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Tanveer Naseer is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and award-winning leadership writer. He is also the Founder and CEO of Tanveer Naseer Leadership, a leadership corporate training and consulting firm that works with executives and managers to help them develop practical leadership and team-building competencies to drive organizational growth and development.

Tanveer's work and writings have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Economist Executive Education Navigator, CBC Radio Daybreak, Global News, and the Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center.

Tanveer is the recipient of several awards and recognitions as one of the world's top thinkers in the leadership sphere, including being recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts.

Tanveer has been very active on speaking circuit, giving keynotes and workshops on leadership and empowering employees to audiences across Canada, United States, Europe, and the Middle East in a wide range of industries in both private and public sectors, as well as the military. His keynotes and corporate training sessions have received rave reviews from clients including Boehringer Ingelheim, Capital One Canada, Henkel, TJX Canada, Canadian Armed Forces, Blinkist, Boston Children's Hospital, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Dematic, CMHC, Tomlinson Group, ERAC, Project Management Institute (PMI), McGill University, Lonza Group, VIPAR, Boehringer Ingelheim Canada, NAED, and the Government of Canada. He's even given a TED talk titled “Forget Passion – Purpose is the Real Spice of Life”.

His engaging and thought-provoking style and content has lead to his recognition by Inc. Magazine as one of today’s “100 Great Leadership Speakers”.

Tanveer is also the host of the popular and long-running "Leadership Biz Cafe" podcast, which has been ranked among the top 2.5% of podcasts globally, and which Inc Magazine has described as feeling "like you're sitting down for a cup of coffee with two leadership experts to learn about how to become that leader our employees need us to be."

On his podcast, Tanveer has discussed the challenges and opportunities leaders face with such renowned experts as Tom Peters, Guy Kawasaki, Stephen M.R. Covey, Jim Kouzes, Liz Wiseman, Doug Conant, Tim Sanders, Whitney Johnson, and many others. His podcast is available on every major streaming platform, including Spotify, iHeartRadio, Deezer, Audible, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and many others.

Tanveer's book, “Leadership Vertigo” has received rave reviews and endorsements by many of today’s top leadership thinkers and practitioners. In fact Doug Conant, Chairman of Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute, has praised Tanveer's book as offering “practical and effective tools for avoiding self-deception and empowering those we seek to lead.” Visit the book page to learn where you can get a copy of his book either in bookstores and via online book retailers.

Tanveer is a graduate of McGill University's Department of Medicine where he obtained his Master of Science degree in Pathology. He also earned with distinction a certificate from Case Western Reserve University on Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence. Tanveer currently lives in Montreal, Canada with his wife and their three daughters.