ANTONY DEMETRIOU

Coach For The Ken Blanchard Companies®

Antony has an exploratory training style. Coaching the participants to look at the big picture, have clear roles and responsibilities, and develop their leadership skills and competencies. He integrates his extensive management and coaching experiences into the process as he works with each individual.

He has a wealth of international experience, enabling him to relate to people from many different backgrounds. He has resided in Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and has worked in more than 50 countries. Antony’s coaching experience includes mainly multinational and large local companies, with much of his work at the executive level. His areas of expertise include visioning, creating organizational change, team and organization chartering, and executive development. He recently completed a six-month project with a client, where he assumed the role of an acting CEO, helping to form the executive team and then coaching them as they went through hiring a new CEO.

Antony has held diverse management roles, and he is proud of the leadership positions he has had in forming and developing high-performing teams and companies, both local and international. As a process engineer for the Oilwell Cable Division of TRW, he redesigned the international production facility as the operations manager of Peletico Limited, redesigning the mining, mineral processing, and building materials operations. As British American Tobacco’s managing director for Thailand, he led the managing team in strategic planning, budgeting, people development, and government relations.

AAMIR NIAZI

Global Leader

Antony has an exploratory training style. Coaching the participants to look at the big picture, have clear roles and responsibilities, and develop their leadership skills and competencies. He integrates his extensive management and coaching experiences into the process as he works with each individual.

He has a wealth of international experience, enabling him to relate to people from many different backgrounds. He has resided in Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and has worked in more than 50 countries. Antony’s coaching experience includes mainly multinational and large local companies, with much of his work at the executive level. His areas of expertise include visioning, creating organizational change, team and organization chartering, and executive development. He recently completed a six-month project with a client, where he assumed the role of an acting CEO, helping to form the executive team and then coaching them as they went through hiring a new CEO.

Antony has held diverse management roles, and he is proud of the leadership positions he has had in forming and developing high-performing teams and companies, both local and international. As a process engineer for the Oilwell Cable Division of TRW, he redesigned the international production facility as the operations manager of Peletico Limited, redesigning the mining, mineral processing, and building materials operations. As British American Tobacco’s managing director for Thailand, he led the managing team in strategic planning, budgeting, people development, and government relations.

Ali Aga

Chief Executive Pakistan for Ward Howell International

Ali A. Aga has over 40 years of multi industry experience in a wide range of management positions in General Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Corporate Affairs, Operations and Supply Chain Management in ICI Pakistan as well as German company Hoechst and other national Companies.

He is currently the Managing Partner Middle East – South Asia & Chief Executive Pakistan for Ward Howell International, a global Leadership & Management consulting company. Prior to his involvement with Ward Howell in 2014, he was working with Pakistan’s leading company ICI where he worked for almost 25 years in various senior positions. He was appointed the Chief Executive of ICI Pakistan & Chairman of ICI Pakistan Power Gen Limited during the transition period of ICI Pakistan’s ownership from Akzo Nobel Netherlands to the YB Group in Pakistan in 2013. He also held the position of a Director on the Board of ICI Pakistan and worked as Vice President & Managing Director of ICI’s flagship Soda Ash Business from 2008 to 2014. He has also served as General Manager Human Resource for the ICI Group in Pakistan from 2004 to 2008 and looked after HR for the ICI group in Pakistan and Middle East, and was also responsible for leadership development programs for the Regional & Industrial Business of ICI plc globally.

He is an Independent Director on the Boards of Descon Oxychem Ltd., and Fauji Foods Ltd, and is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of HR & Remuneration Committee of Descon Oxychem Ltd., and member of Audit & HR Committees at Fauji Foods Ltd. He has served as Independent Director on the Boards of Public Sector Companies STEDEC Technology Commercialization Corporation of Pakistan, Inland Water Transport Company of Pakistan and Engineering Development Board. He is also involved in volunteer work in the field of management development and has served as the Vice Chairman of the Lahore Chapter of Management Association of Pakistan and a Council member of the Lahore Chapter of Marketing Association of Pakistan.

