Shahzad Akhtar — Founder & Managing Director
Shahzad Akhtar — Founder & Managing Director
Founder & Managing Director

Shahzad Akhtar

Shahzad founded Strateasy Consulting after more than three decades leading businesses and advising institutions across Pakistan, the UAE, GCC and wider MENA region. He is a Certified Balanced Scorecard Practitioner (Palladium Group), and built his practice on a simple conviction: strategy only counts once it changes what people do on a Monday morning.

Before founding Strateasy, Shahzad served as Group CEO of KMI Group (UAE) and of Rahimafrooz Group, a conglomerate of eight businesses generating over USD 300 million in revenue with more than 3,500 employees. That operating background — running large, multi-business organizations, not just advising them — shapes how Strateasy designs strategy and HR systems today: for real implementation, not just presentation.

Alongside Strateasy, Shahzad holds active institutional roles as an Institutional Development Expert with the Asian Development Bank, a D&I and HR Expert with GIZ GmbH Pakistan, and an Advisor and Board Member at Soch Consulting (Estonia).

Career Timeline

Three decades, four regions.

1986 BSc MechanicalEngineering, UET 1997 MBA Marketing,Punjab University 2015 Group CEO,Rahimafrooz Group 2018 Group CEO,KMI Group, UAE Today Strateasy Consulting +ADB · GIZ · Soch
What Guides Us

Principles we don't trade away.

Principle 01

Implementation over ideas

A strategy document that never changes behaviour has failed, regardless of how well it was written.

Principle 02

Numbers people trust

KPIs are only useful if the people measured by them believe the numbers are fair and accurate.

Principle 03

People are the system

HR is not a support function to strategy — in most organizations, it is the delivery mechanism.

Team meeting in a modern conference room
Strategy sessions built for decisions, not just discussion.
Credentials

Certifications & Education

  • Certified Balanced Scorecard Practitioner — Palladium Group
  • MBA, Marketing — University of the Punjab, 1997
  • BSc, Mechanical Engineering — UET Lahore, 1986
Institutional Roles

Currently Active

  • Institutional Development Expert — Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • D&I and HR Expert — GIZ GmbH Pakistan
  • Advisor & Board Member — Soch Consulting, Estonia

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