S1 E46 Wais Achickzad - CEO Xen Culture

What do you do when you spend the better part of your career in finance in leadership and realize the culture is toxic and unsustainable? If you are the courageous Wais Achickzad, you start your own consultancy and establish strategic partnerships to help big money shift their culture for GOOD. Learn more about what Wais witnessed and his journey leaving a successful career to venture into the world of solutions that are more impactful when they come from the outside in!

Learn more about Wais Achickzad

With over 20 years of experience at top tier investment banks such as JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Wais Achikzad has a passion to positively impact individuals and organizations to be the best versions of themselves in their careers and as leaders.

Through powerful personal experiences in the industry and leading multiple teams, Wais brings a non-traditional but more practical approach to coaching and development training which will have an enduring impact on the individual and organization.

With a vast network, a strong partnership with Culture+, a wealth of actual on the ground experience at notable organizations as well as coaching and leadership certifications from Cornell University, Wais is determined to create a “ Xen “ movement of inner peace within individuals and organizations to optimize their potential in achieving their goals.

Wais was born in Maryland , USA , lives in Brooklyn New York and is originally from Afghanistan. He is also one of the founders of a non-profit organization, the Homaira Rahman Foundation, which supports orphaned children and provides them with an education.