Banking Transformation Leadership & Execution Excellence
Driving Alignment, Adoption, Accountability & Measurable Business Outcomes Through Transformation Excellence in Banking & Financial Services Across the Middle East
Workshop Overview
Banks and financial institutions across Qatar, the GCC, and globally continue to invest heavily in digital transformation, AI, automation, customer experience enhancement, data initiatives, cybersecurity, and regulatory change programmes. Yet despite significant investment, research consistently shows that many transformation initiatives fail to deliver their intended outcomes due to challenges related to leadership, governance, stakeholder alignment, change adoption, and benefits realization rather than technology itself.
Designed specifically for banking professionals who are already involved in digital transformation initiatives, this intensive and highly practical workshop provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of what differentiates successful transformation programmes from unsuccessful ones. Through global best practices, regional case studies, success stories, lessons learned, common pitfalls, transformation recovery strategies, and practical simulations, participants will gain valuable insights into how leading organisations maximise transformation success and sustainable business value.
Rather than teaching project management methodologies or step-by-step transformation frameworks, this programme focuses on helping participants strengthen their ability to support, influence, govern, and contribute to successful transformation outcomes within their own organisations.
TIME: 08:00 am to 03:00 pm
DATE: 13th (Sunday) & 14th (Monday) of September 2026
VENUE: Pullman Hotel Doha, Qatar
COST: QAR 3,500 Per Person
Key Features
This intensive workshop combines global best practices, banking transformation success sto-ries, lessons learned, failure analysis, recovery strategies, and practical simulations to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of what drives transformation success. De-signed specifically for banking and financial services professionals, the programme focuses on helping participants maximise the value, adoption, governance, and business outcomes of their ongoing transformation initiatives while avoiding the common pitfalls that often undermine success.
Integrated Banking Transformation Simulation
Throughout the workshop, participants will apply key concepts within a realistic banking transformation simulation that mirrors the challenges faced by today’s financial institutions. By navigating governance decisions, stakeholder dynamics, digital initiatives, regulatory requirements, and benefits realisation, participants will gain practical experience in leading transformation efforts and delivering measurable business outcomes.
Vishal Soni
PMP® | PMI-ACP® | Six Sigma Black Belt Cybersecurity-certified professional
Vishal Soni is a Digital Transformation and Programme Management leader with over 20 years of international experience delivering large-scale transformation, governance, PMO, technology modernisation, cybersecurity, and operational improvement initiatives across the banking, telecommunications, and enterprise sectors throughout the Middle East and Asia. He currently serves as Senior Digital Transformation Project Manager at the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), where he leads strategic transformation programmes within one of the region’s most highly regulated financial institutions.
During his tenure at SAMA, Vishal has successfully managed major banking transformation initiatives, including the relocation of a mission-critical data centre involving SAR 300 million in technology assets, cybersecurity transformation projects valued at over SAR 50 million covering CyberArk, Cyber Fusion, remote access, firewall analytics, and banking security integration, as well as infrastructure modernisation programmes exceeding SAR 150 million, involving servers, storage, compute, networking, security, and enterprise platforms.
Prior to joining the banking sector, Vishal led complex telecommunications and technology programmes valued at over USD 100 billion across India, Qatar, and Oman. His portfolio also includes the delivery of the AFC Asian Cup Transmission Network (QAR 20 million) and the successful launch of one of Qatar’s early IPTV platforms, providing him with extensive experience in managing large-scale, multi-stakeholder transformation programmes from strategy through execution.
A PMP®, PMI-ACP®, Six Sigma Black Belt, and Cybersecurity-certified professional, Vishal combines global best practices with practical lessons learned from real-world transformation programmes. His experience enables him to provide participants with valuable insights into what drives transformation success, why programmes struggle, how projects can be recovered, and how organisations can maximise governance, stakeholder alignment, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
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Banking Transformation Leadership & Execution Excellence
TIME: 08:00 am to 03:00 pm
DATE: 13th (Sunday) & 14th (Monday) of September 2026
VENUE: Pullman Hotel Doha, Qatar
COST: QAR 3,500 Per Person
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