Facilitator’s Profile

FACILITATOR’S PROFILE

Facilitator’s Profile

Anas Zubedy - Managing Director/ Principal Consultant

Anas Zubedy is a Malaysian businessman who speaks English, Malay, Hokkien, and some Tamil. Born in Penang in 1964, he grew up amongst Malays, Chinese, Indians and Eurasians. His early socialisation and experiences shaped his beliefs in multiculturalism and created a deep desire within himself to promote unity. Anas sees himself as an advocate of Unity and Moderation. see more

A graduate of Universiti Malaya, Anas worked in marketing and sales for a multinational before launching zubedy (m) sdn bhd, a for-profit organisation that combines business goals with a social cause. zubedy’s vision is to unite people and get them to work together, while its mission is to add value to everyone the organisation interacts with. Over the past 27 years zubedy has succeeded in striking a dynamic balance between making a profit and ensuring the wellbeing of its people and the communities it operates in.

Anas’ first love is religion and culture; he spent more time reading about Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam than learning his coursework at the university. He is also passionate about change management, organisational behaviour, marketing, and politics.

Anas loves teh tarik, roti canai, Penang laksa, and Indian food. He listens to an eclectic mix of music, avoids the television, and prefers to meet people, read, write, and work out.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Adjunct Professor and Director, Social Innovation & Change for the Bachelor of Social Science with Honours (Social Innovation and Change) with School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Taylor’s University
Senior Fellow for the National Human Resource Centre (NHRC), HRDF
He was a member of the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) during the Barisan Nasional’s administration.
He was the recipient of the Anugerah Kalung Perpaduan in 2009 and the inaugural Anugerah Integrasi Nasional Usman Awang in 2014
He was the Secretary-General and Vice President for the International Movement for a JUST World (JUST).
He was on the Industry Advisory Board of Sunway University’s School of Business.
Anas was a columnist in China Press and regularly contributes his opinion pieces in The STAR and online media.
In 2013, he was the Top 5 nominees for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the ‘Master’ category.
Currently, he is a member of the Board of Trustees at Yayasan Gamuda and an honorary member of Yayasan 1Malaysia.

Anas has written several books. One of his titles, #WahaiMelayu was launched and forwarded by YAB Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. His other work includes:

Have a Meaningful Malaysia – 2009
The Quran and I (English and Bahasa Malaysia) – 2010
Can We Use Allah in the Bible? A Quranic Perspective (English and Bahasa Malaysia) – 2011
#BodohPolitik – 101: Easy Guides on How (Not) to Choose a Malaysian Leader (in four languages, English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Tamil) – 2012
The Middle Path: An Alternative to the Partisan Madness (English and Mandarin) – 2012/2019
#MoneyTalk – 139 Easy Guides on How to Make Money Without Cheating And Corruption (bilingual English and Bahasa Malaysia)
Many Colors, One Race: 10 Nice Things You Can Tell Your Children About Other Races ((English and Bahasa Malaysia) – 2013/2015
#WahaiMelayu – Allah will not change the fate of the Malays if we Malays do not want to change ourselves. (bilingual English and Bahasa Malaysia) – 2014
The 10 Principles for Moderate Malaysians (bilingual English and Bahasa Malaysia) 2019

Sharon Ng – Independent Consultant

Sharon brings with her 18 years of corporate experience in sales, marketing and human resource development; and more than 15 years of experience in conducting training programs. She facilitates corporate training programs on Personal Change and other programs like Presentation Skills, and Business Writing. see more

Dr. Azlawati Fahmi – Independent Consultant

Azlawati Fahmi is a Doctor Of Business Administration holder from IPE Management School, Paris, Master Science of Management holder from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), BBA Finance from Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), a Certified of Australia Human Resource Institution (AHRI) and a Certificate in see more

Norashikin Baharom – Independent Consultant

Norashikin Baharom played a management role at Talent Corporation Malaysia prior to joining zubedy as an Independent Education Consultant. She has more than 21 years in higher education both in the areas of regulatory governance and academics in private colleges and universities. see more

Key areas of expertise are:

Governance and Regulatory Affairs

Norashikin key role as the Head of Governance and Regulatory Affairs for the Taylor’s University Group was to ensure compliance of policies and standards set by the Ministry of Higher Education and Malaysian Qualification Agency. Through her good relationships with regulators, she provided statutory advisory related to university management and academic related matters to various shareholders. She managed Taylor’s University Group of licensing, programme approvals and accreditations that totalled to 175 programmes which ranged from pre-university to doctorate programmes. She also played a key role in the recruitment of lecturers to ensure quality teaching resources.

Relationship Management

At Taylor’s University, Norashikin played the role as the key liaison for the various ministries, professional bodies, foreign university partners and accreditation bodies.

Possessing strong communication and coordination skills, she facilitated relationships between public universities and industry partners during her tenure as ead of Structured Internship Programme, Talent Corporation Malaysia.

Academic Leadership

At Taylor’s University, Norashikin’s role was Deputy Registrar/Head of Compulsory Subjects. She managed teaching resources for 2500 students taking the modules being offered.

As the Head of Academics for PRIME Group of Colleges, Norashikin lead, managed and developed department academic strategy in ensuring excellence in all activities. She managed five schools with a total of 55 academicians and 12 academic programmes.

Project Management

Norashikin’s experience in project management started when she was employed by Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) under the graduate employment scheme. A project manager for Hospital Besar Kuantan, Pahang which was a ‘turn-key’ project, she engaged with various authorities, contractors and various stakeholders in ensuring timely project completion and adherence to contract.

Strategic project management skill was also put to use in the merger of colleges under Taylor’s University Group and during the upgrade to university status.

Certified Trainer/ Lecturer

Delivered Talent Corporation Malaysia Graduate Employability training modules at 11 bootcamps held at various public universities in 2017 to unemployed graduates. It was a 3-day bootcamp with direct hiring from industry partners on the final day.

A former technical communications lecturer at British Malaysian Institute and Institute Technology Pertama, Norashikin has lectured the following modules, namely Engineering Communication, Architectural Communication and Business Communication

Curriculum Development

Norashikin has developed several EAP (English for Academic Purposes) programmes which addressed students’ needs in an academic context. She developed the Architecture Communications programme, approved by the University of Melbourne, Australia especially developed for students prior to continuing to Melbourne. She also developed the Engineering Communication module for British Malaysian Institute Engineering Faculty. In addition, the English for Nurses module developed for PRIME College in collaboration with Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia fulfilled the IELTS 7.0 required by ECU.

Aby Mahmood - Facilitator

Aby Mahmood is a seasoned customer service professional with 13 years of experience, with a particular specialty in contact centres. He studied Hotel Management and Human Resource Management at Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam. see more

Dayana Adinan - Facilitator

Dayana is a manager with over 7 years of experience with zubedy’s creative marketing arm – zubedy ideahouse. Equipped with Master of Visual Communication and New Media from Universiti Teknologi MARA, she has been the woman behind zubedy’s various publications, advertisements, and events. see more