Manager, Admin & Accounts

Latif Shad manages administration and accounts of School of Leadership. With his hard work, dedication, commitment and guidance from Abdullah Associates; he takes care of the finances to ensure smooth execution of all our projects.

A learner for life, Latif enjoys learning new and improved methods of accounting and implements them to keep the organization at par with the industry. He has acquired contemporary accounting skills at Institute of Business and Professional Development.

He has completed his Bachelor in Arts from Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur. He is married and lives in Karachi.

“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, so we're really not that different, me and you."

It is hard to define the word ‘Fun’ in general but one finds it very easy to understand it by meeting this girl. Family calls her "BATAKH". She believes in whatever the mind conceives or believes, it can achieve.

YLC gave her different turns to experience life in her own way. She aspires to complete her MBA. Anny enjoys reading, sketching, watching movies etc. Playing guitar is her passion!

Chief Turning Officer - Torque

Umair, the turner!

He is a believer, and one of his beliefs is that paradigms and perceptions don’t change facts.  He creates visions and dreams from facts. He makes his audience believe in themselves. Realistically.

To him, facts, no matter how brutal, turn on the infinite potential present in all of us. Like a wise wizard, he uses an assortment of tools, substance and temperature in his cauldron.

He is about revising the basics. To him good answers come from a good question. He loves religion, business, philosophy and psychology - knowledge. It is a spell-bounding journey how he integrates all of them to lead a group to pragmatic action plans. His training route is in the face, direct and heart hitting. His leadership style is walk-the-talk, and he takes his audience along, like his team mates.

His humble exterior and age doesn’t echo the crowds he has transformed, at SoL (including YLC, TTYT & HPJ) and other schools, colleges, universities, and organizations (including  Habib Bank Limited, The Citizens Foundation, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICMAP), Aga Khan Sports and Welfare Board, All Pakistan Memon Foundation, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Iqra University, Karachi University, PAF KIET, Foundation Public School and Beaconhouse School). He immediately relaxes his audience, guards down, receptive to learning, before he shakes their paradigms again. His sessions are a rollercoaster journey of change, exercises/games, questions, quotes, challenges and realizations.

He has proudly led 300 youth to feel, focus and fly in YLC 2006, a 6 day intensive training conference. 

His core areas of training are ‘Principles as way of life’, ‘Managing Change’, ‘Sell with Impact’, ‘Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Career Planning’.

Get ready for a bewitching experience!
Get ready to be turned!
 

Chief Inspirationist, ExtraCorp – SoLF
Trainer- SoL

A marketing graduate, Urooj is always involved with marketing and creativity. She also has a keen mind for the strategic side of things. She brings with her a diverse background that has seen both sides of the training world (that being trainee and trainer). Post recruitment and training at SoL, she has successfully led Beyond Beauty, a residential women empowerment conference. She added to her experience when she switched from SoL to SoLF. As one of the initiators of ExtraCorp, she helped ExtraCorp attain completion from concept. Not only is Urooj responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of ExtraCorp, she is also intricately involved in expanding ExtraCorp through crafting new business initiatives. So far under ExtraCorp, she has launched 4 businesses: Bäckerei, Blaze, Write Away and Pleasures.

At SoL, she has also been a facilitator and advisor at YLC, a conference where 300 participants bring leadership to life, and Talent Fair.

While training Urooj has been around the globe from Srilanka to Thailand and within Pakistan, serving a team and clientele diverse in nationality and stratum. Along with a trainer, Urooj is a student for life, and has learnt from UNDP (United Nation Development Program), SoL (School of Leadership) and a multitude of seminars and short courses. Among others, she has trained UNDP (United Nation Development Program), WWF (Worker’s Welfare Fund), FPS (Foundation Public School), TF (Talent Fair), TTYT (Train the Young Trainer), TCF (The Citizen’s Foundation), AKDN (Aga Khan Development Network), NIM (National Institute of Management), Pak Navy and ICMAP (Institute of Chartered Management Associates of Pakistan). She particularly cherishes training on interpersonal skills, networking, negotiation, cross cultural communication and change management. For her outstanding work at such a young age, Urooj has been acclaimed with ‘Youth Icon’ award in 2007.

