Lead Your Choices. Navigate Change. Shape What Comes Next.
Career Coaching for leaders, professionals, and students navigating important decisions, transitions and change.
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Our Services
Conscious Leadership & Change Coaching
Lead with Awareness. Act with Intention. Create Change..
Leadership is more than a role. It is how you show up, make decisions, communicate and respond , especially through change.
Coaching helps you understand what shapes the way you lead, so you can expand your choices and act with greater awareness, intention and adaptability.
Lead consciously. Choose intentionally. Create meaningful change.
Career Coaching for Professionals
Rethink What Fits. Explore What’s Next.
Career decisions are rarely only about a job title. They can involve your values, strengths, identity, work environment, life stage and what you want next.
Coaching gives you space to understand where you are, explore possibilities and turn greater awareness into practical next steps.
Understand yourself. Explore your options. Move forward with intention.
Students & Early Career Coaching
From Education Choices to Career Readiness.
The choices you make during school and university can shape far more than your next step.
Coaching helps you understand yourself, explore what fits, and make more informed decisions about study, university and your future career, whether you are studying at home or abroad.
Build awareness. Explore possibilities. Prepare for what comes next.
Across Borders, Together…
Preparing Couples for International Assignments
Behind every international assignment is more than a professional move. There is a spouse, a family system, and a whole life transition.
This tailored pre-departure workshop supports professionals and their spouses to prepare for the emotional, practical, cultural, and relational journey ahead, with deeper awareness, clearer expectations, and practical tools they can use before and during the move.
Studying Abroad: Preparing for the Transition
For Students & Parents.
Securing a university place is only one part of studying abroad.
Leaving home can also bring changes in independence, identity, relationships, family roles, responsibilities and belonging.
This workshop prepares students and parents for the human side of the transition, not only the practical move.
Prepare for more than university. Prepare for the journey.
Awareness & Alignment Coaching
Understand Your Patterns. Reconnect with What Matters.
Sometimes the question is not only “What should I do?” but also “What is shaping the way I think, feel and respond?”
Through values, language, emotions and somatic awareness, coaching helps you notice patterns, reconnect with what matters and create more conscious choices.
Awareness. Choice. Change.
About
EWest Connect
Hi, I’m Rehab. I’m glad you’re here.
Rehab Abbas
Leadership, Career & Cross Cultural Coach
Workshop Designer & Facilitator
I work with leaders, professionals and students navigating decisions, transitions and change, whether that involves how they lead, where they are heading professionally, or how they find their footing in a new cultural context.
My work brings together three areas that are often more connected than they first appear.
Leadership is more than a position or title. It is how you show up, make decisions, communicate, respond and create impact, particularly when things are changing.
Career development is more than finding the next job. It is about understanding who you are professionally, recognising what you bring, exploring what fits and making informed choices about what you want to build next.
Cross cultural transition is more than moving from one place to another. A different country, culture or environment can bring questions of identity, belonging, relationships, expectations and how we understand ourselves.
My role is not to give you ready made answers. I create reflective and practical spaces where you can understand what may be shaping your choices, see yourself and your possibilities more clearly, and turn awareness into intentional action.
My approach brings together coaching, career development, values, language, emotions and somatic awareness. Alongside one to one coaching, I design and facilitate workshops around leadership, career and employability, and cross cultural transition.
Having lived and worked across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom, I bring both a professional and personal understanding of navigating change across cultures.
I coach and facilitate in Arabic and English.
Curious to know more about my background, qualifications and experience? You’re welcome to visit my LinkedIn page.
My Story
My Story
Across Careers, Cultures and Change
EWest Connect grew from questions that have followed me through different chapters of my life and work.
How do we make choices when the path ahead is not obvious?
How do we lead when circumstances change?
And how do we adapt to a new environment without losing connection with who we are?
Originally from Egypt, my life and work have taken me across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom. Living across cultures brought opportunities and growth, but also experiences of uncertainty, changing roles, identity, belonging and learning how to find my place in different environments.
Alongside that cross cultural journey, my professional path developed around people, leadership and career development. I became increasingly curious about what shapes the way we lead, make decisions, communicate and respond, and about what helps people make meaningful choices about their careers and futures.
That curiosity led me to coaching.
Through my training, I began exploring values, language, emotions and the body more deeply, and learning to look beyond the immediate goal to the person behind it. Over time, I continued developing my practice across leadership, career development, somatic awareness, wellbeing and cross cultural work.
My work has since brought me alongside people at very different points in their journeys: leaders navigating change, professionals reconsidering their direction, students making education and early career choices, people preparing to live or study across cultures, and refugees rebuilding their professional lives in a new country.
The circumstances may be different, but I continue to see a common thread.
Change often asks us to become more aware of who we are, what matters to us, what we already carry, what may need to change and what choices are available to us now.
