Sameer Rawjee

CEO of Education Group

SPECIALIST SUBJECTS

  • Design Thinking Principles – around organisation design, systems design and people development innovation
  • Talent Hiring, Engagement and Retainment – for the next workforce and the future of work
  • The Future of Education – and how to prepare your workforce
  • Turning your Company into a School – why it matters for the next decade
  • Work in the future
  • Humans after AI
  • Education for new decades: Bringing new education ideas into the world

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BIOSKETCH

Sameer founded the Life Design Lab at Google, which is used by Google employees from more than 100 countries. Life Design was created to explore multifaceted aspects of Human Purpose at Work. Today there are over 10 000 employees enrolled in the lab globally, who are graduates of the world’s Ivy League schools and former VPs of Fortune 500 companies.

Sameer founded the Life Design Lab at Google, which is used by Google employees from more than 100 countries. Life Design was created to explore multifaceted aspects of Human Purpose at Work. Today there are over 10 000 employees enrolled in the lab globally, who are graduates of the world’s Ivy League schools and former VPs of Fortune 500 companies. Life Design has now grown beyond Google and is taught to executives at schools like INSEAD and London Business School.

Sameer is now the CEO of O School Ventures where he helps companies like KPMG, Investec and Soundcloud think about new ways to bring wisdom into the workplace. And he is an invited global keynote speaker at organisations like IDEO, Standard Bank and Allan Gray on topics concerning the emerging workplace. He is also the Author of the upcoming book After Google: Man’s Search for Spirituality at Work.

Previously Sameer started an EdTech company in South Africa which is now the core of a Mark Zuckerberg backed African university chain. His company has been featured on CNN and invited to showcase at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Forum and World Economic Forum. For his education efforts, Sameer was also the main feature of a print edition of Real Leaders Magazine US that features leaders like Jay Shetty, Emma Watson and Tony Robbins. Today, Sameer still advises Africa’s leading schools on how to think, build and be relevant for the future.

Sameer focuses on two things:

1. Future Generations at work: How companies can remain relevant to continue attracting, motivating and retaining new young talent.

2. Future Execs at work: How execs can learn new ways of thinking to make mental leaps, decide faster and build more conscious companies for the future.

His work has also been focussed around how C-levels and managers can design workplaces for future talent and organizational ambitions.

Sameer has also been previously invited to work with companies like Standard bank, Barclays, Alan Gray and Investec among others.

Educational qualification

  • Bachelor of Arts in Business and Design, University of Toronto

His range of speaking topics

  • Business & Entrepreneurship
  • Education & Learning
  • Leadership & Motivation

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