Strategic Agile Leader with over two decades of highly versatile and cross functional leadership and technical expertise in biotech, retail, and fashion apparel design at some of America's finest companies in those domains.

Served on board of directors of American Red Cross, Indiana for almost a decade and is recipient of the prestigious and highly competitive "40 under 40" recognition as well as  many leadership awards. She received MBA from Purdue University and BS from Indiana Tech.

Ms. Safdar brings an empathetic leadership and coaching style to her training while maintaining principled and rigorous approach towards problem solving in today's unique context of fast paced transformative change. She leverages her experience on three continents by harnessing unique strengths in bridging chasms and divides towards powerful value proposition.

Seasoned industry professional encompassing over two decades experience from some of the best American companies (notably Verizon's  LEAD program graduate & Verizon Excellence Award nominee - a Fortune 10 company).

Key Accomplishments:

- Led innovative engineering solutions development

- Managed critical vendor relationships and capital projects

- Served on the Architecture Team for enterprise-wide solutions

- Administered RFP processes for company-wide enhancements

- Facilitated the $20B FiOS expansion initiative

- Served as Centralized SME Integration Planner

- Completed the prestigious two-year Leadership Excellence and Development (LEAD) Program

- Introduced standardization improvements in regional network design

- Launched several products across network and provided cross functional leadership towards seamless integration with embedded architecture.

He also has served for a decade in teaching and mentoring capacity in academia as adjunct professor & lecturer at Purdue (a R1 US university system) where he taught Technology Project Management, Cloud Computing, Networks, Web Technologies among others. He is a transformative business and technology leader with experience overseeing organizational strategy, high-visibility projects and programs, and skilled technical teams. Passionate for Industry 5.0 and people focused ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformations in global context.

He holds BS in Chemical Engineering (UET) and two Master degrees - MBA in Business Administration (Wright State University) and MS in Advanced Information Technology (Purdue University) respectively. He holds coveted credentials including Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP), Professional Agile Leader and Professional Scrum Master - II credentials. He also completed certificate courses from Cornell University (eCornell) in Financial Management and Project Leadership. He is also a dedicated volunteer with over two decade pursuit in domains of literacy and board service - notably over a decade at Project Management Institute culminating as President of the chapter.

Mr. Safdar leverages a unique mix of strategic and analytical expertise aligning the effort of strong teams with organizational objectives. Passionate in providing coaching, mentoring and transformative training for next Gen leaders to bring people focused ethical AI transformation spearheading Industry 5.0.

Mr.Safdar was inducted in Phi Kappa Phi, which is United States's oldest and most selective multi disciplinary honors society.