Araz Najarian

Biography

Araz Najarian is a facilitator, speaker, and designer within the areas of leadership, strategy, marketing, technology, and innovation. She currently works with Executive Learning Partnership, an innovative group of leadership and strategy architects, enabling senior executives to reframe their company's future, re-chart their strategic course and drive business performance through enterprise wide engagement. Araz is responsible for designing and delivering several projects enabling the development of next generation leadership in a number of organizations ranging from financial services, transport & logistics, telecommunications, and consumer goods.

Araz has also worked extensively in the non-corporate sector connected to 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. 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 policy initiatives with the Government of Canada connected to innovation.

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, located in Ottawa, Canada, and holds a Bachelors degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management specialized 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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