Speaking

Talks people retell the next morning

TEDx stages, IIM and IIT campuses, boardrooms and international HR summits. Harjeet turns three decades of HR into stories that make a room laugh, think and act. In English or Hindi.

Harjeet addressing a full auditorium of management students
5TEDx talks
19business schools, IITs and universities
65countries reached
Top 10speakers of India, SpeakIn

Signature talks

Six talks, each drawn from a book or a career's worth of practice

Keynote · Workshop

Influence can take your career to the next level

Why some people get heard and others get ignored, and the simple habits that change which side you are on.

Best for leadership offsites, women's forums, campus talks

From How Leaders Influence

Keynote · Masterclass

How leaders decide, and the biases that decide for them

Authority bias, comfort zone bias and the other quiet forces in every boardroom, with ways to catch them in time.

Best for senior leadership teams, management schools

From How Leaders Decide (Sage)

Keynote · Workshop

AI and the future of HR

What really changes when AI enters hiring, learning and everyday work. Lessons from building more than 30 HR products.

Best for HR conferences, CHRO forums, HR tech events

From 30 years of practice

Keynote · Workshop

The art of storytelling

Why a one minute story beats a forty slide deck. Built on micro stories read over 10 million times on LinkedIn.

Best for people managers, sales and leadership teams

From The Storytelling Leader

Workshop · Course

Strategic talent acquisition at scale without losing the human touch

How to find, assess and win talent when the numbers are huge and every candidate still expects to feel seen.

Best for talent acquisition teams, recruitment summits

From Hiring Mastermind and the XLRI programme

Workshop · Course

HR analytics leaders will trust

Turning people data into decisions, with clear questions first and dashboards second.

Best for HR teams, analytics and HR business partners

From the HR Analytics course with Keka

TEDx

5TEDx talks since 2017

From following a childhood passion into a career, to digital literacy in India and building cultures that speak for themselves. Each talk carries a story, a little humour and one idea the audience can use the next day.

  1. 01
    HR beyond the desk, building cultures that speak for themselvesTEDxMithibaiCollege · January 2025
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  2. 02
    TEDxIIFTKolkataLevel Unlocked · November 2020 · No recording available
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  3. 03
    The unconventional path to successTEDxVashi · January 2020
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  4. 04
    Passion paves careerTEDxOakridgeIntlSchoolEinstein · January 2019 · 20 min
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  5. 05
    Digital literacy in IndiaTEDxIIMC, IIM Kolkata · March 2017
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Harjeet addressing a packed auditorium of students
Harjeet speaking at IIM Ranchi Harjeet at the lectern in a grey blazer
Classrooms, convocations and campus festivals

On campus

Talks at India's leading business schools and IITs

Guest lectures, convocations, HR conclaves and leadership summits for the next generation of managers.

Indian Institutes of Management

  • IIM Ahmedabad
  • IIM Kolkata TEDx
  • IIM Mumbai
  • IIM Nagpur Watch
  • IIM Raipur
  • IIM Udaipur
  • IIM Sambalpur
  • IIM Amritsar
  • IIM Jammu
  • IIM Kashipur

Indian Institutes of Technology

  • IIT Bombay
  • IIT Kharagpur
  • IIT Roorkee Watch

Other leading schools and universities

  • Woxsen University, Professor of Practice
  • XLRI Jamshedpur
  • ISB
  • SP Jain
  • SCMHRD
  • IIFT Kolkata

Companies, forums and summits

From leadership offsites to national HR forums

Company sessions

Leadership sessions and masterclasses for teams inside India's best known companies.

  • Microsoft
  • TCS
  • Godrej
  • Pidilite
  • Reliance Retail
  • BPCL

Industry forums

Keynotes, panels and masterclasses at the forums where India's HR and business community meets.

  • SHRM India
  • NHRD
  • CII
  • NASSCOM
  • HR Association of India
  • People Matters
  • People First
  • IMA
  • Toastmasters
  • World HRD Congress
  • Federation of World Academics
  • JITO

Formats

Pick the format that fits your stage

Keynote

One big idea, many stories, and a clear takeaway for conferences and leadership meets.

Masterclass

A deeper session for senior teams, with frameworks from his books and time for questions.

Workshop

Hands on work for HR and people managers, built around their own situations.

Fireside chat

A candid conversation on AI in HR, leadership and building teams at scale.

Languages English and Hindi Based in Mumbai Formats In person and virtual

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Tell us about your event

Three simple steps from first message to a talk shaped for your audience.

  1. 1Share your event

    Date, city, audience and theme, in a short form that takes about two minutes.

  2. 2Hear back

    A reply on availability and a suggested talk, usually within a few days.

  3. 3Shape the talk

    A short call to fit the stories and takeaways to your audience.

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