The Coach Behind The Alive Man
Zubair Ali, M.A., GSEC
Founder & Developmental Coach
Zubair holds a Master’s degree in Transformational Leadership and Coaching from a GSAEC-recognized program and a Bachelor’s in Psychology. He is a credentialed Graduate School Educated Coach, a designation recognizing scholar-practitioner status in the coaching field. He is certified through the Human Emergence Group and a member of the International Coaching Federation.
His coaching and training is grounded in developmental psychology, emotional intelligence research, and applied adult educational methodologies. His expertise is working with men in a direct, grounded, and focused way on the emotional patterns and developmental gaps that drive their behavior.
He developed The ALIVE Growth Model™ from the observation that most men are not lacking ambition, intelligence, or effort. They are lacking a way to address the emotional patterns running underneath everything they build. The model was built to give that work real structure, with aliveness as the foundation.
- M.A. Transformational Leadership & Coaching, Maharishi International University
- Graduate School Educated Coach (GSEC), GSAEC Scholar-Practitioner
- B.A. Psychology, DePaul University
- Human Emergence Group Certified
- International Coaching Federation Member
- Creator, The ALIVE Growth Model™
Inside the Coaching Process
Developmental coaching is not advice-giving. It is not therapy. It is not a system where someone else holds you to your commitments. The premise of this work is the opposite: a man builds his own internal structure. The coach supports that process.
In practice, sessions focus on what is happening beneath the surface of a man’s daily life. The patterns he repeats without recognizing them. The emotional responses he has learned to override rather than understand. The gap between the life he is living and the life he knows is possible.
The process follows the ALIVE Growth Model™, moving through awareness, liberation, intention, vision, and emergence. But the pace and depth are determined by your own readiness and honesty. Nothing is forced. Nothing is performed.
What changes over time is not dramatic or sudden. Men typically describe it as a settling. Less internal noise. More clarity about what they actually want. Decisions that feel grounded rather than reactive. A growing sense of living from something real rather than managing an image.
The work asks for honesty, patience, and the willingness to sit with discomfort when it surfaces. It does not ask for performance.
A Project of On Aliveness
The Alive Man operates under On Aliveness, a developmental coaching and education practice founded by Zubair Ali and Navishtha Shah. On Aliveness serves a broader audience across personal growth and leadership development. The Alive Man applies the same intellectual foundation and methodology to the specific developmental needs of men.
For more on the parent practice, visit onaliveness.com.