It's 90% mental, the rest is in your head

Profile

Roshan Chhotu is a strategist, consultant, ultra-marathon runner, and traveller.

Currently at Google, Rosh is helping to start-up, build, and grow a new business unit as the Head of Strategy and Operations for News Partnerships APAC.

Previously he led the Proposition Design business at Deloitte Digital SEA helping companies build new features, offerings, and businesses.

Over the past 12 years he has helped clients with their customer and innovation agendas. Rosh channels his inner adventurer through running. In 2019 he completed the Gobi March, a 250km, 7-day, self-sufficient ultramarathon and is training for his second ultra in the Atacama Desert in 2022.

Over the last three years he has given several talks at Google on how he implements his lessons from running to the world of corporate innovation.

Expertise

Talking Points

Zero to 150

Build the mental fortitude to achieve those goals you thought were impossible

Roshan was your typical office worker, splitting his time between airports, boardrooms and hotel bars. His weekends were less “CrossFit,” more “couch-sit.” And then, one fateful Friday night in a pub, he did something completely out of character: he impulsively signed up for a 150-mile ultramarathon across the Gobi Desert.

That single, reckless decision changed everything.

Over the next few years, Roshan would go on to complete five ultra-endurance races across some of the most extreme and unforgiving terrains on Earth: deserts, warzones, remote mountains. Along the way, he faced searing heat and bitter cold, nights lost in the wilderness, injuries that threatened his entire career — and learned exactly what it takes to do the impossible.

In this powerful and entertaining keynote, Roshan shares the tools, habits, and mindset that enabled him to shatter his own limits, lessons that apply equally to business, leadership, and everyday life.

Audiences will come away with:

- Proven strategies for tackling daunting challenges and breaking them down into achievable steps
- Insights into the psychology of commitment and motivation under pressure
- Practical, adaptable tools for resilience and navigating uncertainty
- Inspiration to believe they can do far more than they thought possible

Having already captivated teams at Google offices around the world, Roshan is now bringing this unforgettable story — and its invaluable lessons — to the wider corporate stage. This talk will leave your people energized, equipped, and ready to pursue their most ambitious goals with courage and conviction.