Where the science of HR meets the art of Whole Brain Thinking
Human Resources is no longer just a support function — it's a strategic powerhouse that drives transformation, culture and performance. TTM equips organisations to assess where they are today, envision where they need to go, and adopt the tools and mindset to lead the future of work.
A structured, science-backed evaluation of your organisation's HR practices — from basic compliance to strategic partnership — measuring capabilities, processes, and systems against global benchmarks.
“Human Resources is no longer just a support function — it's a strategic powerhouse that drives transformation, culture, and performance.”
Measures HR practices, processes, and systems against established benchmarks and global best practices — giving you an objective, defensible baseline.
Identifies your current HR function level — from basic compliance (Level 1) to strategic optimisation (Level 5) — highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.
Assesses talent acquisition, performance management, engagement and L&D — producing actionable insights to enhance HR capabilities across all functions.
Aligns HR strategies with overall business goals — driving organisational effectiveness, employee satisfaction, and turning HR into a measurable business driver.
Overlooks employee emotions, culture and interpersonal dynamics — leading to an incomplete picture of organisational health.
Heavy reliance on analytics inhibits creative problem-solving — data is prioritised over human insight and intuition.
Complex human behaviours can't be captured by quantitative data — leading to misguided strategies and resistance to change.
Too much focus on metrics makes HR feel impersonal — employees become numbers, not valued individuals.
Assesses all four thinking dimensions — Managerial, Operational, Influential and Transformative — for a complete picture of HR health.
Measures what others miss — cultural alignment, employee emotions, interpersonal dynamics, change readiness and innovation capability.
Assessed against UK, USA, Singapore and MENA benchmarks — so your comparison is always contextually relevant and actionable.
A purpose-built TTM platform automates and streamlines assessment — sending tailored links to department heads for consistent, structured input collection.
“Balancing left-brain and right-brain approaches — emphasising creativity, empathy and intuition — leads to a more holistic and effective HR strategy.”
By recognising and applying the strengths of each quadrant of the HR brain, organisations can improve productivity, increase effectiveness, nurture talent and drive innovation.
The TTM Whole Brain® model maps HR capabilities across four key quadrants — Managerial (A), Operational (B), Influential (C) and Transformative (D). Each quadrant is measured through defined Cores and Functions. Click each quadrant below to explore the full framework.
Focuses on the logical, analytical and structural aspects of HR — ensuring governance, organisational architecture, workforce planning, and total rewards are robust, compliant, and strategically aligned.
Focuses on the procedural, operational and process-driven aspects of HR — ensuring workforce planning, talent acquisition, performance management, and employee services are efficiently and consistently delivered.
Focuses on the emotional, relational and people-centric aspects of HR — ensuring employee experience, wellbeing, communication, and culture are cultivated, measured and continuously improved.
Focuses on the visionary, transformative and future-oriented aspects of HR — ensuring learning and development, career and succession planning, HR strategy, and capability development drive long-term organisational excellence.
Based on the globally-used People Capability Maturity Model — from unmanaged practices to continuous optimisation. Click any level to explore its symptoms and culture impact.
No formal HR processes in place. HR activities are entirely reactive and ad hoc — dependent on individual heroic effort rather than systemic practice.
High turnover, poor job satisfaction and morale, difficulty attracting and retaining talent, unclear roles and responsibilities. Culture characterised by individual heroic efforts rather than collaborative systems.
TTM's Whole Brain® Assessment follows a technology-enabled, consultant-led methodology — spanning from initial diagnosis to comprehensive reporting and strategic action planning.
Understanding the current state of HR processes, systems and capabilities through data collection, stakeholder interviews and documentation review.
2–3 WeeksEvaluating findings to identify maturity gaps, strengths and opportunities. Benchmarking against regional and international standards.
1–2 WeeksPresenting a comprehensive report outlining assessment results, maturity levels, strategic recommendations and prioritised next steps.
1 WeekTTM's purpose-built platform automates and streamlines the entire assessment. Tailored links are sent to relevant department heads, prompting structured responses and document uploads — ensuring consistent, transparent data collection.
