Top 10 Executive Coaches — GCC

An editorial ranking of executive coaches practising in the Gulf, curated on published evidence.

Ranked #7 in the Q3 2026 edition of Top 10 Executive Coaches — GCC. Assessed against the published methodology.

Fatima Nakhjavanpur

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Founder and Managing Director, Choice HR Consultancy; faculty, Ashridge / Hult International Business School

Founder and Managing Director of Choice HR Consultancy, coaching in Dubai and the wider region since 2009. She works with business leaders, professionals and government officials, runs a mentoring programme for young women, and practises in English, French and Persian.

Why this placement

Her MCC is verified on ICF's own events platform, and that same platform publishes her coaching specialties as "Board level, C-Suite" — one of very few ICF-published confirmations of C-suite practice anywhere in this study. For a ranking of executive coaches specifically, an independent statement of the tier someone actually works at is worth more than a list of certifications.

Faculty membership at Ashridge / Hult and front-of-the-room leadership for the Co-Active Training Institute both put her in front of other practitioners rather than only clients. She gave a live master coaching demonstration at the ICF-MCC MENA Coachathon in May 2023, run jointly by eight regional chapters — demonstrating method in public rather than describing it.

Editorial notes and exclusions

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