Shafqat Jilani: Management Consultant, Corporate Trainer, and Author

Shafqat Jilani is the Founder and CEO of IKTAR, Pakistan’s management consulting and corporate training organization, which he established in 2000 and has led without interruption through every economic cycle Pakistan has experienced since. He is a Certified Master Trainer (Futures Group, Washington DC), a Certified Productivity Professional (Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo Japan), and holds an M.Com. (Masters in Commerce) and an MSc in Applied Psychology.

His career began in 1990 at Eli Lilly and Company as a Marketing Associate, where he conducted market research, designed promotional strategies, and developed go-to-market frameworks for specialist pharmaceutical products. He moved to Key Social Marketing and Futures Group between 1993 and 1998, where he delivered more than one hundred soft skills development workshops for public and private sector employees and held the position of Certified Master Trainer. He served as Regional Manager for Sales and Marketing, building training programs for sales, customer care, and marketing research teams across central and north Pakistan.

In 1998 he joined HOC Training and Consulting as Director of Training and Consulting, leading the development and implementation of consulting and training engagements before founding IKTAR in 2000. Over the 25 years since, IKTAR has grown into a full-service management consulting and corporate training organization serving multinational corporations, large Pakistani corporates, NGOs, UN agencies, and ambitious SMEs across more than 25 industry sectors. In parallel, Shafqat founded BizShip International, an international buying house and third-party inspection agency for textiles and garments, and TekSof, a digital solutions and marketing company with offices in the USA and Pakistan.

As an author, Shafqat has published six books on Amazon covering workplace happiness, personal development, HR strategy, and emotional intelligence. As an academic, he has served as visiting faculty at six Pakistani universities including GC University, University of Central Punjab, and Preston University, teaching more than twenty subjects to MBA, M.Com., and MS students over eighteen years. As a consultant, he has led engagements across manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, banking, FMCG, NGOs, telecom, real estate, education, and the social sector, working with organizations that range from Nestle and Honda Atlas to UNDP, UNFPA, WWF, and the British High Commission.