Building Pakistan’s Next Generation of Leaders, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs
Youth Development Program
Four Programs for Every Stage: From School Students to Young Professionals “The best time to invest in a leader is before they become one. The second best time is now.”
More than sixty percent of the country is under thirty.
This is simultaneously the country’s greatest asset and its most significant development challenge: millions of young people with talent, energy, and ambition who have not yet been given the skills, the mindset, or the professional foundation to translate those qualities into productive, successful careers and lives. IKTAR’s Youth Development Program addresses this gap directly across four distinct programs, each designed for a specific age group and development stage. Whether the participant is a ten-year-old discovering what leadership means, a college student building a professional identity, or a young entrepreneur learning to use social media as a business tool, there is a specific IKTAR program built for exactly where they are right now. These programs are delivered in partnership with schools, colleges, universities, and youth organizations across Pakistan. Corporate CSR teams and NGOs funding youth development as a social investment are also welcome to partner with IKTAR to deliver any of these programs for their target communities.
IKTAR’s youth programs span two broad categories: school-based character and leadership development delivered in age-appropriate segments, and professional and entrepreneurial skill programs for college students and young professionals.
School-Based Programs: Two Age Segments
IKTAR’s school programs are delivered in partner schools and colleges across Pakistan. Both segments cover the same eleven core development topics but with content, language, and activities calibrated to the age and maturity of each group. Both are available for in-house delivery at your institution.
PROGRAM 1
Junior Leaders Program
For: School students aged 10 to 16 years
Workshop Topics Covered: • Coping with Nervousness: understanding and managing anxiety in academic and social situations • Confidence Building: developing a healthy, realistic sense of personal capability and self-worth • Public Speaking Skills: communicating ideas clearly and confidently in front of a group • Listening Skills Development: genuine listening as a leadership and relationship skill • Helping Others: developing empathy, community awareness, and the habit of service • Team Work: collaborating effectively with peers who have different strengths and working styles • Leadership Skill Development: what leadership means at school age and how to practice it daily • Coping with Childhood Stress: recognizing and managing the pressures of academic and social life • How to Keep Your Teachers and Parents Happy: Simple Way to Happiness, practical relationship and communication skills for the family and school context • Morals, Success and Life: building character, values, and an understanding of what genuine success means • Leading Group Discussions: facilitating, participating in, and contributing to group conversations
PROGRAM 2
Young Leaders Program
For: School and college students aged 15 to 20 years
Workshop Topics Covered: • Coping with Nervousness: managing performance anxiety in presentations, exams, and social situations at a higher stakes level • Confidence Building: building genuine self-confidence grounded in self-awareness rather than performance • Public Speaking Skills: developing the ability to present, persuade, and inspire a peer or adult audience • Listening Skills Development: active listening as a leadership differentiator in group and professional settings • Helping Others: social responsibility, mentoring younger students, and community contribution • Team Work: leading and contributing to teams with diverse strengths, including managing conflict and credit fairly • Leadership Skill Development: taking responsibility, initiating action, and building influence without formal authority • Coping with Stress: managing the pressure of board exams, university applications, and peer expectations • How to Keep Your Teachers and Parents Happy: Simple Way to Happiness, navigating authority relationships respectfully and strategically • Morals, Success and Life: defining personal values and understanding the relationship between character and long-term achievement • Leading Group Discussions: chairing, facilitating, and contributing to structured group conversations in academic and community settings s • Leading Group Discussions: facilitating, participating in, and contributing to group conversations
Professional and Entrepreneurial Programs
These two programs are designed for college students, university students, and young professionals who are building their professional identity and career foundation. Both are available as standalone workshops, as part of a combined series, or as in-house programs for educational institutions and corporate CSR initiatives.
PROGRAM 3
Leadership for Youth
For: College and university students and young professionals in the first three to five years of their career
Workshop Topics Covered: • Self-awareness and personal values: understanding who you are, what you stand for, and the kind of leader you want to become • Vision and goal-setting: setting specific, meaningful goals with concrete action plans rather than vague aspirations • Communication and influence: presenting ideas with confidence and clarity, and leading through persuasion rather than authority • Accountability and follow-through: keeping commitments, owning mistakes, and building the reputation of someone who does what they say • Resilience and persistence: maintaining direction and energy when the path is unclear or difficult • Team leadership: leading peers rather than subordinates, which requires a fundamentally different approach from positional leadership • Personal leadership development plan: each participant leaves with a specific, written plan for the next ninety days
PROGRAM 4
Social Media Marketing Training
For: College & University students, young professionals, and student entrepreneurs wanting to build a professional digital presence or launch a digital business
Workshop Topics Covered: • Professional profile optimization: building a LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook presence that works for career or business purposes • Content strategy fundamentals: understanding what to post, when to post, and how to create content that reaches the right audience • Algorithm understanding: how Pakistan’s most commercially relevant social media platforms decide what to show and how to create content that they reward • Audience building: identifying and reaching a specific target audience rather than creating content for everyone and reaching no one • Content creation in the room: participants create at least one piece of real content during the session using their own device • 30-day content plan: each participant leaves with a practical, implementable content plan they built during the workshop • Basic social media metrics: understanding which numbers matter and how to use them to improve
Who These Programs Are For
IKTAR’s Youth Development Programs are designed for:
Target Participants
• School students aged 10 to 16 who need age-appropriate character, confidence, and leadership development through the Junior Leaders Program • School and college students aged 15 to 20 who are ready for more demanding leadership and communication development through the Young Leaders Program • College and university students building their professional identity, leadership capability, and career foundation through Leadership for Youth • Young professionals, student entrepreneurs, and digitally active students wanting to convert social media time into professional and commercial value through Social Media Marketing Training • Schools, colleges, and universities seeking a structured development partner for their students beyond the academic curriculum • Corporate CSR programs and NGOs investing in youth development as a community or social impact initiative
Whatever stage your young people are at, there is a specific IKTAR program designed for exactly where they are right now and what they need to develop next.
