Akram Al Qadasi
The Founder

Akram Al Qadasi

I don't add strategy. I reveal it.

IE Business School EMBA · MIT Professional Ed · INSEAD · 15+ years strategy

The story

Why this exists

I've always been drawn to the beginning — where nothing exists yet and everything is still possible. I helped launch Argaam, the Arab world's leading financial-news portal. I built a strategic-planning function from zero for a 400-entity holding group, and helped a family group corporatize until its operating profit tripled.

After fifteen years and 400+ founders, one pattern kept repeating. They weren't missing strategy — they had it, in their decisions, their instincts, their 2am thinking. But nobody around them could see it. Not the board. Not the investors. Not their own team.

The brilliance was trapped in one person's head — invisible to everyone else.

The strategy was never broken. It just needed a mirror.

I'm not a consultant handing you a framework. I don't build for companies — I build for the soul of the visionary. Identity first, architecture second, market third. I make things make sense. I never knew it was a form of leadership. Now I do.

Strategy2Action exists to fix that — not by giving you someone else's framework, but by making your strategy visible, in four documented models your team, investors, and board can follow.

Three principles

Your strategy already exists

We don't give you strategy. We make yours visible.

Mirrors beat advice

We're not consultants. We're mirrors.

Soul before systems

Identity first. Architecture second. Market third.

The path

2009

Argaam

Helped launch the Arab world's leading financial-news portal — markets research and the partnerships that put it on the map.

2012

Arab National Bank

Investment governance and talent development across the bank's top 500 people.

2013

Bin Laden Holding (BIHG)

Built a strategic-planning function from zero — Strategy Coordinator to Senior Strategy Analyst — across 400+ entities and seven sectors in MENA.

2020

Almutlaq Group

Joined as Senior Strategy Analyst and rose to Director, leading the family group's corporatization — operating profit tripled, three-year KPIs hit at 200%.

2023

IE Business School EMBA

Final project: the platform that became Strategy2Action.

2024

Strategy2Action

Launched — because every founder deserves to see their strategy clearly.

Your strategy already exists. Make it visible.

We don't give you strategy. We make yours visible.