Rana Salhab: Breaking the glass ceiling

For this month’s special report on women in the workforce, Executive chose to profile a selection of seven successful, upper managerial level, Lebanese working women. Read more profiles as they’re published here, or pick up March’s issue at newsstands in Lebanon. “When I travel for work, people ask me how I have the heart to leave my child, whereas when my husband travels, even my mother says he is suffering to bring prosperity to his family,” says Rana Salhab, Talent and Communications partner at Deloitte Middle East. Salhab’s career path had its own share of difficult choices and she believes risk taking, having a thick skin, taking leadership roles and displaying confidence are characteristics that have helped her forge her way forward. Her first job in the early 1980s was in the education sector in the Gulf. “At that time in the Gulf, education was among the only career options available to