Board Director and General Manager
Mr. Samer Taher is a partner and board director in Meirc Training & Consulting. He is also General Manager for the company’s offices in Saudi Arabia. Samer holds a bachelor’s in arts and sciences from the American University of Beirut. He is a certified practitioner in interaction management, occupational testing, and profiling from Development Dimensions International (DDI) and Saville & Holdsworth (SHL) in the US and the UK, respectively.
Samer started his career in the USA in the early eighties as a training officer and later as a training manager in one of Pepsi-Cola’s food subsidiaries. In 1991, he moved to Kuwait to assume the positions of training officer, group training manager and head of human resources with Al-Homaizi Group, the franchisee for several international brands. In 1997, he was recruited by Standard Chartered Bank as their regional head of training and development for the Middle East and South Asia regions. Upon assuming his role, he built the bank’s first regional training function and worked extensively on all aspects of human resources, which he used to attract and retain national and international talent. In 2000, he joined Meirc as a management consultant and rose within the firm’s ranks until he became the Managing Director, a role he assumed from 2011 until the end of 2017 when he joined Meirc’s Board of Directors. In 2023, Samer moved to Saudi to establish and operate Meirc’s offices in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he is currently based.
With Meirc, Samer specializes in organizational behavior, emphasizing strategic management, leadership, human resources, and executive presence. He is an expert in performance measurement using key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards and dashboards. He is also a subject matter expert in competencies and competency-based human resources. He has helped several regional organizations establish and implement competency-based HR applications such as recruitment, selection, training, and performance management. Samer is a proponent of action intelligence and a passionate public speaker known across the region for fat-free keynotes, speeches, and presentations.
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