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Azizan Osman
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Dr. Hj. Azizan bin Osman (born November 14, 1973) is a Malaysian motivational marketing expert. He was born in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.

As the Founder and Chairman of Richworks Group of Companies, Dr Azizan Osman has pioneered and home-grown various personal development and entrepreneurial training programmes that has touched the lives of over half a million participants from all walks of life since its establishment in 2008.

His mission and passion to educate Malaysians with focus on developing the Malay community whom are far behind in progress of the current socio-economic state of the country, grew from his personal experiences and need of a mentor more than a decade ago when he was badly hit with financial debts and challenges.

Since the establishment of his enterprise, Azizan has dedicated his life to being a social entrepreneur to lead and mentor more social entrepreneurs from his programmes. A feather to his cap, Azizan has to date created a pool of highly successful entrepreneurial millionaires, many of whom are now mastering and teaching the art of making the first million as a benchmark to financial freedom.

“A Millionaire,” once remained an impossible dream and belief by the masses of this country, is now a possible reality for many due to Azizan’s hard work and training through sharing of personal experiences, knowledge and expertise on how individuals can build businesses, financial wealth and strong investment portfolios to sustain their economic wellbeing.

Azizan revolutionized personal development and entrepreneurial education in Malaysia as opportunities to learn were limited and unknown several years back. From his efforts and expertise in being a market leader, today, many are emulating his successes in personal development and financial wealth training that is presently a booming industry in the country.

Early Life
Azizan has been a serial entrepreneur all his life. He started as a teenager selling food, books and just about anything from his dormitory during his campus days. He had two formal education, in a Chinese and a Muslim religious school. Both education set the very foundation for Azizan’s business acumen and the core values in his life today.

He later pursued his Diploma in Investment Analysis in UiTM, Johor. Being a lifelong learner, Azizan continued to pursue his education throughout his career by earning a Master in Business Administration from Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure University in 2009 followed by his Doctorate in Philosophy specializing in Management at the same university. In 2014, he graduated with a second Masters’ degree, an Executive MBA in Applied Management Science from MAMSA.

Today, Azizan has earned multiple international certifications and recognition in human science behavior, neuro-semantic and neuro-linguistic programming, hypnotherapy, professional training, leadership management, guerilla marketing and is a certified life and motivational coach.

Career
Azizan’s first experience in the corporate world was in a stock-broking firm. He developed a keen passion on stock investments while in college. A year later, he pursued a career in sales. He made several unsuccessful business ventures and was in deep financial debts.

Picking himself up from 2001, he worked as an executive in Appco Group (UK), one of the largest and most successful global sales and marketing companies. His great track record and exceptional marketing talent opened up a lot of opportunities for Azizan. He shot to meteoric success and was given the chance to build his own company sponsored by his employers. He built a team of talented marketers under his leadership as Managing Director & Organizational Head for Malaysia.

During his tenure in the corporate world, Azizan successfully lead a team of 1,500 employees with his expertise in integrated marketing and advertising to manage massive marketing campaigns nationwide for various organisations from SMEs to corporate giants, namely Telekom, DIGI, Celcom, HSBC, Standard Charted, and inclusive of fund raisers for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Malaysia) and MAKNA, the Malaysian Cancer Society.

For his meaningful and highly successful years of service under the London-based organization, Azizan received fourteen personal accolades for his outstanding performance and success in the fields of leadership, management, human resource management, advertising as well as marketing, in which he holds a strong passion.

He then took his credibility to another level when he was awarded the ‘Chairman’s International Platinum Award’, the highest accolade to be handed out by the organization, after only two years of service. As an international marketer, Azizan is a certified Guerrilla-Marketer mentored by Jay Conrad Levinson. At present, Azizan is personally being mentored by two internationally acclaimed Life & Business Coach, Robin Sharma & Tony Robbins.

In 2008, Azizan made a bold move to pursue his life-long dream of owning his own company. He brought on board his vast experiences to be shared with those in need of his expertise. His experiences with hardship and failure made him one not to be defeated. He began to reflect on the fundamental laws governing success and failure. His theories and experiences became the stepping stone for his next multimillion dollar business which brought him huge financial success and ultimate fulfillment.

Achievements, Recognitions & Contributions
Today, as coach and best-selling author, Azizan has trained over 650,000 people, empowering them with priceless knowledge to succeed in life and business. He has helped countless small business owners and multinationals generate revenues reaching millions in annual sales. To the masses, he is renowned as a Success Coach & Asia’s No.1 Marketing Maestro.

Being Asia 's largest event organizer for seminar and training programs in human resource development and entrepreneurship,  in 2012, the Malaysia Book of Records awarded Azizan and his team the recognition of being the largest event and seminar organizer in Malaysia in the field of entrepreneurial development, marketing and motivation. In 2014, more than 140,000 participants attended his seminars and 8,000 participants has been the ultimate record for the highest number of participants in one single seminar event to date.

Azizan continues to inspire and create a growing phenomenon in Malaysia and Asia as he champions his mission for lifelong learning to achieve ultimate success, wealth, happiness, love, serenity and health through unlocking the human potential and entrepreneurship. We have seen in recent years, the growing interest of many Malaysians especially the Malay community that are now venturing into various businesses, wealth building and investment opportunities available in the market both locally and internationally.

As an acclaimed writer, he has authored and co-authored 10 books among which “Magnet Kekayaan & Kejayaan, Kuasai Pemasaran Rahsia Menarik Pelanggan” and “Kuasai Pemasaran Facebook” are the most sought after and bestseller series. “21 Formula Hidup Luar Biasa” and “Kenapa Saya Mahu Anda Berjaya” are his more recent titles published in 2014 and 2015 respectively. This year, Azizan also ventured into co-authoring with Brian Tracy, an internationally distinguished professional speaker, bestselling author, entrepreneur and success expert. Their co-authored book “Beat The Curve” was recently released o 21 January 2016 on amazon.com.

Azizan has also developed several self-formulated marketing concepts and business strategies, namely ‘M.E.S.T.I’ which he shares in greater detail with his audiences through his programs.

His contributions in philanthropic work is as far outreaching as his role to educate the community. Azizan is the Founder of RICHWELL, a charitable NGO which raises funds to help support those in poverty, underprivileged, disabled, women and children as well as various social causes affecting the community locally and internationally including flood and war-stricken victims.

Azizan’s success has been well documented by the local media for his desire and sheer determination to help individuals and business owners to achieve their fullest potential in life and in their respective industries. His aid comes in various forms including talks, seminars, personal coaching, online training, blog, books and videos, his daily engagement on social media as well as his frequent columns in Malaysia’s leading newspapers besides appearing on television and radio programs on a regular basis.

Currently, Azizan is the proud owner of a conglomerate comprising of twenty-seven subsidiaries under the Richworks Group of Companies flagship with trades in advertising, marketing consultation, publications, IT, web solutions, wellness, event management, corporate services, education, property and investments besides coaching and training.