LEAP Ambition event: The Speakers (4) Araz Najarian
Thu 02 September 2010
, ELP, ELP
Araz Najarian is responsible for designing and delivering projects enabling the development of next generation leadership in various organisations; from transport and logistics to telecommunications and consumer goods. She’s one of the speakers at the LEAP Connected Ambition event.
Araz is a facilitator, speaker, and designer within the areas of leadership, strategy, marketing, technology, and innovation. Through her work with Executive Learning Partnership (ELP) she enables senior executives to connect and bring meaning to emerging futures by engaging and empowering their talent to collaboratively enact their aspired future.
Global talent supply
She has also worked extensively in the non-corporate sector, focussing on youth leadership development, global talent supply programs and international development programs. With AIESEC International she designed and lead the creation and deployment of a new regional business development initiative, significantly increasing market presence in the region.
Government officials
She also led the strategic development and operational delivery of the global talent program, enabling organizations to source talented graduates from a pool of over 10,000 candidates in more than 100 countries. Prior to this she was responsible for delivering a program for the World Bank aimed at training 200 government officials from 65 countries and worked on several innovation policy initiatives with the Government of Canada.
High honours
Araz has worked with teams in over 30 countries, primarily in Latin America and in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. She graduated with high honours from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and holds a Bachelors degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management specialised in International Relations. Her final year honours research paper focused on policy recommendations for the Canadian government to encourage sustainable business practices in Canadian industry.
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