About the institute

We teach the way we wish we had been taught.

Takaya was founded in Muscat on a simple frustration: professional training in the region too often ends the moment the certificate is printed. We set out to build the opposite.

Our story

Built for how people actually learn.

Most of us have sat through a three-day workshop, filled a notebook, felt genuinely inspired — and then changed nothing at all. Not because the content was wrong, but because nothing in the design of the training expected us to use it.

Takaya is structured around the opposite assumption. Cohorts are small enough that no one hides. Every module is applied to real work from your own role. And every programme includes coaching afterwards, because the gap between knowing and doing is where almost all learning is lost.

We work with individuals building a career, and with organisations across Oman developing their people. The format changes. The standard does not.

What we hold to

Four commitments

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Honesty over sales

If a programme isn't right for you, we will say so — including when the answer is that you don't need us.

02

Practice over theory

Frameworks earn their place only when they change what you do on a Sunday morning.

03

Small over scale

We cap cohorts deliberately. Growth that dilutes the room is growth we decline.

04

Rooted in Oman

Built here, taught here, in the languages and contexts our participants actually work in.

Faculty

Taught by practitioners

Every Takaya instructor has done the work they teach — not just studied it.

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Founder & Lead Faculty

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Leadership & Coaching

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Business & Finance

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1,200+Learners trained
24Programmes offered
40+Partner organisations
4.8Average rating
12Max cohort size
Common questions

Frequently asked

At our centre in Muscat. Several programmes run in hybrid format with some sessions online, and a few are fully online. Each course page states the format. Corporate cohorts are delivered at your premises.

Both. Public cohorts are typically taught in English with Arabic support, and several programmes run as fully Arabic cohorts. Corporate programmes are delivered in whichever language suits your team. Ask us about the next Arabic intake for any course.

Yes — a Takaya certificate of completion is issued for every programme, subject to attendance and completion of the applied project. We deliberately do not issue certificates for attendance alone.

Yes. We invoice organisations directly and can provide a formal quotation, purchase order reference and completion report for your training budget. Group rates apply from three participants.

Session materials and, where available, recordings are shared with you, and your instructor will offer a short catch-up. If you miss more than two sessions we will usually move you to the next cohort at no extra cost.

Full refund up to seven days before a cohort begins. After the first session, we offer a transfer to a future cohort rather than a refund. If a programme genuinely isn't what was described, tell us and we will make it right.

Come and see

Visit us in Muscat.

Sit in on a session, meet the faculty, and decide for yourself. Book a consultation and we'll arrange it.