Nart Abaza

Hi, I'm Nart.

I build operating systems for people & organizations; systems that bring productivity & quality beyond your imagination, and give people back the space to do what matters.

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; the evidence? organizations kept hiring us to simplify or operationalize those very strategies. So I’ve refined my mission to: getting strategy, knowledge & technology to work together in harmony and productivity. Discovering OKR and Strategy Delivery gave that mission a language; finishing the Measure What Matters course with John Doerr himself gave it a method.
I choose my tools like a craftsman, and I love helping others pick & master their own tools (check the testimonials at the bottom). My own workshop runs on Notion & AI; I was building on Notion and advocating for it before it was famous, from personal systems to entire organizational workspaces. In times where shiny tools are flooding the internet, and the daily hype is distracting us from real work, it’s crucial to know that systems aren’t just tools.
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: tightly constrained environments forced me to 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 →
Notion Notion Academy Advanced badgeNotion Academy Advanced — workspace design & productivity. 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

Personal Systems

For consultants, researchers & independent professionals

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

Productivity isn’t a hard science; it’s personal and dynamic, shifting with life itself: marriage, parenthood, working in a team, going solo (I’ve rebuilt my own system through every one of those). I coach knowledge workers to build systems informed by the research but designed around their reality. We craft all the layers together: principles, practices & tools; from task management to deep work routines to progress reviews. You leave with a working system built to adapt, not a list of advice.

1:1 coaching online; because it’s 2026 Toolkit optimization pick, prune & master your own tools Notion workspace setupDeep work & review routines Generous follow-up I keep in touch; free check-ins & advice over text and voice notes Follow-up resources curated, science-based reading; not homework

Organizational Systems

For NGOs & businesses whose strategy lives in documents

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, OKR & MEAL dashboards, digital workspaces, and workflows; so your team stops drowning in docs and starts operating with clarity. It starts with a diagnosis, not a tool pitch; I map how work actually flows before proposing anything.

Strategy operationalization OKRs, results frameworks & KPIs Knowledge management organizational memory that survives turnover Notion & AI workspace design MEAL systems for NGOs & development orgs Pilot & handover you own the system; not rent it Digital 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 (think Annual Reviews); 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 workshops designed around your objective, audience & context Annual Review facilitation Data management training foundations for NGOs Hybrid delivery Arabic · English · in-person · online

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

Founder's Launchpad

Multi-venture Workspace · Serial Founder

A friend launching several businesses needed one place to run them all. I host and operate a workspace where every venture shares the same machinery: projects, sprints, backlogs, and notes; so starting venture number four costs a template, not a migration.

AI Proposal Studio

Notion AI · Proposal Writing · Humanitarian NGO

Iradaty's proposals used to start from a blank page. I unified project details, team bios, and past proposals into one hub, then put Notion AI on top of it; new proposals now draft themselves from the organization's own material, roughly 10x more efficiently, in the organization's own voice.

10x Drafting Efficiency

NexDonor (Nonprofit OS)

Donor-relationship OS · Nonprofits

NexDonor (Nonprofit OS) is a donor-relationship operating system for nonprofits. It supports the lifecycle from targeting the right funders, to winning trust with governed proposals, to keeping trust post-award through evidence collection and reporting readiness. Built around workflow, context, and traceability—so fundraising compounds into long-term partnerships, not isolated submissions.

1 Pilots
5 Modules ready

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.

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