Wali is an international consultant, speaker, leadership trainer and executive coach. He is CEO of Skill City [Asian answers ... to Asian questions], a new-generation learning and development regional firm with a developing-country perspective. He has spoken to audiences in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East, East Africa, 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’, ‘Leadership Derailments’ and ‘Train The Trainers’.
A lifelong learner, Wali has received training and education in the USA, 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.
Wali’s most recent employer has been British Council, Pakistan where he worked as Country Director of its Management Development Services during 2001-2008.
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.
To invite Wali to speak to your leadership team, you can reach him at skillcity@live.com.
Wali Zahid’s Specialties:
Workshop facilitation, executive coaching and team coaching for hyper-growth companies, personality profiling (TMS)
5 Comments
March 9, 2007 at 8:40 am
Hi, Wali, this is Maria Khalid. I am working as a Manager Cutomer Services in AIG Pakistan, New Hampshire Insurance Company. I have been a part of one of the workshop organised by British Council on “Handling Challenging Customers” conducted by Wajahat Gardezi.
April 5, 2007 at 7:46 am
I can’t forget my email in last summer, when I asked Wali that this summer I would be teaching a new course of Training & development, kindly help & guide me.
Can anyone believe what he had done? Without knowing much about me, he just gave me his valuable manual of TOT. For a trainer, his manual worth hundreds of thousands rupees and he just gave this on a response to an email. This was thing which inspires me and my journey in search of GURU comes to an end.
Since then I have been with Wali. It is my first experience that I have been with a person who is at a very crucial high position but very down to the earth.
He is:
• Guru in his field
• Visionary
• Innovative
• Management thinker
I think, no I am sure that he is the first person who put all his valuable writings and work on the web without charging any money. Any person from any part of the world can get advantage from his writing.
Amazingly he taught 2 new courses at SZABIST, one was unique i.e. when I goggled that topic couldn’t find any answer. The course title was Leadership Readiness.
Second, again a new topic for Pakistani academics and environment i.e. Performance appraisal; what’s wrong with it.
Both these courses are new to Pakistani business schools and even business practitioners aren’t in a position to say something on these topics, but Wali with his team broke all the rules and develop new ideas and theory.
Lastly, I would say he is the emerging Management thinker from Pakistan and he is
“Asian’s answer to Drucker”
September 29, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Saying something about him won’t be fair enough for the personality like he posses..so i will stay quiet ..
Thanks for being my mentor..
October 20, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Zahid has broken all stereotypes of a conventional Asian Trainer. For the first time he has introduced workshop formats that deliver maximum take-home value to the participants; learning that remains with you even after many years of experiencing his magical moments.
He has always inspired his audience with his deep understanding of society and how people interpret situations.
God has gifted him with humility!
January 22, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I have met Wali on few occassions and became a follower.
He is a motivational figure to all who think “I can do it”.
He possess a soft & pleasant nature which leaves an ever-lasting impression.
I wish him well for his new venture at Skill City.