Rohit Bhargava is an innovation and marketing expert, skilled facilitator, and keynote
speaker. After a successful 15 year career as a brand and marketing strategist at two of the
largest agencies in the world (Ogilvy and Leo Burnett), Rohit became an entrepreneur and
has since started three companies. He is the 3-time Wall Street Journal best selling author
of eight books on topics as wide ranging as the future of business, building a brand with
personality and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world and has delivered sold out
keynote presentations and workshops to business leaders in 32 countries. His signature
book Non-Obvious is updated annually with 15 new trend predictions, has been read and
shared by more than 1 million readers and is translated in twelve languages. Rohit has been
invited to share his insights at some of the most forward-looking organizations in the world
including Intel, NASA, Disney, JP Morgan Chase, LinkedIn, Microsoft, American Express,
BP, the World Bank, Coca-Cola and hundreds of others.
Outside of his consulting work, Rohit also teaches his popular signature course on
storytelling and marketing at Georgetown University in Washington DC and has been invited
to deliver guest lectures at many other prestigious schools including Stanford and Wharton.
For the past 17 years Rohit has also been writing his personal “Influential Marketing Blog”
which has been featured in global media and named one of the top 25 marketing blogs in
the world by AdAge magazine. He is regularly interviewed and featured as an expert
commentator in global media including Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, and NPR.
Rohit also writes a monthly column for GQ magazine in Brazil on technology and trends.
Thanks to his many years of sharing insights, Rohit has been recognized alongside
visionary business leaders like Sir Richard Branson and Tom Peters as a “Top 100 Thought
Leader In Trustworthy Business Behavior” and was named by global recruiting firm Korn
Ferry as one of the “Most Influential South Asians In Media and Entertainment.”
On a personal level, Rohit is married and lives with his wife and two boys in the Washington
DC area. He is a lifelong fan of anything having to do with the Olympics (he’s been to five so
far and is really looking forward to Paris 2024!) and actively avoids anything having to do
with cauliflower (yuck!). Outside of work, Rohit believes that the most entertaining and
impactful job he will ever have is being a great dad and teaching his sons to be kind when
no one expects it, curious about the things others take for granted, and confident enough to
change the world.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM