Rishad Tobaccowala Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Rishad Tobaccowala
Rishad Tobaccowala is a speaker, advisor, and author whose best skill is getting people to think, see, and feel differently about how they can grow themselves, their company, and their teams. He does this through distilling forty years of global learning, communicating, and wisdom in such a way that is inspirational, provocative, and pragmatic.

He works closely with leadership companies in order to increase productivity by unleashing the potential of somebody’s talent. He does so within just hours without any need for long winded engagement and costs.

Rishad is noted for his keynote addresses which are customized to each and every audience since he does not use and notes, presentation materials, or multi-media. He has become a globally renowned speaker inspiring and provoking companies to stay relevant in this transformative world.

Tech companies that he has spoken at include places like Twitter, Google, Kellogg’s, Amazon, IBM, and Facebook, as well as major brands such as Procter and Gamble, Heineken, H&R Block, Delta, CVS, and Walmart. He’s also spoken at such Associations like IAB, Outdoor Advertising Association, RAB, Blue Cross Blue Shield, US Olympics, ANA, 4A’s, and Association of National Advertisers.

As a speaker, he has been praised for always telling people what they need to hear, particularly when they do not want to hear it.

Some have praised Rishad for being ahead of the curve always, the guy that zigs during times when zagging is the hip thing to do. What makes him special, they believe, is that he was this person thirty years back, and has just gotten better.

“Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying in the Age of Data”, released in the year 2020 by HarperCollins, is his book where he describes some of his business tips and tricks and how to put them to good use. Further writings by Rishad can be found on his Re-Inventing blog. He also writes a blog called “Re-Imagining, where he posts musings and news about the arts, literature, and music.

TIME magazine dubbed him as one of five “Marketing Innovators”, while BusinessWeek named Rishad one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation.

He is a Senior Advisor to the Publicis Groupe, which is the world’s third largest communications firm with eighty thousand employees. He has served as its Chief Strategist and Chief Growth Officer.

Rishad is also a trusted advisor to many senior organizations and individuals for which he taps into his four decades worth of strategy and transformation experience. He advises firms in start ups, private equity, venture capital, technology, services, and leadership of many FTSE 100/ Fortune 500 Companies.

He has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bombay as well as an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

His parents, while he grew up in India, would take him to book stores each weekend and he became an avid reader and found that he wanted to become a writer. His parents ended up steering him to mathematics instead and told him that when he had something useful to say he could become a writer.

After an extensive career in strategy, marketing, and change management around the world for the Publicis Groupe and all of its clients, he has finally written a book. The early readers quickly informed him that he indeed had something useful to say and hopes other readers do as well. The aim with the book is to aid readers to think, see, and feel differently in order for them to grow their teams, their companies, and themselves in such transformative times.

He says the book isn’t about marketing however is a combination of business insights, and, he hopes, wisdom. While writing it, he spent two years just doing the research and mixed in his work experience.

Rishad wakes up each morning at 4:30, two hours before his wife does. He spends his first hour awake reading, often will dip into several books at a time, usually fiction and nonfiction that doesn’t have a thing to do with business or marketing.

“Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying in the Age of Data” is a non-fiction book that was released in the year 2020. In any organization, the hidden key to successful transformation lies between data driven insights and human intuition.

Rishad Tobaccowala draws on research and interviews, as well as three decades worth of experience as a thought and business leader, to describe how digilog companies (ones where analog people and digital tools are integrated expertly) learn how to be proactive and develop a hybrid consciousness. This is for anytime they see warning signs that human traits are being subordinated to data and technology only choices.

This book provides practical techniques and tools that every organization should and can implement. It also challenges all of its readers to move forward with the sort of balance that catalyzes transformation and produces one big success after the other.

Readers found this is not a business book, rather a book filled with optimism and hope about the possibility and beauty of the future, tethered to technology but anchored within the soul with compassion and empathy. Fans adore the book and are so grateful to Rishad for sharing his insights and brilliance with them. Some believe it is a book that should be passed around with grace and care from CEOs to their teams as well as from parents to their kids.

It is a must read for anybody wanting to understand the world we live in and be successful in the future. This is a masterful summary of Rishad’s journey of being able to see the future, provide sage wisdom, and aid in creating multiple disruptive companies and features practical advice and great stories that will serve people in life and in work quite well.

With this book, Rishad delivers a fantastic guide for succeeding and leading in today’s world, as he eloquently demonstrates the exponential power in combining human connection and math with useful ways of doing just that. He brilliantly deconstructs how to bring a balance to technology usage and human elements while managing a modern enterprise.