Deepest Layer · Built From Scratch

Curriculum Design & Development

For individuals and organisations leading a sustainability mandate who need a learning programme built from scratch, combining environmental, social and governance subject-matter expertise with instructional design, mapped to clear, trackable KPIs.

What This Includes

Key Features

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Subject-Matter Expertise + Instructional Design

Combines core sustainability subject-matter expertise with bespoke curriculum development and instructional design capability.

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Built Around Your Mandate

Tailored to deliver the objectives of your organisation’s specific awareness and learning mandate, whether aimed at employees or external audiences.

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KPI-Led Design

Programme KPIs determine the learning objectives at each competency level.

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Trackable Learning Trajectory

Pre- and post-assessment built in, so the learning trajectory is measurable, not assumed, delivered through established Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) best practice.

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Behaviour Change Expertise

Content designed not just to inform, but to shift behaviour, grounded in applied behavioural science.

Environmental Programmes

For public or private sector organisations, departments, or business leaders leading environmental verticals, e.g. circularity, waste management, biosecurity, food safety, air quality, biodiversity, climate change, and more, who have an awareness mandate they need to deliver on.

We develop a curated awareness programme tiered for multiple audiences, including schools, universities, and corporate executives.

Delivered via a network of 1,400+ trained, bilingual (Arabic/English) certified trainers.
Led By
Muneeza Aftab
Founder & Lead ESG Advisor
Muneeza Aftab brings a track record of sustainability reporting, strategy, and advisory work across UAE sectors, including oil & gas, retail, luxury retail, and multi-sector investment. She holds an MA in Sustainable Development & Global Governance from Middlesex University Dubai and is a GRI Certified Professional, bringing both regulatory depth and practical delivery experience to how Lighthouse builds ESG capability within organisations.

Social & Governance Programmes

The ‘S’ in ESG is ultimately about people: how they experience organisations as external stakeholders, how they behave within them, and how organisational systems shape those behaviours. Most ‘S’ initiatives on a sustainability roadmap default to physical health perks and generic wellness workshops. Ours start differently: with a structured needs assessment of what your workforce is actually experiencing. From there, we combine behavioural, systemic and organisational thinking to design targeted programmes that move beyond awareness-building towards meaningful, measurable improvements in workforce wellbeing and performance.

Our Process

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Discovery Call
We learn your practice area, caseload volume, software stack, and working style. The more specific you are, the better the match.
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Candidate Shortlisting

We pull from our vetted legal talent pool and select 2-3 profiles matched to your requirements: legal speciality, experience level, tool proficiency, and availability.

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You Interview and Approve

Every shortlisted profile is yours to evaluate. Interview the candidates, ask the hard questions, and confirm your pick. Nobody starts until you say so.

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You're Ready. Let's Begin.

We handle contracts, compliance setup, and onboarding. Your paralegal is ready to work within the week.

Areas of Expertise

Workforce Wellbeing & Psychosocial Health
Needs-led programmes that look beyond generic wellness initiatives to understand what employees are actually experiencing at work that impacts their performance. This may include stress and burnout, difficult workplace relationships, emotional demands of the job, work-life pressures, lack of support, or challenges specific to the nature of their role. We assess these needs first and then design targeted programmes that strengthen wellbeing, resilience, relationships, and employees’ ability to manage the demands of their work.

Communication, Conflict & Workplace Relationships
Interventions that strengthen communication, conflict management, relational capability and psychologically informed leadership across organisational levels.

Gender-Responsive Organisational Programmes
Assessment and programme design that recognises how workplace experiences, opportunities, barriers and support needs may differ across genders and organisational contexts.

Behaviour & Culture Change
Programmes designed around specific organisational challenges where sustainable change requires more than awareness—identifying the individual, relational and systemic factors maintaining existing behaviours and developing interventions to shift them.

Social Impact Programme Design
End-to-end development of people-centred programmes, from needs assessment and stakeholder consultation through intervention design, implementation strategy and impact evaluation.

Led By
Maryam Suheyl
Organisational and Behaviour Change Consultant

Maryam Suheyl is an Organisational and Behaviour Change Consultant with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering interventions for corporate, development and humanitarian organisations. Her work spans workplace conflict, safety culture, leadership, gender, wellbeing and behaviour change, with an approach rooted in understanding the people, relationships and systems behind a challenge before designing solutions. She holds an MSc in Marriage & Family Therapy from Northwestern University (USA) and brings a systemic understanding of human behaviour to the design of meaningful, measurable organisational change.

Track Record

OrganisationSector / YearProgramme
K-Electric Utilities · 2014–2017 “Handling Difficult Situations”, a 9-month tiered conflict-management programme for field staff, managers, and leadership, followed by an organisation-wide initiative embedding safety as a cultural pillar.
ICRC Healthcare · 2015–2016 Designed and piloted a training manual equipping hospital staff with de-escalation and conflict-management skills, under ICRC's Healthcare in Danger initiative.
PepsiCo FMCG · 2018 Led a women-in-leadership initiative through group consultations and facilitated dialogues, delivering recommendations to senior management on gender equity and retention.
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