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You know what I do, now let me show you WHY I do it...
ABOUT RAVI
“Dance lessons start next Saturday Ravi, make sure you’re ready!”
Yup, that’s right...
My mum had just enrolled her 9-year-old son into the same dance school as his little sister.
Petrified that my dirty little secret would be exposed to everybody in school (a story for another day)…
Decades later, I have to confess...
That was the best decision she ever made!
Let’s throw it back to 1997, when my parents decided to take our family on a once in a lifetime trip to Tanzania...
“Ravi, can you hold the camcorder for a sec?” my mum whispered as we sat in the back of an old and rusty Jeep that was ripping through the Serengeti National Park as if it owned the place!
In less than a minute, I had grabbed the camcorder, pressed record and started narrating our safari in my best David Attenborough voice..
The car erupted in laughter...
And just like an addict...
I was hooked on the art of storytelling.
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BUT Growing up, I didn’t exactly get the grades worthy of a career in medicine or law.
After realising my childhood friend's father was a playwright by night, I stumbled into theatre as a teen.
Everybody around me would always say...
"Hey Ravi, are you going to take this speaking, presenting or acting thing seriously? Because we think you're pretty good at it!"
But after watching the movie Wall Street one too many times, Gordon Gekko had convinced me that "greed was good."
Performing arts?
No thank you. I had one thing on my mind: making money.
The vehicle to fulfil that desire?
A sales career in the world of investment banking.
AFTER COMPLETING A MASTER'S DEGREE AT BAYES BUSINESS SCHOOL, I BEGAN MY TIME ON THE TRADING FLOOR.
I had officially landed my dream job.
But here's the problem.
I had everything I desired on paper.
Yet internally, I felt lost, disconnected and unfulfilled, with a growing feeling that I was meant for more.
The answer?
In August 2016, I resigned and went on a journey to reclaim who I was, own my story and pursue alignment.
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The next FOUR YEARS WERE WHAT I NOW call "the great experiment".
TV presenting, coaching, fractional consulting, Sales Leadership in Tech...
I tried it all as I unknowingly began a portfolio career to find a path that truly lights me up.
Then, in September 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, it slapped me in the face.
I could continue as I am or start a business that's focused on the very thing I'd secretly been trained for since I was a kid.
I'm talking about the very thing that has been my edge throughout my entire career: the art of communication.
Looking back aND CONNECTING THE DOTS...
Not letting go of that camcorder in Tanzania, being thrown into dance school as a 9-year-old, my obsession with theatre as a teen...
Every single experience had secretly happened for me, not to me...
Preparing me for the mission I'm on today: helping you become an influential communicator and storyteller.
As an international keynote speaker, author of Relationship Currency, and LinkedIn Learning instructor, over 70,000 professionals have taken my communication courses.
I've worked with teams at companies such as T-Mobile, Oracle NetSuite & Sherwin-Williams, but the best thing is ... I'm just getting started!
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So you heard how my story started, let me tell you how it’s going...
I live just outside of London with my wife, two kids and West Highland terrier, Nellie.
I love the movie Limitless, a great stand-up comedian, and a sharp, quintessentially British suit.
And the one question I'm optimizing for in this season of my life is this: Would my 80-year-old self be proud of the decisions I'm making today?
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