I graduated with a 2:2 economics degree from the University of Bradford. Straight after I struggled to get a job, almost every job I applied to they wanted some form of experience. I ended up taking some temporary roles to pay some bills. I felt my education had failed me.

2012

I ended up taking a day job in a call centre making 110 phone calls a day, a night job taking ePDQ payments for a collections company and worked weekends launching Kernel Krave a chocolate peanut butter spread, where I went shop to shop to sell my products, to try to find a way out of the 9-5 life.

2013

Had 4 jobs in total: day job, night job, finding time to sell the chocolate peanut butter and a weekend job doing deliveries. I spoke to my dad one day after watching an episode of Dragons Den, and he stated ‘shezad you’re working hard, but you’re not working smart’. I quit my day job and weekend job and kept the night job. So I can double down on my focus on selling more Kernel Krave to shops and supermarkets.

I learnt the most important skills during this period, I learnt how to build relationships, I learnt how to sell, I learnt it is all about being proactive and bringing value to the table. But more importantly I learnt how to source and pitch direct to key decision makers.

A great opportunity came to work for a big 4 accounting firm on a short term project. A chance for an initial breakthrough to work for a corporate firm, so I can understand how large organisations work. It was my first contract earning £150 per day at the age of 23. I thought I won the lottery…. three months later I had been made redundant along with 200 other contractors.

At this point I really understood how expendable my skill set was and how much I lacked control of my own career. I promised myself, at this point I will never be in such a position ever again.

2014

I ended all jobs and stuck with contracting work to form a career! I moved from project to project gaining experience until a huge opportunity came to work for some very large projects.

2015/2016

By the age of 25, I managed to secure my first £150k contract. Worked my way up from working ‘in’ the operation to working ‘on’ the operation. I used all my skills I learnt from selling chocolate peanut butter to climb the ranks in record time. I managed to gain exposure in Training, Business Analysis and Project Management. Setting up multi million pound projects and having trained 1000’s of bank staff in the process. I understood how to scale a business at a corporate level.

After months of consistently doing well in the corporate world, the natural order of things happened. Everyone started asking me how I did it. Friends, colleagues, friends of friends. And so I began offering coaching services to teach them how to fast track their career in consulting. Almost everyone I worked with was a total beginner, so at first I didn’t even charge.

However, to my surprise, everyone jumped from earning £20-30k a year to earning £60k+ almost immediately. And that’s when I knew I was onto something even bigger.

2017

I used my corporate experience to acquire two accredited training companies in Liverpool & Warrington to take back control of my career. I acquired Pitman Training Liverpool & Warrington to help lower income earners to fast track their career in IT, Medical, Legal and Business Support.

I also boot strapped Transform Learning Academy, and created a career switch programme that professionals could consume at any time and learn how to break into Business Analysis and Project Management, even if they don’t have the necessary experience.

2018

I formed LetsAskShaz.com to help stuggling professionals switch careers in record time using a proven strategy and formula.

2019

336% growth in business and 100’s of students lives changed with high end contracts and jobs secured!

2020

We have scaled towards our first $1 million dollars. The reason we grew so fast was not just because we knew how to do social media, but it was because we had a great product, a product that worked and actually got people results. This is very rare in the “online course” world, but I knew if we made a great product, it would out do everyone that was okay with mediocrity.