Questions are structured around the Whole Brain® Thinking model and tailored by function — capturing role-specific perspectives across 4 quadrants, multiple cores and 18+ functions with scored key questions (1–5 scale).
A comprehensive Whole Brain® HR Maturity Assessment Report with radar charts, gap analyses and prioritised roadmaps — benchmarked against 3-year and 5-year desired outcomes, designed for CHRO and board-level presentations.
Each HR initiative within the assessment is evaluated across four critical dimensions — providing a nuanced, multi-layered view of true HR capability rather than a surface-level score.
The extent to which the domain exists, is documented, and the appropriateness of domain design and its alignment with leading global practices.
The extent to which the domain design is applied and integrated into actual business processes — measuring execution quality, not just design intention.
The extent to which the domain is enabled, supported and scaled by appropriate technology — measuring digital maturity and system integration within HR.
How effective is the domain and how well does it deliver expected results — the ultimate measure of HR contribution to tangible business outcomes.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has mandated annual HR Maturity Assessments in the governmental sector as part of a broader initiative to enhance public sector efficiency — guided by the National Human Resources Development Strategy and directly aligned with KSA's Vision 2030.
“This requirement aims to assess the maturity of HR practices across government entities — identifying strengths, areas for improvement, and fostering a culture of continuous development in line with Vision 2030 objectives.”
Your TTM Whole Brain® HR Maturity Assessment Report is designed to be executive-ready — with visual radar charts, gap analyses and prioritised transformation roadmaps.
Every assessment delivers a comprehensive, board-ready report package — tailored to your organisation's sector, size and maturity profile.
Improved alignment between HR activities and strategic business goals — HR becomes a measurable value driver.
More effective hiring processes and stronger retention strategies built on data-driven people insights.
Enhanced compliance frameworks across HR operations — reducing regulatory risk and ensuring consistent standards.
Stronger analytics capability across the HR function — enabling confident, evidence-based decisions.
An embedded culture of HR excellence that adapts continuously to business strategy and market conditions.
Request TTM's Whole Brain® HR Maturity Assessment and receive a data-driven diagnosis, global benchmarks, and a strategic transformation roadmap — designed for CHROs who want to lead, not just manage.
Co-founder, Impact Lebanon
Raya is a tech professional working in business development & strategy at Apple, based out of London. She previously held two roles at Facebook; the first in Austin, Texas where she managed $80M/year of advertising sales for small and medium businesses; the second as a partner manager for media creators and sports partners in London.
In parallel to her work, Raya is a co-founder and one of partnerships lead of Impact Lebanon, a non-profit organisation that spearheads various initiatives, from socio-economical to welfare to environmental, in order to drive real impact in Lebanon. Raya is passionate about all things tech, innovation, & women empowerment, and is a strong believer of ‘leaning into the question mark’ – stretching boundaries and jumping into the unknown.
Channel Manager, Qlearsite
Ope Taiwo began her career at Gartner, witnessing first-hand the potential for Qlearsite to impact the working lives of clients. Following Qlearsite’s receipt of the Gartner Cool Vendor award for their impressive work in the Employee Engagement space. Ope joined the team with a determination to raise awareness for Qlearsite, who developed an analytics platform that analyses free-text comments in addition to quantitative feedback.
As Channel Manager, Ope is responsible for building and managing a strategic partner network that will take Qlearsite’s offering to market. Thus, enabling leaders to look beyond the quantitative metrics traditionally associated with Engagement measurements, and listen to the experiences, feelings, and sense of Inclusivity in the workplace.
Digital Transformation Consultant, TTM Associates
Mohammad Subuh is a Digital Transformation and IT Governance (GRC) Specialist with over 12 years of experience. He has worked in the consulting field for four years with one of the big four consulting firms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Prior to that he worked as an IT Strategy and Governance Specialist for 8 years at The Housing Bank, Jordan.