NAVEEN BALKHI

SSGB, PDI Executive Coach, GLOBAL HR & OD LEADER

Trusted advisor to executives and partner to front-line staff in change transformation. Respected leader and mentor of diverse teams. Thought-leader and speaker with Board-level experience. Inspires operational excellence to align people, process, culture with business. Leverages commercial acumen, relationships and technology to engage teams to deliver company goals. Agile, values-driven, solution-oriented leadership to define and deliver success at work and in community.

EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS

• Board Director: Professional Development portfolio, HR Association of Calgary
• Board Director: Finance and Marketing Committee, Islamic Chamber of Commerce, Canada
• Governance Committee: i) Calgary Business Diversity Group ii) Workforce Planning Consortium
• Founding Board Director: Leadership Development, 21st Century Women’s Economic Forum

CERTIFICATIONS & EDUCATIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• PDI Ninth House PROFILOR® Leadership Coach Certification: 360 feedback, debrief, coaching and development
• SHRM Pioneer Certification program: Strategic Diversity-Inclusion Management Certification
• ProSci Change Management Certification (ADKAR) and Six Sigma Certification

NAUSHAD JAVAID

Director & Principal Consultant At Od Consulting (Pvt) Ltd.

Naushad spans a career of 22+ years in HR & OD working in Telecom, FMCG, Banking, Utilities & Retail as well as consulting & training sectors in Pakistan. He has led Talent Management & Acquisition, Rewards, OD and HR Operations functions in various companies. He has worked extensively on Culture and Leadership Development assignments as well as leading Employee Engagement initiatives and managing Performance Management processes. He has developed core competency frameworks for various organizations, designed, developed and run Assessment/Development centers, conduct 360 feedback surveys, and have run employee value proposition studies.

In addition, he has a passion for Learning & Development and has designed and delivered innumerable hours of training focusing on leadership & management development and Developmental Assessment Centers.

Experience:

• OD Consulting (Pvt) Ltd - Director & Principal Consultant
• Bank Alfalah Limited - Head Talent, Learning & OD
• PTCL - EVP Leadership & Organization Development
• Telenor Pakistan - Director HR & Lead Business Partner

TAHIR JAWAID

For Senior Level Technical Professionals

An engineer by profession, Mr. Tahir Jawaid has over 31 years of vast experience and expertise in Fertilizer, Petrochemical & Power Sectors.

Currently, he is working as the Chief Executive Officer at HPSL, which is a subsidiary of The Hub Power Company Limited (HUBCO). HPSL has been incorporated to manage Operation & Maintenance (O&M) of its existing power assets and explore other O&M business opportunities onshore and offshore.

Previously, he was associated with HUBCO as Senior Vice President (Corporate Services & New Venture), to develop Projects based on imported & local Coal. Before joining Hubco he was the Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Public Affairs of Engro Corporation Limited.

He also worked in the United States in various capacities for system and design engineering companies.

During his professional career, he held key roles in Management of HR, Planning, Materials Warehouse Management and Maintenance Management Systems.

Mr. Jawaid obtained MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Houston, USA, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan.

WALI ZAHID

CEO – Skill City

Mr. Wali is the CEO of Skill City UAE/ Pakistan. Wali is an international consultant, speaker, trainer and executive coach. A native of Pakistan, he has spoken to audiences in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East Africa, Western Europe, England and the United States.

With the insight of original Western management thinkers, Mr. Zahid has trained and coached thousands of managers and business leaders in the past 17 years from most Fortune-500 companies. His leadership and Train the Trainer workshops have been crowd pullers. Wali's branded workshops include ‘Leadership for CEOs’, ‘Women in Leadership’, ‘Leadership Derailments’ and ‘Train the Trainer’.

A lifelong learner, Mr. Zahid 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, Szabist, Dow and CBM.

He has been member of UK’s Institute of Directors, Chartered Management Institute, Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, Chartered Institute of Marketing and American Management Association.

Mr. Zahid’s most recent employer has been British Council, Pakistan where he worked as Country Director of its Management Development Services during 2001-2008.

