Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Leila Gharani is a Microsoft trainer and MVP who is currently based in Vienna, Austria.
- A calculated risk-taker, Leila has been self-employed for over 15 years and has opened up about having no regrets about making the decision to shift to online teaching.
- Now, Leila is most popular for running the Excel tutorials-based YouTube channel that has well over 1 million subscribers.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Gharani attended primary school in Tehran, Iran. For middle & high school, she went to
an international school in Austria. Later, she moved to Canada for her further studies. - As a child, Leila wanted to be an astronaut and work for NASA.
- Leila currently resides in Vienna, Austria, with her husband and her children. The couple has been married for well over a decade and they have two children…a 15-year-old son and an 10-year-old daughter (ages as of 2023).
- Her husband used to work as a Chief Financial Officer, but he quit his job to work alongside her.
- Leila speaks fluent German and English.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Leila studied at the University of Toronto and graduated with a Master’s Degree in Economics.
- Gharani initially planned on studying Journalism but switched majors right before starting college.
- She also has a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Economics from Carleton University.
- After university, she trained with Microsoft and became a Certified Specialist Master in Microsoft Office.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Gharani’s career began in 1999 when she took a job as a Teaching Assistant in Intermediate Macroeconomics at the University of Toronto.
- She left the job in May of 2000 and, a few months later, joined the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) as an Economist.
- In May 2001, Leila left Ottawa, Canada, and relocated to Vienna in Austria to become a Cost Reduction Consultant for Frantschach.
- She then spent one year working for the company before joining the VBA and SAP Consulting Services as an Independent Productivity Consultant.
- 1n October 2003, Gharani joined the Mondi Group and spent almost four years working as an Accounting Systems Expert. She also worked on the implementation of the Oracle HFM for the company.
- Gharani then became an SAP Consultant for a subsidiary of the Mondi Group called Mondi AG.
- Between 2008 and late early 2010, she worked as an independent consultant for various companies before joining Mondi Europe and International as a Project Manager.
- After four years, Gharani officially left the Mondi Group and its subsidiaries in December 2014 and went on to found the Excel resource site, XelPlus, in January 2015.
- For the past six years, Leila has worked on XelPlus as an Independent Instructor and Business Consultant.
- Based in Vienna, Austria, she also presents, produces, and instructs excel programs online to thousands of students from across the globe.
- Since 2016, Gharani has been teaching Excel classes on the online platform, Udemy. After the COVID crisis, the number of students that Leila instructed grew to over 150,000 because many employees were forced to work and learn from home due to lockdown restrictions. In April 2020 alone, there were over 10,000+ reservations.
- Leila Gharani Earnings / Salary / Net Worth : She earns a six-figure wage through the e-learning site Udemy. Plus, her estimated earnings from her YouTube are said to be between $10,000 and $35,000 per month.
Interesting Facts and Trivia :
- When she is not working, Leila loves to volunteer and spend time with her husband. She also enjoys entrepreneurship and business-oriented books.
- In June 2008, she became a member of the Steering Committee for the Vienna Babies Club, a charity aimed at helping vulnerable children in Vienna, Austria.
- Leila once stated in an interview that if she could, she would love to connect with the superhero “Wonder Woman” because she is so strong and successful.
- During her time at the University of Toronto, she enjoyed statistics and econometrics lectures. She didn’t like writing papers but enjoyed working with numbers.
- After joining Instagram in October 2019, she now boasts over 45K followers on the platform.
- Breaking Bad and Stranger Things are her favorite TV shows.
Personal / Home / Contact Details
- Leila Gharani Married? : Yes
- Eye Colour : Black
- Haircut / Hair Colour : Brown
- Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race : Iranian / Middle-eastern
- Nationality : She was born in Canada and lives in Vienna,
- Is Leila Gharani Indian? : The Gharani surname is most common in Iran.
- Leila Gharani Height : 5′3″
Gherani has helped me a lot as a diploma student of accounting in understanding the financial statements.
Leila is brilliance personified. I am very comfortable grasping her excel tutorials. Wishing her and her family the very best in the world.
She was born in Iran, not Canada.
Thank you for your time in teaching others like me. I used to watch every video of yours on Youtube!
Well deserved Leila