The intricacies in leadership always stand in front of the test of time to validate its true strength. There will always be barriers and naysayers restricting these visionaries along the way. But such metrics only portray greater resilience within the holistic journey. Looking towards a sustainable future always aligns with education and the curiosity to explore deeper knowledge. And entrepreneurs shaping learning and development garners societal appreciation in its purest form. Business Outreach Magazine aims to deliver to our readers the remarkable success story of Fazil Sheikh Saleem, a humble persona, whose decades of devotion towards the higher education industry holds a pivotal benchmark in modern times.
A Brief History-
Fazil Sheikh Saleem founded Maverick Business Academy analyzing the growing possibilities in education, being accessible and allowing students to harness value for career growth. For any change to evolve into a greater cause, Fazil Sheikh Saleem has advocated himself as a catalyst for innovation leading to borderless education. We often perceive business solely from a point of profit, but Fazil expresses otherwise, where Maverick Business Academy always followed the PPP model, which is People, Planet & then Profit/Product.
Fazil’s greatest triumphs have always been the student success and how Maverick shaped their lives towards limitless value-creation and optimism. Well! Every entrepreneur has walked over thorny pathways to reach their built goals. Fazil Sheikh’s journey further adds to those roadblocks as he has always led Maverick Business Academy, through a bootstrapped model with his own blood sweat equity and is a debt-free award-winning institution till date.
Struggles and Success Stories-
During the early career days of Fazil Sheikh Saleem who started his arduous hustle from the age of 18 and worked with Brands Like HSBC & Frankfinn Institute, he sensed a growing drive to serve the community with his unique approach to bridge the academia-industry interface and providing a sense of security and fulfillment to his family who he still considers as his emotional drive to overcome all odds be it in Business Or Life. In 2012, at the age of 22 he created the corporate training entity, I AM EVENTS and pivoted to higher education organically.
Time is our greatest ally and Fazil understood its efficacy from a very nascent stage in his career. In a decade, Maverick Business Academy under the leadership of Fazil Sheikh Saleem expanded its client base to other regions in GCC, MENA, South Asia & South-East Asia with stellar scalability in Africa.
Maverick Business Academy successfully deciphered their different markets and provided programs that are flexible, relevant, detailed and industry-oriented and providing internship opportunities. With these educational practices, students gained tremendous insights about the latest industry standard practices and upskilling themselves consistently. Fazil Sheikh Saleem has acquired a broad spectrum of education in his distinguished career. He pursued his Master of Business Administration from the UK in 2020 specializing in Strategy & Leadership.
Fazil Sheikh has impacted the blueprint of entrepreneurial education with several initiatives like European Professional Doctorate (D.Prof) Concept in 2014, which is a testament to work based integrated learning challenging the stale norms prevalent in the traditional format by delivering the course on a reverse learning pedagogy and inspiring Young Generation of Learners to emulate the Success Stories of esteemed Maverick Alumnus who are Business Moguls & Industry Stalwarts across 80+ nations, en.
Navigating a sustainable global impact, Fazil strategized Maverick Business Academy as a hub for education with 20+ Undergraduate and Postgraduate Qualifications delivered by more than 8 Universities and Awarding Bodies across 10+ countries at fraction of a cost making education accessible and affordable.
Maverick Business Academy, pioneering in the field of Transnational Education & Hybrid Learning with Pathway Programs has been unanimously recognized as ‘The Top 100 Educators in The GCC Region’ by Global Forum for Education and Learning USA & EU in 2019. The team led by Fazil Sheikh Secured Million Dollar Projects in the latter half of 2023, including a Strategic Partnership with the University of Buckingham UK for Validation Programs and collaborations with Rushford Business School Switzerland and UpGrad India for the accredited DBA qualification.
It has been due to the impeccable far-sightedness of Fazil Sheikh Saleem that Maverick Business Academy successfully persisted and scaled during COVID and emerged as an even better place for collaboration and team culture which resulted in Maverick Local Access Points in 15+ nations with strongly rooted partnerships with their loyal associates. Most importantly, Maverick Business Academy landed another honor when Fazil Sheikh was inducted to the Board Committee of H.H SHEIKH AHMED BIN FAISAL AL QASSIMI as a Senior Board Royal Advisor for Educational & Investments Related Projects.
Key Takeaways-
While building Maverick Business Academy with his young and enterprising team in the UK & UAE, Fazil always embraced the challenges of entrepreneurship from the age of 22 with humility, honesty and the unshakeable self-belief he has in his vision and his people. He walks back to those memories when he surpassed several overwhelming moments to reach the position he is today. Some of those hurdles include rapid shifts in industry, cash-flow, changes in the business landscape, decoding the complexities of global expansion, introducing stimulating and engaging concepts, adapting to the aftermath of COVID-19 and laying an upward trajectory and balancing growth with maintaining educational standards.
Fazil gladly shares that he is his own competitor and the only way to thrive is perfecting oneself as he moves forward. Maverick Business Academy has made education into an engaging experience for the students with primary focus on Skill & Knowledge based learning. The academy’s global accreditations, partnerships and memberships further proves Fazil’s vision towards diversity, equity and inclusion. Maverick Business Academy under the stewardship of Fazil Sheikh also looks forward in maintaining the mentorship system of underprivileged learners in Africa through their scholarship programs.
Fazil Sheikh is an advocate of servant leadership and truly values the limitlessness of networking for getting more clarity on business and industry trends. When we asked Fazil Sheikh Saleem on his perspective towards life, he said, “Embrace change as an opportunity for growth, see challenges as stepping stones to success, find harmony in chaos, and let your journey in education be a relentless pursuit of passion and compassion in serving the community, not just a path to knowledge.”
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