Anjali Samuel, Managing Partner at Mindfield Resources, smiling in a professional office portrait.

ANJALI'S DESK

Field notes from 30 years of senior executive search across the Middle East and Africa.

This is where Anjali Samuel writes about the leadership market she works in every day. Mandates that came up. Patterns that keep showing up across boards and operating teams. The shifts that matter, and the ones that don’t. Long-form when it deserves length, short when a snapshot will do.

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Two Years of Conversations, One Deliberate Step

Fractional Leadership is not a workaround. It is a deliberate decision to bring in someone with the experience and judgement to read a situation…

Anjali Samuel at Mindfield Resources Dubai office, in conversation with a candidate. Candidate care executive search MENA.

Walking Everyone Home Through Uncertain Times

No one, just no one, should have to navigate this alone. We cannot promise outcomes, but we promise intent, effort and advocacy.

Echo Chambers Are Costing You

Echo chambers are costing you and the business. Recruiters need to earn their seat by bringing market intelligence, discretion, and pattern recognition.

Anjali Samuel on Vision Voices Lens Talk Episode 1. Gen Z workplace leadership.

Not a Generational Problem. A Leadership One

Gen Z isn't disloyal. Their priorities have changed. Hybrid work isn't a perk, it's a signal of trust.

Mindfield Resources Anjali Samuel reviewing 2026 leadership outlook for MENA and Africa.

2026 and the Year Ahead

2025 was tough. Clients spoke less about expansion and more about defending margin, cash flow, and basic predictability. 2026 will favour the genuinely agile.

Best Practices to Attract and Retain Top Talent in SMEs

Best Practices to Attract and Retain Top Talent in SMEs -Authored by Anjali Samuel, Managing Partner – Mindfield Resources SMEs account for the majority…

Achieving diversity within the Middle East construction sector: is it really that hard?

Gender Diversity Within the Construction Sector -Authored by Anjali Samuel, Managing Partner – Mindfield Resources In the last 10+ years, there has been a…

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity! Diversity! Diversity!… Partnering a myriad of multinationals, large regional players across the Middle East and Africa region provides for very interesting insights…

Nigeria be like this

Nigeria as experienced by us… After many years of having put off travel to Africa, due to work exigencies true or assumed… we…

Anjali Samuel on the golf course at sunset. Leadership pause and executive coaching.

The 5-Inch Course Between Your Ears

After nearly three decades of playing cat and mouse with my golf-obsessed father, I trundled down to the course with him on a sunny…

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