Kommon Denominator (KD) is an award-winning woman owned firm and a pioneer in a new and essential science for a global interdependent world. We partner with companies to re-invent outdated practices, and address business hierarchies to eliminate the destructive cost of conflict and to create effective business practices.

Kommon Denominator partners with business leaders to identify business outcomes that can help them mine untapped capabilities, and missed opportunities.  We offer cost saving technical expertise in the field of  organizational leadership and development, training and education, conflict prevention and mitigation, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building, and public participatory processes.

Kommon Denominator was founded by Dr. Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah in 1996. She is joined by Mr. Bruce Engelbert. They bring broad and complementary experience on the national and international levels. Together they have more than five decades of experience in government, private sector, and community work. Their expertise encompasses organizational and leadership development, conflict prevention and mitigation, training and education, public participation, and monitoring and evaluation.

Team members are bilingual in Arabic and English with basic knowledge of French. Their cultural competency spans from North America to Europe and the Middle East, and from Africa to South East Asia. They hold post-graduate degrees from top universities such as University of California, Berkeley, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Creighton University School of Law, and Jordan University.

Kommon Denominator (KD) of Fairfax, Virginia is proud to announce that the company's President and Managing Director, Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, PhD, won top honor as the 2009 Woman Business Enterprise Regional Star Award. Previous awards include the DC - Region Outstanding Woman Business Enterprise for 2008. In 2007, the company was listed on the Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise in Maryland, a recognition conferred by the University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs, and the Maryland Chamber of Commerce.

The company is also proud to report that in 2007 exceeded its commitment to donate 10 percent of their profits to non-profits and social entrepreneurs in the areas where they work.
Dr. Abdul-Hadi Jadallah announced: “We are proud to report that we exceeded this target in 2007, and will continue with our commitment as we move forward in meaningful partnerships.”

Kommon Denominator, Inc. is certified as a Woman Owned Enterprise (WBE). Certification #: 2005108121.