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Rupal Patel

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Rupal Patel is a former CIA Intelligence-Officer-turned-serial entrepreneur. She reveals how the techniques of the CIA can help anyone remake the rules of success and become unstoppable.

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Rupal Patel is a former CIA analyst turned international speaker and corporate consultant. She is the author of the international best-seller, "From CIA to CEO," which reveals how the techniques of the CIA can help anyone become unstoppable.

Why you should book Rupal Patel for your next event

  • Rupal is a sought-after international speaker and corporate consultant who has spoken in front of thousands and worked with top-tier organizations around the globe.
  • Her trailblazing work has been incorporated into the MBA and Executive MBA programs at London Business School, Henley Business School, and the University of Edinburgh Business School.
  • She is the author of the international best-seller From CIA to CEO: Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better, and Being Bolder, which offers a powerful new toolkit for living and leading that reveals how the techniques of the CIA can help anyone remake the rules of success and become unstoppable.

Rupal Patel’s high-octane career has taken her from military briefing rooms in jungles and war zones to corporate boardrooms and international stages. During her thrilling career as an analyst and field agent at the CIA, she advised Four-Star Generals, earned War Zone Service Medals, and was recognized by the CIA Director for “superior support to the President of the United States.” 

After leaving the CIA, she earned her MBA from London Business School and started her first award-winning business over ten years ago. Called a ‘Power Woman’ by Harper’s Bazaar Magazine and a ‘super-strategist’ by her clients, Rupal is a sought-after international speaker and corporate consultant who has spoken in front of thousands and worked with top-tier organizations around the globe. 

Her trailblazing work has been incorporated into the MBA and Executive MBA programs at London Business School, Henley Business School, and the University of Edinburgh Business School, and her commitment to developing the next generation of leaders extends into her pro bono work as an Advisor for Virgin Startup and as Entrepreneur in Residence at London Business School. 

She is the author of the international best-seller From CIA to CEO: Unconventional Life Lessons For Thinking Bigger, Leading Better, and Being Bolder (to be translated into Chinese in February 2023 and launching in North America in May 2023). The book offers a powerful new toolkit for living and leading that reveals how the techniques of the CIA can help anyone remake the rules of success and become unstoppable.

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Wellspring: How to managing your T.E.E.M.™ to preventing burnout & reduce stress

This keynote arms participants with the tangible tools they need to manage their time, energy, emotions, and mindset so they can prevent burnout, consistently and predictably perform at their best, and intercept “down” cycles before they slip into them. Without gimmicky apps or short-sighted “hacks,” Wellspring shows audiences how to develop tools for their unique circumstances so that their total health and wellbeing is a consistent state, not an item to tick off their to-do list or something they can download.

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Deploying Strategic Imbalance™

This keynote recalibrates and refocuses audiences on how to do less so they can accomplish more, and throws out tired notions of work-life balance to create durable harmony between their many competing demands. With leaders and team members performing at their best, this inevitably creates positive ripple effects and removes bottlenecks to excellence and high-performance throughout the organization.

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Confident Communication & Powerful Public Speaking - A Masterclass for Women

The Confident Communication and Powerful Public Speaking Masterclass helps women train and develops their unique communication style for delivering key messages internally and externally with power and precision. The Masterclass emphasizes verbal communication, group presentation, and also audits and refines each individual’s executive presence so that they project authentic confidence, expertise, and ease consistently, no matter the audience.

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Leveraging Tactical Ignorance

Too often leaders and organizations are inundated with inputs and demands crying out for attention. Learn how to face this onslaught by developing Tactical Ignorance so you can cut through the noise, be more effective, and get important things done consistently.

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Resilience & High Pressure Performance

Drawing on her experiences in the field and high-stakes settings, Rupal will train you how to become resilient and agile in the face of uncertainty, challenges, and intense pressure so you can keep going and accomplish your goals no matter the circumstances.

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Unshakable: The Power of a Learning Leader

Too often leadership is conflated with having “the answers” when the reality is far messier. Learn how to move past the myth of an “all-knowing” leader to becoming a more powerful and effective Learning Leader™ that will make you and your organization unshakable.

