Nart Abaza

Hi, I'm Nart.

I build operating systems for people & organizations that boost productivity & quality, and empowers people.

I’ve seen and worked on some beautiful strategy docs here and there including ones made by top 5 consulting companies like Kearney & BCG, but rarely saw that beauty reflected in operations evidenced by organizations hiring us to simplify or operationalize them. So, I’ve refined my mission to: getting strategy, knowledge & technology to work together in harmony and productivity. Discovering the terms OKR and finishing the Measure What Matters course from John Doerr himself and Strategy Delivery I’ve chosen my tools like a craftsman, and I love helping others pick & master their own tools (check testimonials at the bottom). My Experience exceeds a decade of hands-on work in multiple industries and roles from across the MENA & Gulf region.

Engineer by training: trained as a civil engineer with focus on construction management and BIM technologies; Educator by instinct: tuned to unpack complexity and facilitate learning (personal & organizational); Builder by practice; since working in tightly constrained environments forced me build custom solutions and workflows again and again and again.

PMP One of the early enriching experiences that helped me realize my passion was beyond engineering; it was for frameworks and systems. I've held and renewed my PMP for 10 years now. MEAL
DPro
Although the MEAL experience was already there, I pursued this to better frame my career shift in 2024. Finished it within 10 days. Read my Reflections on MEAL →
BSc Civil
Engineering
Graduated with High Honors, with focus on construction management & BIM. I thought BIM was going to be my future, but then.. Tammey came back :) Read more →
10+ years
in MENA
Counting years of experience is rarely meaningful for me. I've served around 6 years in development consulting, 3 in NGO management, 4 in Engineering, 10+ in teaching & training.... lots of overlaps obviously.
11
Countries
Lived or worked in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Russia, Cyprus, and Turkey.
Multilingual
AR/EN/RU
I adore languages; they serve my thinking and enrich my sensitivity to cultural and philosophical nuance.

What I Do

Services

Productivity Systems

For individuals & teams

Your work deserves a system that fits you; not a template.

I coach knowledge workers to build personal and team operating systems grounded in evidence-based productivity science. We design your tools, principles, and habits together; from task management to deep work routines to annual reviews.

1:1 coachingGroup sessionsNotion workspace setupFollow-up resources

Organizational Systems

For NGOs & businesses

Strategy is only as good as the system that runs it.

I help organizations turn strategy documents into living, measurable execution systems. That means building knowledge bases, MEAL dashboards, digital workspaces, and workflows; so your team stops drowning in docs and starts operating with clarity.

Strategy operationalizationKnowledge managementNotion/AI workspace designMEAL systemsDigital transformation

Workshops & Training

For teams & communities

Practical. Participatory. Built for your context.

I design and facilitate workshops on productivity, data management, volunteer management, and structured reflection; for teams, organizations, and public communities. Every session is hands-on, bilingual-ready, and designed to leave participants with something they can use the next day.

Custom workshopsAnnual Review facilitationData management trainingHybrid delivery

What I Did

Portfolio

A selection of systems and programs I've designed and delivered across the MENA region.

DPA OKR Dashboard

OKR System · Government Agency

A governmental agency needed to track OKRs across 9 departments; but years of shared-spreadsheet chaos had made reporting slow, inconsistent, and largely ignored. The teams refused to leave Excel, so I leaned in and pushed it far beyond its usual limits: isolated workbooks per team, comprehensive validation that made Excel behave like an app, automated consolidation into a master table, and a near-live dashboard for leadership; all without a single new tool or relying on training.

9 Departments
0 New Tools

Iradaty Bot

AI Reporting Workflow · Humanitarian NGO

A small humanitarian NGO team was drowning in scattered field updates across messages, screenshots, and voice notes. Weekly reporting consumed leadership time and still missed patterns. Instead of forcing a new system, I built an AI-assisted reporting workflow on top of the team's existing chat-based habits: incoming updates are automatically structured into standardized personal, departmental, and management reports, all stored in Notion as a searchable organizational memory.

Arabic Legal Chatbot

AI Legal Q&A · Hybrid Retrieval · Arabic NLP · Python · Postgres

Libyan legal documents exist as dense Arabic text with no reliable way to query them. I built a production-grade conversational chatbot that answers Arabic legal questions by citing the exact relevant articles from a body of 6,000+ legal articles. The system combines hybrid retrieval (semantic embeddings + Arabic-aware BM25 via Farasa), query reformulation for better recall, semantic caching for speed and cost, and multi-turn dialogue with grounded-answer enforcement that doesn’t hallucinate.

6,000 Legal Articles
3s TTFT

Tammey’s Knowledge Engineering

Knowledge & Technology · Strategy & M&E · 5-Year Engagement

A lean, multinational nonprofit needed to professionalize its knowledge and digital systems without a dedicated tech team. Over 5 years, I built the organization's knowledge base in Notion, managed development of two web platforms (Tammey.org and MeenaAcademy.org), delivered strategy and M&E systems to 4+ nonprofit clients, contributed to 5+ research projects, and led a cultural shift toward digital-first knowledge work across the team.

5 Years
4+ Client Orgs
5+ Research Projects

Iradaty Charity Association

Organizational Development · Humanitarian NGO · Syria

A humanitarian NGO with 13 years of crisis-era work needed to professionalize fast on a minimal budget. I covered three interlocking fronts: built the first financial management policy aligned with international donor standards, developed the media team from informal to structured with weekly plans and performance reporting, led website development and content strategy for iradaty.org, built an AI-powered field reporting bot, and wrote multiple funding proposals for international donors.

12+ Years of Memory Centralized
10.7K Monthly Impressions

What Clients & Colleagues Say

Testimonials

The sessions with Nart were great. The discussions were invigorating and helped me understand new findings and research on productivity that are science-based and verified — not merely rehashing of common sense. What I most appreciated was the follow-up reading material of verified, science-based sources.

Jumana Husseini Strategy Consultant

Thank you for the good and useful services you provide. I and everyone who works with me at the association have benefited from them. They help us organize our work and connect all areas of work together. The chatbot and reminders are excellent, since we are immersed in work and often forget about the report. Thank you.

Hiba Albassir Iradaty Charity Association Director

Nart tries to understand your needs before trying to sell you anything. Then, he'll give you examples of what you need to confirm you're both on the same page. He treats the project like he's in your shoes and suggests improvements and alternative ways to handle your needs, which is super appreciated. He's always ready to answer and provide support throughout the whole project. I'll gladly come back in the future and recommend him to anyone who needs similar services.

Nour Zoukar Technical Support Manager at FoxESS

I had two great [productivity coaching] sessions where we discussed the most critical aspects for me. The practical steps and the suggested software were most helpful.

Hadeel Qatamin Architect & Researcher

The delivery style was perfectly clear and flexible to wherever our discussion went. It was very helpful to have someone who understands productivity tell me that some of the things I do are already good habits. Understanding the type of work I do — deep work — so I can be more effective at managing my time.

James Scanlan Translator & Writer

What I genuinely appreciated was the ability to extract the information and the approach I had in mind, and place it into the right format without any forced effort; in a clear and deliberate way. Also, presenting through real stories made me stop and think seriously about how to choose the right story to explain any idea, even a complex one. Thank you, Nart, for your wonderful initiatives, your patience, and your dedication and craftsmanship in everything you do.

Ibn Rushd Haj Bayram Circassian Association in Turkey

Let's build your system.

Whether you're an individual looking for clarity, an organization in need of structure, or a team ready to learn; I'd love to hear what you're working on.

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