Dr. Hasan Youness is specialized in international business management, educational administration, and educational leadership. Having acquired his degrees from Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU), KEDGE Business School and Saint Louis University respectively, he went on to pursue an executive CSR program at Harvard Business School Executive Education.
Hasan started teaching at the university level at the age of 23 and has been teaching at five universities since then. In addition, he is also a news anchor, TV presenter, researcher, author, mentor, and trainer on a wide array of management, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, CSR, and communication topics in Lebanon and abroad. In addition, he has been a Tedx speaker and guest on top TV channels in the Arab world. Despite having worked with leading companies, Hasan did not limit himself to the business sector. Rather, he has chosen to work with UNIDO and UNRWA, in addition to other NGOs.
Over time, he participated in multiple national and international conferences, workshops, and competitions, and was awarded several prestigious awards for representing Lebanon on several occasions. Hasan is also the cofounder and managing partner of Insights’ for Consultancy S.A.R.L. Hasan is the author of #TrendsOfBusiness and has served as the Strategic Advisor of UN Global Compact Network Lebanon for 3 years.
Trends of Business and Innovating for life were exemplary events, which gained great publicity and revealed Hasan’s ability to create a buzz around the causes he advocates for via handling big projects from the moment of inception until press and TV release shaking elbows with the gurus of the field and the leading corporations.
Hasan organizes communication skills, entrepreneurship and business etiquette trainings regularly and his audience ranges from students to top executives. His transformational workshops, besides serving the purpose of delivering thoroughly communication topics to the attendees, aim at expanding the participants’ ability to be in a relaxed state of presence and deliver their communication with effectiveness, confidence, clarity and joy. This is also accompanied by equipping the attendees with the necessary business etiquette knowledge required in any encounter with clients/stakeholders. Hasan has served as a juror and mentor in tens of entrepreneurship programs and competitions. He was newly assigned as Lebanon Lead, head of programs at ChangeLabs – top 10 accelerators in the Middle East.