Zia Malik

Founding Partner

Beliminal

Bio

For Zia Malik, organisational change doesn’t just mean adopting new processes and working in new ways. It isn’t even simply about thinking in new ways. True transformation requires challenging beliefs, and that means changing people from the inside.

Zia is one of a small number of UK Certified Enterprise Coaches with the Scrum Alliance, and an experienced agile trainer, Certified Scrum Trainer CST and professionally trained coach in business and personal coaching, accredited by the International Coach Federation. He has worked as an enterprise coach in a range of industries including fintech, aerospace, pharma and retail, working with individuals, teams and organisations.

He works with frameworks such as Scrum, but recognises that these don’t exist in a vacuum. People work within them and adapt to them, and Zia spends much of his time focusing on the psychological motivations and barriers involved in personal and organisational change. Ultimately it’s about moving from structures and mindsets inherited from the Industrial Revolution towards a smarter way of organising ourselves.

Zia’s training and coaching is both inspiring and thought-provoking, aimed at giving people a set of tools, techniques and concepts they can use to achieve and sustain genuine transformation.

Learning Objectives

Tension Recognition and Resolution:
Participants will deepen their understanding of organisational dynamics by identifying specific tensions that hinder agility in their context. They’ll explore the root causes of these tensions and match them with effective design patterns that address real-world challenges. This equips attendees with the ability to pinpoint and alleviate tensions back at work, improving team performance and collaboration.

Practical Experimentation Skills:
Attendees will learn how to design and implement small, safe-to-try experiments that target organisational tensions. Using Beliminal’s Experiment Canvas, participants will gain hands-on experience crafting experiments tailored to their unique workplace challenges. This skill enables them to return to their organisations with a clear, actionable plan that fosters continuous improvement and adaptive learning.

Collaborative Problem-Solving Techniques:
Through the interactive group activities, participants will develop stronger collaboration and decision-making skills. By working through tensions collectively, they will experience how to co-create solutions with others, leveraging diverse perspectives. This learning fosters a culture of openness, psychological safety, and shared ownership, which attendees can bring back to their teams to encourage inclusive, effective collaboration.

These outcomes empower attendees to drive meaningful, agile transformations in their organisations.