Lubna Olyan

Personal Background

We are in front of a great Arab business leader that is Lubna Olyan who is considered an Arab model for managing workplace and providing great success in her work. Really, she was brought up in a family that deals with business and management in common. So, from her early age, we see her is able to do more things regarding the management and carrying out managerial operations.

Lubna Olyan whose father is Olyan who managed to establish Olyan Company with its great history in the field of contracting then spread greatly and formed a finance company and is famous all over the world. Lubna Olyan managed in running up the Olyan Group. Lubna Olyan group has a great philosophy from its start till now where it is hiring the right person in the right place. Olyan company is regarded the best company in the Middle East ,it carries out more activities that are represented in product distribution, manufacturing, services and investment, in addition to its fame as a leading multinational and regional partners.

Work experience

Investigating the company’s management, we see that the company from its start in contracting, it set up plans, how to be unique in markets as a result, it carried out a great policy and such policy is the reason for its success. Here the main policy is its management structure where it managed the company to be spread all over the world and traded and provided services in more different fields.

Nowadays, the head of the group is not Lubna’s father Suleiman Olyan but Lubna is the CEO and has the main position as a supervisor of the company .Regarding the Olyan Company or Olyan Group management we see it described as a progressive one in its outlook. In analyzing the company’s strategic affairs, we notice that it follows a great strategic direction to the operating companies as really it does more remarkable services as it guides them in synergistic, integrated growth ,provides arrange of central business services and more other affairs as well.

Business Background

Olyan group was established in 1947, it is a private, multinational enterprise that has a lot of companies where they are more than 40 companies and also affiliated businesses. Its long history that is about 60 years managed the company in establishing a great reputation. It is a Saudi Arabian Company where it has its origin .It provides more services as it engaged in distributing products, manufacturing, and investment. Furthermore, it is extended to the operations at the public and the private sector as well.

Mission Statement

Olyan company’s mission has a great overlook at business where it tries to be a leader in a leading diversified Saudi enterprise, a strategic global investor, and the company of choice for its partners, customers and employees. Olyan's aim is to bring to Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East superior products, services and technologies and achieve exceptional returns.

Vision

Bringing superior products and services and technologies to Saudi Arabia and to other countries across the country’s borders.

Personal attributes and characteristics of the business leader Lubna Olyan

Lubna Olyan has great personal characteristics that managed her to do that as for example, her self Confidence where she surely was confident in her acts and deeds. I can say that she acts and do all the right for people in common that is done according to her excellent thought as she sees that is right and beneficial to people.

Personality traits as for example, herself leadership that managed her well to be a great leader as for example, her large mind and though , her unique character, her sincerity and love to her people and company.

Her ambition and initiative where she had a great ambition and so she carried out more things that managed her to do that.

She was a good communicator where she communicated with any one and through such communication; she managed in achieving more and more valuable things and understood her employees greatly.

Her great knowledge that came from her long experience where she held more positions

She had a great vision that managed her to do more reformation to her employees.

There are more intrinsic and extrinsic factors that encouraged her for that .The first one is the environment where she lived and brought up where her father was the founder of the group so she learnt from him greatly also the other factor is that business environment ,she learnt all what is elated to business from its origin.

Conclusion

In all everything is related to the company is directed to the great ability of the founders and their insistence in creating what is really needed from them, I can say that any progress should be put in consideration. In all Olyan company managed to establish its position in the market and really any success comes or refers back to the great leadership that was from the founder Olyan or his daughter Lubna Olyan who managed in establishing the company as what we see now.