Sutton Turner

Sutton Turner is the Managing Director of 20/20 Foresight, where he leverages 30 years of leadership experience to serve clients in executive coaching, consulting, and search. As a former CEO of five businesses across the United States, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, his expertise spans real estate, investment, development, brokerage, facilities management, consulting, and non-profit sectors.

Sutton is passionate about helping organizations with their health and leadership development needs. He is certified in Everything DiSC, Five Behaviors of a Team, and is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC). Sutton creates customized consulting plans for improving organizational health and leadership development through in-person workshops and virtual executive coaching sessions.

In 2008, Sutton served as the founding CEO of Khidmah, currently the largest services management company in the UAE with over 1,000 employees. As CEO, Sutton created the first full service real estate management company in Abu Dhabi, UAE with $600M in assets and $1.8B under development. A critical element to Khidmah’s success was the establishment of a direct pipeline for recruiting skilled workers and professionals from Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Syria.

In 2010, Sutton led Waseef, LLC in Doha, Qatar. This subsidiary of Barwa leads Qatar 2030. As CEO of Waseef, he reorganized the company which had no business plan, model, organization, processes, and operating systems. In the first 90 days, he completed the strategic business plan, 5-year budget, and organizational structure.

In 1998, Sutton co-founded the Wentwood Companies with his brother and served for 10 years as a managing partner, providing services across 10 states and 36 locations. Today, Wentwood manages a portfolio of institutional real estate funds that have been capitalized more than $9 billion.

Sutton holds a master’s degree from Southern Methodist University (MBA) and Harvard Business School (OPM). He obtained his undergraduate and master’s from Texas A&M University in 1993 and 1995.