Advisory & Training · Abu Dhabi · UAE and Saudi Arabia
Enlighten helps organisations implement the HR, remuneration and organisation designs they have invested in, and build the in-house capability to run them.
For family groups professionalising their governance, regulated start-ups building from zero, and companies scaling faster than their people structures.
The implementation gap
Boards and owners invest in good advice: a new HR strategy, a remuneration framework, a redesigned organisation. The work is often excellent. The difficulty comes afterwards, when a small in-house team is asked to implement a plan written for an organisation with capability it does not yet have.
So the report waits. Decisions get deferred, the sponsor's attention moves on, and a year later the same questions are back on the agenda.
Enlighten works on that stage. We assess what it will take to implement, build the HR and leadership capability to do it, and stay until it runs on its own.
Services
Each engagement is led and delivered personally by Randa Elsir.
For organisations holding a consultancy report, a new HR strategy or an approved framework that has not yet landed. A short, structured assessment of the HR function's maturity, the team's capability, leadership sponsorship, and the practical sequence of work. You leave with a prioritised roadmap with owners, effort and risks.
Senior HR leadership on a fractional basis, with an explicit brief to build the in-house team rather than create dependency: leading implementation of the roadmap, coaching the HR leader and team, setting up the processes and decision routines, and handing over when the function can run on its own.
For owners, boards and remuneration committees: an evidence-based review of how senior leaders are paid and who comes next. A diagnostic of current pay and bonus decisions, a redesigned short and long-term incentive scheme with KPIs, a succession map for the top roles, and a paper ready for board approval.
Also: leadership development and coaching for newly promoted managers and HR leaders, practical AI skills workshops for leadership and HR teams, change management advisory for restructuring, integration and system roll-outs, and talent and performance frameworks for organisations moving past founder-led decisions.
How we work
Thirty minutes to understand where you are and whether Enlighten is the right fit. No preparation needed.
A defined, fixed-fee piece of work that gives you a sequenced roadmap, whether or not we work together afterwards.
Implementation and capability building alongside your team, with a monthly leadership check-in and a quarterly review against the roadmap.
A planned exit when the function can run on its own. Dependency is not the goal.
About
Randa Elsir
Founding Partner, Enlighten Limited · Non-Executive Director, Board Nomination and Remuneration Committee
Randa founded Enlighten after 25 years of senior people leadership with Shell, GE Aerospace and Danaher, most recently as Senior HR Director for the Middle East, Africa and Turkey and the most senior people leader for a region exceeding USD 1 billion in revenue.
She serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board Nomination and Remuneration Committee of a diversified Gulf family group, where she co-led the design of board-approved short and long-term incentive plans covering CEOs and senior leaders, and contributed to the group's delegation of authority and holding-model redesign.
Her advisory work includes an HR function maturity assessment for a Gulf family group following a global consultancy's review, and the people set-up of a new regulated financial-infrastructure venture in Abu Dhabi: remuneration framework, organisation design, phased manpower plan and management-team hiring plans. She is an engineer by training, a certified change management professional (CCMP, Prosci), and a native Arabic speaker fluent in English.
Contact
If you are holding a plan that has not landed, or need senior HR leadership while you build your own team, tell us a little about your situation. Randa replies personally within two working days.