Ajmal Samuel
Ajmal Samuel delivers powerful keynotes on resilience, innovation, and redefining human limits through entrepreneurship and endurance.
Why book Ajmal Samuel for your next event
- Ajmal shows how to turn adversity into opportunity through practical mindset tools shaped by real-world endurance and entrepreneurship.
- He brings rare insight from founding tech and fintech ventures while pushing human limits in marathons, handcycling, and adaptive flight.
- His talks ignite action on inclusivity, mental resilience, and leadership, backed by global recognition from major media outlets.
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Entrepreneur, endurance athlete, filmmaker, and changemaker.
Ajmal Samuel is a powerful voice on resilience, leadership, and the courage to rebuild. Based in Hong Kong, he blends lived experience with a deep understanding of innovation, technology, and human endurance. After a life-changing accident at 21 left him paraplegic, Ajmal refused to let circumstances define him. He built successful companies across tech and fintech while pushing himself through demanding endurance challenges, from marathons and handcycling expeditions to adaptive paragliding. As a speaker, Ajmal brings a grounded, human approach that inspires audiences to reimagine possibility, strengthen mindset, and lead with purpose.
Ajmal Samuel
Ajmal Samuel stands as one of the most prominent voices on human resilience, adaptive leadership, and the ability to rise after life’s most difficult turning points. Based in Hong Kong, he is known for bridging worlds that rarely meet: entrepreneurship, endurance sports, filmmaking, and social impact. His work resonates because it is lived, not theorised. After serving as an officer in the Pakistan Armed Forces, Ajmal’s life changed instantly at the age of 21 when a road accident left him paraplegic. What followed is a story of rebuilding, redefining, and refusing to accept limits set by others.
Ajmal went on to establish a series of successful companies in the fields of technology and fintech. His ventures, Cityline, OCTO3, FTS.Money, and MyVoucher.io, reflect his talent for spotting opportunity, building strong teams, and pursuing innovation in competitive markets. He combines strategic clarity with a practical, grounded leadership style shaped by discipline from his military background and the resourcefulness demanded by entrepreneurship.
Book Ajmal Samuel for your event
Event organisers invite Ajmal for his ability to speak directly to the human experience of disruption, challenge, and transformation. His message is not abstract motivation; it is shaped by decades of rebuilding and pushing boundaries. Ajmal speaks with a calm, compelling presence that connects with corporate teams, executives, universities, and community groups. Whether he addresses resilience, leadership, inclusivity, or innovative thinking, audiences leave with tools that feel relevant and doable.
Endurance, mindset & human limits
Ajmal’s achievements in sports are central to his story. He has completed marathons and triathlons, crossed long distances by handcycle, rowed seas, and earned the distinction of being the first fully licensed adaptive paragliding pilot across Asia and Africa. These experiences fuel his keynotes with vivid lessons on endurance, mental strength, and navigating uncertainty.
He openly shares the psychological journey behind training and extreme sports: the long hours, the setbacks, the quiet discipline, and the decisions made in moments where quitting feels easier. His talks often explore how physical endurance mirrors resilience in business, facing pressure, making strategic choices under stress, and maintaining clarity when things feel overwhelming.
Technology, entrepreneurship & impact
Ajmal’s ventures highlight his ability to build ideas from the ground up. Cityline established itself as a trusted provider of e-ticketing solutions. OCTO3 grew into a respected fintech platform. FTS.Money and MyVoucher.io embody his commitment to financial inclusion and digital access. These companies demonstrate his blend of innovation, operational rigor, and long-term vision.
Audiences value how openly he speaks about the entrepreneurial journey, the early decisions, failures, team dynamics, and the persistence required to create momentum. Ajmal’s perspective is especially relevant for organisations navigating transformation or seeking more adaptable, forward-looking leadership.
Creating change through the Ajmal Samuel Foundation
Beyond business and sport, Ajmal is deeply committed to social impact. He founded the Ajmal Samuel Foundation to support inclusivity, adaptive sports, and mental health across Asia. The foundation advances opportunities for people with disabilities and promotes a culture of possibility.
Through programmes, community initiatives, and advocacy, the foundation aims to shift how society views disability and capability. Ajmal’s storytelling around this mission is heartfelt, grounded, and often deeply moving.
Recognition & influence
Global media outlets including CNN, Forbes, and the South China Morning Post have recognised Ajmal’s achievements. His story resonates across cultures because it reflects universal themes: rebuilding one’s life, holding onto purpose, and understanding that strength grows through challenge.
Keynotes
Keynote by Ajmal Samuel:
Entrepreneurship & Fintech
Are you struggling to keep pace with Asia’s fast-shifting fintech landscape, where regulation evolves overnight, AI disrupts entire models, and competition scales faster than strategy?
Ajmal Samuel’s keynote cuts through this complexity with insights shaped by building Cityline, OCTO3, FTS.Money, and MyVoucher.io from the ground up. He shows leaders how to navigate compliance without losing innovation, leverage AI responsibly, and scale products in emerging markets where agility decides survival. Audiences walk away with practical frameworks, region-specific strategies, and the confidence to act in high-pressure environments. Ajmal delivers a clear value proposition: a roadmap that turns fintech uncertainty into opportunity and helps organisations move faster, smarter, and with purpose.
Keynote by Ajmal Samuel:
Diversity & Inclusion
Are your teams struggling to move beyond surface-level inclusion, treating accessibility as a checklist instead of a driver of innovation and stronger business outcomes?
Ajmal Samuel’s keynote shifts that mindset by reframing disability and ability through real experience, practical strategy, and a clear understanding of how inclusion shapes the future of fintech. Drawing from his work as an entrepreneur, endurance athlete, and founder of the Ajmal Samuel Foundation, he shows organisations how accessible design, adaptive thinking, and inclusive leadership open new markets, improve products, and strengthen culture. His talks deliver a direct value proposition: inclusion is not a compliance task but a competitive advantage. Ajmal gives audiences the tools to build environments where everyone contributes and where companies grow because they choose to see potential rather than limitation.
Keynote by Ajmal Samuel:
Resilience & Grit
Are your teams finding it harder to stay focused, motivated, and resilient when setbacks hit, especially in moments where pressure rises and direction feels uncertain?
Ajmal Samuel’s keynote brings a grounded, transformative perspective on grit shaped by rebuilding his life after a life-altering accident and pushing human limits through endurance sports and entrepreneurship. He shows audiences how to stand up after a fall, regain momentum, and build the kind of inner strength that lasts beyond temporary wins. Through clear mental frameworks and relatable stories, Ajmal helps people replace overwhelm with clarity and action. His value proposition is simple and powerful: resilience is a skill that can be built, and when teams master it, they move forward with purpose, steadiness, and a renewed belief in what’s possible.
Keynote by Ajmal Samuel:
Extreme Sports & Adventure
Are your teams stuck in a mindset where limits feel fixed, challenges seem too big, and ambition stalls before it ever turns into action?
Ajmal Samuel’s keynote rewires that thinking through the lens of extreme, adaptive adventure, from Asia’s toughest routes to the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Drawing on marathons, handcycling expeditions, sea-rowing, and becoming the first fully licensed adaptive paragliding pilot across Asia and Africa, he shows audiences how pushing boundaries transforms the way we work, lead, and overcome pressure. His stories are vivid, his strategies practical, and his message unmistakable: limits are rarely physical, they’re mental. The value proposition is clear. Ajmal gives organisations a blueprint for courage, discipline, and bold decision-making, leaving teams inspired to move beyond comfort and redefine what they believe they can achieve.
Accessible Wellbeing Conference 2020: Keynote Speech by Ajmal Samuel
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