Samer K. Taher

Board Director

Education

Mr. Samer Taher is a partner and board director of Meirc Training & Consulting. He holds a bachelor’s in arts and sciences from the American University of Beirut and an accreditation as a certified practitioner in interaction management, occupational testing, and profiling from Development Dimensions International (DDI) and Saville & Holdsworth (SHL) in the US and the UK, respectively.

Experience

Samer started his career in the USA in the early eighties as a training officer and later as a training manager in one of Pepsi-Cola’s food subsidiaries. In 1991, he moved to Kuwait to assume the positions of training officer, group training manager, and head of human resources with Al-Homaizi Group, the franchisee for several international brands. In 1997, Standard Chartered Bank recruited him as their Dubai-based regional head of training and development for the Middle East and South Asia regions. Upon assuming his role, he built the bank’s first regional training function and worked extensively on all aspects of human resources, which he used to attract, motivate, and retain a national and international workforce. In 2000, he joined Meirc as a management consultant and rose within the firm’s ranks until he became the Managing Director, a role he assumed from 2011 until the end of 2017 when he joined Meirc’s Board of Directors. In 2023, the Board sent Samer to Saudi to establish Meirc’s offices in Riyadh. In January 2025, he handed over the operational Riyadh office to its general manager and returned to Glasgow, Scotland, where he is currently based.

Expertise

Samer specializes in strategic management, leadership, human resources, and executive presence. He is an expert in performance measurement and management using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), scorecards, and dashboards. He is also a subject matter expert in competencies and competency-based human resources. He has helped several regional organizations establish and implement competency-based HR applications such as recruitment, selection, training, and performance management. Samer is also a passionate public speaker known across the region for fat-free keynotes, speeches, and presentations.

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