It Takes a C-Tribe Village: Shaaz Nasir, Digital Director at Microsoft

It Takes A C-Tribe Village

Preface: The origins of the phrase is a mystery. It takes a village to raise a child is a proverb that spirited from African or Native American cultures. The phrase translates into saying that it takes an entire community of different people interacting with children in order for children to experience and grow in a safe environment.

The thought leaders, gamechangers, and innovators that we look up to are often impacted by the same thing: they’ve been exposed to people, environments, and interactions that have helped shape and define who they are today.

The It takes a C-Tribe Village Podcast aims to identify, dissect, and celebrate the unsung heroes, things, and experiences that have impacted the greatest minds of our generation and how these individuals are paying it forward for those to come.

Guest: Shaaz Nasir (@shaaztastic)

Show Notes

“Coming back to the myth of meritocracy, I really do believe it does take a village to raise one person and that you didn’t make it on your own. When you do become that crazy rich CEO and you only pay 2% of your taxes, society made you; how about you turnaround and help society.”

Shaaz (@shaaztastic) has over 10 years of work experience in government and business sectors as a digital change management practitioner. He’s the Director of Digital Transformation at Microsoft and also the founder of Mind This Magazine

He has worked with academics at The North-South Institute, leading government bureaucrats with 3 Canadian Federal Government Agencies, senior lobbyists at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, and with established entrepreneurs at Shopify.

With Accenture Strategy in the Middle East, he helped lead major transformation change management projects that spanned across sectors and included smart nation strategies, crowdsourcing public policy programs and helping both countries and companies embrace the digital economy in UAE and Saudi Arabia.

He led the ICT portfolio with Global Affairs Canada's Trade Commissioner Service in New York City which aims to help usher in a new era of commerce between USA and Canada through empowering Canadian startups to win in the USA and globally.

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Mind This Magazine (https://www.mindthismagazine.com/)

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