Portfolio

Organisations, Institutions & Memberships

A record of the corporate organisations, academic institutions, and professional bodies our certified practitioners and trainers have worked with.

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Dr. Lalarukh Thanvi, Founder and CEO of Laira Coaching & Consulting

Founder & CEO

Dr. Lalarukh Thanvi

Lalarukh is an experienced trainer with almost a decade of experience in customer services, communication and soft skills, client relationships, team management and human resource management, and more than a decade of experience in social working, youth mentoring and counselling.

She has worked with various companies in leading positions such as Customer Services Manager, Regional Head, and Corporate Trainer, where she exercised her knowledge and expertise in providing organisational trainings and customer services and communication skills training to hundreds of employees. She currently works as a freelance trainer, training young school children.

Besides her corporate work, she has been in academia as a visiting lecturer for six years, where she taught, mentored and trained hundreds of young people.

Academically she is a PhD in International Relations with distinction in her PhD, was on the Dean's List in M.Phil, a position holder in BS and in her French diploma, and is a certified trainer from the School of Leadership (SOL) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). She has conducted successful training sessions for leading academic and corporate organisations.

My Skills

Core Areas of Delivery

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Communication Skills

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Soft Skills

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Customer Services

Organisations Worked With

Corporate Organisations

  • SSFH (Freelance Trainer)
  • TCS Pvt Ltd. (Senior Ambassador and Trainer)
  • Xoop Technologies (Customer Services Manager)
  • ZANS Consultants, a UK-based firm (Regional Head, Pakistan Chapter)
  • Cloud Innovators

Academic Institutions

  • Institute of Business Administration (IBA)
  • Iqra University (IU)
  • Ilma University
  • St. Michael's Convent School
  • Happy Palace School
  • Greenwich University
  • Karachi University
  • Bahria University
  • British Council
  • Al Bayan Institute

Memberships

Professional & Civic Bodies

  • Board of Advisor, Federal Shadow Cabinet Youth Parliament
  • Rotary International
  • Elite Literature Society, Saudi Arabia
  • Ex Sindh Youth Assembly Member
  • Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
  • FPCCI Education Reform Committee

Co-Founder

Humaira Kanwal

Humaira brings a rare combination of NLP certification, institutional experience, and hands-on counselling developed through years of academic engagement.

She has worked closely with some of Pakistan's leading institutions in roles spanning lecturing and institutional strategy. Drawing on that experience, she leads Laira's institutional strategy, programme design, and career counselling services.

Her background in policy and institutional engagement positions Laira uniquely among consultancies that can serve both individual and institutional clients with equal depth.

Humaira Kanwal, Co-Founder of Laira Coaching & Consulting

Institutions Worked With

Academic & Institutional Engagement

  • Institute of Business Management (IoBM)
  • The Aga Khan University (AKU)
  • University of Karachi (UoK)

Coaching Skills

Areas of Focus

  • Anxiety & Confidence Coaching
  • Communication & Relationship Coaching
  • Habit & Behavior Change

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