Franklin Covey and Ameer Ahamed win South Asian Business Excellence Awards 2016

Sri Lanka and Maldives for Franklin Covey South Asia CEO Ameer Ahamed was conferred with ‘The Outstanding Corporate Trainer - Leadership Award’ and Franklin Covey Sri Lanka & Maldives - Dynamix International Consultancy Ltd  was awarded ‘The Best Learning Solutions Provider’, achieving a perfect double by winning these two outstanding awards at the recently concluded South Asian Partnership Summit & Business Awards 2016 (SAPS) of the world HRD Congress endorsed by the Asian Confederation  of Business.

South Asian Business Awards honour and celebrate leaders around the region working to strengthen and increase economic opportunity. The goal of SAPS is to provide a forum to establish the standards of excellence for quality development and to honour the people and organisations responsible for developing the most effective actions that exemplify that excellence.

The Jury for this Awards program comprised of respected business leaders, researchers and academics of the stature of The Economic Times ex-President and CEO Dr. Arun Arora; Chairman, Edvance Pre-schools Ltd. and Emeritus Chairman - World HRD Congress; Dr. Harish Mehta, Chairman and Managing Director  - Onward Technologies Ltd.; Emeritus Chairman - World HRD Congress & Founder Member – NASSCOM; Jack Jones, Global Chairman, World HRD Congress; Prof. Indira Parikh, Ex Dean of IIM Ahmedabad & President – Antardisha (Directions from Within); Dr. R. L. Bhatia, Founder, World CSR Day and World Sustainability and Nina E. Woodard, President and Chief “N” Sights Officer, Nina E. Woodard and Associates, a division of NDPendence, Inc.

The nominees for these prestigious awards were drawn from all over south Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal & Maldives).

Ameer Ahamed has been an integral part of Franklin Covey South Asia since its inception in 2003. Franklin Covey is a global company and the largest training and development company in the world, present in 160 countries, and listed in the New York Stock Exchange.

Franklin Covey Global specialises in performance improvement and helps organisations and individuals achieve results that require a change in human behaviour. Franklin Covey’s expertise is in seven areas: leadership, execution, productivity, trust, sales performance, customer loyalty and education. Franklin Covey clients have included 90% of the Fortune 100, more than 75% of the Fortune 500, thousands of small and mid-sized businesses, as well as numerous Government entities and educational institutions.

In 1984, the first Franklin Day Planner was produced, followed by a popular time management workshop. New designs and formats are created continually and the Franklin Covey Planning System is now used by more than 15 million people worldwide.

In 1989, The ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Stephen R. Covey was published, and training and consulting based on its concepts were developed. The book has become one of the top-selling business books of all time. Franklin Quest and Covey Leadership Center announced their intent to merge in January 1997. The new company, Franklin Covey, was finalized on May of that year.

“We are indeed honoured and humbled as a company providing the best learning solutions in the whole of south Asia; mainly due to the continued development of content for the last three decades,” says Ameer Ahamed who is a Master Trainer for all training solutions offered by the company in the region. 

He also won the prestigious award for ‘Outstanding Corporate Trainer’. He counts years of experience in the training and development domain both in and out of the south Asia region.