Rashmi Airan

In today’s ever-changing landscape, uncertainty is a constant companion. Organizations often find themselves paralyzed by challenges, debilitating self-doubt, and a sense of overwhelm. The root cause? Fear. Fear of uncertainty, fear of change, fear of judgment, and fear of losing what’s important. This fear can immobilize us, preventing progress and growth.

Drawing from her own transformative journey from a successful finance and legal professional to a federal prison inmate, Rashmi Airan will share the powerful RISE Process™ – a simple yet profound approach to overcoming fear and embracing uncertainty. Through this process, you’ll learn to accept reality, let go of ego, fear, control, and judgment, and take bold steps forward with courage and conviction.

By following this model, you’ll witness remarkable transformations within your organization, fostering heightened self-awareness, self-compassion, enlightenment, courage, conviction, and empathy. Productivity, collaboration, and trust-based cultures will thrive, creating a vibrant and dynamic work environment where engagement and joy become the norm.

AUDIENCE OUTCOMES:

• Acceptance: The Foundation for Change: Allows for clear vision and lays the groundwork for meaningful transformation.
• Letting Go: Releasing Barriers to Progress: We open ourselves up to new possibilities and growth.
• Taking Bold Steps: Courage and Conviction: Propels progress and inspires others to follow suit.
• Heightened Self-Awareness and Self-Compassion: Self-awareness and self-compassion foster personal growth and resilience.
• Enlightenment, Courage, Conviction, and Empathy: These qualities nurture deeper connections with oneself and others.
• Breakthrough Thinking and Confidence: Limitations are shed, paving the way for breakthrough thinking and innovation.
• Boosted Productivity, Collaboration, and Trust-Based Cultures: Organizations will experience increased productivity, stronger collaboration, and the growth of trust-based cultures without fear.
• Thriving in Uncertainty: By embracing The RISE Process™, individuals and organizations can handle anything and continue to thrive in the face of inevitable uncertainty.

In corporate America, where mental health often remains hidden, Rashmi Airan’s journey from finance professional to federal prison sheds powerful light on this critical issue. Her crusade is deeply personal, stemming from her sister’s tragic 25-year battle with mental illness that ended in 2019, and her daughter’s ongoing struggles with anxiety, depression, and OCD.

Inspired by their pain, Rashmi’s mother co-founded the Key Clubhouse of South Florida, offering tangible support, including housing, to those facing mental health challenges. Drawing from this family history and her own incarceration experience, Rashmi argues that mental illness doesn’t discriminate, affecting CEOs and entry-level employees alike in today’s high-pressure business world.

Through poignant storytelling and her groundbreaking RISE process™, she reframes mental health as a leadership opportunity. Rashmi shows how creating a mentally healthy work culture isn’t just humane—it’s a business imperative. She demonstrates how conditions like anxiety often come with unique strengths such as attention to detail and empathy, especially relevant as younger generations enter the workforce.

By booking her keynote, you’re not only investing in leadership development but also joining a mission to ensure no one suffers in silence, from the boardroom to the mailroom. Be part of making mental wellness the heart of 21st-century leadership.

AUDIENCE OUTCOMES:

• Leaders will learn to destigmatize mental health, viewing it not as a weakness but as a universal human experience.
• Attendees will gain Rashmi’s RISE Process™, a practical framework to proactively support workplace mental health.
• Recognize that mental health conditions often come with unique strengths like empathy, harnessing these qualities to drive innovation.
• Learn to create a mentally healthy work culture that attracts and retains diverse talent, especially from younger generations.
• Inspired by Rashmi’s story, leaders will transform personal mental health experiences into powerful tools for authentic leadership.

Customers and employees are struggling with the prevalence of technology and the lack of the human touch, leading to worsening turnover, and lower sales affecting business performance entirely. Establishing relationships is a cornerstone of sales and business growth, reflecting the fundamental principle that people prefer to do business with those they know, like, and trust. This concept underscores not just a transactional interaction but a relational dynamic that can significantly impact the bottom line and long-term success of a business.

