David Jalili

Strategic Advisor | Performance & Excellence Leader | Driving Impact through Holistic Business Insight

Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

About

A seasoned strategist and performance leader with over five decades of experience helping organizations translate vision into measurable results. David advises boards and executive teams on strategy execution, Balanced Scorecard deployment, and organizational excellence. He combines systems thinking, financial acumen, and people-centered leadership to drive sustainable impact across sectors—from government and non-profit to finance and industry. Recognized for his ability to simplify complex challenges, build alignment, and enable teams to perform with clarity and purpose. Career Highlights - Board-Level Strategist: Non-executive director on multiple boards, guiding governance, risk, and strategy alignment. - Performance Architect: Led BSC and excellence model rollouts across Gulf governments and corporates with award-winning results. -Leadership Coach & Facilitator: Certified EMCC & Startegy Implementation; trained 200+ leaders on the BSC, KPIs, OKRs, and faciliated a number of Board Retreats to build strategies. - Cross-Sector Expertise: Experience spans energy, industry, finance, healthcare, and social impact foundations across UAE, KSA, Oman, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Experience

  • Advisor at The Emirates Foundation
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Director at The People Human Resources Consultancy
    Nov 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 9 mos

    The People Partnership (TPP) was established in 2002 and with the merger of Ibtikar, offers business solutions to meet the needs of the community in the Gulf. Our philosophy is simple: to add value through consultancy, training and management services. In consultancy we believe in providing implementable practical solutions and not just reports. In training we provide myriad of professional and specialized courses. Our specialty is performance enhancement from formulating and executing Strategy to employee objectives and HR systems. Our goal is to achieve measurable increase in economic value with those we work with and partner.

  • Senior Manager Strategy and Performance at Emirates Foundation
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Senior Associate and Middle East Partner at Balanced Scorecard Institute
    Nov 2012 - Apr 2019 · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Senior Advisor at National Medical Care Company
    Mar 2016 - Apr 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

    The National Medical CARE company was founded in August 2003 as a closed joint stock of the public sector represented by the General Organization for Social Insurance and a group of private shareholders, and the National Medical CARE company has two of the main private sector hospitals in the Riyadh region "Riyadh Care", which was founded in 1990 and the hospital, "national", which was founded in 1966.