Retired Professor 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, Former Member of the Editorial Board of HotelExecutive, a San Francisco-based Publication, for 2024, and reviewer for International Journal of Hospitality Management, 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 hotelsโ bottom lines throughout his career. His Alex Ferguson article was also published in Rutgers Business Review in 2025โฝ. And new articles from him on Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola may be out in Rutgers Business Review in the futureโฝ.
Professor (Retired) Sayyadi is a professional in the Harvard Business School (HBS) Case Method. He has extensive experience in case method research, as well as in writing cases for classroom use and facilitating case discussions.
* 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 Writerโs 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).ย
* Sayyadi Leadership Solutions, Inc.: Leadership Team Member
* Co-Founder of The DS Consulting Group, Inc., The UAE.
* https://mostafasayyadi.weebly.com/: Personal Website ย
* https://sites.google.com/view/mostafasayyadi/: Personal Website
* https://sites.google.com/view/mostafasayyadicasewriter/: Case Studies
Retired Professor Mostafa Sayyadi's (over 60) 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 Professor Sayyadi's article, as a retired professor of practice, in the SAM AMJ (Publisher: Society for Advancement of Management/The Oldest Management Society) below:ย
Retired Professor Mostafa Sayyadi 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.
Retired Professor Mostafa Sayyadi, in collaboration with Professor Michael J. Provitera from Miami, Florida, is the co-founder of the Level Up Leadership Theory. Test your Level Up Leadership capability here: