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