Meet the IKTAR Team

Business consultant, certified master trainer, behavioral psychologist, and published author with 35 years of experience in sales, marketing, leadership development, and management consulting. Founder of IKTAR since 2000. Holds certifications from the Asian Productivity Organization Japan, Futures Group Washington DC, and the Dale Carnegie Institute. Author of six published books including The Science of Workplace Happiness, The Emotionally Intelligent Leader, and Quantum Edge for HR Managers. Shafqat is the lead consultant and trainer on every senior IKTAR engagement and the only team member with a standalone individual profile page on this site.

Core expertise: Management consulting, corporate training, behavioral psychology, executive coaching, sales and marketing strategy, productivity enhancement, 360 degree feedback, leadership development

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Financial expert and project management professional with two decades of experience in international business management and consulting. Oversees project governance, financial planning, and multi-workstream delivery across IKTAR’s active client engagements. Brings a structured, systems-oriented approach to project oversight that ensures engagements are delivered on time, within scope, and to the financial discipline the client expects.

Core expertise: Financial consulting, project governance, international business management, multi-workstream delivery oversight

Leadership and business transformation specialist with over 28 years of experience across sales, marketing, HR management, and executive coaching. Leads IKTAR’s corporate engagement strategy and business development function. Brings a depth of senior organizational experience that makes her particularly effective in corporate client relationships where the conversation needs to happen at a strategic rather than an operational level.

Core expertise: Leadership development, business transformation, executive coaching, corporate client engagement, HR management, sales and marketing

Seasoned leadership development and organizational transformation expert with a sophisticated executive coaching methodology calibrated for C-suite and senior management programs. Brings extensive experience working with senior leaders navigating organizational change, succession transitions, and the behavioral development challenges that come with significant increases in authority and responsibility.

Core expertise: Executive coaching, leadership development, emotional intelligence, organizational transformation, C-suite advisory, succession planning

Industrial engineer and HSE specialist with proven expertise in organizational development, OSHA implementation, and safety management systems for manufacturing and industrial clients. Supports IKTAR’s HSE and OSHA consulting engagements with technical depth and practical implementation experience drawn from working directly in industrial and manufacturing environments. Also contributes to IKTAR’s broader organizational development work as a corporate strategist.

Core expertise: HSE management systems, OSHA compliance, industrial engineering, safety culture development, organizational development, corporate strategy

MBA HR, MA English. Creative researcher and business development strategist who oversees core company functions including program design, client proposals, and knowledge management. Brings a combination of HR academic grounding and sharp business writing capability that makes her particularly effective in translating IKTAR’s consulting and training capability into compelling, client-specific proposals.

Core expertise: Business development, research and analysis, program design, client proposals, knowledge management

A dedicated engineer passionate about developing projects, grooming people, and initiating new business initiatives. Supports IKTAR’s consulting and project development work with a structured, technically grounded approach. Particularly effective in engagements that require translating organizational consulting recommendations into operational implementation plans.

Core expertise: Project development, engineering consulting, operations support, people development

Certified life coach, clinical hypnotist, and personal development practitioner with over 15 years of experience in wellbeing programs, emotional resilience workshops, and peace-building initiatives. Supports IKTAR’s personal development and wellbeing training engagements, particularly programs addressing stress, emotional resilience, and personal transformation for individual and organizational clients.

Core expertise: Life coaching, clinical hypnotherapy, emotional resilience, wellbeing programs, personal development, peace-building

Business graduate and communication expert. A dedicated young professional with a genuine passion for client service and a consistent track record of going above and beyond the scope of his coordination responsibilities. Abdullah is frequently the first IKTAR team member a new client interacts with and sets the tone for the professional, responsive engagement that IKTAR is known for.

Core expertise: Client coordination, communication management, operations support, client relationship management

Business graduate and marketing professional responsible for project coordination, client communication, and team-client liaison across IKTAR’s active training and consulting engagements. Brings a marketing professional’s attention to client experience alongside the operational discipline that project coordination requires.

Core expertise: Project coordination, client communication, marketing support, team-client liaison