Talaat Operations Partners gives schools, nonprofits, mission-driven organizations, and growing businesses senior leadership across facilities, operations, and people, scoped to the work in front of you. Strong operations. Stronger missions. Lasting impact.
Deaf-led and fluent in ASL and spoken English: a natural partner for Deaf schools, Deaf-serving nonprofits, and Deaf-owned businesses, and for any organization that values accessible leadership.
An alarm failure, an inspection notice, an unexpected capital repair, a key leader gone: all of it lands on executives hired to lead a mission. Someone has to steady the response and prevent the next one.
Your facilities or operations leader has left. The search will take months. Decisions cannot wait.
Fire marshal, state survey, or accreditation review, with uncertain readiness and no clear owner.
Roofs, boilers, and alarm systems replaced when they fail, at emergency prices, with no plan the board can fund.
When that person is out, work stops. No documented processes, vendor relationships, or schedules.
Good people with no path forward, unclear roles, and managers who were never coached.
New sites, programs, or staff on the same informal systems. Accountability blurs and costs creep.
Buildings, systems, and people fail together and improve together. TOP works across all three, so a fix in one does not break another.
Most organizations start with a conversation or a focused assessment. Every engagement is scoped in writing: deliverables, decision rights, communication, and boundaries.
A focused look at your facilities, operations, and team: what matters most and what to do first.
Best for an independent read before a budget, hiring, or capital decision.
Leadership interviews, an operational and facilities review, risks and opportunities, priority recommendations, and an action roadmap you can use with or without TOP.
One challenge, an agreed deliverable, and a clear finish.
Best for a known problem with a deadline: an inspection, a capital plan, a system that needs fixing.
Compliance readiness, capital planning, process improvement, organizational structure, or implementation support, with a written scope, milestones, and fee.
Senior direction through a vacancy or critical change, with a defined mandate.
Best for a leader who just left and a search that will take months.
Agreed authority and priorities, steady operations, guidance for staff and vendors, and a clean handoff to your permanent hire. Convo Communications engaged TOP in this role during a leadership transition.
A fractional COO-level partner for facilities, operations, and culture, part time and remote-first.
Best for operations that keep landing on leadership with nobody owning them.
An agreed cadence of working sessions, async updates in ASL or English, operational oversight, leadership coaching, capital and budget guidance, and a monthly scorecard, with outcomes and responsibilities set in writing.
Scope, cadence, and fees are agreed together before work begins. TOP provides executive leadership and advisory; it is not a staffed maintenance company or a round-the-clock emergency service.
Three chapters of Adham's career, each matched to a challenge TOP helps organizations solve.
As Business Director on the founding team in Springfield, Virginia, Adham built the football academy and performance programs from zero: programming, SOPs, staffing, pricing, leagues, camps, and school partnerships. $350K in first-year revenue.
Fits: founders, startups, and new programs that know what they want and need it running.
As Facilities Manager for the Deaf-owned video relay provider, Adham built global real estate and facilities systems for 1,000+ employees across 12 offices on four continents. Convo later engaged TOP for interim leadership through a transition.
Fits: growing, multi-location, and distributed organizations without an operations executive.
As Director of General Services since 2023, Adham leads engineering, maintenance, environmental services, transportation, grounds, customer service, and capital projects. He inherited an 85% program review; it reached 91% in 2024, a 96% peak in 2025, and stands at 92% in 2026.
Fits: schools, campuses, and complex organizations that need quality, people, and finances to improve together.
Results from Adham's leadership roles. Convo Communications is also a TOP client.
Adham Talaat, CFM, FMP, is the Founder & Principal of Talaat Operations Partners. He has spent 10+ years leading the facilities, operations, and people that missions depend on, across senior living, telecom, federal, fitness, and sports organizations.
He is Director of General Services at Erickson Senior Living's Ashby Ponds community. Before that he built facilities systems for Convo Communications, managed joint-base facilities for the U.S. Marine Corps, ran finance and operations for SpringFit Performance Training, and helped launch The St. James's football academy and performance center.
His regulatory experience spans fire and life safety, infection control, emergency preparedness, schools, healthcare and residential environments, and FCC compliance. His toolkit includes long-range capital planning, construction and building turnover, CMMS and work-order systems, vendor and contract strategy, budgeting, and workforce development.
At Gallaudet, Adham became what the university calls the most decorated football player in its history: team captain, four-time All-American, Gagliardi Trophy finalist, back-to-back CoSIDA Academic All-American, and the 2013-14 Gallaudet Student-Athlete of the Year. He went on to become the first NFL player in Gallaudet history, with the Seattle Seahawks, Kansas City Chiefs, and New York Giants, and was inducted into the Gallaudet University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020.
He has launched inclusive workforce initiatives with Gallaudet University and presented on them at national conferences. TOP placed third in Gallaudet University's 5th Annual Alumni Bison Tank Business Pitch Competition in 2026.
He founded TOP so mission-driven organizations can have an executive partner who understands them, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Built so your leaders get senior judgment without adding meetings to their week.
Working sessions on a schedule set in the proposal, by video in ASL or spoken English.
Short written or recorded ASL and English updates, so decisions keep moving between sessions.
Planned visits for walkthroughs, board meetings, and key moments, agreed in advance.
A monthly scorecard: what moved, what is next, and what needs a leadership decision.
Listen to your leaders, understand the context, and name the pressures and opportunities.
Agree on priorities, outcomes, cadence, and fees in writing before work begins.
Do the work, report plainly, and leave your team owning the next steps.
Answer the statements to see where the pressure is.
Talk it through with Adham Your answers stay in this browser. If you send a request, only the score (for example, 5 / 8) goes with it.Thirty minutes by video, in ASL or spoken English. We talk about your organization, the challenge, and what you want to achieve. If there is a fit, Adham recommends a next step and a clear scope. No questionnaire required first.
Yes. Partnerships are remote-first: agreed working sessions, async updates, and a monthly scorecard, with on-site visits planned for the moments that matter.
No. Adham has led a 200-person, 12-department operation and has built systems for lean, distributed teams. The engagement is sized to your organization and budget.
Deliverables, cadence, response times, and decision rights are agreed in writing. TOP partners with a small number of organizations at a time so each one gets real attention.
Yes. TOP serves schools, nonprofits, mission-driven organizations, and growing businesses broadly. Deaf-led leadership and ASL fluency are strengths TOP brings, not a requirement for working together.
No. TOP provides executive leadership and advisory. Your team and vendors do the hands-on work and the emergency response; TOP helps them plan, prioritize, and perform.
Fees are quoted after a conversation, once scope and cadence are clear, and written into the proposal before any work begins.
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Virginia, United States; working nationwide.
