High Performance Culture: Balancing Speed and Spirituality

Tech rewards speed. Islam rewards patience. Those in the tech industry are struggling to hold on to both.

You work in an environment that measures everything – output, velocity, impact – and right now, that environment is more volatile than ever.

AI is reshaping roles overnight. Layoffs have become routine. And for Muslim professionals, the pressure to perform often comes alongside a silent pressure: to minimise who you are.

This is an evening to think differently about all of it.

Omar DaCosta-Shahid, Founder of Spirituality of Business, will be in conversation with Ustadh Harun Waheed who has spent his career inside the industry – at Google, Meta, and TikTok.

Across his tech career, he has maintained a serious commitment to his faith and to guiding others. He’s not speaking about tech from the outside. He knows the culture, the pressures, and the stakes.

He has spent over a decade studying the Islamic Sciences and Spirituality, mentoring many high profile figures on how to achieve your spiritual goals alongside remaining ambitious at work.

His career success and spiritual training is rare and we can all benefit from this unique approach.

Together we’ll explore:
— What to do when things don’t go your way at work, and the Islamic understanding of sabr that goes deeper than just “be patient”
— What to do when things do go your way, and why shukr is more than gratitude – it’s a framework for avoiding the traps success sets
— How to think about AI disruption, job volatility, and career risk with grounded clarity rather than anxiety
— How the skills and access we have in tech can be turned toward building something genuinely beneficial for our communities