Sutton Turner

Sutton Turner leads 20/20 Foresight’s global practice. He brings 30 years of business experience leading five different businesses across three different countries as CEO (United States, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi). These businesses include real estate, investment, development, brokerage, facilities management, consulting, and other business services. 

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 (“service” in Arabic), 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 on behalf of His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani – The Emir. 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 master’s degrees from Southern Methodist University (MBA), Harvard Business School (OPM), and Texas A&M University (MS). He also obtained his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University (BS).