Rashmi Airan
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Rashmi will engage your organization with her powerful story where she actively chose to ascend. Every individual and organization must learn how to deal with struggles and disruptions. Learn how to “Impact up, Impact out, Impact in and Impact down” by implementing Rashmi’s techniques and mindsets throughout your organization.
Whether it is potential employees or future clients and customers, a company must continually maintain a commitment to its brand and the risk to its reputation in the market. Rashmi will share her three-part process to help create a values-based approach to protect any organization from risk to its reputation.
This workshop will establish core values, identify behaviors that persist in the workplace and deconstruct decisions that do not support with those principles. By examining blindspots and doing a comprehensive risk assessment, an organization can align with its organizational values going forward.
Rashmi is excited to share her life-changing story to illustrate the multitude of factors that influence our choices. Rashmi will set forth the business discipline necessary for decision-making and uncover the mental process of problem-solving that leads to organizational cultures with integrity.
In today’s climate, culture is a priority for executives. Organizational culture rooted in authenticity, integrity, and accountability drives performance. In this talk, Rashmi shares her story of catalyzing a shift. She emphasizes transparency and vulnerability from leadership to the team. Takeaways include implementing a culture that meets DOJ requirements. Rashmi strategizes for competitive advantage and long-term sustainability.
Rashmi Airan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, a federal crime. Rashmi now travels the country teaching the importance of making good ethical choices. This course will uncover the challenges that individuals face daily to walk the line of compliance and ethics in their personal and professional lives.
I did not expect prison to be part of my path, but it is - all part of my shared experience from which I draw lessons to help others. We often think that our lives are meant to go on a straight line that we set for ourselves, but we will surely get thrown off our set path. It's how we mature, learn, and bounce back that is a true test of our grit, strength, tenacity, and willpower.
In this workshop, we will clearly identify and learn behavioral ethics principles and their impact on decisions that are made. Furthermore, the biases that each individual brings to the workplace can significantly impact business objectives. With vulnerability and transparency, an organization can create the safe space to have conversations to improve performance.
Rashmi Airan shares a unique and vulnerable story that will be a game-changer for your audience! Rashmi is a “recovering lawyer and investment banker" who shares her story to illustrate the multitude of factors that influence our choices. She sets forth the business discipline necessary for decision-making and uncovers the mental process of problem-solving that leads to organizational cultures with integrity. She energizes any audience to harness the power of vulnerability to ensure our corporations create strategies that are risk-informed. As a leader in her community and beyond, Rashmi will empower women to be leaders in the face of adversity and challenges.
A first generation immigrant of Indian parents and the oldest of three daughters, Rashmi was raised with high expectations to achieve and became a successful lawyer who graduated with honors from Columbia Law School. After working for several major corporations, she launched an independent law practice in Miami, Florida. During the housing boom of the mid 2000s she was recruited to work with a local real-estate developer who later engaged in questionable business practices. Rashmi’s drive to succeed financially and to give her children the best life possible created an ethical blind spot. She chose not to question her client’s behavior despite her inner voice screaming “ask questions!” Her involvement resulted in a six-month sentence to Federal prison for bank fraud, alongside a multi-million dollar judgment against future earnings, required community service hours, and 3 years supervised release.
Before beginning her sentence, Rashmi’s community of friends and family embraced her. Though previously believing only a high level of success would make them proud, she now felt for the first time the true power of what building strong relationships meant. A close family friend remarked quietly “You will eventually learn that this is not happening to you, it is happening for you.”
In prison, Rashmi felt shame and remorse for her decisions. Taking in six months of federal prison life, Rashmi came to a place of peace and self-forgiveness. While being immensely humbled by this life-changing experience, she emerged with invaluable lessons learned both personally and professionally. Rashmi shares her emotional development of living with remorse, but not letting it define you.
Rashmi is determined to create a culture of conversation around ethics, human performance, and reputational risk into all aspects of our lives. She mines her vast legal, business, and community expertise and tells her powerful story to deliver pivotal messages to universities, law firms, corporations, global multi-nationals, and trade associations. Rashmi redefines what it means to be successful and the need for integrity and emotional intelligence in a continually evolving global culture.
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“Rashmi’s ‘Red Flags, Risks & Resilience’ presentation for our annual REALTOR® Professional Standards Workshop was excellent, both in content and speaker style. Her vulnerability and brutal honesty deeply resonated with our members and reinforced the important role ethics plays in their profession and everyday lives. “
“I have been meaning to write to you to say thank you!! NSCP Conference attendees LOVED your presentation! I received so many positive comments.
Thank you again for participating in NSCP’s National Conference and making it a success!”
“Rashmi’s story is equal parts chilling and heart-warming. The lessons from her life experience weave together to form a cautionary tale for REALTORS® as they navigate professional ethics and responding to client demands in a transaction. In watching the room as Rashmi delivered her keynote, I have never seen a REALTOR® audience so transfixed on a speaker and her story. Her delivery is direct, touching, sad, funny and always brutally honest. Her candor and accountability were rewarded with an emotional standing ovation at the conclusion of her keynote.
Trying to capture and engage busy REALTORS® with compelling professional ethics and risk management content can be difficult….particularly in a large conference setting. When it comes to delivering a lesson on those two subjects in a poignant and unforgettable presentation, Rashmi and her story cannot beat."
“Rashmi Airan is a gifted and truly motivational speaker. She is knowledgeable, entertaining, compelling, interesting, brave, inspiring and knows how to keep the audience’s attention by creating a space for self-reflection. Rashmi is a master at using storytelling to share her relevant personal experiences that our members have told us they find extraordinarily valuable and often life-changing. We are grateful to Rashmi for presenting on our site. Her course should be a requirement for all accountants and lawyers to view.”
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