Hala Al Turki was born in Vienna, Austria and spent her childhood and the first years of her youth there; she got her master's degree in human resource development from the University of Texas A&M in America. Hala lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE, and has several work on educational and cultural literature, which began as a hobby of reading stories to ill children in hospitals. Hala has settled in Abu Dhabi and has become a certified leadership trainer. She is currently working on leadership development programs for the youth.