Nadine Chammas

Why organisations work with Nadine Chammas

• A working background in theatre direction, stage performance and hypnotherapy, applied to the workplace behaviours that leadership programmes usually skip: voice, presence, composure on the floor.
• Creator of the trademarked TLD Method, delivered as a book, certified course and retreat, which gives clients a defined system rather than a one-off keynote.
• Two decades operating across the GCC, with audiences in Arabic and English, and a track record of running corporate sessions on emotional intelligence, conflict resolution and executive presence.
• Author of The Stage is Yours, an Amazon bestseller that frames professional and personal communication through a theatre-director lens.
• A profile that travels in regional media: weekly counselling sessions on Al Arabiya, and a music output that gives her unusual cultural reach for a corporate trainer.

Biography highlights

• Founder of The Life Director consultancy and creator of the TLD Method, delivered through book, certification course and retreat.
• BA in Fine Arts and Theatre Studies, Lebanese University.
• Master Practitioner of NLP and Timeline Therapy; certified by the American Board of Hypnotherapy; certified stage hypnotist trained in Las Vegas.
• Founded Scenez Group Production Company (Dubai, 2000) and Scenez Drama and Arts Academy.
• Author of The Stage is Yours (Amazon bestseller); subsequent title The Life Director: Presence over Performance.
• Weekly counselling segments on Al Arabiya; 11 released songs, with two pandemic-era Arabic releases passing 1.2 million YouTube views combined.

Biography

Presence is a workplace skill, and most professionals are never taught it. Senior leaders are expected to hold a room, settle a difficult conversation, and stay composed under scrutiny, but the training they receive treats those behaviours as personality, not craft. Theatre treats them as craft, and that is where Nadine Chammas comes from.

Trained at Lebanese University in Fine Arts and Theatre Studies, she built her early career in Dubai through Scenez Group Production Company and Scenez Drama and Arts Academy, running productions across the region and teaching performance to children and adults. Alongside the theatre work she trained as a Master Practitioner of NLP and Timeline Therapy, completed certification with the American Board of Hypnotherapy, and qualified as a stage hypnotist in Las Vegas. The combination is unusual: stagecraft and behavioural method, applied to how people show up at work.

The Life Director is the consultancy that consolidates that work. Her TLD Method is delivered as a book, a certified practitioner course and a retreat, and is positioned for individuals, corporate audiences and educational institutions. The corporate framing is direct: communication and leadership, emotional intelligence and resilience, conflict resolution and team behaviour, executive presence, decision-making under pressure. The Stage is Yours, her Amazon bestseller, sets out the underlying argument that a working life can be approached the same way a director approaches a production.

She operates across the GCC and the US, in Arabic and English, with regional media reach through weekly Al Arabiya counselling segments and a music career that runs in parallel to the corporate work. The composite makes her suited to audiences where personal credibility, communication and cultural fluency are part of the brief, not separate from it.

Key speaking topics

• Executive presence and personal branding
• Communication and influence
• Emotional intelligence and resilience
• Conflict resolution and team behaviour
• Storytelling for leaders
• Women in leadership
• Workplace culture and engagement

Ideal for

• HR and L&D leaders commissioning communication, presence and behavioural skills programmes.
• Corporate audiences across the GCC where Arabic-English fluency and regional cultural read are part of the brief.
• Women’s leadership networks and conferences.
• Professional services and client-facing teams whose work depends on how they show up in the room.

Audience outcomes

• A working vocabulary for executive presence drawn from theatre and behavioural method, not personality traits.
• Specific techniques for voice, composure and physical presence under pressure.
• A clearer sense of how to use storytelling to make a message land with a corporate audience.
• An honest read on the behaviours that cost senior professionals credibility, and what to do about them.