Our story starts in Iraq, passes through Jordan, Egypt, France, Stuttgart, and Berlin, and somehow ends with us building a coaching company. Not exactly a linear business plan. Though from different generations, we shared a homeland and a bizarrely identical trajectory: studying Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, and Social Sciences before independently finding coaching. When we reconnected in Berlin during our ICF certifications, we realized we’d been walking parallel paths all along. That dynamic is what makes SudsKompass work. Hanan (The Suds) sees the people and brings the grounding. Mohamed (The Compass) sees the patterns and brings the challenge. Together, we ditch the corporate buzzwords to create spaces for conversations that are honest, practical, and unexpectedly funny.
Al-Suds (السدس): Arabic for sextant — a celestial navigation tool.
Kompass: German for compass — purpose, movement, direction.
We believe that focusing on the small problem (the every day challenges) is focusing on the symptoms. We like to focus on the source of it, the big problem, and together we can figure it out.
The Team Pod is designed for teams that refuse to drift. Whether you are an NGO navigating global challenges, a startup scaling through chaos, or a cross-cultural team bridging worlds, our Pods provide the psychological safety and strategic clarity needed to transform friction into flow.
Growth is a collective journey. While our Team Pods are built for existing organizations, Open Pods are for anyone who believes that we navigate life and work better when we do it together.
An Open Pod is a shared space where people from all walks of life come to practice the art of human connection. We bring together a diverse mix of voices—across cultures, identities, and life stages—to learn how to listen deeply, speak with clarity, and navigate their worlds.
Navigation isn’t a one-time event; it’s a practice. The Team Pod is a dedicated, immersive space for teams to drop anchor and recalibrate, in the fast-moving currents.
The Team Pod is designed for teams that refuse to drift. Whether you are an NGO navigating global challenges, a startup scaling through chaos, or a cross-cultural team bridging worlds, our Pods provide the psychological safety and strategic clarity needed to transform friction into flow.
Our 5A Compass process ensures a comprehensive,
sustainable engagement:
Audit,
Assessment,
Alignment
Action, & Accountability.
And since we think of ourselves as thinking partners, with each step, we bring the teams, the group and the individuals onboard.
oday’s teams are increasingly global, digital, and diverse, bringing a wider range of perspectives and experiences, while simultaneously demanding a clearer sense of purpose and ethical alignment from their employers.
Yet 85% of employees experience workplace conflict. Despite the push for inclusion and collaboration,employees report dealing with some level of conflict in their professional lives, hindering productivity and team cohesion.
The cost of this tension is extremely high: almost half of all professionals (nearly 50%) admit to resigning from a role specifically because of unresolved workplace conflicts or unaddressed organizational issues.
A majority of human resources leaders, 76% to be exact, identify foundational miscommunication as the primary driver behind workplace tension, emotional drain, and reduced engagement.
This systemic friction drains resources, with management personnel forced to dedicate up to 40% of their valuable time not to strategy or growth, but to mediating ongoing interpersonal and team conflicts.