KHALID OSMANY

Managing Partner At Ward Howell International

Khalid Osmany has more than 45 years’ experience with large Multinational and local organizations based in Pakistan, UK, ASEAN and the UAE. He has held CEO and Director level positions in Business Management & HRM for around 25 years.

Khalid has around 33 years’ experience with ICI Pakistan; with around 10 years in Sales & Marketing, three years as Business CEO of ICI’s largest Industrial Chemicals Business and around 20 years in Human Resource Management.

Moving to the UAE in 2002, he joined the AI Ghurair Group as GM HR, for 8 years; responsible for more than 8000 employees, spread across the MENA Region; and subsequently for around three years as Director HR for the ASEAN Region Operations.

Areas of Expertise:

• Organizational Development
• Human Resource Management
• Performance Enhancement

DR. HANIF MOHAMMAD

Owner, Da Vinci Trainers and Consultants

Dr. Hanif Mohammed specializes in the areas of Strategy, Financial Modeling, Financial Economics, and Human Resource Management. He holds a PhD in Strategy from California, USA where his research work was focused towards “Creating Strategic Synergy through Strategic Alliances”. His second PhD is in Business Administration along with Post Doctorate in Financial Economics. He holds MBA in Marketing with Bi-Major in HRM. He holds a PGD from LUMS and McGill University, Canada with specialization in Operations Management. Whereas, he is a Certified Manager in Training and Development from American Management Association and has done various courses like discussion Leadership from Harvard Business School & also from AMA, New York, USA.

He has approximately 19 years of training and consultancies experience with companies in Pakistan, Canada and USA. Having extensive industry experience he has worked with companies like Shell Pakistan, Pakistan State Oil, Chevron, National Foods, Johnson & Johnson, PharmEvo, Reso Shafi Chemicals, British Council, FICH, WHO; UNO, NICH, TPS, etc.

He is also working as an advisor and consultant to various other organizations in Education Sector, and specifically in the field of Financial Modeling and Forecasting Techniques for Chemicals and Pharmaceutical industry. He has prepared budgets for US State Department in collaboration with United Nations and also evaluated Training Need Assessments done by UNDP, World Bank and Asian Development Bank in the areas of vocational training directly impacting the economic levels of a country.

SHAKEEL MAPARA

Director Human Resources, Training & Od Of Sanofi-aventis Pakistan Limited

Shakeel Mapara has a Master’s degree in Business Administration. Prior to joining Sanofi, he was the Head of Human Resources, at American Express Bank & Travel, in Karachi. He started off his career as a Sales Officer in Engro Chemical Pakistan Limited in the Sales & Marketing Department before moving to Human Resources. He has conducted various training programs on Leadership and Management both at Amex and Sanofi. He was certified at AMEX for Situational Leadership. He is also a facilitator for Explore, a Global Development program for High Potentials in Sanofi and has trained in various other countries as well.

Certified and conducted on a two days workshop called the Performance Management Process at American Express. This involved in coaching during Goal Setting, Mid-Year and Year end and most importantly during the year. This was conducted for senior management including the CEO. Coached as part of main Leadership Training session and designed and conducted session on coaching for Leaders at different levels at Sonofi-Aventis. Certified facilitator for an International Program called Explore.

Michael Schulz

Michael Schulz, a seasoned leader with over two decades of international leadership experience, has made significant contributions across diverse industries like manufacturing, energy, tech, and telecoms including extensive local expertise in Pakistan since 2008. His focus lies in driving impactful HR transformations, optimizing organizational development, and ensuring seamless post-merger integrations.

Beyond technical expertise, Michael masterfully navigates boardroom dynamics, providing invaluable insights into governance and strategic decision-making. His influence fosters positive organizational cultures by shaping talent pipelines, designing effective incentives, and facilitating smooth succession planning.

Michael's expertise extends beyond national borders, encompassing international relations, effective corporate communication strategies, and strategic crisis management. His signature approach seamlessly blends theory with real-world scenarios in interactive sessions, empowering professionals to excel in complex global environments.

In essence, Michael Schulz is a dynamic leader whose experience, strategic insights, and transformative contributions have positively impacted organizations both globally and locally within Pakistan.