MONA's CV
MONA ALSHAMSI
Strategic Affairs & Organizational Excellence
Profile summary
Strategic Executive with 18 years shaping organizational excellence, strategic planning, and performance management outcomes across 7 organizations in the GCC. Known for building integrated risk management frameworks, authoring institutional strategies, and steering governance initiatives. Committed to aligning enterprise operations with national objectives and driving cross-functional institutional transformation.
Career highlights
Strategy and Performance Direction: Directs the strategy and performance office at the Abu Dhabi Hazardous Materials Management Centre, overseeing strategic and operational planning, future foresight studies, and performance management frameworks.
Risk and Business Continuity Frameworks: Built an integrated enterprise risk management and business continuity framework from the ground up aligned with ISO 22301 standards at the Center for Hazardous Materials Management.
Strategic Planning Authoring: Authored the entity strategy for the Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management Center for the years 2021 through 2025, securing full executive endorsement and structural alignment.
Professional Certifications: Holds professional credentials including Prosci Change Practitioner, EFQM Assessor, and BSI Lead Auditor to support organizational effectiveness and institutional excellence.
Key skills
Professional experience
Directs the strategy and performance office, overseeing strategic and operational planning, future foresight studies, and performance management frameworks. Shapes enterprise performance management, strategic initiatives, KPI governance, executive reporting, and benefits realization to align with government priorities. Steered organizational excellence, quality management, institutional assessments, business process optimization, service management, policy development, and stakeholder engagement.
- Directed the development and execution of the Centre strategic and operational plans to maintain alignment with Abu Dhabi Government priorities and national objectives.
- Steered strategic partnerships, stakeholder engagement, benchmarking, competitiveness initiatives, governance committees, and cross functional working groups.
Shaped institutional governance and regulatory alignment with national emergency authorities, steering risk management and business continuity operations across the organization.
- Built an integrated enterprise risk management and business continuity framework from the ground up aligned with ISO 22301 standards.
- Introduced risk appetite frameworks and governance models to elevate risk-informed decision-making at the executive level.
- Led enterprise-wide business impact analysis and institutionalized continuity planning across all critical functions.
Directs the strategic activation of the Data and Information Security Management Office, steering policy creation and governance standards to secure organizational assets.
- Established institutional protocols for data risk management, compliance monitoring, and information security incident response.
- Coordinated with national information governance authorities and internal units to embed a security-conscious organizational culture.
Advised executive leadership on HR strategy, service quality, and employee engagement transformation. Shaped institutional services and business processes to support organizational effectiveness and service delivery across the agency.
- Designed internal excellence systems to support business process improvements.
- Deployed operational frameworks that contributed to national award winning performance recognition.
- Authored the entity strategy for the years 2021 through 2025, securing full executive endorsement and structural alignment.
- Introduced performance governance models, key performance indicator dashboards, and accountability mechanisms across all departments.
- Overhauled strategic planning architecture enabling seamless cross-functional alignment and execution.
- Led benchmarking, institutional innovation surveys, and best-practice adoption across government human resources functions.
- Executed knowledge-sharing initiatives across teams.
- Directed quality assurance programs to verify compliance with institutional standards.
Education
Security & Strategic Studies
- Abu Dhabi
Business Administration
- Al Ain
Certifications
Languages
Arabic · Native
English · Fluent