Pascal Finette
Co-Founder of be radical | Singularity University Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation | Author of Disrupt Disruption | Former Google, eBay & Mozilla Leader
Navi Radjou
Authority on Frugal Innovation | Cambridge Judge Business School Fellow | Bestselling Author of Jugaad Innovation & The Frugal Economy | Thinkers50 Award Winner
Navi Radjou is one of the world's foremost authorities on frugal innovation, doing more and better with less. A French-American scholar born in India, Cambridge fellow, and Thinkers50 award winner, he brought the "jugaad" mindset to global business through his bestseller Jugaad Innovation. On stage, he gives audiences a hopeful, globally informed framework for innovating and leading in an age of scarcity and disruption.
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Navi Radjou biography
Navi Radjou is one of the world’s foremost authorities on frugal innovation, the art of doing more, and better, with less. A French-American scholar born and raised in India, and now based in Paris, he has spent his career showing how the resourceful, improvisational ingenuity of emerging markets can help companies everywhere innovate faster, cheaper, and more sustainably in a resource-constrained world reshaped by climate change.
Innovation speaker Navi Radjou was among the first to bring the concept of “jugaad”, a Hindi word for a clever, improvised solution born of ingenuity in constrained settings, to a global business audience. His international bestseller Jugaad Innovation, described by The Economist as the most comprehensive book on the subject, has sold over 200,000 copies and shows how organizations can harness the grassroots creativity of employees, customers, and partners to co-create simple, effective solutions. His 2014 TED talk on frugal innovation has been viewed nearly two million times.
From Jugaad to the Frugal Economy
A Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School and a faculty member of the World Economic Forum, Radjou has advised hundreds of leaders at global firms including BP, Cisco, GM, IBM, Microsoft, P&G, and SAP. He is the co-author of Frugal Innovation, named the CMI Management Book of the Year, and From Smart to Wise, a book on next-generation leadership. His most recent book, The Frugal Economy, argues that a 200-year-old model built on “more with more” is ending, and that businesses, governments, and citizens must learn to create more value with fewer resources to reboot the economy, reduce inequality, and regenerate the planet. Ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers, he has won its Innovation Award, Breakthrough Idea Award, and Regenerative Business Award, and describes himself as “a humanistic coach with an ecological soul.”
As a speaker, Navi Radjou gives audiences a fresh, globally informed, and deeply hopeful framework for innovating and leading in an age of scarcity and disruption. He speaks on frugal innovation and the jugaad mindset, building the frugal and regenerative economy, wise leadership, and how large organizations can innovate with the speed and agility of resourceful startups. Audiences leave with practical principles, and a genuinely new way of seeing constraints not as limitations but as springboards for creativity.
Navi Radjou Speaking Videos
Navi Radjou: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits
From smart to wise managers: Navi Radjou at TEDxCannes
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Radjou introduces the frugal, flexible mindset he brought to global business. Drawing on ingenious entrepreneurs across India, Africa, and Latin America, he shows how organizations can seek opportunity in adversity, improvise smart solutions, and harness the grassroots creativity of their people to innovate faster and cheaper, debunking the myth that breakthroughs require big R&D budgets.
Based on his latest book, Radjou argues that the 200-year-old "more with more" economic model is ending, giving way to a frugal, regenerative economy driven by new technologies, values-conscious consumers, and planetary limits. He shows leaders how to create more value with fewer resources while tackling the triple challenge of rebooting the economy, reducing inequality, and regenerating the environment.
Radjou reveals how frugal innovation can dramatically reduce costs across R&D, operations, and marketing while boosting agility and winning cost-conscious, eco-aware customers. He offers leaders a concrete roadmap for embedding frugality across their organizations, transforming how they design, produce, and deliver value in a resource-scarce world.
Drawing on From Smart to Wise, Radjou explores how the leaders who thrive amid volatility combine intelligence with wisdom, self-awareness, purpose, and ethical judgment. He shows how leaders can move beyond short-term, ego-driven decision-making to lead with the clarity, humility, and long-term perspective that turbulent times demand.
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Why Navi Radjou?
Booking Navi Radjou gives audiences a truly global and forward-looking voice on one of the defining questions of our era: how to create more value with fewer resources. A Cambridge fellow, World Economic Forum faculty member, and multiple Thinkers50 award winner, he fuses the ingenuity of India, the innovation culture of Silicon Valley, and the values of Europe into a perspective no one else offers. He introduced the world of business to "jugaad," authored the bestselling Jugaad Innovation and The Frugal Economy, and has advised hundreds of leaders at global firms. Energizing, optimistic, and rich with real-world examples, he reframes constraints as opportunities, making him an ideal speaker for events on innovation, sustainability, leadership, and the future of the economy. To bring Navi Radjou to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Navi Radjou?
Navi Radjou is a French-American scholar, innovation and leadership advisor, and bestselling author, born in India and based in Paris. A Fellow at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School and a World Economic Forum faculty member, he is a leading authority on frugal innovation and the "jugaad" mindset. He is the co-author of bestsellers including Jugaad Innovation, Frugal Innovation, and The Frugal Economy, and has been ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers, winning several of its awards.
What is jugaad innovation?
Jugaad is a Hindi word for a clever, improvised solution born from ingenuity and resourcefulness in constrained conditions, essentially, an innate "MacGyver spirit." Navi Radjou and his co-authors were the first to capture this phenomenon for a global business audience in their bestseller Jugaad Innovation. It describes a frugal, flexible, bottom-up approach to innovation, seeking opportunity in adversity and doing more with less, that contrasts with the expensive, highly structured R&D processes of traditional Western firms.
What topics does innovation speaker Navi Radjou cover?
Navi Radjou speaks on frugal innovation and the jugaad mindset, the frugal and regenerative economy, wise leadership, and how large organizations can innovate with startup-like agility. His keynotes suit events on innovation, sustainability, leadership, and business strategy, especially for organizations seeking to do more with less. To book Navi Radjou as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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