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Speaker Biography

Rizwan A. Sheikh, PhD (Rizwan) is an experienced and internationally recognized senior project manager, management consultant and professor of corporate and business strategy, change management, leadership, project management, human resource management, and negotiation. He has been acknowledged globally as an innovative and dynamic leader, organizational development executive, management consultant, strategic thinker, executive trainer, thought leader, and entrepreneur with a proven track record of driving and meeting strategic targets.

He has been recognized as a leader and strategic thinker in establishing organizations with innovative business models, crafting learning and development strategies, creating and implementing the corporate strategy for global companies, developing and strengthening leaders and organizations, and providing world-class executive training, mentoring, coaching, and advising. He is also a recipient of the Microsoft Award for “Innovative Vision and Dynamic Leadership.”

He has spent over 25 years helping global companies meet the challenges of executing global business, organizational, leadership, and training strategies and programs. His work focuses on corporate and business strategy, leadership and organization development, change management, learning and development, creating high-performance teams, project management, business process reengineering, and culture change of global business operations.

Rizwan has been an affiliate faculty at the top schools, including Leadership in Healthcare Management Program of Harvard Medical School, Family Business Program of MIT Sloan School of Management, Transformational Leadership & Organizational Change of Judge Business School (University of Cambridge).

His key clients and employers have included:

• Deloitte Consulting
• AT&T
• PepsiCo
• Merrill Lynch
• Progressive Insurance Company
• STERIS Corporation
• S-German Hospitals Group
• Acclaim Entertainment
• Ingersoll-Rand
• Eaton Corporation
• The United States Postal Service
• Pak Arab Refinery Company Ltd. (PARCO), UAE
• Etisalat Telecom (UAE) and others

Keynote Synopsis
The presentation shares the latest research from Harvard, MIT, and other schools on how to create high-performance project teams using emotional intelligence (EQ) and deliver project successfully. It also discusses a research model on the correlation between EQ and project success.

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