Asad Zaidi

Management Development Institute (MDI)

Trainer

Asad is the CEO of Management Development Institute (MDi Pakistan) – a training and consultancy firm based in Islamabad, Pakistan. He is also the program director of MDi Business School that offers local students and working professionals a business degree program in collaboration with an Australian university. He is also a member of the Board of Excel Labs, a large chain of medical labs in the north of Pakistan.

He has more than 25 years of experience in consulting, IT management, project management, general management, organizational development, training and e-learning.

During his career, Asad has lived and worked in various countries including UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Central Asia, Egypt and Pakistan. He returned to Pakistan in 1999 after 21 years in the Far East.

His IT experience has included several years as a software developer and managerial level experience with IT systems, software applications, decision support systems and customer service. During his career with International Computers (UK) and then Fujitsu in Singapore and Malaysia, Asad held senior management positions as Customer Services Manager for International Computers Singapore, Account Manager for the computer automation system for the Singapore Post Office account and Regional Manager Southeast Asia for Fujitsu.

Asad is also a certified instructional designer and trainer of International Finance Corporation (World Bank) Business Edge program. He has designed and developed classroom as well as e-learning materials on a variety of topics relevant to clients from the development, public and corporate sectors. This included instructional design and content development sponsored by IFC Gender Secretariat in Washington D.C. for twelve business training modules for women entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

He has conducted a variety of training programs ranging from entrepreneurship training for WomenX, a program sponsored by the World Bank in Pakistan for existing women entrepreneurs to High Impact Communication Skills for organizations such as UNICEF, Ericsson, Catholic Relief Services, GAVI etc.

Asad is also an experienced e-learning consultant. He has recently completed a consulting project for GiZ related to e-learning for local government in KP province of Pakistan.