Zarin
Zeba Khan

I have spent the last fifteen years working across very different worlds — humanitarian emergencies, university classrooms, corporate spaces, public campaigns, research, community programmes, and social movements. Along the way, I have worked with institutions including UN Women Bangladesh, World Vision Bangladesh, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, BRAC, the High Commission of Canada in Bangladesh, Independent University Bangladesh, and ULAB.

Some of the experiences that shaped me most came from working directly with people in difficult and complex realities. In Cox’s Bazar, I listened to Rohingya women speak about loss, resilience, and survival. In humanitarian settings, I saw the effects of trauma, displacement, inequality, and power. In universities, I met young people questioning what they had inherited. In corporate and professional spaces, I saw that behind performance, titles, and responsibility were people carrying stress, burnout, and questions about meaning and balance.

Professionally, I have led Women’s Economic Empowerment initiatives at UN Women Bangladesh, served as Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Advisor to the High Commission of Canada in Bangladesh, and worked as Deputy Director of Advocacy and Justice for Children at World Vision Bangladesh. I have also taught as Adjunct Faculty at Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) and in the MBA Program at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). These roles gave me more than a collection of achievements. They gave me a deeper understanding of people, systems, and the stories that shape both.

Over time, I became less interested in simply delivering programmes and more interested in understanding what helps people thrive. Why do some people grow through adversity while others remain stuck? How do our beliefs shape our reality? What stories do we inherit from family, culture, and society? And what happens when we begin to question them?

Today, I work as a wellbeing strategist, trainer, facilitator, author, and founder of MajhaMajhi. My work brings together psychology, mindfulness, neuroscience, storytelling, and experiential learning to create spaces where people can pause, reflect, understand their patterns, and reconnect with themselves.

Through trainings, campaigns, festivals, publications, research, and community-based initiatives, my work has reached more than 250,000 people across Bangladesh, with a focus on wellbeing, resilience, inclusion, human connection, and social change.

The more people I met, the less interested I became in what made us different. I became curious about what makes us the same — the fears we carry, the stories we inherit, the patterns we repeat, and the things we were never taught about ourselves.

MBSM

MBSM Certified

Harvard Business School

UN Women

Gender Advisor, High Commission of Canada

MBA Faculty — ULAB & IUB

MajhaMajhi Founder