Introducing Mr Adnan Chaudhry — Member of “InspireME” Advisory Board

The world has witnessed unprecedented development in the last century. From a primitive agro-based, the world transformed into a complex industrial and services sector-based economy. It continues to evolve and is now moving towards a knowledge-based world. The capitalist economic model characterized by profit maximization lies at the heart of this transformation.

Western economies, having pioneered and followed this model throughout recent history, have reached the zenith of development. However, this transformation has not been without a cost which is being borne by the human resource that is at the forefront of this transformation.

The fast pace of development and change that the modern world is passing through has put top executives under extreme stress. This workplace stress is primarily arising out of intense professional competition, demanding jobs, personal and professional insecurities, high expectations for results and pressures to survive and excel in careers to name a few.

The most apparent and disturbing consequence of this work-related stress being felt by modern executives is the imbalance between their personal and professional lives. Every animate form and thing may it be technology, or a standard item of luxury tries to convince us that the existence of…