Experience connecting leadership with empowerment, data, innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning.
Afaf Fadaa Abdullah Al-Otaibi is an educational leader who combines education, school leadership, evaluation, and training. She works to develop the school environment, empower staff, and improve learning outcomes through leadership based on clear goals, data analysis, team building, and practice development.
Her experience is distinguished by the ability to move from daily administration to developmental leadership, drawing on experience across different educational stages, international exposure, and tools for evaluation, analysis, and innovation.
Preparation combining English language, leadership, evaluation, training, professional development, and modern educational practices.
Her experience is grounded in a long career in education and school leadership, together with certification as a School Evaluation Specialist from the Education and Training Evaluation Commission, a general training license, a training-of-trainers program, and participation in local and international leadership and professional programs, including the Khebrat Leadership Track at the University of Toronto.
English Language
Her career began in English-language teaching, establishing a deep understanding of classroom practices and the needs of students and teachers.
School Evaluation
Certified School Evaluation Specialist by the Education and Training Evaluation Commission.
Khebrat – Leadership
Participated in the Khebrat Leadership Track at the University of Toronto in Canada, including a school immersion experience focused on leadership for change.
Training of Trainers
General training license and training-of-trainers program supporting knowledge transfer and training-program development.
A career combining teaching, school and complex management, early childhood, evaluation, and development.
Experience across diverse educational stages including general education, early childhood, kindergarten, and intellectual-disability programs.
She began her career teaching English, then led multiple schools and educational complexes. She currently manages Imam Nafi Early Childhood School, its attached kindergarten, and the intellectual-disability program, following previous leadership roles in other schools and educational complexes.
Supervising daily operations, resources, operational needs, educational goals, and performance follow-up.
Providing support and guidance to teachers and teams, empowering them, and improving communication and teamwork.
Handling emergency situations, organizing response, and maintaining continuity of school operations.
Organizing programs and events and identifying modern practices that support the quality of the educational environment.
Capabilities combining leadership, evaluation, data analysis, training, innovation, artificial intelligence, and crisis management.
Her capabilities include school leadership, school evaluation, performance-data analysis, teacher development, training of trainers, crisis management, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, planning and organization, communication and influence, artificial intelligence, teamwork, and volunteer work.
Integrated expertise helping schools and leaders build environments that learn, renew, and create sustainable educational impact.
School Leadership
Managing schools, teams, resources, operations, decision-making, and educational-environment improvement.
School Evaluation
Diagnosing school reality, analyzing practices and results, and linking evaluation with continuous development.
Team Empowerment
Motivating teachers and teams, clarifying roles, and building trust, collaboration, and responsibility.
School Performance Development
Turning data and results into development plans that improve practices and learning outcomes.
Transfer of International Practices
Using the Canadian experience and selecting practices that can be adapted to the Saudi educational environment.
Innovation & Artificial Intelligence
Using modern tools and technologies to support education, administration, and more innovative solutions.
Crisis Management
Responding to emergencies, organizing work, and making decisions in changing environments.
Training & Capacity Building
Transferring experience to educational staff and leaders through training, workshops, and continuous learning.
Participated in the Leadership Track and a school immersion experience focused on building leadership for change and observing international educational practices.
Created a Canadian-style classroom, applied practices inspired by Canadian education, and developed mobile classrooms and creative early-childhood practices.
Analyzed school-performance data, set priorities, and turned indicators into practical development plans.
Received appreciation related to PIRLS simulation performance and the distinguished school-performance award, and achieved first place with improved science and reading results in NAFS.
More than 66 programs from Taif Education Training & Scholarship Department, 12 programs from the National Center, and programs and workshops with the World Bank and other organizations.
Established an educational YouTube channel and launched the “Zakat of Knowledge” initiative to share engaging training and educational content.
From reading reality and data to empowering teams, development, experimentation, and measuring results.
Understanding school performance, needs, results, and indicators before setting priorities.
Turning strengths and improvement opportunities into clear, executable goals, initiatives, and plans.
Engaging teachers and teams in implementation, giving them room for initiative and experimentation, and supporting them with guidance and training.
Reviewing indicators and results, learning from experience, and continuously improving practice.