Dr Fayed has served as a CEO within the UK motor industry and on the boards of several international and local corporations as a board member and chairman in salaried and honorary appointments.

Dr Fayed has held academic leadership roles within several universities, including head of the School of Marketing and member of the of the MBA management committee at the University of NSW, Honorary and Adjunct Professor within Charles Sturt University’s Faculty of Business for approximately 20 years and from 2015 Adjunct Professor and Director Doctor of Business Leadership at Torrens University Australia, he is also the Executive Dean of the Australian Graduate School of Leadership.

Dr Fayed has led over 90 significant projects undertaken in collaboration with government departments, professional associations and multinational corporations. He has been a keynote speaker at over 100 national and international conferences, has a list of publications to his credit and has designed and facilitated leadership development programs in collaboration with government departments, business schools and professional institutes in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, UK, USA, Singapore, Thailand and Switzerland.

Ramzi Fayed has a solid record of innovative contributions to businesses, government, not for profits and universities. Some of these contributions include-

1. Leading the team that developed the first UK motor vehicle manufacturers’ collaborative computerised motor vehicle spare part inventory control initiative. According to a British Government white paper, this industry initiative reduced component supply costs in the UK by approximately 15 million pounds (in late 1960s money).
2. As an academic at the University of New South Wales, he pioneered the introduction of the process of group field work by teams of final year commerce students to ensure the capacity to apply what had been learnt to actual business challenges for study. Prior to this field work, he designed and secured approval for a subject on Business Innovation to be included in the Batchelor of Commerce Degree.
3. He authored a series of lectures on the Marketing of Professional Services in the early 1970s, initially transmitted by the University of NSW Extension Service and subsequently published and offered by the Australian Institute of Management (approximately 20,000 copies sold)
4. Retained by a number of professional bodies to provide innovative way forward advice including: The Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the Australian Institute of Consulting Engineers, the Australian Institute of Management and the Law Society of NSW.
5. In the early 1990s, led the team that pioneered online delivery of postgraduate degrees in Australia. This involved four Masters Degrees in Business and one Doctorate Degree and was supported by the major banks and pharmaceutical companies. The initiative involved the first digitised text book contracts in the world and development of the ability to deliver an MBA across corporate intranets.
6. Out of the workshops he designed for the Australian Company Directors Association, the Strategic Arena Analysis™ process emerged and has been progressively developed to assist leadership teams to deal with complex dynamic contexts.

Dr Fayed is currently also the Chairman of the International Marketing Institute of Australia and The IMIA Centre for Strategic Business Studies.