Resources

7 days ago5 min read

How to Manage Up Effectively: 9 Practices

In part 2 of our 3-part series on managing up, we share 9 practices to help you effectively harness an underrated superpower: managing up.

Aug 66 min read

Building Home-Grown Saudi Talent: What Makes Learning Stick

Part 2 of our series on building home-grown Saudi talent explores five ways leading Saudi organizations turn learning into lasting capability.

Aug 56 min read

From Blame to Learning Building a Healthy Attitude to Risk & Failure

In this episode of our Psychological Safety in Focus webinar series, we explore Attitude to Risk & Failure, one of the four domains of psychological safety, and the strongest indicators of whether teams can truly learn, adapt, and improve. At Cosmic Centaurs, psychological safety has long shaped how we design organizational assessments, leadership programs, and team experiences. We see it as a critical enabler of high-performing teams where people feel safe to ask questions,

Aug 41 min read

Leadership: Re-imagined | Leading with an Open Heart with Marilyn Zakhour

As leadership evolves, we're constantly searching for what's next. But what if one of the most important leadership questions isn't about what we need to add, but about what we shouldn't lose? In the first episode of Leadership: Re-imagined, a new thought leadership podcast series from Talogy Middle East & Africa exploring the ideas, tensions, and possibilities shaping leadership today, Abrar AlMubarak, Director Consulting Talogy Middle East & Africa, is joined by leadership

Leadership

Jul 141 min read

Leading with an Open Heart: Lessons from the TEDx Stage with Marilyn Zakhour

What can the world learn from leadership in the Arab world? In this conversation, Cosmic Centaurs Founder & CEO Marilyn Zakhour reflects on her journey to the TEDx stage and explores why leaders from our region have a responsibility to share their ideas, stories, and experiences more publicly. Drawing on research, personal experiences, and the Leading from the Arab World initiative, Marilyn discusses what it means to lead with an open heart, why visibility matters, and how le

Webinars

Jul 22 min read

Psych Speaking Up at Work What Gets in the Way - with Marie Nakhle and Hadeel Kabosh

In this episode of our Psych Safety in Focus webinar series, we explore Open Conversation, one of the four core domains of psychological safety and a critical driver of learning, collaboration, and performance. At its core, psychological safety is about creating an environment where people can contribute honestly, engage in constructive debate, and surface issues before they become problems. In this session, we explore: What open conversation really means in the context of ps

Jun 261 min read

Why Recovery is a Performance Strategy

Performance dips are often caused by unmanaged energy, not low motivation. Learn how leaders can design recovery, reduce volatility, and sustain team performance.

Teams

Jun 184 min read

Building Home-Grown Saudi Talent: The Role of Learning & Leadership

Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in talent development, but training alone is not enough. Explore how learning experiences, leadership, and workplace environments combine to build lasting capability and unlock Saudi potential.

Jun 176 min read

Managing Up: An Overlooked Driver of Organizational Effectiveness

Part 1 of a 3-part series on managing up. Managing up is an underrated superpower, and a concept that has been a recurring theme in my work over the past few weeks. From conversations with my own team to principles of stakeholder management we teach in our programs, I return to the same observation: managing up is a critical yet often overlooked capability. Most leadership development focuses on how leaders manage their teams or align work across functions. Far less attention

Jun 174 min read

8 Leadership Lessons from running the Psychological Safety Scan

As part of our Psychological Safety in Focus webinar series, we spoke with Mazuba Hainama, an independent consultant with more than 15 years of experience working across tech, government, corporations, and civil society. In the conversation, Mazuba reflected on her experience introducing a psychological safety scan with the team she was working with at the time. What emerged was a deeper reflection on leadership itself: how leaders listen, how they create space, and how they

Psychological Safety

Jun 104 min read

The Skills AI Can't Replace & How Organizations Build Them with Dua Al Toobi

As AI and technology continue to reshape the workplace, I keep coming back to one question: what human capabilities will matter most in the future of work? Tala Odeh, Capability Development Lead and Dua Al Toobi, Founder of The Futureproof Advisory and author of Futureproof Your Workforce, for a conversation on what it really takes to build future-ready organizations today. Together, they explored: 🔹 The human capabilities organizations often overlook and why they are real s

