
Akram Al Qadasi
I don't add strategy. I reveal it.
IE Business School EMBA · MIT Professional Ed · INSEAD · 15+ years strategy
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
Argaam
Helped launch the Arab world's leading financial-news portal — markets research and the partnerships that put it on the map.
Arab National Bank
Investment governance and talent development across the bank's top 500 people.
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.
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%.
IE Business School EMBA
Final project: the platform that became Strategy2Action.
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.