Strategic clarity that transforms your business.

We solve complex organizational challenges that matter most to our clients.

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We specialize in helping you achieve breakthrough results.

Sayid Group is a management consulting firm that helps leaders navigate complex challenges, lead transformational change, build high-performing organizations, and elevate leadership effectiveness.

Strategy
Leadership
Growth
Clarity
Planning
Transformation
Impact
Alignment
Execution
Structure
Solutions

Our Services

Business Strategy & Growth
Overwhelmed, unsupported, and unsure how to reach the next level? You're not alone. Our Business Strategy & Growth service partners with you. We provide hands-on strategy consulting to pinpoint breakthrough strategies, deliver tailored support, and unlock your business's full potential.
Organizational Development
The alignment of strategy, culture, and leadership forms the bedrock of organizational effectiveness. When these elements are misaligned, it can paralyze your organization. Our partnership focuses on strengthening these core elements: refining structures for clarity, enhancing leadership capacity for direction, and intentionally building a healthier culture, creating an environment where your team thrives.
Governance & Board Development
We assist the boards of nonprofits, charter schools, and other organizations to operate effectively while fulfilling their fiduciary responsibilities, ensuring compliance, providing strategic direction, and establishing robust governance practices.
Executive Coaching
Leadership can be demanding and isolating. Our Executive Coaching provides personalized support to help you sharpen your strategic thinking, enhance your communication skills, navigate challenges effectively, and lead your organization with greater confidence and purpose.
Executive Communications
Shaping how your leadership is perceived requires a deliberate plan. We help you develop compelling messages, navigate media relations confidently, manage public relations proactively, and build a strong, authentic personal brand — all designed to enhance your influence and reputation.
Training & Workshops
We deliver practical training and workshops tailored to the needs of our clients. We offer:
  • Cultural Competency Workshops: Designed to help organizations foster more inclusive internal environments, enabling them to better understand and serve their diverse communities.
  • Business Fundamentals Coaching: Specifically designed to equip new entrepreneurs with the essential skills and confidence needed for startup success, covering planning, operations, and basic finance.
  • Leadership Skills Development: Focused workshops to enhance communication, decision-making, and team leadership capabilities for current and aspiring leaders.

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.

We may be biased, but we have some great clients.

Your partner in purposeful growth.

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