Mohan rapping into a handheld mic on a dark stage with teal light behind him
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KEYNOTES THAT MOVE THE ROOM, THEN MOVE THE ORGANIZATION.

Mohan fuses strategy, storytelling, and live hip-hop performance to break the false choice between wellbeing and performance. Audiences leave inspired and equipped, with tools they use the next morning.

Some call him the Batman of Social Impact: executive leader by day, hip-hop artist by night.

TED SPEAKER
1M+ views
20 to 2,500
People in the room
stages include
TED
Gartner
World Economic Forum and Global Shapers Community
Trellis Group
The Resource Alliance
WOBI
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KEYNOTE PROGRAMS

FIVE TALKS. EACH ONE STARTS WITH YOUR MOMENT.

Every keynote is tailored to your audience and the change your organization is moving through.

Set list tailored to the room, every time
01

CHOOSE HARMONY: THE HARMONIOUS LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE

When culture, engagement, and burnout are holding back your best ideas.

Leaders are being asked to deliver more through constant volatility, under a model that forces a choice between doing their best and feeling their best. Drawing on his years as a CEO who followed the old model and then broke it, Mohan shows why that choice is false and what replaces it.

ATTENDEES LEAVE WITH
  • The mindset shift from traditional to Harmonious Leadership
  • What it looks like in leaders and teams
  • How to activate and sustain it in an organization
the headliner
02

WHO TOLD YOU YOUR TEAM WAS READY FOR AI?

When you're rolling out AI and trust is slipping.

AI adoption is accelerating while confidence is collapsing. Mohan makes the case that an AI transition is a test of leadership clarity, not technology: AI amplifies the vision that's already there, and substitutes for it where there is none.

ATTENDEES LEAVE WITH
  • Why adoption fails at the leadership layer
  • The three things people need before AI integration works
  • A readiness framework that protects both performance and people
03

DISRUPTION IS YOUR STRATEGY

When you're restructuring, merging, or turning around.

Mohan was called a troublemaker long before it was a compliment. Drawing on turnarounds, mergers, and a $54B federal policy fight, he shows why the leaders who thrive in chaos are the same ones who create it on purpose.

ATTENDEES LEAVE WITH
  • How to hold steady and shake things up with the same instinct
  • Clarity and conviction when the ground is shifting
  • A culture where bold ideas stop dying in the middle
04

ACTIVATING THE BREAKTHROUGH POWER OF EMERGING LEADERS

When your next generation of leaders is pushing for change.

"I don't know how to work with Gen Z" is a common refrain, and organizations that resist emerging leaders miss what they bring. Mohan pulls back the curtain on the leadership blueprint of the emerging workforce.

ATTENDEES LEAVE WITH
  • The case for leadership transformation
  • Data-backed characteristics of emerging leaders
  • People-centered strategies to evolve practice and culture
built on the TED talk
05

CRAFTING YOUR HARMONIOUS LEADERSHIP MANIFESTO

When leaders are stepping into new or bigger roles.

Leadership is not a title. Too often people are handed a role and a survey that tells them who they are, instead of the chance to write their own story. Mohan guides leaders to plant a flag for who they are and how they lead.

ATTENDEES LEAVE WITH
  • The inputs that shaped them as leaders
  • Their distinguishing values and approaches
  • A Leadership Manifesto that anchors growth
also a workshop
Mohan rapping into a mic under warm stage light
FORMATS

ON STAGE, on mic, ON SCREEN.

  • Opening or closing keynote
  • Keynote with live performance
  • Fireside chat
  • Moderated panel
  • Virtual
BRING THE book

From 2027, every keynote can include copies of Choose Harmony for your audience, so the ideas travel home with them.

WE LOOK FOR MAINSTAGE SPEAKERS WHO CAN SHARE REALITY AND ASPIRATION WITH BIG ENERGY, AND we found it all in Mohan.
Katie Ryan, VP Sustainability & Program Content, Trellis Group
After hearing Mohan, they were clear that they had not heard it all before!
Derek Humphries, Creative Director, DTV Group
His powerful message on embracing the role of a ‘troublemaker’ for good challenged us to rethink how we show up as leaders and changemakers.
Kurt Waywood, Manager of Leadership, The Mind Trust
Mohan is a performer who is not performing; he is showing you who he is.
Laurie Mulvey, Executive Director, World in Conversation Project
Mohan performing for a packed auditorium
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Keynotes from $15,000 plus travel.

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