Wikipedia Draft:Shezad Shafiq

Shezad Shafiq is a UK-based entrepreneur, business analyst, project management expert, and professional business trainer & coach. He was born in Rochdale, UK in 1989. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Bradford. Currently, he is the co-founder and the CEO of Transform Learning Academy, located in Warrington, Cheshire.

He is globally recognized to help professionals increase their day rate & salary by becoming business analysts and project managers with zero experience using the hidden job market tactics.

Early Life & Work History
Shez (acronym of Shezad) shares his life story on his website letsaskshaz.com, mentioning his early-days struggle to get a job, and more importantly, find his way to success. Surprisingly, he started being a broke university student, doing 3 jobs at a time (in different shifts) to survive. Based on his father's advice to work smartly instead of just working hard, he put himself into a massive transformation process and owning multiple successful businesses worth millions of dollars, as of today.

In 2013, at the age of 23, Shez started his career working for top Financial Institutions and the Top 4 Audit firms in the world in Business Support & Transformation. He managed to climb the top of the career ladder by the age of 25 earning £150k.

Training & Coaching
At the age of 27, he decided to leave the corporate environment, and joined the Pitman Training Brand as the youngest Franchisee in history where he acquired 2 Pitman Training Centres in Liverpool &amp;amp; Warrington and founded a national company, Transform Learning Academy (TLA), with an aim to change life of people for better.

Pitman Training has been established since 1839 and also operates on a worldwide scale, such as the European Union and the African Continent. TLA is tailored towards professionals who are struggling to make that switch in their career in Business Analysis and Project Management. Transformation.

Shezad has been helping countless professionals, including many well-known people in Business Transformation, become full-time Business Analysts, Project Managers, SCRUM Masters, Product Owners and Data Analysts etc.

During leading this multi-million-pound projects, Shez trained more than 1000 bank professionals and gained an understanding of how to scale up a business at a corporate level. Moreover, he offered his coaching free of cost within his personal and professional circle and observed a visible jump in their earnings from £20-30k a year to earning £60k+. This was the green signal for him.

What Do His Ventures Offer?
Pitman Training Liverpool &amp; Warrington, and TLA provide quality, easily accessible, and affordable training and career coaching services both to beginners and professionals in IT, Medical, Legal, and Business Support sectors.

He co-founded the Transform Learning Academy (TLA) in 2017, with a flexible career switch program for professionals to excel in Business Analysis and Project Management careers, even if they are beginners. The following year witnessed 336% growth in business and 100’s of TLA students experienced a massive change in their lives with high-end contracts and jobs secured.

Pitman Training and Transform Learning Academy has helped over ONE MILLION students to achieve their career goals.

Behind LetsAskShaz.com
Shez fully understands the struggle a young and fresh professional has to go through entering the industry. “Prior experience”, being a traditional prerequisite for the jobs, was the source of disappointment not only for him but also for millions of beginners trying to start their career, he realized. That's why, in 2018, he created his website LetsAskShaz.com to help struggling professionals switch careers in record time using a proven strategy and formula.

Going Ahead
Shez is now his way of scaling up the business as the co-founder and the CEO of Transform Learning Academy, targeting the first 1 million dollars. This rapid expansion is attributed to the USP of the business that is very rarely seen in the online course world today; i.e. result-oriented career-building courses for beginners and experts, helping them get headhunted for high-end contracts.

Shaz Shafiq as Career Strategist & Business Coach
Personal Branding is becoming more and more powerful as the world of digital advances. Everybody knows how Elon Musk has attracted success to his brands with Personal Branding.

There are opportunities everywhere for leveraging the influence of personal branding for connected businesses. Shezad Shafiq is a Career Transformer with highly skilled experience in Helping Individuals shape careers for incredible growth and businesses to grow quickly with improved efficiency. Started in 2018 as LetsAskShaz.com, Shezad was able to clock revenue of $1 Million by helping businesses in strategy and planning for increased ROI. Shezad came with requirements focused on Uniqueness and Customer Experience.