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Introduction and a student story

S GAYA Academy · 1 min 18 s

Young Speakers Forum: an introduction by Shakeel Gaya

Shakeel Gaya introduces the Young Speakers Forum, S GAYA Academy's eight-session public speaking programme for teenagers and young adults.

Student story · 31 s

Mariam on how S GAYA Academy helped her

Mariam shares how S GAYA Academy helped her confidence, her research skills and her self-esteem.

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Everything of Shakeel on camera that is public today, newest first. More arrives as students, parents and event hosts send their recordings.

Toastmasters District 21, 2 September 2023 · 1 min

Shakeel Gaya, Club Growth Director 2023–24

One month into running club growth for Toastmasters across British Columbia, Shakeel introduces himself to the district on camera.

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Catalytic Curiosity Podcast, 1 July 2022 · 42 min

Listening Authentically Around the World

A long conversation with host Jaymes on what Shakeel has learned, in person and online, from people of widely different backgrounds and beliefs: most failures are failures of listening, and you do not have to agree with someone to hear them.

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Port Coquitlam, 3 October 2018

Shakeel Gaya on Tri-Cities Community TV

A short interview in which Shakeel sets out what he stands for and how he speaks to a room: plainly, in full sentences, without notes.

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PoCo Today at PoCo Heritage, 4 October 2018 · 40 min

Meet the 2018 Port Coquitlam candidates

Every candidate had sixty seconds. Shakeel is among the council candidates, speaking to a room of voters with no slides and no notes.

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