19/06/2026
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫? 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠?
Leadership is hot. In training programmes, in organisational development, in boardrooms and on LinkedIn.
And yet, quietly, most people do not really think of themselves as a leader. Do you?
Here is what Islam Abokandil has observed in over fourteen years of working with leaders across the Middle East and Europe: most people lead more than they realise. A team, a project, a family, a conversation.
Leadership is not a title. It is what happens between people.
Islam knows this from the inside. Born in Egypt, he spent years in Canada before returning home with a question that would not leave him alone: why do intelligent, capable, well-intentioned people keep producing the same results, in different contexts, with different people, year after year?
The answer, he discovered, was not a skill gap. It was a loop.
As the founder of Transcend, one of the most respected human development companies in the Middle-East region, Islam has worked with multinationals and organisations whose people are technically excellent, relationally intelligent, and still somehow circling the same problems.
A loop is not a bad habit. It is a structural pattern driven by a deeper fixation, a belief about yourself, others and what leadership requires of you. Until that fixation is seen clearly, the loop continues regardless of skill, intention or self-awareness.
Islam works with the three energies the Enneagram reveals in the Law of Three: active, receptive and reconciling. Most leaders are dominated by one.
That imbalance is precisely what keeps the loop in place. His work makes the pattern visible, traces it to its root, and opens the question: what becomes available when the loop loosens its grip?
This is not coaching. This is inner work at the level where leadership actually lives.
At the Summer School Retreat, Islam joins us on the Saturday morning.
Breaking the Loop · Working with the Law of Three.
Islam Abokandil · Type 1 Self-Pres · Egypt · founder of Transcend · IEA-accredited Enneagram teacher · leadership consultant for multinationals across the Middle East and Europe · trained in the Narrative Tradition.
If something in this resonates, you are welcome to join us.