Join us for an extraordinary presentation where Rashmi Airan, a former federal defendant, and Joseph Capone, the former federal prosecutor who investigated her case, come together to share their incredible journey. Rashmi’s transformative experience has inspired her to become a corporate motivational speaker, fearlessly spreading wisdom about decision-making and leadership. Despite their past adversities, Rashmi and Joe have developed a unique bond built on mutual respect and continuous growth. Get ready for an engaging discussion as Joe provides his prosecutorial perspective on the case, focusing on key moments of decision-making. Collaborating now as allies, Joe and Rashmi will lead an interactive conversation, offering valuable insights into how adversaries can become allies. Their story is living proof that transformation and reconciliation are possible, leading to a relationship unimaginable several years ago. The importance of establishing relationships in sales and business cannot be overstated. It’s a strategy that pays dividends not just in increased sales and business growth, but in building a sustainable, reputable, and resilient business that stands the test of time.

AUDIENCE OUTCOMES:

• Embrace transformation: Learn from Rashmi Airan’s journey from attorney to federal defendant to motivational speaker.
• Foster understanding: Discover how adversarial relationships can evolve into alliances
• Empower change: Gain insights on decision-making and leadership from the collaboration between former adversaries.
• Establish the power of relationships and drive sales and growth through specific skills.

Rashmi is excited to share her life-changing story to illustrate the multitude of factors that influence our choices.

Rashmi is excited to share her life-changing story to illustrate the multitude of factors that influence our choices. Rashmi will set forth the business discipline necessary for decision-making and uncover the mental process of problem-solving that leads to organizational cultures with integrity. Come ready to be energized while Rashmi harnesses the power of being vulnerable and uniquely creates the safe space to have courageous conversations!

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Learn the principles of ethical leadership
• Create a corporate culture of integrity and courage
• Plan for reputational risk and implement accountability and authenticity
• Create an active commitment to ethical decision-making
• Create the safe space for vulnerable conversations at home and work

In today’s climate where higher educational institutions are evolving and the conventional policies of risk management and compliance training are being reexamined, it is crucial to proactively focus on ethics and integrity throughout the institution.

In today’s climate where higher educational institutions are evolving and the conventional policies of risk management and compliance training are being reexamined, it is crucial to proactively focus on ethics and integrity throughout the institution. College athletic leaders are faced with ethical decisions daily and assumptions, rationalizations and the need to beat competition gives rise to playing in the gray. Recent scandals illuminate how bad decisions lead to serious consequences and reputational risk for universities. Given the many challenges and pressures facing collegiate athletic leaders, Rashmi shares her story and highlights the need for shifting the paradigm of ethics in our university cultures that never been more profound and desperately needed.

Globally, corporate scandals have dominated the headlines and the strategy used to manage each crisis varies.

Globally, corporate scandals have dominated the headlines and the strategy used to manage each crisis varies. As Warren Buffet’s famous words state “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” Whether it is potential employees or future clients and customers, a company must continually maintain a commitment to its brand and the risk to its reputation in the market. Rashmi extrapolates her own story and her decision to ascend through the many challenges she faced to explore how corporations can implement a reputation risk strategy focused on integrity and transparency. How can a company make choices that are risk-informed, incorporate culture, and avoid disruptions? Rashmi will share her three-part process to help create a values-based approach to protect any organization from risk to its reputation.

A company’s culture, values, and ethics are vitally important and even more so in the current global climate.

A company’s culture, values, and ethics are vitally important and even more so in the current global climate. There is an innovative pledge being made in boardrooms and amongst leadership teams to establish a unique culture rooted in the principles of ethics and inclusion. The social discourse across all sectors has created pressure on all organizations—government, corporate, non-profit, and social service—to prioritize the mandate that is being made to be the preferred choice for socially conscious products and services. People are evaluating companies for who they are, not just what they offer.

It has been an unexpected path and my journey has included its moments of a lot of fear and much shame.

It has been an unexpected path and my journey has included its moments of a lot of fear and much shame. I believe my ability to overcome this major life changing period in my life also rests in my decision to be vulnerable and look to the constellation of stars around me found in the people that unconditionally supported me.

We often think that our lives are meant to go on a straight line that we set for ourselves and dreamt of as little children or even as young adults. But, the universe and life have a way of mocking us and our goals. Truly, our lives are meant to have many sidesteps, diagonal lines, downward spirals, and upward rocket launches as we meander our way through our windy path of life. We will surely get thrown off our set path, but its how we mature, learn, and bounce back that is a true test of our grit, strength, tenacity, and willpower. We can learn from our experiences and help others. Our children will grow tough and ready to face their own challenges if we can hold our heads high and walk with confidence into any difficult situation knowing that we can handle it. I certainly did not expect prison to be part of my life path, but it now is, all part of my shared experience from which I draw lessons, strength, and can help others.