Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) Bangalore Chapter organized a workshop, “How to be an Entrepreneur?” by Abdulla Hassan, an angel investor, coach, mentor, and CEO of Dhow Capital, Kuwait.  The session was delivered at Al-Ameen Institute of management Studies, Bangalore, on 8th of December. 80+ Students from MBA and M.Com department along with professors benefitted through this session.

The workshop started by qira'atul Quran, followed by brief introduction about the session by college's Principal, Dr. Anuradha. Then, Mr. Hassan, started with a brief yet engaging talk about the background so as to set the context for students. He touched upon the various steps involved in bringing an idea to an entrepreneurial level. As he ventured into the details, he emphasized on two crucial steps:

• Relevancy of the idea (driven by innovative approach to the current need with an eye on the future)
• Validity of the idea (test your waters even before you bring the idea to investor tables)

He encouraged the Principal to take the workshop to actualization level and generously offered to help them in case of any clarifications/ advice. Later, Mr. Imtiyaz Khan, Chapter Head Bangalore, graced the occasion and explained about the vision, activities of AMP to the students. In later part, founder of Al-Ameen education society Mr. Mumtaz Ahmed Khan was honored with AMP Education excellence award 2018 by Abdulla Hassan and AMP Karnataka State Head, Dr. Zahida Khan. It’s important to note that this AMP National Award for Education Excellence is conferred to 110 educationalists at PAN India level which include VCs and Founder of many such institutions.

Later in a day Mr. Hassan enlightened the Bangalore Professional youth on the need of rightful community leaders in the current times.  This session was conducted at Feroz White Manor between 3.00 to 5.00PM. Around 100+ AMP Bangalore members along with few senior social leaders attended the session.

Following qira'atul Quran by Syed Nashit, Dr. Hassan took to stage and won the hearts of the participants with his candid speech. It is hardly seen that speaking about leadership, speakers talk about being a good follower. But this was the central idea that Mr. Hassan brought to the table of community leadership. He spoke about the various leadership styles by quoting the followers like Umar ibn Khattab RA and Khalid bin Walid RA. He stressed on the importance of low key ego, patience and forgiveness as crucial elements of being a great leader. He underlined the need of women workforce participation in India for us to become a successful community. He advised the participants to stop complaining about the circumstances and take collective responsibility of bringing change. One of the highlights of his speech was the ease with which he connected the dots between sunnah of character and current description of good leaders. For most of us, the quote that reverberated with us and hopefully will propel us to excel to be a better leader was the following statement,

“If you want to win, behave like winners!”

Post formal session, the floor was opened up for Q&A session.  Following Q&A, Syed Nashit and Imtiyaz briefed the volunteers and other present at the occasion about the occasion about the vision, activities of AMP and encouraged for active participation to empower the community with footwork. The Role of Professionals in nation building is the need of the hour and they should take out an hour per week at least and play active role in “giving-back-to-society”. Dr.  Zahida ended the session with vote of thanks.

Eminent Professionals from MNCs and corporates attended this meet and provided their positive feedback. With a huge success of the first session, AMP Bangalore plans of have similar session on a regular basis in the future. So stay tuned!!

Regards,
Team AMP