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Pravin Shekar uses marketing psychology, unconventional thinking, stories, humour, and practical frameworks to help audiences think differently, act visibly, and create business movement.

Trusted in rooms worldwide

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Pravin in Action

A short look at how Pravin holds a room — energy, stories, and frameworks planners can put to work.

Signature Talks

Four interventions. Clear outcomes. Built for the room you are filling.

Selling Without Selling

When buyers decide before you enter the room.

Use marketing psychology and engineered word of mouth to become easier to trust, recommend, and choose.

Audience takeaways

  • Understand how invisible selling already influences buyer choice.
  • Identify the signals that create credibility before the sales conversation.
  • Engineer word of mouth instead of waiting for it.

Best for: Sales teams, founders, marketers, business leaders.

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Surface Area of Visibility

When strong work remains trapped inside a small circle.

Increase the number of places, people, and moments through which work can be noticed, remembered, and recommended.

Audience takeaways

  • Recognise where valuable work remains invisible.
  • Increase the surface area of ideas, contribution, and proof.
  • Create more opportunities for discovery and recommendation.

Best for: Leadership teams, founders, knowledge workers, cross-functional teams.

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Activating Agency

When capable people keep waiting for permission.

Move people from task-taking and hesitation to ownership, visible action, and demonstrable proof.

Audience takeaways

  • Recognise the habits that weaken agency.
  • Move from waiting to initiating.
  • Build visible proof of ownership.

Best for: Leadership teams, mid-management, high-potential employees.

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Think the Outlier Way

Same thinking. Same answers. Same results.

Challenge familiar patterns and predictable answers — different because the obvious answer is not always the useful one.

Audience takeaways

  • Spot assumptions you are no longer questioning.
  • See where the organisation has become predictable.
  • Choose one useful different move — now.

Best for: Founders, marketers, innovation teams, conference audiences.

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Why book Pravin

Planner-facing reasons — not a biography dump.

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Business on the stage

He has built companies from startup to multi-million revenue — so frameworks land as practice, not theory.

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Marketing psychology that travels

Outlier thinking, word of mouth, and visibility tactics audiences can use the next morning.

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Rooms that stay awake

Stories, humour, and interactive formats keep energy high without losing commercial sharpness.

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Clear takeaways

Every talk is built around outcomes, not inspiration alone — so organisers can brief stakeholders with confidence.

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Formats that fit your brief

Keynote, masterclass, leadership room, or custom intervention — sized to your audience and goal.

What organisers say

“Especially applying the learnings via playing a card game was a big hit. Thank you Pravin, for this energetic session.”

Marita Schimpl Managing Director in a Frontier Market · Myanmar Research Association / ESOMAR masterclass

“Pravin just spoke for 30 mins at our annual event Demo Day in Chennai — he left the 100+ audience in total excitement to go out and implement his strategies.”

Salma Moosa Founder, Startup Squares · Startup Mentor

“An engaging and thought-provoking speaker who interacts well with his audience. I would thoroughly recommend him as a keynote speaker or workshop facilitator.”

Elissa Molloy Chief Executive Officer, The Research Society

Credibility

Outlier marketer. Parallel entrepreneur

Pravin combines marketing psychology, unconventional thinking, and real business experience to make visibility useful, measurable, and commercially relevant.

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Countries spoken in

25+

Books written

$M

Businesses built from startup to multi-million revenue

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