We may not always choose the changes that come our way. But greater awareness can give us more choice in how we respond, how we lead and what we do next.
That is the thread connecting my work today as a Leadership, Career & Cross Cultural Coach.
Awareness. Inner Courage. Change.
Turning Awareness into Intentional Action.
Our Vision
Awareness. Courage. Change.
At EWest Connect, we believe meaningful change begins with awareness, understanding who you are, what matters to you, and what may be shaping your choices.
Our vision is to help people lead themselves and their lives with greater intention, whether they are making important decisions, navigating career or life transitions, leading others, or adapting to a new environment.
Our work is grounded in four guiding values:
Awareness – noticing what is happening within and around us so we can see more clearly.
Courage – creating the space to explore, question, choose and take meaningful action.
Alignment – connecting our choices and actions with what genuinely matters to us.
Human Connection – approaching ourselves and others with curiosity, respect and compassion.
We believe greater awareness creates more choice, and more choice opens the possibility for meaningful change.
Our Approach
Language
Emotions
Body
Drawing on Ontological and Somatic Coaching, our approach explores three interconnected dimensions:
Language (The Linguistic Self)
The words we use, spoken and unspoken, reveal and shape our reality. Through declarations, requests, offers, and promises, we explore how language creates action, builds trust, and sets the foundation for authentic relationships.
Emotions (The Emotional Self)
Our moods and emotions aren’t obstacles to overcome. They can offer valuable information about what matters, what may be holding us back and what needs our attention, creating greater awareness and more conscious choice.
Body (The Somatic Self)
The body holds stories, patterns, and possibilities. Through attention to sensations, posture, breath and movement, we explore habitual responses and create space for new ways of being that support grounded presence, clarity, and confidence.
Supporting New Beginnings
For Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and People Affected by Displacement
Your career journey is more than what you have had to leave behind.
It also carries your strengths, knowledge, experience, values, achievements and the possibilities of what you can build next.
We offer career coaching and employability workshops with a deeply human, cross-cultural approach.
Starting again in a new country can mean navigating an unfamiliar labour market, rebuilding professional networks, understanding new expectations and finding ways to translate previous experience into a new context.
Your professional identity does not disappear when circumstances change. Yet starting again may bring new questions:
Who am I professionally now?
What from my previous experience can I carry forward?
What opportunities are possible for me here?
How can I communicate the value of what I already bring?
What do I need to build next?
You do not leave behind your abilities, knowledge, values or past achievements when you cross a border. They remain part of who you are, even when a new environment does not immediately recognise them.
My work creates space to understand what you bring, explore possibilities, strengthen your career adaptability, identify what may need to be developed and take practical steps towards what comes next.
Because a new beginning does not mean starting from zero.
It means recognising what you already carry and finding new ways to build from it.
My work with refugees in the UK has shaped an important part of my professional journey. Over several years, I supported more than 65 displaced families, including young adults and professionals, as they navigated education, university, employment and life in a new country.
That experience deepened my understanding of how displacement and transition can affect identity, confidence and professional direction.
Today, EWest Connect brings that experience together with my work in career coaching, career development and workshop facilitation.
I welcome opportunities to collaborate with NGOs, charities, local authorities, community organisations and education providers to create career development workshops shaped around the needs and context of the people they support.
Our Services
Career Coaching for Refugees & Displaced People
One to one career coaching to help you understand yourself professionally, explore realistic career options, recognise the value in your experience, read opportunities through the employer’s lens, identify what is really missing, whether competence, evidence or context, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Career & Employability Workshops
Practical and interactive workshops for refugees, asylum seekers and displaced communities, helping participants understand what they bring, explore career possibilities, strengthen career adaptability, understand the labour market, read opportunities differently and turn career awareness into purposeful action.
You Support Others. Who Supports You?
Coaching for refugee support professionals, creating space to reflect, navigate challenges, strengthen confidence and communication, and make more intentional choices in the work they do with others.
Dare To Dare
Awareness. Courage. Change
Dare to Dare is a space where I share reflections, questions, and practical steps around self-awareness, conscious choices, career, and leadership.
It is an invitation to pause, look at things from a different perspective, deepen your awareness, and connect with your inner courage to question, reflect, choose, or move differently.
Our Blog
Recent Posts
- Whispers of Insights#1: Start Creating Your Beautiful Past…Your Last Living Legacy
- When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
- Humanity…The Seed Within. 10 practices to awaken and sustain our shared humanity
- The Power of “I” Statements: How “I” Statements Transform Conversations at Work
- Mindful Eating: How a New Habit Can Change Your Life
- From Displacement to Belonging: How Can We Create Genuine Integration That Transcends Borders and Differences?
- The Art of Deep Listening: 6 Steps to Build Deeper Connections and Better Results
- 5 Practical Steps to Break the Cycle of Procrastination and Begin Real Change
- Value Congruence…What Is It, and Why It Matters?