Japan

Business Transformation

UX Design

Game Design

Multimedia Design

Service Design

Business Development

Growth Design

Program Management

Master

Jaouid Bourquia

Transformational Leadership through Coaching, Mentorship, and Design Thinking

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Community management

ChatGPT

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

I bridge academia and industry to drive transformative advancements in artificial intelligence. Passionate about innovation and coaching, I mentor future leaders, guide teams toward impactful AI solutions, and shape strategic frameworks that redefine technology's role in solving real-world challenges.

Driving the digital transformation agenda, overseeing process digitalization, evaluating and implementing digital technologies, leveraging data analytics, promoting collaboration, and monitoring performance to ensure successful organizational digital initiatives.

Developing and executing turnaround plans to improve an organization’s overall performance and enterprise value.
 Acting as the point of contact for certain assigned work streams within a customer engagement.
 Performing and overseeing the analysis of company business plans.
 Leading customers through various processes, including making working capital improvements, and claims processing.
 Implementing cash conservation guidelines and controls.

Scan the environment to identify potential reform or innovative projects that will make sure we have a responsive and adaptable business for the future.
This includes researching, scoping future work, engaging with stakeholders to determine the viability and validity of programs or projects and developing a business case or an implementation plan, and engaging in strategic stakeholder engagement and communications before projects are transitioned to the relevant business areas for delivery.

Eventful to identify and implement necessary changes to enable a business to perform to its optimum ability. Responsible for overseeing all areas of a business, implementing any operational changes and delivering measurable improvements

Exciting with ideas and knowledge to transform business processes into continuing innovation, automation and applications of business and entrepreneurship innovation strategies, methods, processes and tools to enhance competitiveness.

•	Worked across Sales, Finance, HR, Hardware, Software and Services teams to prioritize and deploy process improvement opportunities based on customer impact, margin impact, strategic alignment, implementation complexity and business unit sponsorship 
•	Identifying the right process/opportunities for process transformation. Map a value stream identifying value-added, non-value-added and other related process parameters of a complex process.

- Ensuring the current capabilities upgraded to new environment and Integrating sustainability into business continuity planning.
- M-Services business migration: Motorola Integration, business migration, Validation & approval of new blueprint.

Process and business Deployment of MEA Quote to Cash Consolidation Program.
Q2C ERP Upgrade Program.
Established SAP use phase business support model to ensure business continuity in the Middle East and Africa region.
Support ongoing Lean certification efforts, acting as a mentor/coach and a board member to candidates during their certification process

Coordinate and lead SAP deployments within Network Implementation  deployment projects
Plan and coordinates jointly with cluster and country project managers all Network Implementation -related activities and resourcing. Contributes and ensures the execution of the cluster/country plan prepared jointly with the Q2C Team.

As a member of Supply Chain Management Development team:
 - drive the creation and deployment of delivery processes and tools.
- Train own process area (Cost Progress Managers, Project Managers and program Managers)
- create and maintain the MEA process and concept material
- lead system (mainly SAP P20) of own process area in development and deployment projects

As Service Product Manager I had the ownership for the respective service products in the areas,the responsibility to implement the product management activities in the areas according to the Delivery Services and Service Line guidelines, the responsibility for the tendering preparation and tendering activities (scope, risk and cost management) for the service products and to ensure speed and correctness for customer tenders and also responsible for transferring the service product specification from tendering to the project execution.

As Site Engineering (SE) service Product Manager, I had the ownership for SE service Telecom Implementation products in the region. I was responsible to ensure correct cost calculation completed in tenders. Sales packages and items used as per guidance from Global Service Line.Responsible for managing and delivery of Site Engineering Services.Managing Central Europe, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa Countries Cost Database (CCDB) and update Price Books as needed and Provide Customer Team the relevant service documentation for the customer request in bid phase.

Responsible for the Delivery of end-to-end product data visibility across NOKIA processes, to handle technical product and product structure information in a systematic way that adds value within the business and Implementing proactive actions in product data management,With In-depth knowledge of product data system and concepts. Includes also an ability to implement workable solutions by collecting, analyzing, and applying relevant information.

Creation of Nokia NET e-learning concept and learning solution. Learning portal definition and design 
Co-ordination and communication with e-learning vendor. Supervising of e-learning application testing and development.PDM concept support for key users in implementation- and use phases.
Participates in PDM deployment projects to ensure PDM Support Model implementation
NET PDM key user trainings. Provide PDM/eMatrix support for SW issues
Plans and organizes support activities together with Business Units and Business Infrastructure

leading a team of 178 experts.My main task was to manage business/ process/ people/ technology in an organizational unit, competence area and Responsible for strategy implementation. I was responsible for prototype build planning. As interface between R&D and the pre-production in Finland I did provide all necessary information like build-documentation, change requests etc. and review build results and feedback with all involved parties and to ensure the delivery of functional prototypes to product programs.I did also carry out individual and team discussions and personal evaluations.

Managing and leading complex products development programs in all stages of product development and release processes. Responsible for the successful execution of development programs, focused primarily on software solutions and products, including network management solutions.
Needed in supporting manufacturing with Guidance and induction in manufacturing related Tasks.
Competencies related to the maintenance and service of manufacturing equipment.
Product Creation Programs/Projects/Data Vision.Design for Manufacturing (DFM). 
(Operations&Logistics&Sourcing).

Work in the news and entertainment industries, leading teams to coordinate the creation and broadcasting of television programs.Plan and execute production of both live and taped television shows. Determine how the production will look, select the script, choose the talent and coordinate sets, props, and lighting. Manage the on-set activities of broadcast personalities or actors and other members of the production staff. Other common job duties include: 
- Edit scripts for broadcasting 
- Determine production budget, schedule and scope 
- Monitor postproduction to completion 
- Write and edit news or human-interest stories 
- Lead production staff meetings

Responsibilities as a News Broadcaster/News Producer.
Provides in-depth coverage of worldwide events. Specifically covers events relevant to major wars, domestic and foreign policies, Culture, politics and spectacle in the global sports event.
From the Kuwait/Iraq War to the earthquakes of Kashmir and Pakistan. The Lebanese civil war the Western hostage saga; and the guerrilla war in south Lebanon.Nagano Olympic Games.The Paris Dakar Rally.Ethiopia, Kenya: Northern and southern regions special feature on the regional drought and famine and the working of Oxfam NGO’S in the area. Palestine-Israel conflict,General news gathering: West Bank, Gaza Strip. Somalia: Coverage of civil war and foreign forces intervention into starvation and civilian deaths…etc

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