Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker. Chetan is a popular motivational speaker and has spoken at more than 100 organizations in 50 cities around the world. He was born on 22 April 1974 in a traditional Punjabi Hindu family. Chetan Bhagat completed his school at the Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan. He used to write articles for the literary magazine of his school and seeing his name printed on the magazine as a writer gave him intense pleasure. This encouraged him to write more in the coming years.
Chetan Bhagat graduated with a B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1995 as a 9+ pointer. He then went on to pursue an Masters of Business Administration degree in marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and graduated in 1997. In June 2018, IIMA awarded him the “Young Alumni Achiever’s Awards 2018” in the Art & Entertainment category.
After graduating with a masters of business administration degree in 1998, Chetan was placed through his campus at Peregrine Investments Holdings in Canada. However, he lost this job within six months as the company closed its operations in 1998. His next job was as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs at their Hong Kong office.
In 2009, Chetan Bhagat quit his banking career to write full-time. He is the author of six blockbuster novels – Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of my life (2008), 2States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011) and What Young India Wants (2012).
His stellar education and diverse professional background makes him the ideal person to share his thoughts and experiences on topics such as leadership, passion, values, team building, motivation, achieving goals etc.
His speaking sessions have already helped organizations such as Airtel, Aricent, Armed Forces Medical College, Birla Sun Life, BOC, Bosch, Career Launcher, Citibank, Dainik Bhaskar, Dell, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Eveready, Fortinet, HCL, Hindustan Times, HSBC, Hyundai, IBM, ICICI, Johnson & Johnson, Kotak, Maruti, Nasscom, National Defence Academy, Nokia, Reliance, Telegraph, US Embassy, Zoom and many more.
