Wali Zahid
Wali Zahid is an international consultant, speaker, trainer and executive coach. He has spoken to audiences in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Western Europe, England and the United States. Wali has trained thousands of managers and business leaders in the past 15 years from most Fortune-500 companies. His leadership and training of trainers workshops have been a crowd puller. His branded workshops include ‘Leadership for CEOs’, ‘Women in Leadership’, ‘Leadership Readiness’ and ‘Leadership Derailments’. A lifelong learner, Wali has received training and education in America, Canada, UK, Germany, Austria and Singapore. He is an accredited leadership trainer from Team Management Systems, Australia. He has also taught pioneering courses at MBA level in Pakistan’s premier business schools like IBA Karachi and Szabist. He is member of UK’s Institute of Directors, Chartered Management Institute, Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, Chartered Institute of Marketing and American Management Association. Currently, he is working as Director of Management Development Services at British Council, Karachi and can be reached at wali.zahid@gmail.com.
Articles by this Author
The A.B.C of Leadership Readiness
- By Wali Zahid
- Published 07/28/2008
- Leadership
Leadership has its own ABC; that is different from the normal ABC. It is not as simple as the letter seems to be, it has a complete depth a new world to explore. Every word for a letter has its own meaning and they define the quality that a leader must have. Each letter has a word of its own and each word has its own meaning with reference to the leadership context.
Leadership Readiness
- By Wali Zahid
- Published 06/22/2008
- Leadership
What factors are involved in shaping up a leader, in preparing him / her to take up the leadership role, getting him / her ready to be precise? In studying the various aspects of readiness and during various brainstorming sessions in class we have developed a leadership readiness model with the help of human anatomy. The factors are ordered, ranked and discussed with respect to their importance in how the leaders use them to become great leaders.