Fauzia Kerai Khan
Fauzia Kerai Khan has a cumulative working experience of almost 20 years in diverse fields ranging from banking, brokerage/investment advisory to IT and e-Learning. She has served in the areas of Business Development, Quality and Customer Relations, Operations and Training. She studied Economics and Fine Arts in the United States.

Fauzia is a HR Development and Management professional who has worked extensively for a range of public and private sectors organisations throughout Pakistan. Fauzia is able to design, develop, train, facilitate, evaluate and offer consultancy advice for the formulation of strategy, through to benchmarking of continuous improvement for performance improvement.

She is a Certified Trainer (ExecuTrain) and a seasoned manager with expertise in developing and implementing knowledge transfer programmes. She is well versed in creating and implementing working methodologies and Best Practices for successful implementation of performance management systems, organizational development and change management initiatives.

Fauzia writes regularly for the personal and career development section of DAWN, the Advertiser and has made several television and radio appearances in the capacity of an HR Consultant.

Rahal Saeed
Rahal Saeed has more than 15 years’ experience in the development sector, in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the United States. She specialises in participatory field-based research; community development; designing and implementing participatory training programs; programme and project management; proposal development; programme and project evaluation; impact assessments and strategic planning. She also has expertise in the field of gender, with a focus on gender planning and analysis; reproductive health and rights; human rights; and advocacy; particularly in terms of drawing from lessons learned and best practices in the international arena and applying them to the local context.

She has worked with donor agencies as well as with non-profit organizations in Pakistan and the United States and holds a Master’s degree in International Training and Education with a focus on adult education and gender from American University in Washington, D.C. Rahal has published extensively in the local print media; and also has some international publications to her credit.

Farah Nasim
Farah Nasim has twenty three years of working experience with fifteen dedicated to training and development. Her expertise is in training, coaching and counseling employees for development, chaotic change, mergers and acquisitions and outplacement.  She is highly proficient in translating knowledge into visible, measurable actions and behaviors.

She has worked extensively in the following sectors with variety of national and multination organizations: banking and financial services, FMCG, Oil & Gas.  She has managed performance management, and 360 feedback projects with teams. She is also working as a coach/counselor with the top teams of few prestigious organizations. She had worked as Organizational Counselor and Coach with one of the TV-channel, for one and half year.

Since last four years, she is busy in coordinating and implementing a “Life Coaching” project at Karwan-e-Hayat in liaison with the University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey (UMDNJ).

She is a Certified Counselor from CPPD London School of Counseling and a Certified Mental Health Practitioner from UMDNJ.

Hilda Saeed

Hilda Saeed has an initial background in teaching, medical research and forensic science. Due to an abiding interest in health and in writing, she became founding editor of National Health Magazine in 1983, a monthly health journal devoted to provision of health information, particularly maternal and reproductive health; analysis of current health and population policies; and newly emerging medical research. National Health received recognition in Pakistan and abroad, and was listed in WHO’s Index Medicus.

She attended the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD),1994, as a PANOS UK representative; their publication, “Private Decisions, Public Debate” (with her report on Pakistan, “We Can’t Stop Now”) was launched at this Conference, and subsequently won a Global Media Award.

She was a member of the Government delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.
 
She has attended Women In Management courses at CEDPA (Centre for Development and Population Activities), Washington, D.C., and helped CEDPA re-start expanded activities in Pakistan after a gap of several years.

She continues to work in the areas of population, reproductive health, and women’s rights through her writing, consultancy work and in an advisory capacity with various groups and organisations. She has recently edited a forthcoming PANOS South Asia publication on HIV/AIDS, and is currently editing a manual on Sexual Health for Aahung.

She enjoys writing, and currently contributes articles to the Dawn newspaper. She was one of the winners of the Global Media Award (by the Population Reference Bureau) for the PANOS publication “Private Decision, Public Debate”;

Shafi Parekh

Shafi Parekh is a licensed MBTI Practitioner.  He spent 29 years in the US in manufacturing and operations management, with privately held and Fortune 50 companies, and rose to the position of Director of Operations. Coming back to Pakistan in 2003, he established a successful training and development practice and is now back in the US.

Shafi has managed the recruiting, training, and development of future top-level managers for General Mills in the operations area. He was an integral part of an overall management trainee program that took college graduatess and readied them for managerial positions within General Mills. Some of the recruits hold important positions to date.

Shafi qualified from the TRI University in Huntington Beach, California and is a practitioner licensed by CPP to administer and interpret the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument. He is also a Certified Trainer in the Rational Thinking Processes, also from the United States, having led a number of training sessions in the US, UAE and Pakistan.