Dr. Samra Zafar

Dr. Samra Zafar is passionate about helping people live and lead with courage to become agents for change. She is an award-winning international speaker, best-selling author and resident psychiatrist who specializes in authentic leadership, belonging and inclusive wellness. In her captivating keynotes, Zafar shares valuable, science-backed tools and insights to help leaders build authentic connections and inclusive workplace cultures that foster high-performing, resilient and agile teams for transformational results. After escaping a decade of abuse as a child bride in Canada, Zafar pursued her education and became a global advocate for progress. Her bestselling memoir, A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose, shares her journey while her second book, Unconditional: Break Through Past Limits to Transform Your Future, details science-based strategies rooted in lived experience to help readers unlearn limiting beliefs and live fuller, unconditional lives. It was named one of Forbes’