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HADI EL-FARR · CONSULTING PROFILE
Practical HR experience.
Research, leadership, and learning.
Hadi El-Farr combines hands-on HR management, recruitment, organizational consulting, and commercial operations with academic leadership and executive and professional education. His work connects the design of people practices with implementation, management decisions, and the development of those responsible for putting them into practice.
CURRENT PRACTICE
Advisory support through implementation
2026–PRESENT · STEWARDBRIDGE CONSULTING
Principal Consultant & Founder
Founded StewardBridge Consulting to support businesses and nonprofits in HR functional excellence, organizational effectiveness, leadership advisory, and professional training. Ethical practice and stewardship guide the firm’s attention to people, performance, and organizational purpose.
The practice brings together workforce planning, recruitment and selection, compensation, performance management, organizational structure, policy and procedure development, employee relations, and HR capability building.
CASE MEDICAL · ONGOING CONSULTING SUPPORT
Integrated HR Advisory and Implementation
Providing continuous advice to the CEO while working across staffing, recruitment, job analysis, compensation, HR policies, employment documentation, performance management, employee relations, and compliance considerations. The engagement includes manager and HR staff training, coordination with Finance and legal advisers, and collaboration with Production on product margin analysis to inform sales commission planning.
Work includes revised job descriptions, onboarding resources, the employee handbook, HR procedures and forms, and implementation support. Disciplinary procedures, investigations, workers’ compensation matters, and staffing coverage are also part of the engagement.
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PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATIONS
Experience across HR, consulting, and operations
JANUARY–JULY 2007 · LEBANON
HR Manager · Assaha
Managed the HR function within an international restaurant and hotel management firm. Designed, developed, and implemented HR practices, policies, and procedures; conducted job analysis; updated job descriptions; and recruited staff at different occupational levels.
Responsibilities included personnel administration and compliance, employee–manager conflict resolution, exit interviews, and supervision of two HR professionals. Created and monitored HR metrics for evaluating the function’s performance, also served as Public Relations Manager, and reported directly to the General Manager.
JANUARY 2004–MARCH 2006 · LEBANON
Recruiting Officer · Merilink
Sourced and recruited candidates from Lebanese universities for roles primarily in Benin and Nigeria. Also conducted feasibility studies, mainly financial, for new business opportunities—combining international recruitment with business analysis.
APRIL 2002–NOVEMBER 2003 · OMAN
Purchasing Officer · The Sultan Center
Worked across purchasing, supplier negotiations, inventory, pricing, sales, and operations for seven perishable departments. Responsibilities included production and inventory management for more than 8,000 items and oversight of more than 70 employees through departmental teams.
Analyzed financial reports, monitored department performance, and reported directly to the COO. This commercial and operational experience informs the connection between staffing, people decisions, and business priorities.
JANUARY–MARCH 2002 · LEBANON
Associate Consultant · TEAM International
Conducted SWOT analysis, analyzed employee questionnaires, and contributed to organizational-structure design within a regional management consulting firm. Prepared department and job descriptions to support the clarification of responsibilities.
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EXECUTIVE & PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Developing the people who lead and deliver HR
Training experience includes program design, customized organizational training, professional association talks, and international learning programs. The emphasis is on helping participants connect HR knowledge with the decisions and practices of their own organizations.
HR program design
Designed the ten-module Online HR Excellence Program for Rutgers executive and professional education in 2018, serving as subject-matter expert and instructional designer. The curriculum spans job analysis, workforce planning, recruitment, selection, development, performance, compensation, incentives, benefits and safety, and employee relations.
Customized organizational training
Delivered training for Bristol Myers Squibb HR professionals and executives on AI’s implications for work and HR in 2018. Other assignments include international workforce planning and staffing for officials from Shanxi Province, China.
AI, workforce change, and knowledge
Delivered Digital HR training within Rutgers’ “HR at the Crossroad” program in 2018–2020. Professional talks and panels have addressed workforce planning, knowledge management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the implications of AI for HR.
Capability building in practice
Current Case Medical work includes training in job analysis and job descriptions, performance management implementation, onboarding delivery, HR reporting, procedures, and compliance considerations.
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & EDUCATION
Creating programs. Connecting knowledge with practice.
Program Creator & Director
Created Rutgers’ Online Professional Master’s in HRM from the ground up and launched it in Fall 2019, following service as Associate Director in 2018–2019. Continues to lead program development and delivery, including course and faculty coordination, admissions, scheduling, marketing, quality, and student support.
HR and management education
At Rutgers since 2014, progressing from Teaching Instructor to Assistant Teaching Professor and Associate Teaching Professor. Teaching spans HR strategy and functions, organizational behavior, leadership, and global workforce management. Earlier academic roles include the University of Cincinnati, University of Roehampton, University of Leeds, University of York, and Lebanese American University.
These academic roles provide experience in learning design, program leadership, and professional development alongside the consulting practice.
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KNOWLEDGE FOR PRACTICE
Practical resources and editorial leadership
Published and editorial work translates HR research and theory into resources for students and practitioners.
SAGE Business Skills
Editor in Chief for the HRM Skills module, 2025–2026. Recruited contributors and reviewed resources on workforce planning, job descriptions, interviews, selection, salary structures, training programs, discrimination, and collective bargaining.
SAGE Business Foundations
Editor in Chief for the HRM module, 2021–2022 and 2026. Recruited contributors and peer-reviewed material connecting management and HR theories with professional practice.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Foundations for evidence-informed practice
Business and HR education
Ph.D., University of Leeds, 2012, with a focus on human resource management and knowledge management. MBA, Lebanese American University, 2006. BBA, American University of Beirut, 2001.
Professional and teaching development
Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification, 2006; Certified Online Faculty, 2014; Lifelong Learning in Inclusive Teaching, 2021; Rutgers Leadership Academy, 2023; and Facilitator of Teaching Evaluation, 2024.