Mr. Quazi M. Ahmed

Biography:

Educated and trained in the US, Norway, Japan, and Bangladesh, Quazi M. Ahmed is a renowned leadership, team building, and soft skills facilitator with 27 years of experience in training, teaching, speaking, and coaching. Since January 2022, he has been the IFC/World Bank Group Certified Master Trainer. Over the years, he has conducted face-to-face training programs/gave talks in conferences in the USA, Denmark, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. He has also done VILT (Virtual Instructor-Led Training) workshops and spoke at e-Conferences and webinars for audiences in a dozen other countries, including the UK, Myanmar, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia.

For his global presence in human capital development, Mr. Ahmed received the “Global Training and Development Leadership Award” in February 2017 by the World HRD Congress in its 25th-anniversary celebrations. He has facilitated training sessions attended by more than one hundred thousand people in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors in multiple countries.

In recent years, He has completed the following certifications: IFC/World Bank Group Certified Master Trainer, Certified facilitator, from InsideOut Coaching/Development (USA), Certified L&D Professional from Aon Hewitt Learning Center (UK & India), and Certified PPA Practitioner from Thomas Assessment Pvt. Ltd. (UK and India).

Mr. Ahmed is recognized as the pioneer of the modern approach to L&D in Bangladesh–the country of his birth. In 2016, he founded the Bangladesh Organization for Learning and Development (BOLD), which is the national apex body serving the needs of trainers, Learning & Development professionals, and others passionate about personal and professional development. One of his primary purposes is to become the best version of himself.