Rohit Bhargava

Featured Keynote Programs

What does it take to bring more innovative thinking into your organization? It is easy to think of innovation as a big ambitious and unreachable goal. We live in a business culture that celebrates innovation and creativity, but too often this priority is pushed to outside groups or feels too big to tackle. How can any team learn the right skills to anticipate and win the future by being more innovative every day? This keynote has the answer.

In this keynote, participants will learn the five essential principles of leading transformation and building a team that sees the world differently. Drawing from years of research across more than a dozen industries and the author's own Non-Obvious trend research series read and shared by over 1 million business professionals, this talk will also share 5 ALL NEW trends for 2018 that are shaping the way that people think and that decisions are made. Ultimately, participants will leave this session with real actionable advice for how to get their teams thinking differently and get more out of the work that they are currently doing. The future belongs to non-obvious thinkers. This keynote will help you support and inspire everyone in your team to become one of them.

What Will The Audience Learn?
• 5 trends that are changing business today and how they apply to your industry
• What does it take to truly motivate employees today and create more engagement + loyalty?
• How can learning to think different inspire your workforce and drive more innovation?
• What are the five core habits of every innovator and how can you instill those in your team?
• What are some simple practices to bring to your team to get more innovative thinking?
• Note -This keynote usually features 5 custom selected trends selected for relevance to your industry

We are living in a time when it is harder to earn trust than ever before. People skip ads, mistrust brands and have access to information and insight at their fingertips. What does it take for any organization to succeed in the world of empowered consumers where every brand and every leader faces a new sort of modern believability crisis? This entertaining and highly actionable talk will reveal the five fundamental secrets of building trust and what it really takes to stand out as real, human and trusted in an untrusting world.

Participants will learn how to use the principles of powerful storytelling, combine these with smart use of digital tools and change their mindset around what it really takes to communicate in a more authentic and honest way. In a professional environment, we routinely struggle with the right way to bring our personality into the workplace and operate with greater integrity and transparency. This keynote will not only show you that it’s possible but gives you the elusive roadmap on how to make it happen for yourself.

What will the Audience Learn?
• Why is it harder to be trusted today than ever before and how does that affect every business?
• What does it take to truly motivate employees today and create more engagement + loyalty?
• 5 keys to being more believable and how to use them to grow trust from customers and employees.
• Principles of storytelling and how to use them to transform marketing and leadership activities.

Talk #1 – Afterward: How Non-Obvious Thinking Can Make You More Resilient
This talk is best for events seeking a speaker on: Disruption, Innovation or Resilience

When every day brings constant disruption, it’s hard to know where to focus. With the right mindset, we can look to the future with informed optimism. In this candid session, bestselling author Rohit Bhargava will share how the five habits of non-obvious thinkers can help you see opportunities others don’t, be more resilient and prepare for an uncertain future.

Talk #2 – The Future Normal: How To Anticipate What Comes Next & Trends That Matter
This talk is best for events seeking a speaker on: Strategy, Trends or Futurism

Futuristic ideas are now becoming daily realities and going mainstream. What are the biggest trends shaping our future? In this engaging session inspired by the upcoming book (Sep 2021), you’ll get an exclusive advanced look at some of the biggest trends that matter in a world shaped by the pandemic and you’ll leave with new ideas for how to win in a disrupted future.

Talk #3 – Believable: How To Be More Trusted In A Skeptical World Using Storytelling
This talk is best for events seeking a speaker on: Marketing, Sales, Trust, Communications or Storytelling

We are living in a time when it is harder to earn trust than ever before. People skip ads, mistrust brands and have access to information and insight at their fingertips. What does it take for any organization to build trust? This entertaining and highly actionable talk will reveal the five secrets of building trust and what it really takes to stand out as real, human and trustworthy in an untrusting world.

See What Others Miss and Shift Your Perspective

This candid, fast-paced session reveals the five habits of non-obvious thinkers that can help you see opportunities others don’t, be more resilient, and lead the future.

This program is ideal for leaders and teams who want to:

Create a strategy to take their organization into the future and navigate significant change or disruption
Understand their future customers and prepare their business to serve needs those customers haven’t demanded yet (but will one day)
Broaden their perspective outside their industry so they can take ideas from many sectors and expertly apply them to their own roles and business

The audience will leave with a grasp of:

Five immediately usable habits they can integrate into their daily lives to broaden their perspective, be more creative, and see the world differently
The fundamental forces of disruption that are shifting consumer behavior and beliefs across industries and what this means for them
What trends are, what they aren’t, why they matter, and how they can start to identify trends and patterns of behavior for themselves

Be More Authentic and Believable

This entertaining talk reveals the five “non-obvious” secrets of building trust so you can stand out as authentic, human, and trustworthy in an untrusting world.

This program will empower leaders and teams to:

Build a culture of trust and improve employee retention by inspiring their team to believe in the work they do and the leaders who lead them
Spot the “trust killers” in everyday management and communications practices and fix them so trust can thrive both internally and externally
Learn from the examples of high-trust organizations whose reputation allows them to maintain loyal customers and an inspired team

The audience will leave with:

Insights on how trust is earned and lost in the middle of our modern “believability crisis”
Techniques anyone can use to be more trustworthy and believable
A leadership model for establishing more authenticity and trust among teams that can be replicated at all levels of the organization
A roadmap for identifying the practices and policies that kill trust and rethinking them in a way that will create an immediate impact

Create Brand Loyalty, Stand Out from the Competition, and Be More Persuasive and Engaging

This “non-obvious” keynote will teach you how to apply the secrets of the world’s best storytellers to create more persuasive marketing and a brand that commands trust.

This program will help leaders and teams:

Achieve buy-in at all levels of an organization for branding, messaging, or strategic shifts either planned or already happening
Align a team across departments with a shared understanding of branding, positioning, marketing, storytelling, and the part everyone plays in shaping the organization’s perception in the marketplace
Articulate why storytelling matters and make it more approachable and realistic for everyone to use in their daily roles.

The audience will leave with:

The key principles of storytelling and guidelines for applying them in a business context to improve communications and be more persuasive
A 360-degree view of marketing, branding, communications, and sales, and the way these elements should collaborate, no matter what department they work for within your organization
A template for crafting a persuasive company story and then bringing that story to life through actions, communications, and everyday practices

12 Non-Obvious and Practical Ways to Make Diversity & Inclusion Happen

This approachable, upbeat keynote reveals a new way to think about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), through a story-driven look at how the world is changing today. If you want to demystify DEI, make your organization more inclusive, and appeal to a more diverse group of customers, this keynote is for you.

This program will help leaders and teams:

Understand why building a more diverse and inclusive world matters and what is driving the current conversation and cultural demand for this to be a priority for all companies
Put DEI efforts into context and understand what matters most when it comes to creating a more inclusive and equitable workplace and company culture
Shift away from “blaming and shaming” and instead approach the topic of DEI from a place of positivity and optimism to help everyone shift their thinking without feeling forced or minimized in the process

The audience will leave with:

An understanding of why DEI matters
A shared sense of purpose and the tools for adapting their current workplace or business practices to be more inclusive and equitable
The ability to better identify instances of unconscious bias or unintentional discrimination and correct these moments or the policies that enable them