Ravi’s Keynotes Get Standing Ovations

In this eye-opening and thought-provoking keynote, discover how the generations actually have more in common than they have differences, and how to use these commonalities as building blocks for collaboration. Ravi shows how to harness millennial strengths while helping them overcome their specific weaknesses, ultimately creating a more empathetic, entrepreneurial, and socially considerate environment. He also challenges participants to consider how artificial intelligence will impact the workplace, future decision making, and value systems, as well as how businesses, industries, and society-at-large must adapt in order to appropriately navigate this changing landscape. Ultimately, Ravi empowers Boomers, Xers, and Millennials to successfully collaborate for a more prosperous and desirable future.

To learn more about Ravi's perspective, read his blog:
• How Cross-Cultural Competence Impacts Workplace Culture and Effectiveness

Born into one of the world’s most influential families but rejecting the obvious choices presented to him, Ravi uses his own journey as a rock star, entrepreneur, aviator, and cultural diplomat (exemplifying personalized, lifelong, and social-emotional learning) to show how educators can most effectively and equitably transform students into culturally competent life-long learners. By exploring the elements of a truly holistic education that fosters cultural competence and a globally-aware growth mindset, Ravi will shift your thinking on how public education can put society on a path to equity, equality and ultimately world peace.

To learn more about Ravi's perspective, read his blog:
• It's Time to Pivot! How Small Shifts in Education can Change the World
• Equity and Access in Education: Our Need to Think Bigger

A child’s own talents, strengths, and interests often differ from their “predetermined” path. As they become teenagers, those same interests can become aspirations that are then in conflict with traditional expectations of any given family, society, or culture. Ironically, it is this very difference that is most likely to give a young adult an “edge,” enabling him or her to achieve greater success. Moreover, the risk of not encouraging a child to develop his or her natural talents and interests is a society that is disengaged with their passions, disaffected, and vulnerable to isolation and radicalism because in the age of automation and globalization, the perceived security of a traditional career is no longer the reality.

In this presentation for youth, Ravi encourages them to pursue their passions regardless of preconceptions or obstacles. However, “daring to be different” is not about rebelling against one’s parents, school, or traditional values. It is about collaborating with these influences while broadening the horizons, being “the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi), and expanding cultural traditions into a view of what is possible rather than them being a barrier to progress.

Using his own story of growing up in a family of politicians and bankers but ultimately pursuing a career in music, Ravi tells how he earned the support of his parents, engineered his own very successful career, and as an adult, made his family extremely proud.