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For the past ten years I have gone through an annual ritual of publishing a book about trends that describe our shifting culture and business environment. Over the past decade, my team and I have identified and written about well over 100 trends covering everything from the rise of the #metoo movement (a trend we … Read more
Are you a member of the media? Visit our media kit to download a trend summary and more information about requesting an interview with Rohit >> This week I launched the seventh edition of my annual trend report featuring all of my research from throughout the year on trends. Many of you have already picked … Read more
Not everyone will ask the question they are really thinking. That’s one of the sad facts that you realize when you speak on stage at enough events. No matter how many invitations you issue, or how approachable you try to be, there are always going to be people who leave your session with a burning … Read more
When you speak at enough events, you get used to having a certain amount of control on stage. Then there are those times when you get the control taken away from you. This week’s featured talk is one of those times, and the first in my life that I tried a very different style of … Read more
I hate trend predictions. Almost every one I typically read about marketing or business or social media frustrates me. Mainly this frustration comes from the obviousness of their content. As meaningless headlines declare the arrival of such commonly discussed technologies as mobile phones or wearable technology – anyone in business trying to actually plan for the … Read more
You could say I’m a lover of history. Not the boring “memorize which King came after which King” kind of history. No, instead I love the stories that history gives us of characters that we may already know, or objects we may interact with … but seldom think about in terms of their origins. This talk … Read more
Some great ideas don’t work because of bad strategy. Others fail because of bad timing. And some fail because of both. This talk is about an idea like that. In the second installment of my Tuesday Talks, I wanted to share a story from a presentation from about a year ago that I delivered at … Read more
I don’t mind being recorded. Unlike other speakers who deliver the same canned talk over 70 times a year, I speak at half as many events annually. While doing an average of 3 events a month might still seem like a lot … it is fairly selective compared to many other speakers. Yet despite limiting … Read more
Non-Obvious is my Wall Street Journal bestselling trend series about learning to use the power of curation to transform your business and predict the future.
Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company, and the author of six best selling business books including the Wall Street Journal best seller Non-Obvious.
Rohit Bhargava is on a mission to inspire more non-obvious thinking in the world. He is the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of eight books and is widely considered one of the most entertaining and original speakers on disruption, trends and marketing in the world.
Rohit has been invited to keynote events in 32 countries … and over the past year, given more than 100 virtual talks from his home studio. He previously spent 15 years as a marketing strategist at Ogilvy and Leo Burnett and also teaches marketing and storytelling as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.
He loves the Olympics, actively hates cauliflower and is a proud dad of boys.
For more than a decade, Rohit Bhargava has been inspiring audiences at NASA, Disney, Schwab, Microsoft, SXSW, Coca-Cola and hundreds of other clients with his signature non-obvious keynote presentations. He is a master at weaving recent stories into his talks in a way that helps audiences better understand the world today, while also preparing to lead the future.
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Rohit is the author of 8 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