During his years of experience, Mohammad contributed in a number of strategic projects derived from the Vision 2030 of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he participated in the establishment of the Vision Realisation Offices (VROs) in many government entities within Saudi. There he played different roles within Strategic Alignment, Project Management, Performance Management and Quality Management.
He also participated in a number of projects related to e-Government Transformation and IT consulting. He led the IT Governance Stream to implement the IT Governance Framework as part of the e-Government Transformation project as well as in leading the process of preparing and delivering the necessary materials for an eGovernment Transformation Audit. Additionally, he led an IT Policies and Processes Standardization project according to best practices of ITIL, COBIT and CMMI and IT Benchmarking.
Moreover, Mohammad participated in several projects related to automation and performance enhancement, where he participated in a Change Management Project to implement an ITIL based automated Service Management System. He was also responsible for the IT Vendors Management and IT Financial Management, as well as managing the IT policies and procedures governance.
His experience is focused on the Public Sector, Banking & Finance, Retail, Transportation and Logistics sectors.
He has an MSc. Digital innovation (UK), MBA (UK), BSc. IT (Jordan), and he is also certified in Certified Business Analysis Practice (CBAP).
CEO,EDA,Inc.(USA)
Bonnie Hagemann is the CEO of EDA, Inc., a top-of-the-house consulting firm known around the world for its C-Suite capabilities in executive development and research. Shifting to advancing the state of the industry rather than one company at a time, EDA is currently taking its’ 37-year history as a thought leader in the space and using it to create a powerful HR Tech platform called SurveySaurus, designed to make culture visible to the leaders, the board and the investors. Bonnie, personally, is a published and well-known leadership strategist who advises public and large company CEOs and is often called upon as a subject matter expert for the media including Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, US News and World Report and many more.
President,TEAM Performance Inc.
Ellen Robinson, President of TEAM Performance, works with forward-thinking leaders who want to bring their best selves to work and life. Her focus is on creating workplace programs that get results by improving productivity, trust, teamwork, communication effectiveness, and productive conflict. For the last 33 years she has worked with small business owners, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, consultants, governmental agencies, and utility companies. Ellen holds a marketing degree from The University of Texas at Austin. She has numerous certifications around trust-building, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, culture change and leadership development.
As a Certified Barrett Consultant and Trainer, Ellen has certified over 450 individuals globally since 2005 and is the longest-tenured consultant in the virtual platform.
Consultant,TTM Associates
Thomas Orths is an expert in Leadership Effectiveness, Holistic Change and Emotional Intelligence. As a high-performance coach, trainer and speaker, he enables individuals, teams and organizations to grow. His ability to initiate Mind-set Change is in demand to create High Performing Teams in the competitive business arena.
With the experience of Thomas, growth becomes possible by using successful strategies that enable you to increase sales, to optimize productivity, improve customer service and work more efficiently. His core competencies include leadership & management effectiveness, holistic change, emotional intelligence & mind-set change and high performing individuals & teams.
Thomas has previous industry experience in Aerospace, Chemicals, Communications, Creative Industries, Electronics, Financial Services, Food and Drink, IT, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology and Finance.
His qualifications include accreditation for DISC behaviour related assessment tools focusing on leadership & team development and assessment instruments of emotional intelligence on the individual, team and organizational level through JCA, Cheltenham UK.(John Cooper &Associates)
Thomas has worked with many international clients. Some of these are Bayer, British Airways, Gen Re Reinsurance, Goodyear Dunlop Europe, Hilton Hotels, Hitachi, Holiday Inn Hotels, Janssen Cilag, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s. He has also worked with Saudi General Entertainment Authority, Takamol Holdings, Saudi Telecom Company and Bank Al Bilad just to name a few.
Consultant ,TTM Associates
A professionally qualified and experienced HR specialist with extensive knowledge and skills in management and organisational development. I have more than 20 years’ experience in managing human resource and development projects in large commercial and public sector organisations, in the United Kingdom and abroad. In addition, I have experience of chairing a successful charitable trust for more than twelve years.
