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Raj Sisodia Best-selling author and founding leader of the Conscious Capitalism Movement

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Aligning and Integrating Stakeholders for Optimum Performance

Aligning and Integrating Stakeholders for Optimum Performance

If you look for trade-offs, you are guaranteed to find them. But if you reject trade-offs and search for synergies, you are very likely to find those as well. Learn how you can break the traditional mindset of viewing stakeholders such as customers, employees, investors, suppliers and communities as competing claimants on a fixed pool of value. Explore how companies can use the aligning power of a compelling purpose to attract the right stakeholders, bring their interests into harmony and release extraordinary amounts of additional value.
Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

Capitalism has been extraordinarily successful over the past two centuries at raising human living standards, life expectancy and life satisfaction. But the old way is not working any more. The world has changed so much and people have evolved so rapidly that we need to bring a higher level of consciousness to the world of business. Conscious Capitalism is an emerging paradigm that realigns business to the emerging realities of our world. Conscious businesses deliver extraordinary financial performance while creating multiple kinds of positive value for all stakeholders: intellectual, physical, ecological, social, cultural, emotional and even spiritual.
Conscious Leadership

Conscious Leadership

This talk explores how the definition of leadership is evolving rapidly as we change the way we think about business. Conscious leaders are driven by service to the purpose of the business, and deeply care about the well-being of all the people impacted by the business. Conscious leaders possess high levels of emotional intelligence and are spiritually evolved. They are strong individuals with a great capacity for love and care. They possess tremendous moral courage and are able to withstand the constant scrutiny and criticism they face from those who view business in a more traditional and narrow manner. Above all, they view themselves as trustees of the business, seeking to nurture it and safeguard it for future generations, and as stewards of all the lives entrusted to them.
Creating a Healing Organization

Creating a Healing Organization

We live in a world of extraordinary pain and suffering. Public confidence in major corporations is at an all-time low. Why? Too many businesses exploit their people and harm their communities for short-term profit. If we are not consciously part of the healing, we are probably part of the hurting. But it doesn't have to be this way. Business can become the primary agent for healing society. This is not about healing businesses; it is about business as healing. Business can take wounded people, broken communities and damaged ecosystems and make them whole again – and businesses that operate in this way will be more successful and profitable over time. I will share stories of such businesses and extract lessons from them.
Cultivating a Conscious Culture

Cultivating a Conscious Culture

As Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” Learn how you can create, sustain and strengthen a conscious culture that will become a bedrock of strength for your organization. Above all else, such cultures are built on a foundation of love and accountability, in contrast with traditional cultures that are full of fear and stress. They are also based on high levels of trust, authenticity, transparency, integrity, learning, empowerment and egalitarianism.
Discovering Your Higher Purpose

Discovering Your Higher Purpose

The greatest difference between traditional, low-performing, profit-driven businesses and conscious high-performing businesses is the sense of shared purpose that infuses the latter. Great companies always have great purposes, which are often variations of the Good, the True, the Beautiful and the Heroic. Learn how your company can discover or rediscover its unique higher purpose, and how that purpose can evolve over time.
Everybody Matters: Why How You Lead Trumps Who You Need

Everybody Matters: Why How You Lead Trumps Who You Need

Based on Raj’s book Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family (published October 6, 2015.) In this talk, I share the lessons learned throughout the transformation of capital equipment and engineering consulting firm Barry-Wehmiller as well as Chapman’s own personal transformation as a leader. You’ll get an insider’s view of the steps Chapman and his team undertook to create a thriving organization where making people feel valued, cared for, and an integral part of the organization’s shared purpose is the priority. You’ll be inspired and equipped with tangible actions to implement today to build an exceptional organization for tomorrow. “Everyone wants to do better. Trust them. Leaders are everywhere. Find them. People achieve good things, big and small, every day. Celebrate them. Some people wish things were different. Listen to them. Everybody matters. Show them.”
Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit From Passion and Purpose

Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit From Passion and Purpose

Combining Raj’s work in the book Firms of Endearment with his recent book Conscious Capitalism, this talk is about the journey towards becoming an endearing and enduring organization. Learn how your company can shed the old, narrow, instrumental view of business and embrace a more expansive and deeply fulfilling vision of what business can and should be.
Marketing as Healing

