Transformation Expert | Former Attorney & Wall Street Banker
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About This Speaker: Rashmi Airan
Rashmi Airan challenges leaders to face the invisible prisons that shape their choices and limit their growth. A keynote speaker, consultant, and unapologetic truth-teller, she brings her raw story of success, collapse, and reinvention to audiences worldwide.
As a first-generation Indian American, Rashmi Airan grew up ready to chase excellence. She graduated with honors from Columbia Law School, thrived in corporate America, and built her own law practice. But success came with hidden cages: cultural pressures, inherited orthodoxies, and blind ambition. One small compromise, fueled by fear and the pressure to provide, led to a federal prison sentence.
Prison shattered everything she thought she knew about herself. However, there was a deeper truth: Rashmi had been imprisoned long before by ego, judgment, and unspoken rules. Six months behind bars stripped away those layers and forced her to rebuild on a foundation of courage, self-awareness, and integrity.
Now known as a “recovering government, corporate, and real estate lawyer,” Rashmi Airan is an international keynote speaker. She explores the ways people and organizations confine themselves to patterns, assumptions, and norms that quietly dictate outcomes. With over 30 years in business, law, and finance, Rashmi has seen how good people make bad choices when these hidden pressures go unexamined. Her “RISE THROUGH IT” FRAMEWORK is a guide to breaking free, reframing adversity, and leading with clarity. Furthermore, in-depth research on resilience, growth, and leadership support her insights and ideas. She has worked with well-known leaders at Coca-Cola, Merck, Cardinal Health, Comcast, Sotheby’s, Deloitte and Hershey’s. Well-known for her transformational impact, Rashmi’s story was featured on ABC, PBS, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Overall, Rashmi Airan sparks conversations that matter. She pushes executives, entrepreneurs, and teams to confront blind spots, dismantle self-imposed prisons, and rise through struggle with integrity and courage. Beyond the stage, she is an Overtown Youth Center/Alonzo Mourning Foundation board member and a The Key Clubhouse Ambassador. She is also a proud mother of two, an avid hiker and traveler who believes the real adventure begins when we free ourselves from the prisons of thought and expectation.
Her message is urgent: the most confining prisons are not physical. They live in the mind. Freedom begins when we rise through them.
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