Urooj deals with personal and social development as her forte, within and outside of our doors with energy, joviality, passion, soul, integrity, humor, and flexibility. She serves as a source of inspiration/motivation for her colleagues. Urooj is quick to open up with people and even quicker in opening others. She has a rich background in building relationships with clients. Urooj strives to change the way people think about persons with disabilities and MADventurism (Making a Difference).

Director SoL

Kamran Rizvi, is founding director of School of Leadership and is also director at Navitus, a leading OD consulting firm in the country.

Kamran specializes in behavioral change and OD. He facilitates workshops to enhance managerial competencies. Topics include Inspirational and Visionary Leadership, Out of Box Thinking and Corporate Reformation. He brings innovative, effective and practical strategies for implementing change in non—profits and for-profit organizations striving to grow, improve productivity, quality and impact. He regularly writes articles on leadership and management for Blue Chip, a leading business magazine of Pakistan . Visit www.bluechipmag.com.

He holds an MBA from the University of Strathclyde , Scotland , where he majored in organization development. He is a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Inc., having completed courses in Management, Executive Image, Effective Speaking and Human Relations. He has attended a number of courses that include “Leadership for the 21st Century”, at the J F K School of Government, Harvard University, Dr Peter Senge's “The Learning Organization – Building a Sustainable Future”, and “Strategic Leadership and Change Management” at the Wharton SMU Program, in Singapore. Kamran is an approved training resource for members of YPO (Young President's Organization), headquartered in the United States .

Kamran loves to devote his time to designing and facilitating leadership programs for youth by serving on the boards of School of Leadership (SoL) in Pakistan and ICLS ( Intercultural Communication & Leadership School ) headquartered in Rome , Italy . He facilitates workshops for ICLS on Community Leadership and encourages confidence building between young community leaders from different religious and ethnic backgrounds.

Having lived and worked in the UK for twenty years, he moved to Pakistan and pioneered the self- development and OD movement there in 1991. He founded KZR that has since spawned Navitus, SoL and many other profit and non-profit entities. He is a well-regarded inspirational speaker and is frequently invited to speak on topics of contemporary management interest. He has addressed audiences at the National Defense College, Pakistan Administrative Staff College (PASC), corporate annual conferences, universities, colleges and schools.

He continues to serve major multinational and local companies, private voluntary organizations, educational institutes and public sector agencies.

Kamran is married, has three grown up children and divides his time between Canada , UK and Pakistan .

Saima Khan belongs to the pioneering team that established the School of Leadership in July, 2002. She is the Director and Operations Manager at the School of Leadership and Project Manager of the Young Leaders’ Conference.

In her quest for an empowered and trusting youth, Saima Khan devotes herself to connecting with the stakeholders of young individuals. This allows her to gain multiple perspectives of issues faced by youth and possibilities that await them.

A practical objectivist, Saima Khan, along with a host of other responsibilities, ensures smooth operation of SoL.
Saima has a Masters in English Literature from Peshawar University and is a budding trainer. She has trained with a cross section of institutions and in-house training programs.

On an ordinary day, you would see her convincing managerial style as she juggles between corporate entities and counsels countless young individuals. Every day you see her motivating youth leaders, who manage to then set daring, audacious goals; lead teams and implement seemingly impossible objectives.

Married with two children, Saima manages family and work with amazing efficiency.  She is known for winning hearts and conquering minds. Her diligent, empathetic and encouraging personality stimulates determination in others.

Chief Executive Officer & Director

Shireen Naqvi's experience as a chief executive officer at School of Leadrship (SoL) and senior management consultant and facilitator at Navitus includes having been consulted by a number of local and multinational corporations, NGOs and educational resource centers across Pakistan. Her areas of focus are personal social development and visionary leadership. In her efforts to bring about positive change in the nation’s professional environment, she organized and led the annual Young Leaders Conference (YLC) from 2002 to 2006.

Shireen holds an MBA (1993), from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Karachi where she majored in Management Information Systems.

Shireen’s success in facilitating competency-building programs lies in her strength of adapting to a wide range of people.  Being exposed to diverse cultures through extensive traveling and varied experiences, Shireen believes in the value of diversity and the existence of immense potential in each and every individual.

She stimulates and enhances the latent talents of participants in her workshops. Her aim is to develop inner discipline, greater resolve and empathy in people.

Shireen is married, has two children and lives in Karachi.