| Shamim is a graduate of the University of Natal, and of Nyenrode University in the Netherlands. He recently completed his PhD at UKZN in the area of strategic enactment. Shamim, originally trained and practiced as an engineer and worked in the corporate sector for nearly 14 years, serving in a variety of functional, professional and managerial capacities before joining academia. He is now based at the Leadership Centre and is actively involved in research, academic and curriculum development, lecturing, facilitation and consulting. He draws on inter-disciplinary research to work with complex real world problems. This work has spanned public, private and civil society sectors.
He has engaged in facilitation in a variety of contexts both for small groups and large groups. Some of these include: strategy, business planning, conflict, union, training, skills development, youth workshops and simulations amongst others.
Shamim serves as a Director of the Institute for Natural Resources. |