Rohit Bhargava

Why Hire Rohit Bhargava?

Two things make Rohit different. First, he always shares non-obvious, non-cliche, and actionable ideas. The one piece of feedback he always hears from attendees is that his talks are actionable. He doesn’t use canned presentations and heavily tailors his talk to each specific audience.

At the event itself, Rohit ensures he’s approachable off stage and makes a point to be part of the event – instead of running to and from the airport. When he commits to an event, he is invested in doing everything I can to help make it successful.

Below is a list of his keynote speaking topics.

How To Be A Non-Obvious Thinker (And See What Others Miss)

What if you could learn to think like a futurist? Unlike most talks about the future, this generous and inspiring keynote will reveal how anyone can learn to anticipate what is coming next. Using his signature fast-paced “non-boring” presentation style, trend curator Rohit Bhargava takes the audience behind-the-scenes of more than a decade of research to illustrate how his award-winning “Haystack Method” can help anyone be more innovative.

Based on his #1 WSJ bestselling Non-Obvious Book Series, this keynote also includes all-new insights from his latest trend research along with useful ideas for how to put those insights to work. The world needs more non-obvious thinkers. This talk will give you a roadmap to being one of them.

Key Takeaways:

• Five actionable and immediately usable habits to broaden your perspective, be more creative, and see the world differently.
• A better understanding of what trends are, what they aren’t, why they matter, and how you can start to identify trends and patterns of behavior.
• Understand your future customer and how you can prepare your business to serve the needs customers haven’t demanded yet, but will one day.
• Embrace a mindset that truly allows you to take ideas from many sectors and expertly apply them to your own roles and business.

7 Non-Obvious Trends Shaping the Future Normal

What does it take to identify world-changing trends that will actually last? For the past decade, Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason have been on the front lines of the future—going into cutting-edge labs, private testing facilities, and invite-only showcases around the world. Now for the first time, this exclusive talk will reveal the most powerful stories and instigators that are already shaping humanity’s next decade.

From biophilic skyscrapers to generative AI to haptic interfaces, this keynote will offer a clear-eyed overview of the technology changing our world, while also the deeply human questions all this advancement will raise. Rather than offering “futurist theater” with obvious forgettable examples, this talk is updated with new stories – sometimes pulled from that morning’s news!

This is not a boring academic talk. Instead, it’s a pull-no-punches, always entertaining, constantly surprising, highly actionable, and deeply non-obvious glimpse into what the future will look like…and how each of us can train ourselves to anticipate big shifts before they happen.

Key Takeaways:

• A greater understanding of the fundamental forces of disruption that are shifting consumer behavior and beliefs across industries and what this means for them.
• Create a strategy to take your organization into the future and navigate significant change or disruption either through industry shifts, restructures, pandemic effects, and/or new leadership.
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge ideas and technologies that can help inform new initiatives and products.

The Art and Science of Non-Obvious Marketing (In a Skeptical World)

We are living in a time when it is harder to earn trust than ever before. People skip ads, mistrust brands, and demand transparency from the companies they buy from or work for. What does it take for any organization to be more believable? To win in a low-trust world, you need to be more human.

This funny and insightful keynote from award-winning marketing expert Rohit Bhargava will reveal the five keys to earning attention in a world filled with distractions. Whether you are looking to shift perceptions, improve sales, or simply inject more breakthrough thinking into your current efforts, this talk will help.

Through a digestible collection of entertaining case studies and unusual observations, Rohit will shine a spotlight on what actually works to command attention, build loyalty, and generate real results. Most importantly, the audience will leave with real, practical advice they can use immediately to put non-obvious thinking to work every day.

Key Takeaways:

• Build a culture of trust and improve employee retention by inspiring your team to have more belief in the work they do and the leaders who lead them.
• Understand the key principles of storytelling and how to apply them in a business context to improve communications and be more persuasive.
• Insights on how trust is earned and lost in the middle of our modern “believability crisis” and 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.

The Non-Obvious Method To Leading Diversity (When It’s Not Your Day Job)

What does it take to build a more inclusive team? Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are hot topics right now but it’s not always easy to know the right way to address them. Inspired by the ambitious virtual summit Rohit held during the pandemic and the book Beyond Diversity he co-authored with Jennifer Brown, this approachable keynote reveals a new way to think about DEI.

Instead of blaming and shaming or focusing on a long list of “-isms,” this optimistic keynote makes DEI approachable for all leaders by starting with a story-driven look at how the world is changing today. Along the way, audiences will explore some of the biggest myths and realities of diversity, who is getting it right, and who isn’t. If you want to demystify DEI, start to make your organization more inclusive, and appeal to a more diverse group of customers, this keynote has the answer.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand why building a more diverse and inclusive world matters and what is driving the current conversation.
• Put DEI efforts into context and understand what matters most when it comes to creating a more inclusive and equitable workplace and company culture.
• How to better identify instances of unconscious bias or unintentional discrimination and correct these moments or the policies that enable them.
• Shift away from “blaming and shaming” and instead approach DEI from a place of positivity and optimism so no one feels forced or minimized in the process.