Mostafa Sayyadi is a Management Consulting Veteran, former (Full) Professor of Practice, Adjunct Professor (TETR College of Business in the UAE), Hotel Management Thinker and Consultant, and Former Member of the Editorial Board of HotelExecutive, a San Francisco-based Publication, for 2024, and is recognized as One of the World's Leading Hotel Executive Educators and Hotel Management Consultants. As an executive who went back to business school, he works with senior hotel leaders and owners to develop innovative leadership in hotels and helps hotels succeed by improving their leaders' effectiveness. His holistic approach to hotel management has enabled him to add value to hotelsβ bottom lines throughout his career. His Alex Ferguson article was also published in Rutgers Business Review in 2025β½. And new articles from him on Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola may be out in Harvard Business Review in the futureβ½.
* Awards and Global Mentions: Nominated for CMCE Research Awards (Centre for Management Consulting Excellence, London, UK, 2024) - IISE's DEI Award (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, Norcross, GA, USA, 2023) - IISE Writerβs Badge (Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, Norcross, GA, USA, 2021 - The Best Blog of 2020 (Society for Human Resource Management USA, 2021) - Best Paper Award (Academy of Business Research Conference, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, 2019) - Associate Fellow (Australian Institute of Management, Sydney Australia, 2013) - Eleven articles published in the NUCA quarterly Business Journal, the most of any of the authors in this journal (The National Utility Contractors Association, Virginia, 2025) - One of my articles predicted a long time ago that a Business Person (President Donald John Trump) could be the 45th U.S. President (Leadership Excellence Essentials Magazine, Toronto, Canada, 2016). The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (based in Norcross in Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA) talked about the importance of his book, Management Consulting's Black Box, to American Business Leaders in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Work (Vol. 58/No.1, 2026).
* Former Leadership Team Member of The Change Leader, Inc. (CEO: Dr. McNaughton, Former Chairman of Institute of Management Consultants USA).Β
* Sayyadi Leadership Solutions, Inc.: Leadership Team Member
* Co-Founder of The DS Consulting Group, Inc., The UAE.
Mostafa's (over 40) books include Hotel Management: An Executive Leadership Handbook (Available on AMAZON)
If you, as a hotel CEO, want to learn more about "Introduction To Business" using The Patterns Film (1956), read Mostafa's article, as a retired professor of practice, in the SAM AMJ (Publisher: Society for Advancement of Management/The Oldest Management Society) below:Β
Mostafa is interested in Cal Newport's concept of "deep work" and is enthusiastic about applying AI and commercial drones to businesses and hotels in the future. In his spare time, he plays harmonica, pilots, writes novels for business leaders, and runs.
Email: msayyadi_1363@hotmail.com (Over the past decade, I checked my email every day. Now, as a retired professor of practice, I am no longer able to do the same.)
Health Situation: Very Good.
