More About Rohit Bhargava

Rohit Bhargava | Background

Born in India, Rohit had visited more than 30 countries by the time he was 18; with a stopover in DC waiting tables, he moved to Australia in 1999 at the dawn of the dot.com boom start his career. He moved back to DC five years later to join the digital team at Ogilvy and started his blog the same year. His writing would feature in AdAge magazine and opened the door for his first book deal – which would go on to win him the Gold Atticus Award.

At Ogilvy, Rohit was a founding member of the pioneering Digital Influence group that was the first agency division to integrate behavioural economics insights into client work. He spent eight years as part of this team before acting on his entrepreneurial dreams.

In 2014, he started his own publishing company called Ideapress Publishing where he released his breakout hit book Non-Obvious, which he updated and re-released every year up to 2020. This led him to become a full-time speaker and start the Non-Obvious Company.

Rohit Bhargava | Writing

Rohit has published several books alongside his famous Non-Obvious series, including:

– Personality Not Included (2008) a Gold Atticus Award winner

– Likeonomics (2012), which won the Porchlight Best Business Award

– Always Eat Left Handed (2017), a Foreword Indie award winner

– The Non-Obvious Guide to Working Remotely (2021) an International Book Award winner

– The Non-Obvious Guide to Marketing and Branding (2021), an Axiom silver medal winner

– Beyond Diversity (2022), a Wall Street Journal bestseller and gold Axiom medal winner

– The Future Normal (2023) which was part of the Next Big Ideas Book Club in 2023

– Non-Obvious Megatrends (2023), a #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller

– Non-Obvious Thinking: How To See What Others Miss (2024) which won the Best Business Book at the 2025 International Book Awards

In 2015 he also co-authored ePatient, offering an inside look at some of the biggest trends shaping the world of healthcare and how patient empowerment was, and continues to, drive a major shift in how healthcare is delivered.

Rohit Bhargava | Speaker

Outside of his writing career, Rohit brings the insights from his books to live audiences as a keynote speaker. He has been invited to deliver his signature “non-boring” talks to some of the biggest organisations in the world across over 30 countries. Along the way he has shared the stage with names such as Jay Leno, Mel Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Melinda Gates, will.i.am, and Elon Musk.

Rohit Bhargava | Keynotes

How to Be a Non-Obvious Thinker (And See What Others Miss): This keynote reveals how anyone can learn to be more creative and innovative. Using his signature, fast-paced style, Rohit takes the audience behind the scenes of his groundbreaking SIFT method to explain how anyone can be more innovative using the specific habits of non-obvious thinkers.

This keynote helps leaders and teams:

– Master new techniques to create space for new ideas, find insights, focus on what really matters, and define a twist that can lead to new creative breakthrough ideas.

– Broaden their perspective outside their industry and embrace a mindset that allows them to take ideas from many sectors and apply them to their own business.

The audience will leave with:

– Four actionable and immediately useable habits they can integrate into their daily lives to broaden their perspectives, be more creative, and see the world differently.

– A better understanding of what trends are, what they aren’t, why they matter, and how they can start to identify trends and patterns of behaviour for themselves.

7 Non-Obvious Trends Shaping The Future Normal: What Does it Take to Identify World Changing Trends? For the past decade, Rohit has been on the front lines of the future. This keynote 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 help leaders and teams:

– Create a strategy to take their organisation into the future and navigate significant change or disruption either through industry shifts, restructures, or new leadership.

– Gain exposure to cutting-edge ides and technologies that can help inform new initiatives and products.

The audience will leave with:

– A greater understanding of the fundamental forces of disruption that are shifting consumer behaviour and beliefs across the industries and what this means for them.

– A roadmap of relevant innovations and advances that can help to shape strategic planning and current efforts around building products and services for customers.

The Art and Science of Non-Obvious Marketing (in a Sceptical World): We are living in a time where 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. To win in a low-trust world, you need to be more human. This keynote will reveal the five keys to earning attention in a world filled with distractions.

This keynote will help leaders and teams:

– Align a team across departments with a shared understanding of branding, marketing, positioning, storytelling, and what part everyone plays in shaping the organisation’s perception in the marketplace.

– Articulate why storytelling matters and make the task of storytelling more approachable and realistic.

– Build a culture of trust within the organisation and improve employee retention by inspiring a team to have more belief in their work and their leaders.

The audience will leave with:

– Understanding the key principles of storytelling and how to apply them in a business context to improve communication 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 organisation.

7 Non-Obvious Secrets to Thrive in an AI-Disrupted World: As AI fundamentally resets daily work and life, it raises some big questions about how any of us can be successful. Based on a decade of research, this talk will reveal how each of us can survive and thrive by using AI in the right way.

This keynote will help leaders and teams:

– Understand how the forces of AI are disrupting business practices and what can make this a good (or bad) thing depending on how these disruptions are rolled out.

– Forecast the future of disruption in their industry driven by AI and other technologies so that they can develop a clearer picture of how to prepare for this disruption and how to leverage it.

The audience will leave with:

– Seven specific lessons and actionable tips for how to shift the way they work and how they shop up to their daily roles in the midst of AI disruption.

– An optimistic vision of a future where disruption doesn’t need to be a bad thing and how it may lead to more business and career opportunities when leveraged in the right way.

Rohit Bhargava | Why Hire Rohit?

– Trusted by leading brands including SXSW, TEDx, Coca-Cola, KFC, Disney, and NASA

– Award-winning author, 3x Wall Street Journal bestselling author

– Early pioneer in digital transformation and marketing

– Founder of the world’s largest independent business book awards program

– Rohit’s insights have been read by more than a million readers around the world

– Versatile, friendly, and hard-working speaker

– Popular Adjunct Professor in the Master of Communication Program at Georgetown University

– He has a global mindset

Rohit Bhargava | Clients

Ad Alliance, America’s Credit Unions, American Express, CES, Coca-Cola, Corcentric, Disney, Hollister Medical, HP, ICBA, JP Morgan Chase, KFC, LinkedIn, Microsoft, NASA, National Association of Realtors, NVAR, Pizza Hut, Ragan.com, Schwab, SXSW, SXSW, Tata Consultancy Services, the World Bank, Zillow, ZRG Partners.

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