His passion and his dream right from the beginning was to establish a school in his village. He was quite an inquisitive person, and my great-grandfather used to brag to all the people in the village how he had an educated son-one of only two in the village who had six months of formal education. My grandfather, who was from Punjab, was born in a remote village with no nearby school. My mother comes from another very exotic place called Idaho, and somehow their worlds coalesced around what is now BYU-Idaho. My father is half Punjabi (from India) and half Iranian. My dissertation research in India focused on individual and organizational networks and their impact on education outcomes in the context of decentralization. Thereafter, I was accepted to the doctoral program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While working at the center, I realized my initial training in public policy had not provided the methodological training I needed, so after receiving a combined BA/MA in public policy, I worked full-time at the center while pursuing an MS in sociology. I served as president of Students for International Development, and, to gain some work experience, I worked part-time at the Kennedy Center. While I was at BYU, I participated in the Arabic intensive program, completed an internship in Jerusalem, and completed the Arabic minor, because, unfortunately, BYU did not offer Middle Eastern studies at that time. After my mission in India, I was accepted to BYU in the public policy program with an emphasis in international development. I think it is important to note here that this job was not in my initial plan, but I believe that each of us has a unique place, position, and calling in this world, and we are charged to fulfill our call to action.
DEEPFOCUS CAREERS HOW TO
In addition to the teacher training, I work with ministry-level officials to teach them everything from strategic planning to program evaluation and how to implement the various educational reforms. These master trainers will then be responsible to train people around the country in an effort to build local leadership capacity. This includes training policy makers from the Ministry of Education, who then train principals who will serve as master trainers. I have been conducting workshops and presentations on school leadership and parent and community involvement.
DEEPFOCUS CAREERS UPGRADE
Part of that campaign is an intensive effort to upgrade the skills of their school leaders and teachers. In the ensuing years, they have made many improvements, largely with the help of imported labor from other countries, and they are currently in the process of a major human capital development campaign. In 1970, Oman had only seven miles of paved roads, one formal school, and one hospital. Much of my work with Seward has been in the Sultanate of Oman, a country on the east end of the Arabian Peninsula. Over the last year and a half, I have been helping them develop their international division. “Absolutely, I’d be interested,” I responded.Īlthough I had moved my family to my wife’s home state-Minnesota-and had been looking for a job there, my search had failed to uncover his small, Minneapolis-based company, Seward Inc. We are looking for a Middle Eastern educationalist. When I mentioned the Middle East he interrupted with, “Our company happens to be bidding on some projects in the Middle East right now. I began, “Well, I’m a doctoral student focusing on South Asia, and the Middle East. After our discovery, he asked me to tell him more about myself. To which I replied, “Oh really, a conference, which conference are you going to? I’m doing the same thing.”Īs it turned out, we were both going to the same conference. Being somewhat a social person, I struck up a conversation with the gentleman sitting next to me and asked him, “Are you going for business or pleasure?”
DEEPFOCUS CAREERS PROFESSIONAL
A couple of years ago I was sitting on a flight to Hawaii for a professional conference.
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