Who We Are
Mark Allan

Mark Allan is Managing Director, Founder and Chief Facilitator of “Strategy and Teams FZ LLC”.
Mark has over 20 years’ experience with Consulting, Training & Development and Facilitation having key expertise in designing and delivering comprehensive projects related to:
- Culture Creation and Implementation Organizational rollouts of strategy messages
- Motivational Talks-business focused and not fluffy.
- Strategic Visioning
- Team Success Strategies
- Organization Strategic Alignment (everyone should know what the top 5 strategic drivers are.
- Leadership Development
- What are they working on?)
- Performance Management
- Coaching Courses
- Customer Service
Mark has gained key expertise in the area of visual facilitation and understands how to get the best from Teams and permeate this to a living strategy and Culture throughout the organization. He specializes in getting the most out of executive teams and makes everything useful and practical.
As a Director and Performance Consultant in the Middle East since 1998 Mark has diagnosed, designed, delivered and developed organizations in UAE, KSA, South Africa, Kenya, UK, France, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Central Africa, and Egypt.
His mantra is “if you can’t measure it, how can you manage it or lead it?”
Clementine Collins
Clementine Collins is a highly experienced facilitator, businesswoman and psychology expert, specializing in helping leaders to maximize their potential and grow. Clementine started in the training field in the early 2000’s in the U.A.E. Since 2003 Clementine has worked extensively across the Middle East.
Clem has designed, developed, and delivered a wide variety of large-scale leadership development programs.
She also gained a post graduate degree in adult education from Aston University, UK.
Having worked successfully across the UAE, Clem moved to the New Zealand in 2010 where she set up, led, managed, and developed a highly successful training and education company.
After selling her business in 2014, Clem moved back to the Middle East region and has been working with Strategy and Teams to design, develop, and implement facilitated programs in:


Haydon Allan
Haydon Allan is a leadership and coaching consultant based in Limassol Cyprus.
Haydon is certified in Emotional Intelligence testing, is a certified by the British Psychological Society as a Psychometric tester (Level A and B) and is a Business Coaching Specialist. In addition, he holds an Executive Diploma in Management from the Chartered Management Institute, UK.
Having run a successful adventure company in Europe, Haydon moved to the UAE where he set up and delivered experiential teamwork, leadership competency programs and adventure training programs.
Haydon travels across the EMEA region and has successfully run programs in Performance Management, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Culture Change for a variety of companies including SABB, Petromin and BUPA.
Ian Macdermott
Ian Macdermott is a Director with Strategy and Teams.
Ian Brings 15 years of experience working with senior management teams and high potential employees from public and private institutions across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Ian’s approach involves generating a genuine insight into the organization’s culture and values, understanding it’s needs and aspirations and developing practical solutions that enable measurable results.
As the former Managing Director of an HR and Assessment consultancy, Ian applies real world experience and examples of leading and managing teams into his facilitation.


Maya Taylor
Maya Taylor is an English and Arabic trainer and facilitator working for Strategy and Teams.
She has just finished training primary care employees throughout Saudi Arabia to prepare them for privatization as part of Saudi’s 2030 vision.
She has helped fine tune and deliver the program, called Nartaqi, to over 2,000 Ministry of Health employees across Saudi Arabia.