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Vishen Lakhiani
Founder of Mindvalley and Author
Culture · Personal Growth · Building Companies
Speaking Fee
Fee on request
Based In
Malaysia
Signature Topic
Designing a Company People Do Their Best Work In
Format
Keynote and Workshop
About Vishen
Vishen Lakhiani is on an innovation roster for the organizational half of the subject rather than the product half: not how to generate ideas, but how to build a company in which people are capable of having them.
He founded Mindvalley, a global education company focused on personal transformation, and wrote the New York Times bestsellers The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and The Buddha and the Badass. The second is the one that belongs on this page. Its argument is that the most productive organizations combine unusually high ambition with unusually high care, and that the common failure is picking one: companies that are demanding and brutal, or pleasant and slow.
The material is about workplace design in a specific sense. How a company sets goals people actually believe in, how it handles the gap between stated values and daily behavior, and what structures let an unorthodox idea survive contact with internal review. Mindvalley itself is the case study, including the parts that did not work.
He is an unusual voice for a corporate stage, drawing on personal-growth language that a conservative executive audience can find unfamiliar. That is worth naming rather than smoothing over. For an organization open to it, the unfamiliarity is the value, because the frame genuinely differs from standard management content. For one that is not, it will land as soft.
He is a strong fit for culture and people events, innovation summits, and leadership audiences explicitly looking for an outside frame. He is the wrong booking for a room that wants a technology or product-innovation talk, which is a different speaker's territory on this same page.
Keynote Topics
The Buddha and the Badass: Ambition and Care
Designing a Culture That Produces Ideas
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
Building a Global Remote Company
Best For
- Culture, people and employee experience events
- Innovation and transformation summits
- Leadership audiences wanting an outside frame
- Technology and high-growth company offsites
- International and multicultural audiences
Booking Vishen Lakhiani: Frequently Asked Questions
What is Vishen Lakhiani's speaking fee?
Vishen Lakhiani's fee is not published here and is quoted per event. Third-party estimates circulate online and are not reliable. Travel is a larger factor than usual because he is based in Malaysia and speaks worldwide, so the date and region drive availability as much as price, alongside format and whether a workshop is attached. Submit an inquiry for a current quote.
Is this an innovation talk or a culture talk?
Culture, aimed at innovation. The argument in The Buddha and the Badass is that organizations producing new work combine unusually high ambition with unusually high care, and that most fail by choosing one. The session is about how a company is designed rather than about how a product is invented.
Will the personal growth framing work for a corporate audience?
It depends on the room and the brief should be honest about it. The language draws on personal transformation and a conservative executive audience can find it unfamiliar. For an organization open to an outside frame that is the value; for one that is not, it will land as soft. Say which yours is.
What does Mindvalley add to the session?
It is the case study, including the parts that did not work. The company is a global, largely remote education business he built himself, so the material on goal setting, values and remote structure comes from operating decisions rather than from research about other companies.
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