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Managing Partner Europe,TTM Associates
Jean-Luc Kastner, PhD, is a focused Consultant in Strategic Management Marketing, Sales and he has developed and structured a network of International Consultants specialized in business management and reengineering. Jean-Luc is currently a TTM Managing partner based in France. He has developed a comprehensive Sales and Marketing Management Model based on more then 25 years of Industrial research with the Herrmann Institute.
Within the last five years, he has been instrumental in large skill development programs with companies such as: Reuters and Philip Morris Kazakhstan amongst other organizations. Tyco Healthcare, Data logic, Bayer and Vodafone Greece have all redesigned their sales approach with Jean-Luc’s advice and support.
Jean-Luc is a typical “non-academic”; his experience was gained “on the job” in several management roles in blue chip organisations such as HP, Boston Scientific and Fresenius where he managed the International Sales and Marketing Operations and had to lead a crucial change management program: the shift from transactional product focused Sales to Consultative, Value based Sales. Jean-Luc is currently involved in One to One management coaching projects at General Manager and VP level in the B2B Industry, and works in English, German and French. In the last three years he has been focusing on the EMEA market and has a good understanding of the Middle East & Gulf cultures. His Academic titles ( Engineering PhD – ENIM) enables him to teach within a number of Governmental programs in France and abroad. Jean-Luc is and accredited FFCP Professional Coach and Herrmann International.
General Manager, Solutions & Operations Senior Consultant,TTM Associates
Abdullah is an expert in developing and implementing Human Capital Strategy and Talent Management activities in complex environments with diverse individuals.
Originally from the UK, Abdullah began his career working in British Telecom on customer retention and sales programs before being promoted into sales management. Abdullah transitioned into People Development & Training leading the development and implementation of front line and people management training across 1,500 employees.
His career then moved into a start-up telecoms business before accepting a new position in Savola Group in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. During his career in Savola, Abdullah held a number of senior HR roles across talent management, recruitment, organizational design, compensation and employee relations. In addition he worked across Saudi, Egypt, North West Africa and Turkey. Abdullah was appointed as GM of HR for a large industrial conglomerate before being headhunted as the Director of HR for a multi-national pharmaceutical company.
Consequently, Abdullah has unique ‘hands on’ experience of building and delivering results in multinational and family owned companies in the sectors of Construction, Engineering, Retail, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Telecoms and Transportation.
He has a Diploma in Business Admin and in Strategic Management & Leadership and he is certified in Strategic Human Resources Management.
Principal Consultant, Director MENA & Turkey,TTM Associates
Dr. Magdi Ismail currently lives in Cyprus where he manages the TTM associates MENA & Turkey office and commute between, Dubai, Istanbul and London. Magdi resided in Egypt & Saudi Arabia and works across many countries, including, UK, Belgium, France, Turkey, Greece, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
He studied pharmaceuticals sciences and commenced his entrepreneurship adventures in the early 90s, while he was still studying in the Faculty of Pharmacy. Magdi started his practical life early when still a student he opened his retail pharmacy in order to secure a good future for himself.
Magdi’s career thereafter focused on the fields of strategy, marketing, sales and customer management in the pharmaceutical industry. For the past 20 years he followed his career development in various international companies, including (Rhone Poulenc (Sanofi-Aventis), and Organon NV in the Middle East. During this period, he got the experience of launching and marketing many products in the Middle East. Also Magdi combines pragmatic knowledge and experience of managing and doing business in the Middle East, while at the same time he has the awareness and understanding of the international business culture. He currently consults global organizations in the Eastern Mediterranean countries on Time to Market, Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Customer Management and Portfolio Management. Magdi is a subject-matter expert and a consultant for TMC and he currently manages the TTM associates regional office in the Middle East.
He holds degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences and an MBA from Henley Management School, UK. Magdi also is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a certified practitioner for the Herrmann Brain Dominant Instrument, France. Magdi is married and has 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys. He enjoys reading about history and cultural differences and he likes playing soccer and squash.
