 Hello, this is Distinguished Toastmaster Prasila Dayes, welcome to Koei Challengers Toastmasters Club. Today we have with us International Director, Distinguished Toastmaster Ali Shabaz Ali. I would like you to share with us your experience as a Toastmaster. Well it's been 20 years, I'm enjoying the Toastmasters program and every time I go take some role I feel like a better version of myself, provided if I do good in that role. Now what matters is there will be good days, there will be bad days and that's absolutely fine. You can't go very constant on different roles or even on the same roles you take but what makes a difference is you just keep going and that's what I'm doing from past 20 years. From what we understand most of us join Toastmasters to develop our communication skills and we also know that Toastmasters, the tagline of Toastmasters is where leaders are made but at this point I've noticed that including myself we do hesitate to take up leadership roles and you have been the epitome of leadership in Toastmasters being the International Director. What advice would you give to members, to Toastmasters on how to initiate, how to take that first step into taking up leadership roles? That's a very important question and need of the hour to understand leadership in Toastmasters. When I started Toastmasters, when I logged or got into the program 20 years back from now I didn't even imagine that I would be going to any leadership track, it was purely for communication but then the club approached me, told me to become the surgeon at Amps. This was way back and I said okay, I didn't realize that I'm already transforming as a leader just by taking one role in the XCOM and then the next one, then the next one from area governor, those there used to be governor, not director, then the division governor and then the district trial and region advisor and here I am as your International Director. With all my experience I can only say few things to people who are new in Toastmasters. You can have a road map for leadership but in our organization it's all about personal transformation. I know people who have taken positions but a very little change what I have seen and I know people who have taken just one or two roles and I see a huge change. So it's what you put into that role. One more message is that leadership roles is not only when you take it in the club XCOM, district XCOM or beyond district, even being a timer it's a leadership role and that's what I tell people when you are the timer of a club, you are leading the whole club when it comes to timing. How many timers do we see tell the club president or give a signal when the president has crossed his or her time. So as a timer, as a grammarian, as a counter there is leadership essence in every role we take. We wait for that label but that's not true. Every role we take that's a leadership essence we are talking about. Now today you are leading this question answers session. So you are the leader of the date and there is leadership essence in everything. Our DTM Kajaton here who is managing the setup, he is leading the setup today. So he is the leader in that domain. So there is leadership essence in everything we do in Toastmasters, whatever role we take. Thank you, Distinguished Toastmasters, Alisha Baz that just gave me an insight on what leadership is. It's not about title but in every role that we perform, be it a timer's role, be it an XCOM role, everything that we bring to Toastmasters is in a form leadership role. It's not just about communication. So thank you very much for that insight on leadership. My idea of leadership was being on the top of the chart but I have now understood now when I do a timer's role I would know that I am actually doing a leadership role and that goes for all of us Toastmasters to understand that leadership is not just about the title, it's about how much we put into the roles that we perform and do it diligently. That makes you a leader. Thank you Distinguished Toastmasters, Alisha Baz once again and I wish you a pleasant stay. Enjoy the 300 meeting. Also wishing DTM Toastmasters Club congratulations and all the best on your 300 meeting. Thank you so much. Thank you.