For the alignment problems that stall transformations.
Most stalled decisions are not waiting for more analysis. They are waiting for the right people to align — in rooms where standard workshops are not enough.
Private advisory for governments, multilaterals, sovereign-backed institutions, family enterprises, and large private-sector organizations.
Trusted when the room is complex.
3Ts works with the sponsors and senior leaders of transformations, reforms, and consequential leadership transitions — across governments, multilaterals, sovereign-backed institutions, family enterprises, and large private-sector organizations.
Most engagements begin where standard consulting and facilitation have already been tried.
- Governments
- Multilaterals
- Sovereign-backed institutions
- Family enterprises
- Large private-sector organizations
Our work is organized around four engagements, each designed for a different stage of the alignment problem.
Alignment Read
A two-week senior diagnostic. Confidential interviews with the principals and key stakeholders, a map of where alignment is breaking, and a sponsor memo on what is actually at stake and what should happen next. Often the first engagement.
Decision Sprint
A four-to-six-week engagement built around a specific stalled decision or consequential convening. Stakeholder preparation, decision architecture, the room itself, and a thirty-day decision tracker once the alignment is reached.
Retained Advisory
Ongoing senior advisory through the life of a transformation, reform, or governance initiative. Confidential support for the sponsor, repeated convenings, principal coaching, and quiet judgment between the formal moments.
First 90 Days
Three months of confidential support for newly-appointed senior leaders stepping into politically sensitive roles. Stakeholder mapping, sponsor coaching, and judgment through the early decisions that shape the rest of the tenure.
Patterns we help clients move through.
Outcomes that matter. Evidence that endures.
Improvement in measured leadership scores across 18 World Bank cohorts
Afghanistan portfolio led to on-time operational closeout
Reduction in predicted gun violence over three months in Portland
Fragile- and conflict-affected countries advised at senior leadership level
Most of our work
is confidential.
Selected public-safe cases below.
Saudi Arabia — Vision 2030 Assessment
Supporting the World Bank GCC Prosperity team in the assessment of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 progress and next steps. Ongoing.
Malaysia — National Governance Reform
Directed a $27M governance portfolio engaging Parliament, ministries, anti-corruption bodies, and civil society on reform priorities. $17M in cumulative impact to 80+ local actors within 18 months.
World Bank — Leadership Development at Scale
Delivered leadership training across 18 cohorts of World Bank Team Leaders and Supervisors. Cohorts recorded a 16% improvement in measured leadership scores.
3Ts Consulting is a private advisory practice led by Shareef Khatib.
Eighteen years of senior international experience across the Gulf, the Levant, Africa, and Asia, including chief-of-party leadership of multi-country governance and reform portfolios up to USD 161 million.
World Bank facilitator and trainer roster member. Georgetown-trained in Leadership Coaching and in Organizational Development & Change Leadership. British and Jordanian; working across the region in English, French, and Arabic.
Shareef knew how to navigate criticism and stay the course, transparently and frequently sharing information about the work, building relationships, and not bending to the pressure of the 'way things are always done.'
When I partnered with Shareef on a programme to strengthen the City of Portland's approach to gun violence prevention and intervention, I saw firsthand what visionary leadership can do.
Shareef has been a great coach for me as a new manager. He provided me tools to work through customized strategies for new management situations and to empower my team.