Zakiya Mohamed

Who I Am.

On paper I'm a technical consultant, a personal trainer, and a nutrition coach. Off paper, I'm really just someone who enjoys chewing through the complicated stuff so you don't have to.

Statistics was always something I excelled at, and that naturally led me toward data science. Lucky timing too, I graduated just as AI was about to change everything. Fitness began during COVID out of sheer boredom, and honestly that's the best way it could have started. My mother and I ended up running a private studio in KL together, which was one of the best things I've ever done. Nutrition came last, more recently, and completed something I didn't know was missing.

Sounds like three completely separate lives, I know. To me they've never really felt that way. Each one makes me better at the other two, and I think that's the whole point.

What I Do.

Tech

40+enterprise clients, APAC and EMEA

30%increase in deal closures at GlobeOSS

Co-founder of Pivotential, an AI advisory firm providing tool-agnostic advisory and custom automation solutions for enterprise clients. Currently exploring a range of industries, figuring out where I can add value and what I can build to get there, owning the process E2E. Before this, I led pre-sales at GlobeOSS across APAC and EMEA, worked with 40+ enterprise clients, and was promoted from Business Analyst to Technical Consultant within my first year.

Google Cloud Certified: Generative AI Leader ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity

Fitness

20+clients, aged 17 to 60

90%client retention rate

ACE certified personal trainer with 2 years of hands-on coaching experience. Co-ran a private studio in Kuala Lumpur with a client base of 20+ individuals aged 17–60. Delivered weight training, conditioning, and HIIT across both 1-on-1 sessions and group classes of up to 7. Expanded into corporate wellness with programs for GSK and Petronas, maintaining a 90% client retention rate throughout.

ACE Certified Personal Trainer

Nutrition

4+clients, nutrition coaching

2025PN1 certified

PN1 certified nutrition coach, currently working with a small client base on meal planning and nutritional guidance. Early in the practice, which means every client gets my full and undivided attention. Looking to expand, with a particular focus on professionals navigating demanding schedules who need nutrition that actually works around a real life.

Precision Nutrition PN1 Coach

What I'm Building.

Advisory Firm

Pivotential

A tool-agnostic AI advisory firm providing AI strategy and custom automation solutions for enterprise clients. We scope what's worth building, design the solution, and deliver it. Currently owning the full sales lifecycle across a range of industries.

Client Project

Marketing Intelligence Platform

A full-stack AI marketing intelligence platform built for Malaysia's largest retail pharmaceutical group. Combines competitive intelligence, automated campaign brief generation, and content analytics into a single unified tool.

Newsletter

Regulatory Intelligence Newsletter

Monitors EU legislation and translates new laws into actionable commercial opportunities for founders, investors, and operators in European finance and tech. Powered by a custom automation pipeline with HITL review, delivered weekly.

Product

Dear Zella

An AI-powered emotional intelligence and micro-accountability app, built E2E from product architecture to UI. Engineered with a closed emotional-behavioural feedback loop driving adaptive commitment generation and personalised weekly insights.

How I Think.

You don't find balance, you build it.

Balance isn't something to arrive at and keep. It's something to continue building, then rebuilding, every time life changes shape.

Want things, and discipline will follow.

When the desire is real, discipline follows naturally, and that discipline is what builds consistency over time. Stop chasing motivation, just keep wanting things.

It's never 50/50, and it doesn't need to be.

Some weeks it's 50/50 between work, training, and food. Other weeks it's 60/40, or worse. Depends what's going on. Doesn't mean I'm off track, just means the shape changed.

Don't confuse blame with accountability.

I drop the ball sometimes, after all, I'm human. Blaming myself makes the next day worse, taking accountability is what gets me to show up again.

You can't spell shortcut without short.

The word gives it away. Short on time, short on learning, short on results that actually last. Take the shortcut if you want, just know everything else gets cut short too.

Hi! I'm Zakiya