Hybrid Learning Consultant – Design Thinking & Innovation – Abu Dhabi

This brief is aimed at an experienced Hybrid Learning Consultant with real depth in Design Thinking & Innovation and the ability to support client-facing delivery linked to Abu Dhabi.

Job Title: Hybrid Learning Consultant – Design Thinking & Innovation – Abu Dhabi

Category: Strategic Leadership

Expertise Area: Design Thinking & Innovation

Location Focus: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Delivery Mode: Hybrid

Location Scope: Remote / Virtual and Asia

Experience Level: Senior

Engagement Type: Consulting

Position Summary

This scheduled role is suited to a delivery-focused consultant with hands-on Design Thinking & Innovation credibility and experience working with senior managers, leadership teams, and transformation stakeholders in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and across Asia. The work centres on practical application, learner confidence, and helping clients support senior decision-making, transformation, and strategic leadership capability.

This opportunity is best suited to practitioners who can deliver credible learning interventions while maintaining pace, clarity, and client trust across live sessions and preparation stages.

What Success Looks Like

  • Coordinate effectively with client stakeholders and internal contacts on objectives, timelines, and expected learner outcomes.
  • Translate complex ideas into practical guidance, examples, and decision-making frameworks that participants can use in the workplace.
  • Support participants with examples, clarifications, and implementation guidance that reduce the gap between theory and day-to-day application.
  • Refine materials where needed so the programme remains current, usable, and appropriate for the target audience.
  • Adapt delivery to the client brief, participant seniority, and the sector context without losing clarity or pace.

Who This Would Suit

  • Previous experience delivering training, workshops, facilitation, coaching, or advisory work for professional audiences.
  • Proven subject-matter credibility in Design Thinking & Innovation with evidence of practical business or corporate application.
  • Availability for project-based work linked to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and wider Asia where relevant.
  • Good judgement around pacing, audience engagement, and the balance between technical depth and usability.
  • Comfort operating in Hybrid settings and handling the logistical realities of live corporate delivery.

Clear subject-matter credibility in Design Thinking & Innovation; prior exposure to multinational or enterprise audiences; senior-level credibility, strategic judgment, and the ability to facilitate thoughtful discussion with experienced professionals; confident supporting learners with practical examples, tools, and Q&A.

Best suited to professionals with backgrounds in strategy, transformation, executive capability, or senior leadership advisory work, ideally with experience working with multinational clients or enterprise teams in Asia.

How To Apply

From an operational perspective, the assignment is best viewed as Consulting work delivered primarily in a Hybrid environment.

We welcome interest from credible trainers who can demonstrate strong Design Thinking & Innovation delivery capability and a practical approach to corporate learning.

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