HOLISTIC EDUCATION
Having studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Waqās was appointed as Chair of the Commonwealth’s Global Citizenship Education panel, which developed a module that is being rolled out to tertiary education institutions across developing countries. He is also developing a polymathic curriculum for high school students and autodidacts, the framework for which was published in The Polymath (Wiley 2019).
PUBLIC
SPEAKING
As a professional speaker with Kruger Cowne, Waqās speaks about each of these domains with authority; but above all, he is passionate about how such seemingly unrelated fields can actually serve to inform one another, often providing unique creative insights that would be unimaginable through hyper-specialization.
“Increasingly, the solutions to problems are found at the intersection of multiple fields… experts in highly specialised fields can be part of a team, but the team leader needs to bridge With eloquence, clarity and authority, Waqas made a powerful case for multi-dimensional thinking as essential to personal fulfilment and collective problem-solving in the 21st century fields.”
Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce (RSA)