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Naima Aslam Khan

Lecturer

PhD (continuation)

MS (Psychology)

Diploma (from Institute of Clinical Psychology)

MA (Clinical Psychology)

About

Naima Aslam Khan is a trained Psychologist. She is a corporate assessor and has been working as an assessor at the assessment centers run by Insolito Associates for GlaxoSmithKline, ICI and Management Excellence for Syngenta since 2010. She is a Licensed Practitioner of NLP™, Certified Hypnotherapist™, and Transformation Mind Technologies Practitioner (USA). Naima has worked as a Psychologist at Civil Hospital Karachi and Karwan-e-Hayat, Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre, Kaemari. Contributing as a freelancer for Dawn Group of Newspapers since 2000 and as a Graphologist (Handwriting and Signature analyst) for the News, US magazine for the Youth 2010. She has served as an affiliate at Dialogue: An Interactive Forum for gaining insight into human psychology in 2011 and was part of a kids’ summer program. She has taught A Level Psychology at Saint Michael’s Convent School with 99% of her students scoring A* in Cambridge exams.

She has been involved in the assessment, teaching and counseling of students for the past 13 years in various educational institutes including Saint Michaels Convent School, University of Karachi, Bahria University, Szabist University, IBA Karachi and for the last four years at SUKKUR IBA University. She has also conducted workshop for HEC USAID on personality development. Previously before joining Sukkur IBA, she was working in IBA, Karachi. She has also started her wellbeing clinic and offers counseling services https://www.naimawellbeingclinic.com/. Developed counseling unit in the Department of Business Administration in SUKKUR IBA University from 2019 to 2023 Naima is currently working in IQRA UNIVERSITY Gulshan Campus in the Business Administration Department as a Psychology teacher. Also pursuing her PhD in Psychology from the University of Karachi and have a vision of inculcating the understanding of human behavior, psychology, social psychology concepts with respect to business and counseling of clients and students.

Area of Expertise

  • Mental Health
  • Spirituality
  • Psychology
  • Human Behavior
  • Social Psychology

Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.

  • Paper accepted for presentation in the 1 st Malaysian Clinical Psychology Conference March 2020. Theme: Bridging Evidence-based Practice and Research Where is the evidence? Sunway University. Malaysia
  • Research paper abstract on “A Study of Relationship Between Spirituality and Mental Health and the Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Young Adults” published in conference proceedings at the International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Business & Economics (ICCIBE), Tasliciftlik Campus, Gaziosmanpasa University, Tokat, Turkey from July 14-15, 2018
  • Presented research paper titled “Spirituality and Mental Health including the use of CBT in therapy” in the 8 th International CBT Conference. “The Impact of Cultural Adaptation in CBT” in Khyber Medical University in Peshawar. Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists. 2 nd and 3 rd February, 2018
  • Ali, S. B., Khan, N. A., & Zehra, A. (2016). Effect of Volunteerism on Mental Health and Happiness. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IJHSS), 5(2), 123-130.
  • Tariq, Q., & Khan, N. A. (2013). Relationship of sense of humor and mental health: A correlational study. Asian journal of social sciences & humanities, 2(1), 331-337.