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Azran Osman-Rani
Azran Osman-Rani builds and scales businesses, from startups to IPO, sharing honest lessons on leadership, growth, and resilience.
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Why you should book Azran Osman-Rani for your next event
- Built Naluri from one intern to 200 employees and over 1 million users across five Southeast Asian markets in just five years.
- Took AirAsia X from idea to $1 billion IPO, growing a team of 2,500 while redefining long-haul low-cost aviation.
- Shares real leadership lessons from failures, scaling challenges and navigating high-growth environments across industries.
Non-binding request for Azran Osman-Rani
CEO, entrepreneur and scale-up expert behind Naluri, AirAsia X and iflix
Azran Osman-Rani knows what it takes to build something from nothing—and scale it fast. As CEO and co-founder of Naluri, he has grown a digital health startup from a single intern into a regional company serving over a million users. His journey also includes leading AirAsia X from concept to IPO and scaling iflix across 20 markets. On stage, Azran brings sharp insight, honest reflections on failure, and practical lessons on leadership in high-growth environments.
Who is Azran Osman-Rani?
Azran Osman-Rani is a business builder at heart. As CEO and co-founder of Naluri, he leads a digital behavioral health company that takes a preventive and holistic approach to mental health and chronic disease management. Starting with just one intern, Naluri has grown into a 200-person organization serving more than 1 million users across five Southeast Asian markets in just five years.
His work focuses on outcomes, combining technology, behavioral science and healthcare to deliver measurable impact at scale. This approach reflects his broader philosophy: building businesses that solve real problems while growing sustainably.
From startup to IPO
Before Naluri, Azran served as CEO of AirAsia X, where he transformed a business plan into a publicly listed company valued at $1 billion. Over six years, he scaled the company to 2,500 employees, helping pioneer long-haul low-cost travel in Asia.
He later became CEO of iflix Malaysia, where he played a key role in expanding the platform to 20 million users across 20 markets in just three years. These experiences place him among a select group of leaders who have successfully scaled businesses across industries, from aviation to digital media to health tech.
Leadership across industries
Azran’s leadership journey also includes roles at Astro, Bursa Malaysia and McKinsey & Company. Across these organizations, he developed a deep understanding of strategy, execution and organizational growth.
His academic background reflects the same balance of analytical thinking and innovation. He holds a Master’s in Management Science and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, equipping him with both technical expertise and strategic insight.
Lessons from challenges and failures
What sets Azran apart as a speaker is his willingness to share the full story, not just the successes. He openly chronicles the leadership challenges he has faced, the failures along the way, and how he navigated them.
His talks explore what happens behind the scenes of high-growth companies: difficult decisions, rapid scaling pressures, and the reality of leading teams through uncertainty. These insights resonate with leaders, entrepreneurs and organizations looking for practical, honest perspectives.
Building businesses that last
Azran’s approach to building companies centers on long-term impact. Whether scaling a startup or leading a large organization, he focuses on aligning purpose, people and performance.
He speaks about:
- Scaling from zero to millions of users
- Building teams in fast-growing environments
- Leading through uncertainty and change
- Turning failures into growth opportunities
- Creating businesses that deliver real outcomes
Book Azran Osman-Rani for your event
Azran Osman-Rani delivers engaging, insightful talks grounded in real-world experience. His journey, from startups to IPOs, offers audiences a rare perspective on what it truly takes to build and scale businesses.
Whether addressing entrepreneurs, executives or innovation teams, Azran brings clarity, honesty and practical takeaways that stay with audiences long after the event.
Customer Reviews
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"Inspiring, engaging and humble — three words that reflect Azran as a speaker and as a person. I’m honored to have had the opportunity to meet Azran in person to have him speak to 200 of my organisation’s top leadership team. His ability to relate to the audience (and make them crack-up) despite being in different industries is amazing."
Wan MarliniOrganisational Development Practitioner, PETRONAS
5 of 5
"Azran was a guest speaker at our Development Centre in Shanghai. His session was interactive and inspiring, with Azran tying well into the session the links to our own organisation. He was engaged, open and approachable with the audience. I would definitely recommend Azran for speaking engagements around topics such as entrepreneurship, agility and similar areas."
Rion KinosakiGlobal Lead, Advance People Analytics
5 of 5
"Edward Lynx had invited Azran as a guest to speak to a group of Executive Managers of one of the leading multinational companies in the automotive industry. Azran’s experiences of working in a complex industry and his practical tips and insights into the topics of innovation, agility and speed, and winning tomorrow’s business were most appreciated and truly inspiring!"
