Who runs it
The founders
Peace Through Prosperity was started in 2011 by Kubair Shirazee and Sahar Zaidi-Shirazee, with a survey of street cobblers in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and no funding. It has been run by the two of them, with their family and a field team, ever since.
The programmes take no grants. They are paid for by the founders, by friends of the work, by the team itself and by a small number of corporate sponsors, which is why the work has never grown faster than it can be coached.
Co-founder
Kubair Shirazee
Kubair works as a transformation consultant, and has spent the same years bringing agile, lean and systems thinking to people who have never heard those words and do not need to. He wrote the Business Growth Manual the mini-MBA is taught from, and the Grassroots Playbook, seventeen community projects for teams of three to five with no budget, free in six languages.
He set out how the method was assembled in the Cutter Business Technology Journal with Gabrielle Benefield, and argued the case for livelihood security as peace building in Management 3.0. He writes at kubairshirazee.com, works as an interim transformation delivery director in the public sector, pharmaceuticals and FMCG under his own practice, AgiliTea, and chairs the Aza Khana e Zehra Trust in Karachi.
Co-founder
Sahar Zaidi-Shirazee
Sahar is a solicitor, and works in business development and strategy. In Peace Through Prosperity she has the side of the work that decides whether a cohort can actually run: the partnerships that host it, the terms it runs on, and the people who carry it in each city. She is a trustee of the Aza Khana e Zehra Trust in Karachi.
She reads the field reports as they come in, and asks the question the programmes are built around: what changed for the person, and how do we know. She is also a governor at Slade Primary School in Tonbridge, Kent, where she chairs the Personnel and Professional Committee.
How it is run
A programme, not an institution
It is run by its founders, with their family, from a kitchen table as often as from an office. The UK company that carried the work from 2013 closed in August 2026, on purpose: filings, accounts and the administration around a separate entity cost more each year than the entity returned, and that money does more good in a cohort than in a compliance budget. The work now runs through AgiliTea Ltd, company number 11452628, which was already funding the larger part of it. What that means in practice, and who to contact for a sponsorship or a contract, is set out on the contact page.
How the work got from a 2012 survey to eight countries is on our story, what it has produced is on impact, and the method itself is on our approach.