Jun 101 min read

The Foundation of High-Performing Teams: Willingness to Help at Work - with Marie Nakhle & Hadeel Kabosh

In this episode of our Psychological Safety in Focus webinar series, we explore Willingness to Help, one of the four domains of psychological safety, and an indicator of trust, collaboration, and team solidarity. At Cosmic Centaurs, psychological safety has long shaped how we design organizational assessments, leadership programs, and team experiences. We see it as a critical enabler of high-performing teams where people feel safe to ask questions, seek support, raise concern

Psychological Safety

Jun 91 min read

What Keeps Leaders Grounded & Limitless: Reflections from The 7th Cosmic Conference

During the 7th edition of the Cosmic Conference, Grounded & Limitless: Leading Organizations that Survive & Thrive, we explored how leaders help their organizations navigate change, adapt to shifting realities, and continue moving forward with clarity and confidence. At the end of each webinar session, speakers participated in a Lightning Round: a series of rapid-fire questions designed to move beyond frameworks and strategies and uncover the personal practices and mindsets

Jun 34 min read

What the Latest Data Says about Psychological Safety - with Marie Nakhle & Hadeel Kabosh

Psychological safety is one of the strongest predictors of performance, learning, and innovation, but how is it actually experienced across organizations today? In this session of our Psych Safety in Focus Webinar Series, we unpack the latest Fearless Report: one of the most comprehensive global studies on psychological safety to date. Drawing on over 16,000 cumulative responses across 33 countries and 21 industries, this report goes beyond theory to reveal what truly shapes

Psychological Safety

May 132 min read

Crisis & Creation: Building Organizations that Renew - Keynote with Marliyn Zakhour - 2026 Cosmic Conference LinkedIn Live Session

About the Session This session explores the gap between what leaders understand and how organizations actually operate. While leaders recognize the need to balance short-term demands with long-term thinking, most organizations are designed to prioritize what is immediate, measurable, and predictable often at the expense of adaptation and learning. Key Takeaways 1. The Tension Between What Leaders Know and How Organizations Work In complex environments, leaders operate in a co

Apr 294 min read

Built in Uncertainty: Marilyn Zakhour on our 6th Anniversary

This article is an excerpt from Marilyn Zakhour’s letter to the team on the occasion of our 5th anniversary.

Marilyn Zakhour

Apr 244 min read

Leading & Governing at the Edge of Uncertainty with Jose Santos - 2026 Cosmic Conference LinkedIn Live Session

About the Session In this closing session of the Cosmic Conference, José Santos challenges one of the most deeply held assumptions in management: that the future can be predicted by doing away with uncertainty. Instead, he reframes leadership as the ability to operate within true uncertainty by designing the conditions that allow organizations to act despite not knowing. The conversation moves from redefining uncertainty, to exposing the limits of traditional models, and ulti

Apr 167 min read

Resilient & Ready Building Global Organizations that Thrive with Loic Moultault - 2026 Cosmic Conference LinkedIn Live Session

About the Session This session explored what it takes to lead when disruption becomes constant. Drawing on Loïc’s experience leading a global organization through crises, it unpacked how leaders can move beyond prediction to building systems that respond, how organizations turn disruption into long-term strength, and what enables teams and leaders to operate with resilience and confidence under pressure. Key Takeaways 1. From Episodic Crisis To Permanent Volatility Crisis has

Apr 164 min read

Lives & Livelihoods: Lessons from the UAE Crisis Management Playbook with Peter Zemsky - 2026 Cosmic Conference LinkedIn Live Session

About the Session This session explored what leaders can learn from the UAE’s COVID-19 response as a model for navigating uncertainty and emerging stronger. Through Peter Zemsky’s research, the conversation unpacked how the UAE balanced lives and livelihoods, what organizations can apply today, from building crisis-ready systems and cultures to using AI in ways that strengthen judgment rather than replace it. Key Takeaways 1. Crisis Performance Is Built Before the Crisis What