatter the misconception that leadership rests solely on one person’s shoulders.

Effective leadership is a collaborative effort, a symphony of strengths and shared values. It’s about fostering a culture where every individual is empowered to lead and embrace change with unwavering agility. The secret lies in the domino effect—you can be the catalyst, the first domino that sets it all in motion.

Say goodbye to outdated hierarchies that purely reward seniority. In today’s dynamic world, routine-minded employees hinder their own growth and potential. The real magic happens when individuals are empowered to take risks and seize opportunities. And it all starts with cultivating a leadership mindset.