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zaheer merali
Live Sessions

Work With me

For strategic execution in Leadership, Sales & Marketing.

For mentorship in starting a new venture.

For guidance through major life milestones and transitions.

For private support on deep inner work.

If you’re ready to explore working together, please book a call to discuss next steps.

Book an Inquiry Call

If you’d like to understand how we can work at these different levels, keep reading.

Or find your own way in — explore the essays, join a group session, or work with me one‑to‑one.

Live Sessions · on Luma

Making Space

I host live sessions weekly to help people like you make space for creativity, reflection, expression and understanding.

It's an opportunity for us to engage in a private group setting, before we work one-to-one. Come and see what it's like.

Weekly · 30 min · Drop-in

Creative Space

Weekly prompts for reflection and making — questions to open up what you're working on.

A gentle first step — choose a membership ↓
Weekly · 60 min · Hands-on

AI Playground

Hands-on sessions for building and working with AI tools. No expertise required — just bring something to make.

Every 6 weeks · 60 min · Facilitated

Operating Space

A system and practice for portfolio life — building the structures that let you work sustainably.

Program Pilot
Monthly · Open to members

Reflective Space

Reading, thinking, and open conversation. Space to digest ideas rather than produce from them.

Program Pilot
Weekly · Open to members

Thorn Tree Café

Weekly roundup and social space. Share what you've made, celebrate what's alive, and connect.

Choose how you'd like to join.

Seed Free

Welcome to Making Space. Register to try the public, drop-in sessions I offer. See what opens up for you. If you like it, you can make this a regular practice by becoming a member.

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Root US$250 / month
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An invitation to deepen your practice. A temporary place to explore and grow. Membership gives you access to more Creative Space sessions, plus private learning and lab sessions, and curated Q&A sessions with peers.

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What's coming up.

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Beyond the group

Sometimes the work demands more than a group session can hold. For that we work one-to-one. Three ways in:

a · strategic partner

A) Strategic Partner for Businesses

Focused on strategic clarity, narrative, and sales alignment.

I embed as a strategic advisor and execution partner on your team, building sales, marketing and operational tools to accelerate your growth.

Timeline: 6-month minimum. Month-to-month after. Pause anytime. Retainer: $5,000+/month depending on days and scoped together.
What clients say:
“As a founder, having his support and guidance has been incredible. He helps me get clear on what we’re really saying, then he builds the language and assets that carry that clarity across the company. Zaheer has been an absolute game-changer for me.” Dina, CEO, Halo Ai - autonomous, connected, intelligent risk management software
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b · the standing inquiry

B) The Standing Inquiry (1:1)

For clients who want guidance and continuity over an extended period.

I offer a reserved time each week to integrate clarity into real decisions as they arise for you in existing roles, new ventures or transitional opportunities.

What's included:
Timeline: 3-month minimum. Month-to-month after. Pause anytime. Commitment: $5,000 total, then month-to-month.
What clients say:
“Before working with Zaheer, I was up at 3am every night, mind racing about work. I'd tried meditation apps, therapy, even retreats. After working with him a few times, I slept through the night for the first time in years. Two months later, I made the decision to exit my company. Something I'd been agonizing over for a long time. And I felt... peaceful, finally.” Ian, CEO
Your next step:
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c · a single conversation

C) A Single Conversation (1:1)

If you’re at a threshold moment and need an experienced advisor.

90 minutes of shared inquiry. You bring what's going on: a crossroads decision, a big question, an issue that won’t resolve through thinking alone. We examine it together. I reflect back what I see, honestly and clearly.

Contact me to scope this first.

Explore the questions we might sit with
Deeper still

Beyond the group, and beyond the three ways above, there is one more kind of work — for the questions that don't resolve through doing.

Private Support for Deep Inner Work

Self-Inquiry (1:1)

For the ones who want to go deeper into understanding the Self… so you can finally live, lead and relate with clarity and conviction, no matter what the circumstances.

This is a crucible for the most important questions you have about who you are, why you do the things you do, what you’re here to do, and how to live freely to express the gifts in you.
It’s a 6-month private engagement for people facing existential questions that don’t go away no matter how much you try to make them disappear.

The answers are easily accessible in you, but getting to them requires a 180 degree shift in perspective. Not simply intellectually, but in actual lived experience.

We work together patiently and directly to unwind how identity and perception have appeared to become fused and tangled under long-term ignor(ance) and pressure.

This work is an essential step to remove the biggest obstacle that appears to mask your clear perception of who you are and your natural sense of being.

This work is not for the faint of heart. It asks for courage to question everything you’ve been taught. It demands a commitment to re-integrate polarities and deeply held beliefs.

But it also floods you with acceptance, forgiveness, grace, and wholeness. It invites deep care and compassion. It rewires your psyche to eliminate the perception of separation forever.

Outwardly, your life may not change much, or it may change quite a bit.

But inwardly, you will not be the same limited egoic self you’ve been acting as for all these years. And that change will stick.

What remains is inexpressible and unmistakable.
Familiar yet fresh. Boundless. Limitless. Inexhaustible. Whole
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What's included:
  • Minimum of 12 x 90-minute sessions every 2 weeks
  • Direct access between sessions for acute moments
Timeline: 6 months Cost: This offering is only available by invitation.
Your next step:

If this feels worth pursuing, let’s have a conversation.

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The Inner and Outer Bridge

This inner work has a shape. It's how you come to see clearly — and how you live with what you've seen.

Most people try to transform their life the same way the world tries to fix itself: with more force, more strategy, more hustle.

But the real shift that ends our suffering follows a different arc. It starts inside, then moves outward, then returns home. This is the rhythm beneath every conversation we have together.

The Arc · Attention, Alignment & Presence

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