About Unicorn Labs

We're a leadership development and team retreats company in Canada.

We help coach managers into leaders that create high performing teams that scale

6 years & counting!

Founded in May 2018

70,000+ People

Have been impacted by our training

Ottawa, ON

Available remotely

100+ Companies

Trusted by the best teams

About Fahd

Fahd Alhattab is a workplace and leadership development expert specializing in training startup managers, teams, and executives on Unicorn Leadership. He’s now focused on bringing his client-based experience and the most current, relevant research to Unicorn Lab’s comprehensive enterprise leadership training.

Based on this foundation of all of the best practices, Fahd helps organizations build high-performing, unstoppable teams by transforming their managers into leaders. His focus is to bring his experience now working with clients and pulling on the latest organizational research to present all of the best practices of how to build high-performing teams in comprehensive enterprise leadership training.

Fahd’s path to leadership began with philanthropy. Compelled by his background as an at-risk immigrant from a low-income family, he raised over $1M for local charities, founded a camp for underprivileged children, and was awarded Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 Award for his dedication to the community.
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On the pursuit of entrepreneurship, Fahd served two terms as President of Carleton University Students’ Association where he represented more than 25K students, managed a team of 150 staff, and oversaw the allocation of a $9M budget.
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During his Presidency, Fahd launched a student entrepreneurship center that has since founded +50 student startups and help them raise more than +$300K in seed capital. This catapulted him to develop a mobile tech startup.
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Built on thirteen years of experience building successful teams, Fahd identified the tried and true ingredient that set high performing teams apart from competitors — they had leaders who prioritized team performance over individual success. He named them Unicorn Leaders.
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Delivered through captivating and actionable keynotes, Fahd now retrains managers to become architects of effective teams through his principle of Unicorn Leadership.
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Fahd has spoken to +50K people across North America on leadership and been named Rising Star Speaker and Most Entertaining Speaker by the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.
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Working alongside his team at Unicorn Labs, Fahd is committed to giving start-up founders the leadership skills to build Unicorn companies. He delivers team-building retreats and customized training programs that upgrade staff and start-up managers into self-driven leaders.

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“When leaders ask how they can transform with just ONE change, my answer is always enthusiasm. If you can approach problem, situation, opportunity, and relationships with a hint of enthusiasm, it changes everything.”

Fahd Alhattab

CEO, UnicornLabs

Unicorn Leaders create opportunities managers don’t. They are heros within your organization that attract and retain top-tier talent. They know how to engage the multigenerational workforce and build high performing teams that create extraordinary impact through sheer performance. They transform businesses, disrupt markets, and their ripple effects across your entire organization will elevate your company culture and accelerate growth by a factor of 10.

‍Unlike unicorns, Unicorn Leaders aren’t imaginary beings. They are rare individuals who mastered how to successfully combine drive, intelligence, and humility to attract followers and to encourage them to perform to do the best of their abilities.Many of them exist amongst us. But without access to leadership training and tools to transform, many of them won’t reach their leadership potential. But a simple push in the right direction can have a compounding effect on personal development. And as a millennial workplace expert, Fahd can deliver that value to your startup and audiences.

Who We Are

Meet the Unicorn Labs team

Naseem Mohajer

Account Manager

Naseem is an operational ninja and a happiness hero with 15 years of experience in Events, Marketing, and Operations across four countries. She ensures smooth systems and tools for our clients’ success at Unicorn Labs. She loves travelling, exploring new places and cuisines, and adores Zanzibar and Jamaica.

Abigail Kierstead

Business Development Representative

As a a Business Development Representative at Unicorn Labs. Abigail reaches out to potential clients, fosters new and existing relationships, and closes new business to create Unicorn Leaders. She also contributes to the various iterations of their services and uses insights from potential clients to help them improve. When not working, she is pursuing an MBA in Leadership, hiking, visiting home on the East Coast, and waiting for football season to start.

Kateryna Manchuk

Revenue Operations &Email Marketing Specialist

Meet Kateryna, our Revenue Operations and Email Marketing Specialist at Unicorn Labs. She optimizes and executes communication channels to spread awareness of Unicorn Leadership. She earned her Master of Arts in Law from Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law in Ukraine. When not working, she embraces the outdoors, paddleboarding, biking, or running alongside the river, savouring a zest for life.

Maria Golovko

Project Manager

Maria is a Project Manager at Unicorn Labs. She crafts cutting-edge learning materials, co-creates the Hacking Management newsletter, and refines the user experience of their Unicorn Leadership course. She has a degree in Psychology and a Master of Management from the University of British Columbia. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time in the breathtaking outdoors of Vancouver, BC, running or taking walks along the iconic seawall or indulging in delightful café discoveries.

Moe Omer

Design Extraordinaire

Moe is the vibrant force behind Unicorn Labs’ design team. He has a truckload of UI, web, and graphic design experience and brings an infectious energy. Moe’s superpower is his creativity and eye for detail, making him the true embodiment of an artist. He is our resident design guru, armed with a diverse skill set that could give Picasso a run for his money. The website you’re looking at? Yeah, that’s all him! In his spare time, he is learning new tech tools and skills, doing martial arts, or disassembling and reconstructing computers.

Andrea Dark

Corporate Retreat LogisticsSpecialist

Andrea is the maestro of Corporate Retreat Logistics at Unicorn Labs. She curates extraordinary client experiences during their remarkable retreats. She is a natural-born problem-solver with unwavering attention to detail, who tackles every challenge and provides facilitation support when needed. Outside of Unicorn Labs, Andrea is an esteemed educator to her fifth grade students. She loves teaching, hosting gatherings, dazzling guests with her culinary delights and warm hospitality. She’s also an active member of her community, embracing opportunities to make a positive impact.

Our Principles

The Unicorn Labs Values

At Unicorn Labs, we believe values aren’t just statements to be put on the wall. They are the essence of our work and culture, serving as unwavering compass points in uncharted territories. Given that they were collaborated on for the team, we typically use them internally to act as a guiding compass in uncharted waters. But we want you to glimpse who Unicorn Labs is as an organization. They reflect not only our beliefs but also our relentless pursuit to embody them. Have a look…

Always begin with relentlessly high standards, but ship your product before you’ve met them.

When your curiosity strikes, feed it; let it be insatiable.

Have a rigorous work ethic with intensity in the hour, not the amount of hours.

Tenaciously adapt to everything thrown your way, but hold onto your purpose and values.

Live with infectious enthusiasm.

Be unwaveringly disruptive unless of course, disruption becomes the norm.

Always play the long game.

What Are The Six Levels of High-Performing Teams?

Our core Unicorn Leadership philosophy is distilled into the Six Levels of High-Performing Teams, where each level builds on the previous one. This avoids siloed solutions and gaps with a holistic, collaborative, reinforced approach.

Our Philosophy