Corrie J Block
Adjunct Faculty
LinkedIn ProfileEducation
- Doctor of Business Administration, Monarch Business School, Zug, Switzerland (September 2015 – April 2017)
- MBA (Perfect 4.0 GPA), Monarch Business School, Zug, Switzerland (September 2011 – June 2015)
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK (October 2009 – December 2011)
- Two-Year Arabic Language Program (Honours), Contemporary Language Institute, Taiz, Yemen (January 2008 – December 2010)
- Master of Arts in Global Leadership (Perfect 4.0 GPA), Fuller School of Intercultural Studies, Pasadena, California, USA (September 2004 – December 2007)
- Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2018 – 2019)
Areas of Expertise
- Economics
- Accounting & Finance
- Marketing & Strategy
- Family Business Management
- Innovation, Decision-Making & Leadership
- World Cultures & Communication
- E-Commerce & Technology
SUBJECT TAUGHT / STUDENT PROJECT MENTOR
- Strategic Management
- Strategic Marketing
- Leading for Business Performance
- Applied Anthropology
- Organisational Behaviour
EXPERIENCE
Corporate/Consulting Experience
- Chief Strategy Officer overseeing P&L of AED 400m in group of 23 companies, full restructuring, operational excellence, cost slashing, designed & developed UAE’s first B2B ECOM platform, added AED 42.5m to balance sheet.
- Head of project for new corporate strategy, leadership development, executive coaching, and Future of Work including AI and 4IR transformation for AED 2bn family group of companies in Abu Dhabi. Earned preferred employer nods with LinkedIn and Informa, and Platinum partner status with the UAE government.
- Leadership and strategy development, 4IR & core business alignment for Nissan. Earned Global Best Distributor Award in 2019.
- CEO of IoT tech startup, full P&L responsibility, designed corporate architecture, hired executive team, and led through Series A funding to secure USD 6.5m, enabling expansion throughout GCC.
- New product development for UAE-based multinational FMCG company enabling expansion of USD 500m industry into 6 new countries through decentralised manufacturing. Academic case study published. Product won 2014 SIAL Innovation Award and 2014 Gulfood Best New Halal Food Award.
- Head of project for restructuring and digital transformation at a UAE 40-year old MFG family firm with AED 200m t/o, slashing costs, adding new revenue streams and setting in place the first non-family GM.
- Head of project for restructuring a KSA FMCG Retail family firm, 1000+ Employees worth USD 400m. Executive reshuffling along with policy, procedure, and process redesign for all business units. CEO subsequently won the prestigious CEO Award in 2018 from CEO Magazine.
- Consulting for Metanetworks, Consulting Magazine, December 2008
- 15 Step Guide for Attending Conferences, Gulf Business Magazine, November 2012
- Executive Health & Wholeness in Business” Gulf Business Magazine, July 2013
- Are You a Micromanager, Gulf Business Magazine, October 2014
- Is it time to use the R-word (recession) in Dubai?, Gulf Business Magazine, August 2016
- Why Business is Personal, Forbes Magazine, 2018
- What Can an Executive Coach Do for You?, CEO Magazine, 2019
- 10 Signs a Leader Has Disengaged MEED, 2019
- Dubai sets its sights on becoming the happiest place on earth, Euronews, 2019
- Considering Redundancies to Curb Expenses?” Entrepreneur Magazine, 2019
- Block, C. J. and B. N. Nag (2016). "Designing for Quality and Innovation in FMCG: The Case of Chicki-Chunk." AshEse Journal of Business Management 2(3): 82-95.
- Block, C. J. (2018). The CSR Meme as a Business Foundation for Economic Peacemaking. Promoting Peace through Practice, Academia, and the Arts. W. Lotfy, IGI Global.
- Block, C. J. (2020). Spartan CEO: 6 Pillars of Executive Performance. Passionpreneur Publishing.
- Block, C.J. (forthcoming). Business is Personal. Passionpreneur Publishing.
Chapters in Books
- Block, C. J. (2018). The CSR Meme as a Business Foundation for Economic Peacemaking. Promoting Peace through Practice, Academia, and the Arts. W. Lotfy, IGI Global.
Conferences & Workshops
- Millennial Leadership, SME World Summit
- Creating and Sustaining New Economies, Economic Diversification Forum
- Future of Work, GCC Smart Cities Summit
- Small Cap IPOs, STEP Conference
- Human Factors in Digital Transformation, SABIC Conference
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