“Winners don’t do different things. They do things differently.” ®

Shiv Khera is an International Bestselling Author, an Educator, a Business Consultant, a Motivator, an Entrepreneur and one of the sought-after speaker.

He inspires and encourages people, making them realize their true potential. He has taken his dynamic personal messages to opposite sides of the globe, from the U.S. to Singapore. His 30 years of research, understanding and experience have helped people on the path of personal growth and fulfillment.

Mr. Shiv Khera is the author of 16 books including the international bestseller “You Can Win”, which has sold over 2.5 million copies in 16 languages.

Shiv Khera is an Indian author of self-help books and activist.

While working in the United States, Shiv Khera was inspired by a lecture delivered by Norman Vincent Peale and followed his motivational teachings. Khera has written several books including You Can Win. He launched a movement against caste-based reservation in India, and has founded an organization called Country First Foundation whose mission is “to ensure freedom through education and justice.” Shiv Khera also joined a political party as National President in India and intended to contest the upcoming elections in Delhi.

Shiv Khera was born in a business family who used to have coal mines in Dhanbad, India. Soon after the nationalisation of coal mines by the Indian government, he had to search for his own living. In his early years he worked as a car washer, a life insurance agent, and a franchise operator before he became a motivational speaker.

Shiv Khera’s first book You Can Win (Jeet Aapki in Hindi) was published in 1998. The focus of the book was on achieving success through personal growth and positive attitude. Shiv Khera has written three more books, Living With Honor about living honorably and respectably in a fractured world, Freedom Is Not Free about the need for action to reform the Indian society and You can Sell (2010).

His other books are creating new records.

His clients include GM, IBM, HP, Citigroup, HSBC, Canon, Nestle, Philips, Mercedes Benz, Johnson & Johnson and many more.

Tens of thousands of people have benefitted from his dynamic workshops internationally in over 17 countries and millions have heard him as a Keynote Speaker. He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows.

Shiv Khera has been recognized by the Round Table Foundation and honored by Rotary International and The Lions International.

In an article, Shiv Khera said –

• I am not that educated, my academics are as follows: I am a B.Com, third division, I failed in my 10th. In school I was a backbencher, troubling the frontbenchers.
• I come from a business family that owned coal mines in India. The mines were nationalized and the government took them over. Right from being mine owners, we came on the streets. And by streets, I mean literally streets. I did not create the mines, I only inherited them. Some families had money but ours did not. My father passed away when I had just graduated from college and we were left with the liabilities. All the assets were gone. I had been married just four weeks then. I remember that a year later my daughter was born and I had to sell some of the last pieces of my mother’s jewelry to get a release from the hospital. I did not have even 10 bucks to buy milk.
• I tried my hands on three businesses and failed in all three. Finally, on November 13, 1975, I left India. Initially, I went to Toronto and started life with a bucket in my hand, washing cars door to door for about a year and a half. Then totally by accident, I got into selling life insurance where I was almost fired within the first three months for non-performance.
• There were some turning points that actually changed the direction of my life. I attended a program by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of the book “The Power of Positive Thinking.” That was the time I realized that up till then I kept blaming the whole world for my failures, not realizing that I was my own biggest problem. Nothing changed outside, something changed inside. And the direction of my life changed completely. Thereafter, things turned around. I moved to the US and got into three businesses. I collaborated with a company out of California in 1984, started the New Jersey operations with no clients and eventually sold the company with close to 500 clients.
• Why do I share my life story with you? For two reasons:
  • I kept failing all my life and kept blaming the whole world for my failures not realizing that I was my own biggest problem. Nothing changed outside but something changed inside and the direction of my life changed.
  • I learned that there are more people in this world who are not working than there are people who are unemployed.
• While selling life insurances I was on commission and would only get paid if I sold but there were many people on salary who were not doing their job. That is the time I understood the difference between making money and earning money. That’s the time I understood that making money is criminal and earning money is spiritual, because when you earn money then you put your energy and ethics behind it.