About Azez
We're Azez. We help people learn by doing.
We design and lead workshops where people stop collecting information and start building skills. Our work moves between creative studios, classrooms and boardrooms — and we've learned that the best learning happens when people work on something real.
- workshops delivered
- 120+workshops delivered
- participants trained
- 3,500participants trained
- partner organizations
- 40+partner organizations
- average participant rating
- 4.9average participant rating
Our story
Azez started with a brand designer who moved into marketing strategy and found a calling the first time a team asked to learn how the work was done. Watching a room go from 'I could never do that' to 'look what I made' is still the best part of what we do.
Today we run public workshops for individuals and freelancers, and design custom training programmes for companies, agencies and NGOs. Our work sits at the intersection of creativity, technology and business — AI tools, marketing, branding and the creative skills that tie them together.
Outside the workshop room we write about learning design, mentor early-career creatives and spend too much time in stationery shops.
Areas of expertise
What we bring into the room
AI & Emerging Tools
Practical, responsible AI workflows for creative and marketing work.
Marketing Strategy
Positioning, audience insight, content systems and measurement.
Branding & Storytelling
Brand platforms, narrative and visual direction.
Creative Thinking
Ideation, visual thinking and creative confidence.
Facilitation & Learning Design
Workshops built around practice, feedback and real outcomes.
Workshop philosophy
Three promises for every workshop
- i.
Practice over theory
Every session is at least 60% hands-on. You work on your own material, not hypothetical case studies.
- ii.
Small rooms, real feedback
We keep groups small enough that everyone is seen, heard and critiqued kindly.
- iii.
Leave with something made
A plan, a prototype, a portfolio piece — every workshop ends with a tangible result.
Training experience
A decade between studio and classroom
- 2026Launched the public workshop series in Dubai and Nairobi
- 2025Designed a leadership design-thinking programme for a regional telecom
- 2024Lead trainer for an NGO digital-capacity programme across East Africa
- 2021Head of Brand Strategy at an independent creative studio
- 2016Started teaching branding and design at evening courses
For individuals
Learn in a small room, leave with real skills.
Public workshops for professionals, freelancers and founders. Small groups, hands-on practice and honest feedback.
For organizations
Training designed around your team.
Custom workshops and programmes for companies, agencies and NGOs — in person or online.