Keynotes · Talks · Workshops

Your comfort zone has terrible rhythm.

Leadership keynotes and working sessions from Abhi Narvekar. A real story, practical tools, and about ninety seconds where the whole room stands up.

See the room go Book Abhi
Abhi on stage under colored lights
The stage
CIOs on their feet with hands raised during the movement exercise
CIOs on their feet
Abhi dancing at a conference evening
Ninety seconds
NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW HOW TO DANCE · 90s
CIO Breakfast Club · AR SHRM 2026 · PPDM · Digitalization in Oil & Gas · Featured in Forbes · SHRM · Houston Business Journal ·
100+ leaders coached, from first-time managers to the C-suite
15+ years placing leaders across software, energy, manufacturing and pharma
90 sec of looking ridiculous, which is the whole point

And then the
whole room goes.

Actual footage. Actual industry conference. Every person standing.

Pick your room

Keynote · conferences and kickoffs

Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

Fear, change and reinvention, told through a real story from Mumbai to Houston. The Wheel of Life, music, humor, and the room on its feet.

45–60 min · 90 min with table work · half day

Talks · HR and leadership audiences

The $22M Blind Spot

Put a dollar figure on leadership gaps and succession risk, then take it to the CFO. Also available: Beyond the Title, on careers and what comes next.

60 min · live exercise · chapter rates available

Workshops · your team, your data

People Risk & Succession

One department, the roles it can't afford to lose, and a written succession plan with the dollar exposure attached. CIO team architecture pilots now booking.

$12,000 one day · $20,000 two days

From the rooms

Abhi leading the people-risk exercise at AR SHRM
The exercise · AR SHRM 2026
Room 207 schedule listing both of Abhi’s $22M Blind Spot sessions
Two sessions, one room
Abhi speaking with a microphone
The story
Abhi with the worksheet in hand during the HR session
Score your people function
Abhi talking with CIOs around breakfast tables
CIO Breakfast Club
Abhi on stage with a microphone
Keynote
Abhi with attendees waving after his AR SHRM session
After the session
Close-up of the manuscript cover, Why don’t we start a bakery?
The book, in edits

What the room says after

“This was the most fun, creative and dynamic presentation I’ve seen in years.”
Margaret BarronMargaret Barron
PPDM Data Management Symposium, Calgary
“He doesn’t just talk at you. He builds in a hands-on exercise, so you leave with a tool you can actually use.”
Alexis CollinsAlexis Collins
CIO, US, Norton Rose Fulbright · Co-chair, CIO Breakfast Club Houston
“Abhi is a gifted storyteller who brings authenticity, insight, and humanity to the stage.”
Laura TibodeauLaura Tibodeau
Co-chair, CIO Breakfast Club
“Expect a real story, shared ideas, a little Bollywood, and a practical way to navigate your next transition.”
Kathy WelchKathy Welch
Co-chair, CIO Breakfast Club
“Abhijeet is able to captivate an audience with just the right balance of humor and genuine sincerity.”
Nicole DurhamNicole Durham
Head of Marketing
“I feel like I learned a lot, and I can apply this tomorrow using the tool.”
Session participant
Leadership session
Abhi editing the printed manuscript of Why Don't We Start a Bakery?

The book · in edits now

Why don't we start a bakery?

My son asked that at the dinner table during the oil downturn. The book is my answer: the Wheel of Life and the stories behind this keynote, with exercises for anyone putting off a change.

One email when the book is ready. Nothing else.

Bring it to your room.

Check a date abhijeet@thefervidgroup.com