About Riyadh
Chowdhury Kaiser Mohammad Riyadh is a name among millions who struggled, failed, and surged ahead in search of success, happiness, and contentment. His self-transformation story itself is an inspiration! From a stammering person, he has transformed himself into an Inspirational Speaker, a Self-help Educator, and a Life Transformation Coach.
He has always had a strong inclination to public speaking from his early school days. But he could not help leaving the passion due to his stammering and public speaking, then turned out to be the biggest phobia of his life. There were many occasions where only he could answer a question at the full-house auditorium, but he feared raising his hand as he feared stammering; he preferred being ignorant to being ridiculous! In 2014, he flew to Nepal to do bungee jumping to get over his height phobia.
He has experienced that the only way to overcome any fear, difficulty, or challenge is to go through it and grow out of it. Since he won over the public speaking phobia, self-transformation has become his passion, and he has started believing he could excel at anything & everything he wanted to. Out of all the possibilities, he chose to inspire people with his wisdom & action, a life-long adventure that has given a new meaning to his life. He is a keen learner of life, and he has kept himself open to reading, observing, and learning from the small stuff happening all around.
He has decided to dedicate his life to understanding human behavior so that he can help others transform into their better version. He wants to share his research, findings & trials with the people to benefit them. “If you want to impact others’ lives by your words, training, or coaching, your own action should reflect what you preach or coach,” says Riyadh.
Riyadh is passionate about self-transformation, and he is on a mission to help people define their happiness & success, discover their life’s purpose and transform themselves to live a life of meaning, contentment, and fulfillment.
Everyone develops a distinct belief system from his/her family, friends, relatives, schools, teachers & surroundings, including what he/she reads, sees, hears, or thinks, which, in most cases, grows stronger and inflexible with age. He felt educating youths & students on developing empathy & compassion, practicing gratitude & self-awareness, building cognitive flexibility & emotional intelligence, respecting other people’s opinions, remaining open to learning, having the right perspective & right understanding, and connecting passion & purpose with the profession are the keys to a Better World, but unfortunately, these are not the skills taught at schools. Since 2016, he has started working with the 13-25 age group to cover this Life Skills Gap. In his mission to continually impact the lives of millions, so far, Riyadh has conducted self-development sessions at over 100 academic institutions in 36 districts of Bangladesh (mostly in the remote areas far from the capital city).
He has been educating the youth on developing compassion, empathy, gratitude, tolerance, humility, humanity, a sense of oneness and other essential human attributes to not just shape their own future but to create a better community as well. Apart from Bangladesh, he was invited to conduct self-development workshops in India, Nepal, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey, the UK, and Maldives, where he inspired around 12,000 youth individuals from over 80 countries.
He was selected to attend many international conferences & seminars on SDGs and other pressing global issues, where he conducted self-help sessions too on “Changing Our Thoughts for Happiness & Success”, “Living a Life That Matters,” and “Finding Your Life Purpose,”. He also conducts self-help sessions for Govt. and Private Organizations.
He is also an SDG advocate, contributing to “Good Health and Well-being” and “Quality Education”, the two vital goals of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He believes, “What one does, it affects all, and what all does, it affects one”. Whatever goal we aim to reach, be it poverty reduction or gender equity or responsible consumption or open education, or wealth redistribution, one thing is a must; we need to educate our youth to develop compassion and a sense of oneness for achieving any form of sustainable development. He is spreading the teaching of oneness in the world irrespective of country, race, sex, chaste, religion, or belief.
Riyadh has 14+ years of working experience with the Bangladesh Army, Standard Chartered Bank & Logistics Industry. He holds an MBA in Human Resource Management from the Institute of Business Administration, Dhaka University. Riyadh is an NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) Trainer as well; he completed a Neuro-linguistic Programming training with Dr. Richard Bandler (the Co-creator of NLP) in 2017 in the UK. He has also received training on mental health from India and attended some life-changing online courses. Youths from all over the world are also getting one-to-one online coaching sessions from Riyadh, which is one of his ways of giving back to communities.
He conducts self-help training and workshops out of passion, but for his living, he has been working with a few private organizations. The positive feedback and appreciation he received from the session participants have immensely inspired him to transform his passion into a profession. His story of overcoming adversity and ability to connect with the audience through daily life examples have made him one of the most authentic, dynamic, and inspirational speakers among the youths. He strongly believes if we can just change the way we think, this will lead us to the World of Harmony, Happiness & Sustainable Development. His works were featured in leading national dailies a number of times; here’s one of such coverages: https://www.thedailystar.net/star-youth/news/inspiring-others-lead-fulfilling-life-2035725
Riyadh loves traveling & making new friends from all over the world to have cultural exchange and develop a greater sense of empathy for others. In his free time, he visits hospitals, orphanages, and old homes to improve his level of compassion, humility & gratitude, to discover different realities, and to make people feel good just by listening to them. He teaches English to less‐privileged students. He also loves doing gym sessions, watching movies & TED Talks, making short videos to create social awareness, reading books, and hanging out with family & friends. He and his wife, Ima, have been happily married for over 12 years and are blessed with two daughters, Fatiha and Falaq. “When we make our own lives better, we inspire others to do the same. Peace at home can bring peace to the world.”
