Stormwind Consulting
Advisory, re-engineered.
Senior partners helping governments, companies and non-profits across the GCC and Levant design reforms, build institutions and deliver results, with AI-enabled analysis.
What we do
Strategic Blueprint
We develop organisational, sector and national strategies. Each one sets clear priorities, fits the wider context the organisation works in and defines how success will be measured.
Institution Building
We design new organisations, entities and functions, each with a clear mandate, governance, operating model and performance indicators. We build them so local teams can own and run them.
Performance & Financial Sustainability
We redesign operating models, governance and processes, assess an organisation's financial position, and build strategies that put it on a sustainable financial footing. The aim is an organisation that runs efficiently and delivers better. We focus on value leaders can measure.
Rapid Response
When a pressing decision cannot wait, we deliver fast, focused analysis. Partners with AI agent teams work through the evidence quickly, so leaders can decide with confidence.
How we work
Partner-led.
Senior partners work directly with leaders, not through layers of staff.
Built to be owned.
We shape recommendations so the organisation's own team can own them and carry them forward.
Partners with AI agent teams.
Senior partners lead every engagement; AI agent teams support the research and analysis.
Grounded in evidence.
We build recommendations on the organisation's own operational and financial data.
Early access
In development: the Stormwind diagnostic engine
We are developing an engine designed to use AI to turn an organisation's existing operational data into a ranked, financially sized view of where cost, time and capacity are being lost. It is intended to make each finding traceable to its source data, so leaders can see the basis for it and act on it.
The engine is in development. We are inviting a small number of organisations to join as early-access pilot partners.
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Patrick Samaha
CEO & Managing Partner
Patrick Samaha founded Stormwind after 16 years advising governments, companies and non-profits across the GCC and wider MENA region on national strategies and transformation, most recently as a partner.
His strategy and transformation career spans the GCC, at consulting firms and in-house. That work includes national strategies taken through approval, new institutions set up from concept to launch, and operating models redesigned for a ministry and its affiliated entities. It also includes efficiency and IT transformation programmes delivered both as an adviser and in-house.
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Shaping a strategy, building an institution or strengthening how your organisation runs? Let's talk about how Stormwind can help.