15 FIDIC Contract Users’ Newsletter
The man with a passion for training Shura Construction Management and its CEO Husni Madi won the Trainer of the Year Award at the recent FIDIC Contracts Awards. We spoke to Husni about his unique training approach and his new role on the FIDIC contracts committee. Husni Madi is passionate Asked about his reaction to winning the about training. That much Trainer of the Year Award, Madi said: “I put is clear when you speak to in a lot of effort into my training, whether him about his work as a in material or in the style of delivering the FIDIC trainer and his unique courses. I try to be as energetic as possible, as and successful approach. funny as possible, because when dealing with CEO of Shura Consulting the subject of contract management, which Management in Amman can be perceived as dry and boring, you Jordan, Madi has delivered can lose the audience very quickly. I always both public and in-house look for new ways and methods of keeping training through FIDIC, in participants engaged.” Africa and the Middle East. Madi went on to further discuss his He impressed the judges engagement techniques, “I ask questions at the recent FIDIC Contracts and engage the audience. There is nothing Awards with “the breadth of like throwing in a good joke and getting a his experience and training good laugh out of participants to keep them style”, a style developed over awake and engaged. Being as energetic as the years by providing public, possible is key,” he said. in-house and online training, Speaking about his newly appointed role on in addition to speaking the FIDIC contracts committee and what he hopes and delivering workshops to bring to the table, Madi said: “As someone at FIDIC Contract Users’ with experience in all perspectives of contract Conferences. management, I hope to bring a “I try to be as Madi is a new perspective to the committee. I energetic as true training worked for 12 years for contractors icon and his possible, as funny as on site, then I moved to a role on the passion for other side, as a consultant, and I have possible, because his subject is been a consultant to both contractors infectious. His when dealing with the and engineers and employers.” unconventional subject of contract Madi thinks his training experience training style management, which will help in his new role. “By delivering is efficient can be perceived as courses and conferences all over the and effective world, I am able to accumulate a lot of dry and boring, you in delivering global experience and case studies and can lose the audience this will allow me to bring a wide range training with meaning. of possibilities and scenarios to be very quickly.” He is known tackled and addressed in the contracts for his energetic teaching area,” he said. methods and using interesting Reflecting on his involvement with FIDIC and his techniques such as graphics drive for giving back to the industry, Madi said that and animations, real-life he was the type of person who thrives in a challenging examples and case studies, as environment. “Although it can be exhausting, you well as playing with the tone of need that passion. It’s like Husni Madi with his Trainer of the Year Award at the his voice to highlight areas of climbing a ladder, one step at FIDIC Contracts Awards in London in December 2019. importance to the audience. a time,” said Madi.
