Cut through complexity. Solve the right problems.
Sayid Group is a management consulting and executive coaching firm that helps organizations solve complex strategic, operational, leadership, and cultural challenges.
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You don't need all the answers. You just need the right partner.
We partner with you to achieve organizational and leadership transformation. Together, we create a resilient organization where people thrive, leaders grow, and change drives real progress.
Our Services
Strategic
Planning
Strategic
Planning
Strategic Planning is the foundation for any organization's success. Our service helps you define your long-term goals and develop effective strategies to achieve them. We examine your internal strengths, weaknesses, market opportunities, and challenges to create clear strategies and actionable steps. In short, we build a roadmap that guides your organization toward sustainable success.
Strategic Problem-
Solving
Strategic Problem-Solving
We partner with you to overcome complex organizational challenges using a proven, data-driven approach that delivers innovative and effective solutions. Our disciplined process involves thoroughly understanding your challenges, developing insightful hypotheses, conducting rigorous research, and providing clear, actionable recommendations that drive tangible results.
Organizational Design & Development
Organizational Design & Development
Whether you're a leading business, a nonprofit, or a public sector agency, we optimize your organizational structure, processes, and culture to build a solid infrastructure that empowers you and your team to achieve strategic goals and drive sustainable growth.
Training & Workshops
Training & Workshops
Our specialized training programs and workshops focus on practical strategies for developing authentic leadership, navigating cultural differences, fostering effective communication, and creating workplaces where all team members can thrive and reach their full potential
Change Management
Change Management
We guide leaders and teams through organizational change, minimizing disruption, maximizing employee buy-in, and achieving desired outcomes.
Governance & Board Development
Governance & Board Development
We help boards strengthen their governance practices, clarify roles and responsibilities, and develop the collective capabilities needed to provide effective oversight and strategic guidance. Our approach enhances board performance while establishing governance systems that support long-term organizational health.
Transition & Succession Planning
Transition & Succession Planning
We prepare your organization for ongoing success by facilitating seamless leadership transitions and providing interim leadership support when needed.
Strategic
Planning
Strategic
Planning
Strategic Planning is the foundation for any organization's success. Our service helps you define your long-term goals and develop effective strategies to achieve them. We examine your internal strengths, weaknesses, market opportunities, and challenges to create clear strategies and actionable steps. In short, we build a roadmap that guides your organization toward sustainable success.
Strategic Problem-
Solving
Strategic Problem-Solving
We partner with you to overcome complex organizational challenges using a proven, data-driven approach that delivers innovative and effective solutions. Our disciplined process involves thoroughly understanding your challenges, developing insightful hypotheses, conducting rigorous research, and providing clear, actionable recommendations that drive tangible results.
Organizational Design & Development
Organizational Design & Development
Whether you're a leading business, a nonprofit, or a public sector agency, we optimize your organizational structure, processes, and culture to build a solid infrastructure that empowers you and your team to achieve strategic goals and drive sustainable growth.
Training & Workshops
Training & Workshops
Our specialized training programs and workshops focus on practical strategies for developing authentic leadership, navigating cultural differences, fostering effective communication, and creating workplaces where all team members can thrive and reach their full potential
Training & Workshops
Training & Workshops
Our specialized training programs and workshops focus on practical strategies for developing authentic leadership, navigating cultural differences, fostering effective communication, and creating workplaces where all team members can thrive and reach their full potential
Governance & Board Development
Governance & Board Development
We help boards strengthen their governance practices, clarify roles and responsibilities, and develop the collective capabilities needed to provide effective oversight and strategic guidance. Our approach enhances board performance while establishing governance systems that support long-term organizational health.
Transition & Succession Planning
Transition & Succession Planning
We prepare your organization for ongoing success by facilitating seamless leadership transitions and providing interim leadership support when needed.
Helping great organizations get even better.
Your strategic partner and coach
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim is the founder and principal consultant of Sayid Group.
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Sayid Group enhanced our local-news strategy
The Sayid Group offers truly unique expertise. Mukhtar's strategic guidance and entrepreneurial insights were really instrumental in strengthening the Joyce Foundation’s local-news investments. With a forward-thinking approach and a quick grasp of our challenges, he helped us identify new opportunities and navigate around potential pitfalls. And he made it easy for us to translate those opportunities into a clear, actionable strategy that will have lasting impact on our work.
— Hugh Dellios, Journalism Program Director, Joyce Foundation
Sayid Group provided strategic direction for Press Forward Minnesota.
Mukhtar's deep knowledge of the local news and media landscape and commitment to community needs were invaluable assets in successfully launching Press Forward Minnesota. Mukhtar leads with both expertise and humility and brings valuable perspectives to complex challenges at the local and statewide level. Mukhtar's work with Sayid Group helped us navigate key decisions with greater confidence and clarity about our strategic direction.
— May Yang, Staff Lead, Press Forward Minnesota
I developed a CEO mindset through Mukhtar's guidance.
Thanks to Mukhtar's strategic coaching and deep listening, I shifted from a founder to a CEO mindset. This sharpened my message, boosted my executive presence, and equipped me to lead Safeway Home Healthcare with clear purpose and confidence.
— Amare Solomon, Founder & CEO, Safeway Home Healthcare
AEDS strengthened its communications because of Sayid Group’s strategic guidance.
Sayid Group’s strategic communications support made a meaningful impact at African Economic Development Solutions (AEDS). Mukhtar quickly understood our mission to serve Minnesota’s African immigrant community and delivered culturally attuned, actionable advice. His guidance sharpened our messaging and helped us engage more effectively with our community and stakeholders.
— Founder, President, and CEO of African Economic Development Solutions