Campus or IKTAR facility. Participants must bring their own smartphone or laptop.
All four programs are available for in-house delivery at your institution or venue. Group sizes range from 25 for intimate interactive workshops to 200 or more for keynote-style school or college assemblies. Contact IKTAR to discuss which program and format is right for your audience, budget, and objectives.
Why IKTAR
Youth development programs fail when they are either too corporate for a young audience or too superficial to produce any real change. IKTAR’s programs sit deliberately between those two failure modes: structured enough to produce genuine skill development and character growth, and engaging enough to hold the attention of an audience ranging from a ten-year-old in a school assembly to a twenty-five-year-old building their first business. Shafqat Jilani’s six published books, including Think Big, Morning Routines for Success, and 365 Daily Affirmations for a Winning Mindset, speak directly to the mindset, ambition, and character themes covered in the youth programs. Participants who want to continue the work after the workshop have a body of published material written by the same person who delivered their training. This program is led by Shafqat Jilani, a Certified Master Trainer (Futures Group, Washington DC) with an MSc in Applied Psychology and over 25 years of experience working with young Pakistanis in educational, corporate, and community development contexts across Pakistan.
Pakistan’s greatest untapped resource is not oil, gas, or technology. It is the forty million young Pakistanis between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five who are talented, ambitious, and hungry to contribute, but who have never been given the skills, the character foundation, or the belief in themselves to do so. Every young person IKTAR works with is not just a participant in a workshop. They are a potential leader, a future employer, an entrepreneur, a changemaker. Investing in them is not charity. It is the highest return investment Pakistan can make. Shafqat Jilani | Founder, IKTAR | Certified Master Trainer | Author of The Science of Workplace Happiness
Several IKTAR personal development programs connect directly to Shafqat Jilani’s published books:
Think Big program: links to 365 Daily Affirmations for a Winning Mindset (2025) Stress Management programs: links to Morning Routines for Success (2024) and Gratitude: A Journey to Joy (2024) Mastering Emotional Intelligence: links to The Emotionally Intelligent Leader (2026) All six books are available on Amazon worldwide. Browse All Books by Shafqat Jilani
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Youth Development pairs naturally with IKTAR’s other programs for personal and professional growth:
Leadership Training
The full corporate leadership suite for youth program graduates taking on management responsibility
Scheduled training sessions held at IKTAR’s facilities or partner venues in Lahore. Open to participants from any organization. Ideal for organizations sending one to five people, or for individuals investing in their own professional development
Scheduled dates published in advance | Meet and learn with professionals from other organizations | Cost-effective for small teams | Immediate availability without minimum group size | Certificate of completion issued
Training designed exclusively for your organization and delivered at your premises or a venue of your choice. IKTAR conducts a Training Needs Analysis first, then develops a program that reflects your organization’s specific context, challenges, and objectives.
Designed around your actual training gaps | Delivered at your location across Pakistan | Consistent messaging for your entire team | Flexible scheduling around your operations | Higher ROI for teams of 10 or more | Ongoing support and follow-up available
Shafqat is well experienced trainer familiar with Competency Based Education and Training CBET & Quality Assurance QA / Quality Control QC of Training
Moustafa WahbaTVET Consultant
I don’t hesitate in placing Shafqat Jilani among the best trainers in the country. He always explores modern approaches, creative skills, innovative ideas and relevant case studies. Any enterprise looking for training services in human development, strategic planning, development of selling & marketing skills, improvement in presentation skills, policy & strategy development, polishing decision-making skills, introduction of modern approaches etc. must opt IKTAR as a Trainer.
Zulfiqar Ahmad HBL
Mr. Shafqat is a thorough gentleman and a perfect professional who keeps his commitments and have all the potential to steer any organization to success. He is a Lead Trainer and Consultant and I for once trust him to deliver effective and mesmerizing trainings as well as innovative solutions. I would like to highly recommend him for training and consulting assignments.
Suhail Iqbal SysComp International (Pvt.) Ltd
KTAR is very good training institute, as we experienced recently. We sent our team on Leadership training course to IKTAR and found a tremendous change in behavior of our team. IKTAR has been useful in bringing a Paradigm shift in their approach to handle things and now the same employees are very helpful towards other colleagues. I believe, IKTAR training modules makes employees from Followers to Leaders, who not only delivery their own KPIs but also help others to grow to achieve joint goals of the company.
Abdul Wahid QureshiRenacon Pharma
Shafqat Jilani is a a detailed oriented person. Hope his organization can take a lot a benefit from him. Good Luck
Chaudhry Ahmad JawadPakistan Business Forum
I had the opportunity to work with Shafqat Jilani and found him to be a knowledgeable and dedicated business consultant. His practical advice, strategic thinking, and commitment to helping businesses grow make him a valuable professional. I appreciate his guidance and confidently recommend him to anyone seeking business transformation and growth expertise.
Dr. Shafa UllahPower Lion Seed
I know Shafqat from his university days, he had a candid and persuasive personality from the early days. He had bold presentations with innovative and unique ideas complemented by his ability to put this on the paper as well. Teaching and passing on his knowledge to others has always been his passion and he has been doing this very well in his different roles at the present and previous assignments.
M. Zafar IqbalLa Computa Vision LLC
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