CA Manan Vasa — Keynotes & Workshops

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Million Dollar Habits

The small, repeatable disciplines behind every big business outcome.

Drawing on 22+ years advising 1,500+ founders across 200+ industries, this keynote breaks down the unglamorous, repeatable habits that separate businesses that scale from those that stall, across decision-making, time, money and team, and shows how they compound into outsized results.

Key Takeaways

The recurring daily habits Manan has observed across every high-growth founder he has advised.
Why "more hustle" is not the answer, and what actually moves the needle.
A simple framework to audit personal and team habits against million-dollar benchmarks.
How to install habits that survive busy seasons, not just good days.

Ideal forFounders & EntrepreneursMiddle ManagementCorporate Leadership OffsitesB-School & MBA AudiencesSales Leadership Teams

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Productivity Shastra

Ancient discipline. Modern productivity.

Productivity Shastra is CA Manan Vasa’s signature framework for personal and team productivity, built on his 4 Laws of Productivity and tested across 1,500+ founders. This talk gives audiences a practical, no-fluff system to reclaim time and multiply output, without working longer hours.

Key Takeaways

The 4 Laws of Productivity, and how to apply them starting Monday morning.
Why most productivity advice fails founders and professionals, and what works instead.
A live framework to identify your single biggest productivity leak right now.
A repeatable weekly rhythm built for high-output professionals.

Ideal forCorporates (Mid to Senior Mgmt)Founders & SolopreneursColleges & Young ProfessionalsSales & Ops Teams

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Scale-Up Sensibly

Growth without the chaos.

Most businesses don’t fail from a lack of growth, they fail from growing the wrong way. Drawing on consulting engagements across 200+ industries, this keynote unpacks how founders can scale revenue, team and operations without breaking culture, cash flow, or their own sanity.

Key Takeaways

The 3 early warning signs that a business is scaling unsustainably.
A founder’s checklist to run before the next big hire, market entry, or fundraise.
Why you must systemise before you scale, not after.
Real patterns from 1,500+ founders on what separates sensible scale-ups from cautionary tales.

Ideal forFounders & CEOsFamily Business Next-Gen LeadersChambers of CommerceGrowth-Stage Startup Teams

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Every Day Superstar

Excellence is not an event. It’s a routine.

A high-energy talk built for audiences who want more than inspiration, they want a repeatable formula for consistent high performance. Manan breaks down what separates one-time achievers from everyday superstars: the unseen routines, mindsets and small wins that compound daily.

Key Takeaways

The Everyday Superstar formula: 3 inputs that compound into outsized careers.
Why consistency beats intensity, and how to build it without burning out.
A practical self-audit to spot personal performance gaps in real time.
How the formula applies at any level, from interns to CXOs.

Ideal forCollege & B-School StudentsYoung Professionals & InternsSales & Frontline TeamsCorporate Town Halls

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Purpose: The Gangotri of Life

Every river has a source. So does every meaningful life.

Gangotri is the glacial source from which the river Ganga begins, small and quiet, yet powerful enough to sustain a civilisation downstream. This reflective keynote uses that metaphor to help audiences locate their own source: a clear sense of purpose their energy and decisions can flow from.

Key Takeaways

Why purpose, not motivation, is the real long-term fuel for performance.
A simple, guided exercise to locate your personal "Gangotri", your source of purpose.
How purpose-driven individuals and teams outlast purely incentive-driven ones.
Connecting personal purpose directly to professional decision-making.

Ideal forLeadership Retreats & OffsitesCollege ConvocationsFounder & Entrepreneur ForumsCulture-Focused Corporate Events

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

How to Map your Organisation and Life Decisions Through Ikigai

Your reason for being, made practical.

Ikigai, the Japanese concept of "a reason to wake up every morning," is often discussed but rarely operationalised. This keynote introduces Manan’s six-domain Ikigai framework, built for founders and professionals, to translate a beautiful philosophy into a usable life and career compass.

Key Takeaways

The six domains that make up a practical, usable Ikigai framework.
How to map your own career and life decisions against your Ikigai.
Why most "passion vs. profession" advice oversimplifies the real picture.
A take-home worksheet audiences can apply from the very next day.

Ideal forColleges & UniversitiesCorporate Wellness ProgramsFounder & Leadership RetreatsCareer Transition Audiences

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

No Purpose No Business

When the why is clear, the business builds itself.

Purpose as operating logic: this keynote makes the case that a clear reason to exist is not a poster on the wall but a decision engine. Manan shows how a well-defined why guides hiring, pricing, product and every hard call a founder faces, and why businesses anchored in purpose move faster with less internal friction.

Key Takeaways

How to translate a vague mission into a working decision filter.
Why purpose-led hiring and pricing outperform reactive choices.
The tell-tale signs a business is drifting from its why.
A short exercise to articulate a purpose the whole team can use.

Ideal forFounders & EntrepreneursFamily BusinessStartupsPurpose-led Organisations

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Business from 15,000 Sq.Ft.

Turn operating discipline into a business that runs without you.

A hands-on working session that turns operating discipline into freedom. Manan walks founders through building a Productive Team and an up-scalable business: clarifying aspirational turnover and take-home, mapping every function and drawing the organogram they need now versus five years out, and delegating everything except decision-making, strategy and vision, so the entire operation can be wrapped up in under two hours a day.

Key Takeaways

How to set aspirational turnover and take-home, then design the team and organogram needed to reach it in 3 to 5 years.
How to write clear Objectives, Key Results and KPIs for yourself and every key employee, and review them weekly like a scorecard.
How to delegate execution, fix the work that has no owner, and free 3 to 4 hours a day for real strategy (Hire 3, Fire 2).
How to trace any challenge to its root cause, in Strategy, Systems and Process or a person’s knowledge, skill and attitude.

Ideal forFounders & CEOsOperations LeadersGrowth-Stage TeamsFamily Business

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Every Conversation is a Sales Conversation

Selling is not a department. It’s a mindset.

This keynote reframes selling as the everyday skill of creating value and trust in conversation. Manan shows how every exchange, with a customer, a colleague, or a candidate, is a chance to move something forward, and how to make each one count without ever sounding salesy.

Key Takeaways

Why selling is a mindset, not a job title.
How to create value and trust in any conversation.
A simple structure to move any exchange forward.
Everyday habits that make selling feel natural, never pushy.

Ideal forSales & Frontline TeamsFoundersCustomer-Facing RolesBusiness Development

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60 Mins · Keynote Address

120 Mins · Interactive Workshop

180 Mins · Team Intensive

Completing the Year Workshop

Close the year with clarity. Open the next with a plan.

A guided, hands-on workshop to close one year well and open the next with focus. Manan walks teams through a structured review of the year, helps them set prioritised goals, and separates what you should do from what you can do, so everyone leaves with a concrete, written plan rather than good intentions.

Key Takeaways