The Feigenbaum Leadership Excellence Award is dedicated to honor men and women in the Arab World for their exemplary leadership in driving their organizations to fulfill their role in business and society, for their uncompromising style to instigate a quality approach and culture to work and for acting as role model to all.
The Introduction of the Feigenbaum Leadership Excellence Award is a timely initiative to encourage the growth and development of organizational competitiveness through the instigation of exemplary leadership. The award supports the practice of long term thinking and sustainable performance, placing significant emphasis on quality and encouraging the drive of continuous improvement in the behavioral mindset that builds successions of effective and able leaders at all levels.
The Feigenbaum Leadership Excellence Award is established in honor of Dr. Armand Val Feigenbaum President and CEO of General Systems Company. Dr. Feigenbaum’s considerable experience in the field of leadership and management has led to the design, installation and implementation of proprietary management operating systems to generate greatly improved results in many of the major manufacturing and services companies throughout the world.
Dr. Armand Val Feigenbaum known as the “Father of Total Quality Control”, is the originator of Total Quality Management, the approach to quality and profitability that has profoundly influenced management strategy and productivity in the competition for world markets in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The several editions of his famous book Total Quality Control have been published in more than twenty languages including French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Russian and are widely used throughout the world as a foundation for management practice.
The Feigenbaum Leadership Excellence Award comprises four Leadership categories: Accomplished Leaders, Exceptional Leaders, Women Leaders and Rising Stars. The award is administered by the Virtual Executive Club (VEC), at the Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University in Dubai, United Arab of Emirates.
The Virtual Executive Club’s mission is to help nurture and develop Executive Managers in the Arab World and to provide them with state of the art tools and techniques that can enable them to be effective, confident and innovative in their quest for delivering extraordinary performance results to their organizations. It mirrors the University's commitment to help individuals advance their personal and professional skills through the various executive services and development programs that the club offers.