Rohit Talwar is regarded as one of Europe's leading professional futurists who brings a truly global perspective to his work - drawing on experience gained from speaking and working on all five continents. He combines in-depth research and over 20 years of practical experience to help global businesses develop real insights into future possibilities and act on them to create powerful strategies and deliver innovative change.
Rohit specializes in working with professional services firms to help them create thought leadership strategies and build higher value customer relationships.
Examples include:
Working with international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner to help the partners develop a thought leadership strategy, keynote presenting at thought leadership events for their clients and creating a monthly thought leadership forum for their clients and prospects in the Defense sector which has generated significant new business and raised the firm’s profile within the sector.
Helping Halliburton KBR see how to use thought leadership to create longer term strategic relationships, providing tools and processes to facilitate long term scenario creation with key clients and open up new markets in an enlarged EU
Assisting Price Waterhouse Coopers to identify and develop e-business based thought leadership propositions for their audit clients
Running thought leadership workshops for clients from a range of sectors to help them identify opportunities to build thought leadership with their clients
Facilitating a global pharmaceutical company through the development of its thinking on how to build and sustain thought leadership in a fast changing health-care environment.
Areas of Expertise
Rohit brings a truly global perspective to his work - drawing on experience gained from working and speaking on five continents. He combines in-depth research and over 20 years of practical experience to help inspire leaders from start ups through to global businesses. He provides clear insights into future possibilities and helps clients act on them to create powerful strategies and deliver innovative change. His clients typically ask about ten key issues:
* What are the key trends and drivers shaping our world?
* Where are the key short, medium and longer term opportunities and risks?
* What are the implications for our customers, their markets and industries?
* What are the key forces and possibilities shaping our markets and industry?
* Given these drivers, how do we build and sustain key customer relationships?
* What are the implications for us - strategy, people, products and processes?
* How do we develop out capacity for creativity, innovation and rapid change?
* How do we develop a ‘futures radar’ and stay ahead of the curve?
* How do we motivate leadership and senior management teams to seize the future?
* How can we stay ahead of the pack and regularly be first to the future?
* Rohit facilitated the consultation for the MoD’s recently published Strategic Trends 2030 program and is a popular speaker with Defense Audiences on both sides of the Atlanti . He was lead author and editor of the acclaimed book – Achieving Transformation and Renewal in Financial Services. He also designed of the BBC Video series – Re-engineering the Business.
Rohit has recently returned from California where he was invited to deliver a keynote address on Global Trends and share the platform with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
He speaks regularly to in-company audiences, major global conferences and professional associations - he has been invited back 3 times in six months by the Strategic Planning Society.
Clients typically want him to address five key issues in his presentations:
* What are the key business, political, economic, technological, social and environmental trends and drivers shaping our world
* What are the implications for our customers and their industries
* What are the key forces and possibilities shaping our own industry
* Given these drivers, how do we build and sustain key customer relationships
* What are the implications for our people, products and processes
He recently delivered several keynote presentations including to the partner conference for Berwin Leighton Paisner and to senior managers from Shell, Halliburton, BAe Systems and the US Department of Defense.
His presentations draw in part on a major consultation He facilitated for the MoD as part of a program to identify Global Strategic Trends out to the year 2030. Rohit is currently running a £2M futures research programmer for UK government including a study to identify the 100 critical trends shaping the next 20 years.
Topics covered in recent speeches include:
* Global futures
* Global trends and the implications for the legal industry
* Future US-EU relations and the implications for defence partnering
* The future of the EU
* Strategic trends and the implications for defence and security
* Future challenges in financial services
* The future of outsourcing
* Session Title - FUTUREQUEST: The future and what it means for your planet, your clients and your business
Rohit can be your tour guide as he takes you on a journey through the trends, ideas and possibilities that will shape the 21st century. Using a highly interactive format, case studies and a range of powerful stories and insights, Rohit can help you build a personal vision of the future. You will gain powerful and compelling insights into the key global, social, business and technological trends and ideas shaping our world. He will help you understand the implications for your customers and their markets and identify the opportunities and challenges for your business.
Rohit draws upon his experience of speaking and working on five continents to bring the future to life. He highlights just how critical changes such as the rise of India and China, the emergence of new technologies and the collapsing of time and distance are rewriting the rules of global business.
Attendees will learn how their client's worlds are changing - fresh markets, new channels, emerging competitors, rising customer expectations and new ways of doing business. They will learn practical tools for exploring client implications, predicting and preempting future customer requirements and for examining the impact on their own business. They will learn how to stay one step ahead, future-proof their own business and reinvent themselves on a continuous basis.