Marketing as Healing

The marketing profession has been going through an existential crisis in recent years. Even as spending on marketing has soared, customer loyalty and trust have plummeted. Marketing remains too short-term focused, overly reliant on gimmicks and disconnected from real value creation. Learn how marketing can move away from hucksterism and embrace healing: enhancing the quality of customers’ lives by uncovering and satisfying deep-seated and real customer needs in a way that creates tangible and sustained value for customers, companies and society.
Shakti Leadership

Shakti Leadership

Based on Raj’s upcoming book Shakti Leadership: Embracing the Feminine and Masculine Future of Business (April 2016). Our current one-sided notion of a leader's power is a root cause of a host of contemporary problems, including social breakdown, environmental degradation, an epidemic of depression, and corruption in business and government. Whether we are male or female, we have been trained to value leadership qualities that are traditionally thought of as masculine: hierarchical, individualistic, militaristic. Reaching into ancient spiritual and mythical teachings, this talk revives a feminine archetype of leadership: generative, cooperative, creative, empathetic. In the Indian yogic tradition, these qualities are associated with Shakti, the source of creation, sustenance, and transformation that powers the cycle of life. Shakti Leadership seeks to restore a long-lost balance of masculine and feminine energies for men and women alike. All leaders can learn to operate from a consciousness of life-giving creativity and sustainability to achieve self-mastery and be of selfless service. When leaders of both genders embrace this mindset, we can restore sanity, elevate humanity, and heal the planet by evolving consciously together.

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2018 Conscious Capitalism Field Guide: Tools for Transforming Your Organization
2016 Shakti Leadership: Embracing the Feminine and Masculine Future of Business
2015 Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family
2014 Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit From Passion and Purpose, 2nd Edition
2013 Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
2011 The 4 A's of Marketing: Creating Value for Customer, Company and Society
2007 Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
2006 Does Marketing Need Reform?: Fresh Perspectives on the Future
2006 Tectonic Shift : The Geoeconomic Realignment of Globalizing Markets
2002 The Rule of Three: Surviving and Thriving in Competitive Markets
2002 The Consolidation of the Information Industry: A Paradigm Shift
1998 A Strategic Vision of the Wireless Industry: Communications Unbound

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A leading figure in the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj Sisodia is the FW Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He was previously Trustee Professor of Marketing, the Founding Director of the Center for Marketing Technology and Chairman of the Marketing Department at Bentley University.

Raj was born in India and was educated as an electrical engineer from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS, Pilani). He pursued an MBA in Marketing from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai after which he earned a Ph.D. in Marketing and Business Policy from Columbia University. Until 1998, he was Director of Executive Programs and Associate Professor of Marketing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. From 1985 to 1988, he was Assistant Professor of Marketing at Boston University. He is an American citizen residing in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Raj has published eight books and over 100 academic articles. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNBC, etc. His most recent book (with Bob Chapman) is Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, published by Penguin/Portfolio in 2015.

His book The Rule of Three: Surviving and Thriving in Competitive Markets was a finalist for the 2004 Best Marketing Book Award from the American Marketing Association. His book Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose was named one of the best business books of 2007 by Amazon.com. His book Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (with John P. Mackey, co-founder, and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market) was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2013 and was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Other books include The 4A’s of Marketing: Creating Value for Customers, Companies, and Society (with Jagdish N. Sheth, Routledge, 2011), Tectonic Shift: The Geoeconomic Realignment of Globalizing Markets (with Jagdish N. Sheth, Sage Publications, 2006) and Does Marketing Need Reform? (co-edited with Jagdish N. Sheth, M.E. Sharpe, 2006).

In 2003, Raj was cited as one of the “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” and named to the “Guru Gallery” by the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Bentley University honored him with the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2007 and the Innovation in Teaching Award in 2008. He was named one of the “Ten Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International, and one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011.

A frequent and popular keynote speaker, Raj has made over 750 presentations at leading universities, corporations, non-profits and other organizations around the world.

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Raj Sisodia Best-selling author and founding leader of the Conscious Capitalism Movement

Select Keynotes

Aligning and Integrating Stakeholders for Optimum Performance

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

Conscious Leadership

Creating a Healing Organization

Cultivating a Conscious Culture

Discovering Your Higher Purpose

Everybody Matters: Why How You Lead Trumps Who You Need

Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit From Passion and Purpose

Marketing as Healing

Shakti Leadership

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Similar Speakers you might consider

Business Topics

Culture & Society Topics

Healthcare

Motivation & Achievement