
Tanveer Naseer
Tanveer Naseer is an internationally-acclaimed keynote speaker and award-winning leadership writer. He is also the Founder and CEO of Tanveer Naseer Leadership, a leadership corporate training and consulting firm that works with executives and managers to help them develop practical leadership and team-building competencies to drive organizational growth and development.
Tanveer’s work and writings have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Economist Executive Education Navigator, CBC Radio Daybreak, Global News, and the Ritz-Carlton Leadership Center.
Tanveer is the recipient of several awards and recognitions as one of the world’s top thinkers/writers in the leadership sphere, including being recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts.
Tanveer has been very active on speaking circuit, giving keynote speeches and talks in Canada and the US, including his TED talk “Forget Passion – Purpose is the Real Spice of Life”.
His engaging and thought-provoking style and content has to his recognition by Inc. Magazine as one of today’s “100 Great Leadership Speakers”, a list that includes such highly sought-after thought leaders as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Hsieh, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ken Blanchard, Brené Brown, and Marshall Goldsmith.
In addition to his work speaking, writing, and consulting on leadership, Tanveer is also the host of the podcast “Leadership Biz Cafe”, which Inc Magazine has described as feeling “like you’re sitting down for a cup of coffee with two leadership experts to learn about how to become that leader our employees need us to be.” You can listen to Tanveer’s leadership podcast on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Deezer, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Stitcher Radio, and on many other podcast platforms. You can also listen to every episode of his podcast – as well as find links to subscribe – on the show’s podcast page.
Tanveer’s first book, “Leadership Vertigo” has received rave reviews and endorsements by many of today’s top leadership thinkers and practitioners. In fact Doug Conant, Chairman of Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute, has praised Tanveer’s book as offering “practical and effective tools for avoiding self-deception and empowering those we seek to lead.”
Tanveer is a graduate of McGill University’s Department of Medicine where he obtained his Master of Science degree in Pathology. He currently lives in Montreal, Canada with his wife and their three daughters.