Exploring Leadership

ILIA Research is a project of Islamic Leadership Institue of America (ILIA), a 501c(3) nonprofit organization.

Research Mission

To explore and provide visibility into leadership, governance, management and innovation issues through a scientific Islamic lens, leading to the conceptualization and design of developmental approaches, techniques and solutions serving mankind in conformance to the Prophet's Mercy to Mankind mission.

Scope of Work

Our work includes the areas of Positive Youth Development, Organizational Development and Community Capacity Building

Team

Ayman Nassar, Chief, Research, Academics & Programs

Founder of Islamic Leadership Institute of America (ILIA), with over 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, enterprise and individual transformation and youth development. Over the past 20 years he has coached, taught and counseled hundreds of youth and young professionals and has been a certified mentor and coach with Big Brother Big Sister, Lutheran Social Services, Dar Al-Taqwa, Prince George’s Community College Asian, Latino, African, Native American (ALANA), New Beginnings Youth Center, Howard County Detention Center and ILIA. Ayman is a member of the Howard County Reentry Council and the Howard County Ethnic Diversity Round Table. He holds two Master degrees in electrical engineering, engineering management and systems engineering and holds certifications in half a dozen leadership areas. He has been trained in cultural competence, youth development, reentry, psychology, curriculum development and has devised over 200+ courses and programs for youth and adults. He was faculty at University of California, Prince George’s Community College, Strayer University and Howard Community College. He founded Youth Crisis Line, and provided stabilization services to hundreds of young adults. 

Dr. Esraa Badr, Positive Youth Development Researcher, MD

A positive youth development researcher at Islamic Leadership institute of America. She holds a MBBCh degree from Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt with focused training in adult and child neuropsychiatry specialties combined with a neurology training in Selcuk University, Turkey. Currently she is a pediatrician  at the Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt and a participant in Clinical Research Scholars Training program by Harvard Medical School. She is focused on mental health issues affecting youth as part of her postgraduate studies in the High Institute of Public Health, Egypt. Esraa is also a member of the Mental Health Research Network in Egypt and has participated in several research projects on different mental health issues. She is a writer and health promoter about mental health affairs with special interest in parenting issues. Esraa also participated in many civil work projects targeting the public awareness about mental health affairs.

Dr. Hoda Omran, Positive Youth Development Researcher, MD

Hoda Omran is a Youth Development applied researcher at ILIA, and a house officer at Alexandria University Hospitals, Egypt. Among her accomplishments at ILIA is translating the Chronic Disease Self- Management Manual into Arabic for use in Arabic speaking societies and communities across the world. She is also working on sveral research studies related to bullying and mental health among American Muslim adolescents. She recently graduated from the Alexandria Faculty of Medicine with an Excellence with Honor degree. She is the General Secretary of the Mental Health Research Network of Egypt, and she was the coordinator of the Student Participation Committee of the Quality Assurance Unit of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Omran is an author of many internationally published papers in the areas of mental health and neuropsychiatry. She is passionate about mental healthcare and policies globally.

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