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Dr. Faryal Razzaq is a seminal academician, master trainer, research consultant, blogger for national newspapers, influencer, panelist for National TV, philanthropist, Emotional Intelligence and ethics’ education evangelist, instructional designer, and a member of advisory boards for a few institutions, including the Bahria University Corporate Advisory committee. Dr. Faryal is certified by the Ethics & Compliance Initiative, USA, as a Leadership Professional in Ethics & Compliance. She is a mentor for the National Incubation Centre, CaterpillarHer (Miller Center for social entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University, CA., USA), CGI (NUML University), BIC (Bahria University), SEED, and Khudi-A women empowerment project, and she serves as a board member for the Accountability Lab. Additionally, she is in the pool for the ‘Cartier Women Initiative’ as a Subject Matter Expert. Notably, she was the only female given fellowship by the Founder Institute (Silicon Valley, CA., USA) Islamabad chapter cohort 4. She is one of 20 researchers from Islamabad and KPK chapters selected as members of the Community Resilience Research Network by SDPI, funded by Creative Learning, USA, and has been awarded four research grants. She was chosen as a symbol of women empowerment in the national newspaper Daily Times, as well as in the international Inspire Zone Magazine.
She is a scout/influencer for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and an approved silver tier trainer for Google signature #IamRemarkable workshops. Dr. Faryal is featured on The World Bank’s official media page for her commitment to #GirlLearnWomenEarn and #StratupFridays initiatives of The World Bank action plans. She has been an independent consultant for the British Council, US Embassy Islamabad, CWS (Act alliance Asia Chapter), and has trained Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officers through the Professional Development Centre (Air University). She has also conducted training for the top brass of PAF and served as the lead trainer for LDC Bahria University, HRDN, DOVE Foundation, Lincoln’s Corner, SAARC Women Entrepreneurs Portal Islamabad Chapter, KSBL Executive Education, and NICAT. Dr. Faryal is a fellow of the British Council’s Going Global Researchers Connect.
She developed the first indigenous model, scale, and theory for emotional intelligence in the Pakistani workplace for her PhD thesis and created a model for effective change management for her MS thesis. She has many research publications in HEC-recognized journals and national/international conferences. Her research areas include emotional intelligence, learning style, the status of women in HEIs, effective change management, and she is currently working on developing empathy and emotional resilience, anti bullying and sexual exploitation awareness in primary school children, anti-terrorism, countering violent extremism, ethics, and the management style of Abdul Sattar Edhi. Dr. Faryal holds five copyrights from IPO, Pakistan for her models and scales.
She has supervised 22 MS-level students and 24 BBA and MBA students and has served Quaid-i-Azam University and SZABIST prior to joining KSBL. She is a member of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Society for the Social Sciences Promotion (SSSP), and the Academy of Management. She was awarded a grant to present her paper at the 73rd Annual SSSP meeting and has received HEC grants twice to present her research abroad in the USA at the Pre-AOM Emotions at Workplace conference (EMONET 11) and in Malaysia, where she also conducted pre-conference training. Her training expertise includes scale development, mental health, life skills, emotional intelligence, emotional agility, self-awareness, anger management, stress management, changing mindset, ethics, proposal writing, research, women empowerment, logic and critical thinking, effective change management, agile HR, business model canvas, and more. She has trained faculty and students in leading Pakistani universities, including Punjab University, Peshawar University, Greenwich University Karachi, IQRA University, Bahria University, SZABIST, Fatima Jinnah Women University, and foreign universities like Asia Metropolitan University, Malaysia, and others. She serves as a board of reviewers for eight research journals and the Congress on Academy of Management.
She has been a session chair and keynote speaker at many international/national conferences and has delivered hundreds of talks across various social media platforms. Dr. Faryal is an executive member of the British-Pakistan Business Forum and the Islamabad Women Chamber. She is a role model for the Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education, a general body member for the Pakistan Alliance for Early Childhood Care, an advisor to READ Pakistan, and a trainer/member of Women on Board, Connected Women, Pakistan Youth Association, LIFT Pakistan, Professional Success Summit, Jumpstart, and the Rupani Foundation, among others.
She is the founder of The FEEEL ® (Framework of Emotions, Ethics, Empowerment, and Life Skills), Pakistan’s first digital company working on emotional preventive care through self-help coping strategies. She serves as the patron-in-chief of Pakistan’s first research-based digital magazine on emotional health, ‘The FEEEL Magazine,’ and is the creator and owner of the first video literacy syllabus to develop emotional resilience for primary kids, ‘The FEEEL Toons.’ As a startup founder, she won the Women SDG Challenge Cup at Hackathon 2019 and was a semi-finalist for the TiE Startup Cup 2021. She was among 40 startup founders selected by Facebook Startup Circles training from across Pakistan in 2020.
Professional Experience
Consulting Experience
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH CONSULTANT (INDUSTRY)
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
TRAININGS CONDUCTED AS LEAD TAINER (CORPORATE)
TRAININGS CONDUCTED AS LEAD TAINER (ACADEMIC)
BOARD MEMBER & CERTIFICATIONS
Fellow for British Council, Going Global Researcher Connect.
Book Chapters
Academic Journals
International Conferences Abroad
International Conferences (Domestic)
Mass Media TV appearance as panelist and Daily newspaper publication