Greetings!
Thank you very much for visiting my profile. Welcome to my world which is centered on “Urging People To Excel”. It is not just a phrase ―that I coined years ago― but now, vision statement of my life as well. I pioneered this non-political and non-religious online activism plus e-volunteerism, to motivate people to excel in life. As evident from the phrase itself; “Urging People To Excel”, is a social network of people to motivate one another to create a social-synergy. Core values that bound us together at the UPTE are; Motivation, Mobilization and Mentoring.
Following are the thematic areas that are addressed;
· To spread messages of Hope, Optimism and Peace
· To promote Information Literacy and Life-long Learning
· To support the efforts for “Education and Employment for All”
· To promote Arts, Literature and Culture
Join it in the facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/upte.net/
Some other groups, pages and websites that I manage are also extensions of this cause. These include;
“Scholarships and Jobs for Anthropologist and Sociologists”, QAUvolunteers, “DevSect: Development sector News and Views” etc.
I post regularly on my public blog for urging people to excel. You may subscribe my blog by email and follow me on twitter.
www.urgingpeopletoexcel.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com/@streetpainter
(#upte) is hash tag on Facebook and on Twitter for #UrgingPeopleToExcel.
By academic training and by profession I am an anthropologist. Within the discipline many subfields of anthropology has grabbed my attention those include; visual culture and media studies, applied anthropology, globalization and development.
Art present I am serving as a Fieldwork Supervisor (Research), at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad. I will be glad to facilitate students and researchers who are interested in anthropological studies.
Prior to my placement at the QAU, I had been rendering services as a Soft Skills Trainer for many years. At my credit, as a Resource Person, there are mentionable accomplishments. By now, I have mobilized hundreds of individuals on personal development, and have addressed leading NGOs, government and corporate organizations.
For details you may visit my Linkedin here;
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sajjadhaider786
My services as a Consultant Research Anthropologist and Motivational Speaker/ Soft Skills Trainer, are available to the individual clients, companies and NGOs on appointment basis.
As an individual, I am optimistic and friendly. I like to share thoughts and ideas on excellence with others. Firmly a believer of volunteerism, I wish to urge people to excel in their lives.
Art is my passion and I want to live the life in my own way; creatively and with refined aesthetics. For my love for art I am known to a vast circle of friends with my nick name -streetpainter. It is my self assigned title to pay homage to common creative people in our surroundings. I took inspirations for this title from a character of a painter in the short story by O’ Henry titled; The Last Leaf.
I too have ventured into visual art through sketching, illustrations and photography. Some of my work and contributions to promote art and artists cab be found on my page.
www.facebook.com/SH.streetpainter
My visual ventures can be seen in my foto albums. There you may also have a glance on my public appearance as a Resource Person. Visual Art and the social media are my primary tools to motivate, mobilize and mentor people.
Many thanks for your time. I wish you the best for your good wishes!
Looking forward to meet you somewhere in real world for urging people to excel!
Sajjad Haider@streetpainter 