Rizwaan Akhtar is a mission-driven professional with over a decade of experience in leadership development, program design, facilitation, and people management. His purpose is to enable individuals to unlock their potential to create positive social change and foster inclusive communities. His expertise includes team building, strategic planning, curriculum design, training and facilitation, youth development, diversity and inclusion, strategic planning, and risk management.
Rizwaan Akhtar
Rizwaan Akhtar
Geographic experience
North America
Languages
English
Experience as a coach (formal/informal)
7 years
Experience as a facilitator
12 years
UFacilitator stage
Sector(s)
Environmental sustainability, Education, Skill development and employability, International development, Peace and conflict, Race equity.
Strengths
- Appreciative inquiry, World Cafe, Art of Hosting, Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design, Liberating Structures, Scenario planning, SWOT analysis, RACI, Open Space Technology aka Open Space aka unconference
- Good at facilitating the experiential learning cycle, debriefs
- Intergroup dialogue facilitation (like Circle)
- Lots of experience with identity-based work with people who identify as Muslim
- Design thinking
Areas of development and learning
About us
UFacilitate exists to coach leaders so they can create the conditions that are needed to drive inclusion and collaboration.
