Fatima Hamdulay

Fatima Hamdulay is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Leadership and Character in Entrepreneurship in the Center for Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University. She has extensive experience as both a chemical engineer and as an operational excellence consultant in a range of major industries in South Africa. Additionally, Dr. Hamdulay worked for more than 10 years as a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. Her focus has always been on fostering a more humane work environment for all involved. Dr. Hamdulay strives to enhance our understanding of our impact on others, for individual as well as global improvement. Her research explores approaches to unlocking a wide range of masteries within our ourselves, ranging from functional to purpose and personal to interpersonal mastery. Dr. Hamdulay earned a degree in chemical engineering and social science, as well as an MBA, from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a PhD from Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. Her doctoral research focused on cultivating an Islamically indigenous framework for personal excellence and involved case studies of award-winning public school educators and leaders in Brunei Darussalam’s public school system. She can be reached at hamdulf@wfu.edu.