About The Speaker
Aya Wahed
Aya Waheed is People & Culture Director at BasharSoft, the company behind Wuzzuf and Forasna, Egypt's leading online recruitment platforms. She headed HR at the company as it grew from 8 to 300+ full-time team members. Both platforms have helped 6 million+ people search for jobs at 60,000+ companies, leading to more than 1 million people placed at jobs across white- and blue-collar jobs. During her tenure, she helped build BasharSoft's work environment during early and growth stage, eventually helping the company raise more than $10m from Silicon Valley and European investors. During COVID, she decided to slow down and stay at home to help her kids with remote schooling. Then, Aya worked as a learning facilitator at brainquil helping deliver programs in design thinking, team building, leadership among others. Aya is also a certified Gallup Strengths Coach who delivers Gallup Strengths and Executive Coaching sessions to her clients in management roles across different industries and is currently the Gallup Strengths Coaches community Manager in MENA. Aya holds a BA degree in Economics, a mother of 3, and is passionate about helping people become the best version of themselves. Areas of expertise: coaching, HR, People Ops, team building, agile HR, learning and development.