Sameer Rawjee

Sameer Rawjee – Human at Work Speaker & Taking the Anxiety out of AI

Sameer Rawjee is an leading speaker in what in means to be human at work, helping clients to  stand out from robots, and develop their own unique Human Intelligences and contribute to a better future for humanity.

Sameer is the founder of the Life Design Movement at Google, a programme for exploring purpose at work which has served over 10,000 Google employees globally, and has also been taught at INSEAD, Trinity College and the London Business School.

Sameer is a serial venture builder via O School Ventures, where he partners with companies like Meta, Salesforce and TikTok to help young professionals prepare for new futures. He has been invited to speak at Standard Bank, ENS and Investec on how to be intelligent in a new world, and has shared his thoughts on the future of education and business with the Investec Private Wealth community across South Africa.

Previously Sameer started an EdTech venture to bring universities online. His work has been featured on CNN, in the Sunday Times and in Real Leaders magazine.

Sameer Rawjee has spent the last 10 years thinking about what it means to be human at work. At this super critical right now he is travelling the world speaking at events sharing his thoughts on unique human intelligences in the Age of AI.

His Book “Taking the Anxiety out of AI” was published in paperback in April 2025 and explores –

• The nature of human intelligence vs. artificial intelligence
• What AI can do — and what it can’t
• Tasks that will always be better suited for humans
• The future of a world where humans and AI work side by side

SAMEER RAWJEE SPEAKING KEYNOTES

As AI beats us at the intellect, Sameer helps business leaders develop their unique human intelligences to remain competitive but also contribute to a meaningful future for humanity. His talks include –

How to Master Unique Human Intelligences –The only thing that every business leader wants to know right now is “what makes me different from a machine.” Based off research from Harvard and his work on developing holistic intelligence in his new book with Penguin, Sameer shows you how the 5 next intelligences will enable you to participate in, build and remain competitive in the next economies. The session will cover the following 5 intelligences and their practical applications in your everyday work:

• Intellectual
• Physical
• Emotional
• Intuitive
• Spiritual

The Everyday Human Skills All firms Need Now –Ninety percent of executives in LinkedIn’s 2024 survey still say human-centred capabilities outrank pure technical know-how. In an abundance of knowledge era, you need your company to know how to choose the right information at the right time. This requires some broader thinking skills.

In this talk Sameer gets specific about the meta-cognitive skills that entire organizations need now and how to apply them:

• Wisdom
• Judgement
• Discernment
• Radical Honesty
• Socratic Reasoning

How to Think Like a Futurist in the AI Era –If you can see multiple versions of the future in very clear terms, the chances are very high that you can build for and beyond them. In this talk Sameer looks at very simple models and themes to help you see the world as futurists do, navigate change and make decisions in your career and business.

• Looking at patterns from past to future
• Studying Star Trek and Sci fi as a clue
• Juggling multiple versions of the future
• Using Intuition to sense new realities
• Understanding the human story in a nutshell.

The 5 Step Journey of Every Company Now

The World Economic Forum projects a net increase of 78 million jobs by 2030. In this talk Sameer gets specific about how AI will advance at each stage but also how companies can respond at each stage based on new emerging jobs and opportunities.

These are the 5 predictable steps for every firm:

• AI Assists Human in Roles
• AI Replaces Entire Roles
• New Roles to Explore Moonshots
• New Roles to Solve SDGs
• New Roles to Win The Human Economy