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Closing the Confidence Gap & Visibility Gap for Women

Much is made of the gender pay gap, and gender authority gap, but both are exacerbated by the confidence gap and visibility gap women confront. In this this session, Rupal will arm you with tangible tools to close the visibility gap and confidence gap so you can drive your career and champion your achievements without becoming “self-promotey”.

You’ll leave with adaptable and transferable skills for building deep confidence and being seen and heard on your terms, whether you want to win new business, become an industry thought leader, or be featured in the media. Banish “impostor syndrome” once and for all, and bring yourself and your expertise into the world to shine, authentically and powerfully.

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Leading through Failure, Uncertainty, and Challenges

Leaders and organizations must prepare and train for when the mission goes wrong. This session is your “basic training” for battling whatever comes your way.

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Remaking the Rules of Success & Becoming Unstoppable

Eschewing stale “SOPs” and dated “best practices”, this session will show you how to challenge assumptions and question the fundamentals as you make the seemingly impossible possible for yourself and your organization.

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Intentional Experimentation & the Pursuit of Excellence

Develop an “enlightened swagger” as you learn how to follow the leads, experiment intentionally, and unlock the excellence within yourself, your teams, and your organization.

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Communicating with Power and Authenticity

Communication is an art and a science: the art comes from honing your style and the science comes from leveraging psychology and human nature. Learn how to uncover your personal “art”, learn the universal science, and communicate powerfully with anyone, anywhere, about anything.

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Mastering Your Mind & Showing Up Powerfully

To be taken seriously, you need to show up powerfully and master the mental chatter that keeps you scared and small. Learn how to use Situational Awareness to your advantage and “go grey” intentionally so that no one can dismiss you or your message.

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Lifestyle Design and Building a Life of Purpose & Impact

Too often leaders wait for an elusive “then” in the future when they will finally let themselves focus on what they care about but there doesn’t need to be a tradeoff between career success and personal fulfillment. In this highly-sought after workshop, you will learn how to build a legacy you are proud of daily in every aspect of life. Forget stale notions of “work life balance” and learn how to create harmony between all of the tangible and intangible elements of life that you care about.

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From CIA to CEO

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My Unexpected Discovery About Working at the CIA

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You spoke perfectly to everyone in the room. You left many if not all of us thinking in new directions. You are truly inspirational. Thank you for your time and honesty with sharing.

Katie Moseley

Heathrow Express

Your talk was absolutely sensational, I couldn't stop myself from taking notes. It came to me at the correct moment in my life and I'm so grateful to have been there to witness your presence and what you had to say...LIVE

Nikita McKee

Adult Practice Lead

Thank you for coming to speak with us at the Weehawken office. I'm really inspired by your presentation and the delivery. Very easily a TED talk. Keep doing what you do!

Firdaws Ashiru

Finance

Rupal ran a session with us at Ekimetrics on responding to challenge and building inner strength. She was absolutely fantastic. Ekimetrics is an internationally-based company made up predominantly of data scientists and analytical thinkers, and Rupal really took that into account for our session, offering practical and logical tools & solutions that our teams could relate to and incorporate into their own lives. She really took our brief for the session onboard and created something that fit perfectly with not only what we were aiming to achieve, but also to who Ekimetrics are as people. Rupal's session was dynamic, engaging and above all, full of thought provoking guidance! Highly recommend her!

Katherine Baylis

All things recruitment & talent at Archilogic

We had the pleasure of having Rupal join us for a workshop on "finding your voice" surrounding International Women's Day. The inspiring and relatable conversation addressed a major challenge many of us face at different points in our lives - being our authentic selves. The level of depth, life experience and insight that Rupal brought to the conversation left our team with much to reflect on as we manage our lives and careers. Thank you for an engaging and memorable session.

Global VP

Anheuser-Busch InBev

We had the privilege of hosting the extraordinary Rupal Patel as our guest speaker. Former CIA Intelligence Officer turned CEO, serial entrepreneur, international speaker and consultant. She shared with us not only her experience, but also her point of view on how to lead through failure, uncertainty and challenges. With her powerful toolkit from "From CIA to CEO" she equipped us with tactical tools for success, and how we can manage through our failures and be better.

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