About Us
Cosmic Centaurs is an organizational and leadership development consultancy, helping leaders make better decisions about work and the workplace and effect sustainable organizational change.
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We are a thinking and implementation partner for executives who want to build agile organizations that can achieve their goals, driving impact and delivering value.
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From strategy execution to capability development, to culture transformation, our approach elevates engagement and streamlines ways of working.
Not Your Average Consultants
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Our Philosophy
Strategic
We see organizational strategy and business strategy as two sides of a coin and partner with CxOs to help them build organizations that deliver.
Empathic
Nothing inspires us more than the strength, resilience and imagination of our fellow humans. We live to design and build environments where they can thrive.
Holistic
We think of organizations as systems and look at the impact of our interventions across all aspects of employee experience and organizational strategy.
Nerdy
We love a good framework. We believe in the wisdom of Academia and all of our work is rooted in well-researched and proven models.
Iterative
We are doers. We believe in implementing change hand in hand with our clients and we understand that change doesn't happen overnight.
Collaborative
We work with consultants, educators, experts, coaches, and even architects, bringing diverse thinking to every decision and recommendation.
Our Services
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Strategy Execution
Bridging the gap between strategy development and execution, ensuring companies deliver on their strategic plans effectively and predictably.
Leadership Team Operating Model
Upgrading the dynamics, cadence, and decision-making processes of leadership teams to ensure alignment, agility, and effective execution of organizational priorities.
Culture Change
Transforming workplace culture to align with strategic objectives, fostering a more engaged, adaptive, and high-performing organization.
Scaling
Establishing scalable structures, capabilities, and processes, enabling organizations to grow sustainably while maintaining operational excellence.
Org. Structure Redesign
Redefining org. structures to align with strategic goals, while rethinking processes, information flow, and decision-making rights to enable seamless and effective operations.
Leadership Offsites
Crafting memorable offsite experiences, helping leadership teams align, connect, strategize, and return with renewed purpose and energy.
Capability Development
Research backed, user-centric, engaging training programs to give leaders the skills they need to build organizations that thrive.
Change Management
Guiding organizations through transitions by redesigning ways of working, ensuring smooth adoption of new processes, behaviors, and systems to drive efficiency and lasting impact.
Post Merger Integration
Aligning people, processes, and systems post-merger, ensuring organizations achieve synergy, efficiency, and sustainable success.
Office Redesign
Rethinking physical spaces to align with work models, fostering a culture of collaboration, engagement, and productivity while optimizing resources.
Our Team
All superheroes have a cause. For Centaurs, it’s reimagining the way we work.
Centaurs are holistic thinkers. Their vision sees far into the future. They blend compassion, curiosity, and creativity with the courage of their conviction.
Their stories are rich with tenacity. Centaurs move with speed and agility, outpacing the world around them, drawing others into their magnetic orb, inspiring teams, and changing organizations.
Marilyn Zakhour
CEO & Founder
Hadeel Kabosh
Consultant
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Maya Mahfouz
Researcher
Marie Nakhle
Consulting & Advisory Lead
Faten Fathallah
Consultant
Zeinab Makke
Executive Assistant
Tala Odeh
Capability Development Lead
Aya Abou Ghalyoum
Consultant
Behind the Name
As more and more people started to work from home after the 2020 global pandemic, Marilyn our founder began to imagine everyone sat at home, wearing a work shirt with pyjama bottoms, like corporate centaurs: half office, half couch.
At the time, Zoom became the primary conferencing tool, and people started changing their backgrounds.
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Our Founder particularly loved the outer space background; and that's how Cosmic Centaurs was born.