
Sabahat Bokhari
Sabahat Khurram Bukhari is a dynamic DEl and organizational development leader with over two decades of global experience spanning fintech, telecommunications, banking, technology, and more. Renowned for pioneering diversity and inclusion initiatives in Pakistan, she has successfully aligned organizational cultures, product innovations, and community impact with DEl as strategic business goals.
With successful C-level, DEI advisory and board experience, she has recently founded her firm 'The Inclusion Lab', which specializes in inclusion as strategic imperative for corporate across the globe. Her firm has successfully developed and scaled programs such as Digital Equal, empowering over 5,000 rural women with digital literacy and GBV awareness in Pakistan & Africa. TIL has also launched their mission for including ONE MILLION WOMEN IN TECH BY 2030 and WOMEN CXO Leadership FORUM. The Inclusion Lab has cultivated partnerships with governmental and regulatory bodies like the PTA, Ministry of Planning & Development in Pakistan and UN Agencies to further the goals of social, economic, and financial inclusion for women in Pakistan.
She has also pioneered the concept of "Conscious Inclusion for All" emphasizing the need to go beyond the typical viewpoint of gender inclusion by collaborating with corporations to foster 'truly inclusive DNA'. She addresses topics such as ageism, ethnicity, ability, and neurodiversity as part of talent optimization ROl and its larger context of inclusion in workplaces & society through this program.
Sabahat is an international speaker and thought leaders and her talks mostly revolve around inclusive leadership, allyship & intersectionality, Agile DEl and Conscious Inclusion. Her experience spans start-ups, private companies, and publicly traded corporations - such as Allied Bank, Ericsson, Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, Nestle, Unilever, UNFPA, State Bank of Pakistan, Pfizer, Toyota, Haier, Engro Foods, Sapphire, PSDF, Khaadi, Samsung, Careem, Siemens, MassMutual, Brookline Bancorp, GSMA, ING, OneAmerica, Home Credit, Brandix, Human Centric Labs, Qualcomm, Sony Music, Amazon Robotics, and Fidelity Investments. Sabahat is a graduate of the University of Punjab and holds a MS in management, along with certifications in Strategy Management from Harvard University and D&I Professional from the University of South Florida. Additionally trained in executive leadership at INSEAD, she holds numerous coaching and psychometric analysis certifications.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Workshop
Sunday 2nd Feb
Financial Autonomy for Entrepreneurs with Sabahat Bokhari
Location: Back Gallery Empowering Women Entrepreneurs with Financial Wellness. Learn from experts, tackle financial challenges, and discover tailored services to boost your business. This workshop is designed for women entrepreneurs who wish to address financial challenges in their business, learn effective strategies for financial wellness, improve their financial literacy, and discover financial services tailored for their business needs.