Thank you for being a connection - A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Dear friends  “It is a wonderful life” to have you all who I can write to and say Merry Christmas and happy New Year. Some we have been friends for many years and some less, but the friends are friends, new and old, near and far, it is a blessing and a great gift humanity. A calendar year is coming to change and as always it was 365 days; many bright, cheerful, enthusiastic fun, happy, joyful, sparkly days while some boring, dim, down, gloomy, and sad days.  All we know if these differences did not exist, all days would be a dull day. I can’t stop thanking you all who have painted and sculpture may life.  Update of the year is for who, unfortunately, I have been less in touch and it is my apology and regrets. I worked passionately, leading a new transformation initiative at work and many new learning experiences, while continued studying my L.L.M in International Law at Tehran University, reaching to the closing chapter of this part of learning journey. 

Furthermore, I attended a number of great MOOC online learnings courses in Edx, “Contract law”,  Coursera “European Business Law” and Iversity, “Worker’ Rights in Global Economy”  met and learned from very distinguished lectures,  and professors,  and acquainted with new classmates around global. As learnholic, learning didn’t stop there, attended a number of workshops and courses, "Iranian Labor Law Procedure", "Introduction to WTO and WIPO Course", "Legal Challenges of Oil and Gas Transborder Resources", "Upstream Oil and Gas Contracts", "International Oil and Gas Contracts and Technology Transfer", "Recent Developments of Iranian Petroleum Contracts", "Optimization of Upstream Oil and Gas Contracts", "EPC Contract in Petroleum Industry"

Also, read great books, some I read and some I heard a number of times by audio books, and here it is my suggested list of books: “Work Rules, insights from Inside Google” by Laszlo Bock, the Age of Deception, by Mohamed ElBaradei, “Scaling Up”, by Verne Harnish,  “Holacracy”, Brian J. Robertson, “Profit Over People”,  “How the World Works”, “Who Rules the World” by Noam Chomsky and “The Mentor Leader” by Tony Dungy.

Teaching, great opportunities to learn and give back, came across during the past 12 months, taught three rounds of S/PHR exam preparation programs, Car

eer Development and Resume Writing Workshop for Law Students at NILS Iran, spoke at Tehran's 1st Service Design Conference and spoke as panelist at Iran’s 12th HRD conferences. 

Travel: a revisit to Dubai, UAE, Islamabad, Pakistan, and Moscow, Russia. Finally, a very exciting and magnificent travel to Saint Petersburg for the first time added good memories to my travel’s treasures. 

Once again thank you for being friends and contacts and a Merry Christmas and wishing you a very happy and prosperous new year