In conversation with Tech Executive and Principal consultant from PM Power Consulting, Zafar Ahmed shares his experiences with Gayatri From PM Power Consulting on his journey. Zafar draws out his 4 decades of experience as 4 phases in a cricket match with one exciting inning built over another. 

• Started as a passionate programmer in Tata steel working in their transformation
• In the second innings, became part of IT services revolution shifting base to US and owning a start up
• He moved to India in early 2000s and headed technology in Hughes software where he learnt the ropes of management, leadership and went through a transformation within
• Zafar is currently in his 4th innings where he wants to share his rich learnings as a leadership coach and a consultant in PM Power Consulting
• Zafar shares his many defining moments in his career starting with his focus in becoming part of Tata steel and completely falling in love with software
• He shares a story on how he stumbled upon agile transformation and became a student and internalised the mindset over practices
• Next big defining moment is his understanding of leadership style and his transformation along with an agile way of working. 
• He talks about being a taskmaster and how he transformed later as a people’s leader away from his task orientation
• He talks about setting long term goals in his career as one of his misgivings and not taking enough risks in his career
• Zafar signs off with a positive note on covid situation and how technology has changed each and every human being on earth. 

Zafar can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/zafar-ahmad-4704b76/ and https://pm-powerconsulting.com/experts/zafar-ahmed/ 

Gayatri can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaya3k/