Lihua JinLearning & Development | Coaching | Talent Assessment
5 of 5
“How many high ranking people in the corporate world will respond to customer feedback and make an effort to incorporate recommendations and change? Well! Azran is one of the select few who makes the effort to respond and address customer needs. I still fly Air Asia in their bucket seats (though they are being changed now) because of the efforts and feedback led by exemplary leadership and good management practices.”
Surjan SinghDirector at Green Energy & Carbon Management
5 of 5
“Azran set up the AirAsia X brand with the inaugural route being Kuala Lumpur - Gold Coast. The great relationship that was borne out this link with Gold Coast Airport continues. Azran has always been a leader and has worked tirelessly to keep business fresh, exciting and on the way up!”
Michael CurtisBusiness Development and Marketing Manager
5 of 5
“He was exciting, innovative, challenged the status quo. That was the best thing about it and as a consequence makes you rethink a lot of traditional theory.”
Steven ColeManaging Director, Cole Corporate
5 of 5
“Well I knew Azran already because we are on the Curtin Asia Business Centre advisory Board together so I knew he was a very interesting character and I think he gives you just a different perspective about what's happening in the world.”
Greg GauntExecutive Chairman, Lavan Legal
5 of 5
“I loved the way he thought and I loved the way his organisation thought. It made me think how are we going to incorporate that into the various organisations I am involved with. It was inspirational.”
Fiona HarrisChairman, Barrington Consulting Group
5 of 5
“It has been a real pleasure getting to know Azran and working with him over the years. He is a unique CEO - a great combination of strategic skills and operational acumen. He is a cut-through thinker who can distill complex issues to their essence. Azran is a very good listener and is always open to a counter point of view. Azran's ability to get things done has been instrumental in getting AirAsia X off to a fast start as a new airline with a pioneering business model. Finally, I've always admired Azran's ability to manage a great work-life balance despite a demanding job - he has graduated from Marathons to Ironman competitions!”
Sathish ShankarManaging Partner, Bain & Company Southeast Asia
Rated 5.00/5 based on 9 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by Azran Osman-Rani:
Breakthrough Mindsets for Breakthrough Performance
Azran delivers an inspiring and thought-provoking keynote speech designed to energize executive leadership teams, results-driven sales teams, and catalyze powerful conversations at client engagement events, using his own experiences of building attacker businesses across a wide-range of industries that are relatable to your audience.
This keynote can cover the four elements of strategic leadership in the AI-era, agile leadership with a growth mindset, empathetic leadership with trust and psychological safety and resilient leadership to build courage. These four pillars can also be delivered in further detail through workshops ranging from one to four days with interactive exercises and facilitated group coaching sessions.
Keynote by Azran Osman-Rani:
Strategic leadership in the AI-era
Leading in today’s complex and fast-changing world powered by AI, leaders need to adopt a growth mindset, build a culture of experimentation, be willing to take bolder risks and manage risks to move faster and learn quicker than the competition – or get left behind.
This module frames common strategic limiting beliefs and techniques to shape a culture and lead a fast-moving company.
Keynote by Azran Osman-Rani:
Agile leadership with a growth mindset
How can leaders shape a culture of moving with speed and learning quicker than the competition? This module covers a range of simple yet effective techniques to build an agile mindset with teams, using powerful ‘learner’ language in meetings and uncover hidden problems front-liners face that are hidden from top management. It dives into how to recruit and train for curiosity, lead executive meetings differently, and offers a provocative model for performance management in a fast-changing world.
Keynote by Azran Osman-Rani:
Empathetic leadership to build trust and psychological safety
Leaders today require a whole new set of superpowers. They must find the sweet spot between showing people they care and managing for accountability and performance at the same time. This requires building trust and psychological safety to have necessary tough and courageous conversations. This module covers frameworks for using radical candor in the workplace, applying the Trust Equation, and using powerful techniques to give and receive feedback that inspires productive action.
Keynote by Azran Osman-Rani:
Resilient leadership to build courage and overcome setbacks
Today’s challenges demand leaders to take bold and calculated risks and brace their organizations to embrace mistakes and fai lures if it produces valuable learnings.
This module covers our T.H.I.N.K. framework for building personal and team resilience and techniques to manage personal energy levels and strengthen mental fitness to achieve peak performance in the workplace. T = Take Control; H = Hopeful Outlook – what can I learn from this; I = Informed Actions – respond rather than react; N = Nurture myself; K = Know my goals
Azran Osman-Rani Speaker Reel 2018
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Azran Osman Rani - Unconventional Innovation
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Highlights: Azran Osman-Rani's Disruptive Innovation speech
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Books by Azran Osman-Rani
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30 Days and 30 YearsThe Sprint and Marathon of Achieving Breakthrough PerformanceBy Azran Osman-Rani
