At Texthelp, we’ve worked with Baasit for the last three years on multiple projects. It’s been an absolute pleasure and privilege to work with someone of Baasit's enthusiasm, skill and experience over this time through Siddiqui Education. We’ve engaged Baasit in a wide range of projects - as a keynote speaker, virtual panelist, podcast guest and at in person events ranging from ‘meet and greet’ at BETT 2022 and as keynote for our first large scale in person event post pandemic for Google in Belfast. Baasit isn’t a ‘keynote in a box’ speaker working to the same formula - he takes care on each and every engagement to really drill into the needs of the event and of the audience and focus on what matters, keeping things dynamic and bespoke to our needs. Each engagement with Baasit has been focused and delivered to an exceptional standard with a wonderful mix of his unique experience from both education and from TV. Baasit is always entertaining, inspiring and impactful each and every time. He has a wonderful ability to connect with any audience - no matter age, ability, virtual or in person. Baasit also brings connectedness when he works with us - his involvement in other projects such as Let's Pitch it and many others brings deep value to each session he delivers. Working with Baasit has been a pleasure - professional to his core, he always delivers, and we hope to continue to build on our work together in the months and years ahead. You’ll not regret working with Baasit - don’t hesitate. He makes every engagement count.

It has been an absolute pleasure working with Baasit to inspire our young adults. Baasit didn’t hesitate for one second when I called upon him to deliver an inspirational talk to our now Year 12 students during their induction programme. We discussed prior to his visit about what I wanted him to cover to inspire our students who were about to start their next stage of secondary education which is a massive step for them. His talk was perfectly pitched and you could hear a pin drop as he was addressing them - the students were clearly engaged and could relate easily to Baasit’s own life experience. Just brilliant! We look forward to have him back next year! But Baasit’s commitment to our school didn’t stop there as he kindly recorded a video message to our Year 11 and 13 Graduates for their celebration evening. His speech literally brought tears to my eyes. It was so lovely and so heartfelt as these cohorts had gone through so much turmoil with their public examinations, they deserved all the praise Baasit gave them. On a personal level, I feel so lucky to have met such a humble man who is passionate about education and believes that every student can be successful. Thank you so much for making the time to talk to our students.

Baasit is an exceptional communicator and event presenter and I found working with him a pleasure. He really took an interest in my company and project and made the event run smoothly with all attendees commenting on how relaxed and welcome Baasit made them feel and how well he hosted the event and engaged with the sense of celebration and achievement. Baasit is wonderful to work with and someone I would choose to work with again. He has a very warm and approachable presence and people enjoy being in his company. He is highly professional and extremely detailed in preparation whilst being adaptable and flexible to any situation. Baasit has many skills and is a very capable and likeable person who delivered a perfect event for my company. He has many strings to his bow and is someone who ensures he adds value to everything he is involved with.

I love working with Baasit. I was introduced to him via his involvement with the alumni board at the University of Derby while we were looking to continue delivering open days in the midst of the pandemic. Baasit joined us to send up his Gogglebox appearances as part of our live stream - Open Day Live. What was intended to be a bit of time filler with some comedic touches quickly developed during the live broadcast to make more use of his skills. By the end of the fifth hour, he was interviewing our professional host live, and was fantastic. Since then we have engaged with him regularly to talk about his time studying at the university, his career journey, his passion for education and his advice on life skills for students. He is an outstanding communicator who always comes across authentically and someone that the audience responds very well to. He is professional, diligent, creative, and curious, always wanting to know more to help him deliver the best for his client. The amount of time he dedicates to talking to students and posing for photographs is wonderful to see and the impact that has on the students is priceless. Following his successful appearance at Open Day Live, we tasked him with being a lead presenter for our next live event, despite it not being something he'd done before. As you can guess, he was fantastic and his skills as a presenter are underrated, probably even to himself. I can't recommend him highly enough for anything you may need. An absolute joy to work with.

Baasit is always a pleasure to work with and has support us in so many ways. He always puts 100% into everything he does and comes with bags of enthusiasm. More importantly though he wants to make a real difference to learners by giving them key life skills. As a qualified teacher Baasit compliments what we do and someone we call upon often to seek his support and advice, and usually to test our resources and check what we do is aligned with his own ethos of making a real difference to learners.

I would like to recommend Baasit as an engaging public speaker, facilitator and an advocate for education and learning. He is motivational, positive and an inspiration for young people for all backgrounds and cultures. His passion is outstanding and delivers some of the best presentations and workshops that I have witnessed. His knowledge of education, media and teaching is quite unique as he carefully blends together his experience in teaching and being in media to develop amazing workshops that are fun, yet engaging to young people. As a key note speaker I wholly recommend him as he has the 'wow' factor that will bring your training and conference to life. Baasit is will take you on a journey, one that your students and staff will not forget. A truly wonderful educator of our times.

I heard Baasit speak at a recent business conference and was extremely impressed by his engaging manner and interesting and motivating presentation. His commitment to building aspirations for disadvantaged young people came across strongly, as well as his ability to work co-operatively and appreciate the skills and strengths of others with whom he works. He has a gift for presenting important information in a light-hearted and entertaining way. This presentation was to adults, but as an ex-teacher, I would highly recommend Baasit as someone who would also actively engage groups of young people in any environment.

Baasit is one of the most inspirational people I have seen speak, he is engaging, informative, and really charismatic. I would (and do) always recommend him for conferences, talks and speeches. Our students have benefited from his knowledge, and support, he truly is a famous alumni, and an brilliant ambassador for the UoD.

Ave Lowe (Senior Leader at Kingsmead School, Hednesford) “Lets Pitch it- fun, fantastic, inspiring " were all words that the students used to describe their day with Baasit. Some weeks prior to the event Baasit sent all of the resources to us to enable us familiarise ourselves with the content and to prepare for the day. The resources were very professional and engaging for the students inspired by the initial story behind Channel 4’s Gogglebox. On the day we used three classrooms and Baasit rotated around each one, Baasits skills as an experienced and outstanding education practitioner shone through in the handing of the students who were engaged throughout the whole day. After the event Baasit stayed in school to chat with students from other year groups, parents and staff signing autographs and posing for photographs and selfies. Moving forward the students have been very committed to finishing their project which is testimony as to how much they enjoyed their day and the confidence this has instilled in each of our students. As a school we look forward to working with Baasit again very soon.

Baasit has worked with all our Embark schools and each one given excellent feedback! He has structured an exciting and innovative programme which engages the students and is relevant to their learning. Best of all Baasit is simply a wonderful human being and a pleasure to be around. His enthusiasm is infectious and rubs off on children and adults alike. He is very organised which makes our life easier arranging for so many schools to work with him. Baasit always goes above and beyond and handed out certificates and medals at our annual Awards night. He deserves every success. Thank you Baasit!