Book Dr. Sanjay Wahal

Bring clarity to complexity—for leaders, innovators and decision-makers navigating constraint, disruption, and uncertainty.

Book Dr. Sanjay Wahal to equip your leadership team with systems-level insight, practical frameworks, and strategic confidence to turn sustainability, decarbonization, and industrial transformation challenges into lasting advantage in a nonlinear world.

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Dr. Sanjay Wahal is a globally recognized thought leader at the intersection of sustainability, systems thinking, materials innovation, and industrial transformation. His keynotes challenge conventional wisdom, cut through climate and technology hype, and provide audiences with a clear lens for navigating complexity, uncertainty, and disruption.

Blending deep technical expertise with systems-level insight, Dr. Wahal speaks to executives, policymakers, investors, innovators, and institutions seeking to understand what truly matters as carbon constraints, next-generation materials, energy, AI, and regulation reshape the global economy. His talks are provocative yet grounded—designed to inspire strategic action, not incremental change.

Why This Keynote Matters

Today’s leaders face an uncomfortable reality: despite unprecedented investment, technology breakthroughs, and bold climate commitments, progress on sustainability and decarbonization remains slow, fragmented, and increasingly risky. Organizations are struggling with siloed decision-making, unclear ROI, rising energy and carbon costs, regulatory uncertainty, and the growing gap between ambition and execution. Many teams feel overwhelmed by complexity, unsure where to focus, and wary of investing in solutions that may become stranded—technically, economically, or politically. Dr. Sanjay Wahal’s keynotes directly address these pain points by reframing sustainability, decarbonization, innovation, and leadership as systems challenges, not isolated technical problems. Drawing on more than three decades of hands-on industrial, materials innovation, and commercialization experience, he provides leaders with clarity on where real leverage lies—across materials, energy, AI, capital allocation, and organizational design.

Audiences leave with a shared mental model, sharper strategic focus, and practical insights they can act on immediately. Inviting Dr. Wahal is not about inspiration alone—it is about equipping leadership teams with the perspective and confidence needed to make better decisions in a world defined by constraint, uncertainty, and nonlinear change.
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Systems-Level Clarity

Understand why isolated efficiency gains fail and how integrated systems drive outcomes.

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Strategic Focus

Identify where real leverage exists across materials, energy, AI, and policy.

Actionable Insight

Leave with shared mental models and practical insights leaders can act on immediately.

Keynotes are tailored for leadership forums, universities, conferences,
investor audiences, and policy institutions.



Key Speaking Topics

Decarbonization and Sustainability Are Not Technology Problems—They’re Systems Problems

Technology enables progress. Systems determine outcomes.

Leadership in a Nonlinear World: Why Linear Thinking Fails Climate and Sustainability Strategy

You cannot solve nonlinear problems with linear leadership—and climate is the ultimate nonlinear test.

The Barefoot CEO: Innovating Without Ego in a World of Constraints

In a world of limits, the leaders who remove excess—not add it—will go farthest.

From Net Zero Pledges to Net Zero Products

The era of climate promises is ending—the era of climate products has begun.

Waste Is the New Feedstock: Circular Value That Actually Works

Where circular economy stops being an aspiration—and starts becoming industrial value.

The Future of Nonwovens: Materials Innovation, Carbon, AI, and Energy Will Decide the Winners

The next generation of nonwovens won’t compete on speed alone—they’ll compete on intelligence, energy, and carbon.

From Trial-and-Error to Algorithmic Manufacturing

Experience built yesterday’s factories—algorithms will build tomorrow’s.

Why Climate and Sustainability (Cleantech) Capital Keep Missing the Real Leverage Points

Capital doesn’t fail because ideas are weak—it fails when leverage points are misunderstood.

Dr. Wahal partners selectively with organizations committed to meaningful sustainability, decarbonization, and systems transformation.

Booking Fees

Event TypeFee Range (USD)Notes
Corporate / Industry Keynote (Live, 60 min)$12,000 – $20,000Includes keynote + moderated Q&A, higher end for Fortune 500, global summits
Executive Strategy Keynote (90 min)$15,000 – $25,000Deeper systems framing; tailored to leadership or board audiences
Virtual Keynote (Live, 60 min)$8,000 – $12,000Ideal for global audiences; interactive format available
Workshop / Executive Seminar (Half-Day)$20,000 – $30,000Hands-on, applied frameworks (carbon, AI, energy, materials innovation, systems thinking)
Board or Investor Briefing (Private Session)$15,000 – $25,000Closed-door, strategic discussion, no recording
University / Policy Forum / Think Tank$5,000 – $10,000Reduced rates aligned with mission-driven institutions
TEDx / Non-Profit EventHonorarium / NegotiableConsidered selectively for high-impact platforms
Custom Add-Ons+$2,500 – $5,000Fireside chat, extended Q&A, advisory session, book signing

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Each keynote is customized to the audience, industry, and strategic moment—from global conferences and boardrooms to investor forums and policy dialogues.