Sabyasachi Sengupta

Speaker, Innovator & Influencer

Sabyasachi Sengupta is one of the reputed TEDx and keynote speakers in Europe, especially the Netherlands. He began his speaking journey in 2015 when he won the European championship in public speaking at the Toastmasters speech evaluation contest.

Saby, as he is popularly known, has delivered several keynotes and workshops at various events and is renowned for his speeches in Belgium, France, Serbia, India, Lithuania, and several other countries. His signature keynote speeches on adversity management and networking struck a chord with the audience and have managed to stay with them long after the event.

Saby mesmerizes his audience with three Es, entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment with a to-do. As a speaker, he will make you laugh, raise thoughts to ponder, and sink in key messages to take home. Along with being a keynote speaker, Saby is also a Business developer for a leading Dutch bank and has been working in the banking sector for over 11 years. With a thriving to do more and present his audience with a go-to guide, Saby is currently working on his first book, “What’s your plan B.”

What’s your Plan B?

Turn adversity into your benefits

If you get fired today or if your company goes bankrupt next week, are you prepared for that? Or you think “this will never happen to me”?

Change is the only thing that is constant. This means the technology can become redundant, jobs can become redundant, trends can change overnight. Adversity can also mean a sudden loss of a job, reorganization, automation, digitization, or the bankruptcy of a company; the list is endless.

Innovating is the only way forward. Every industry, be it banking, information technology, aviation, service, food, or even emerging start-ups have either adapted to change or failed.

Changing times need us to be future-ready at all times, as companies and as individuals. So, what should we do when adversity creeps into our perfect little world? (hits you in the face?)

The answer is simple: “Have a Plan B!”

The “B” in Plan B stands for Backup. Plan B is to make yourself ready to face the unforeseen crisis head-on. This book will help you create a backup plan, so when the tough time arrives, you’ll be prepared and able to steer yourself across the perils of adversity.

With feedback, comments and stories from 20 experts and leaders from various sectors, countries and situations, I have created a Plan B framework. A four-step approach to how to face adversity, create a plan B and make changes today.

When you have a Plan B, you can convert from a pink slip to the pink of condition. But you need to start preparing today.

CLIENTS

EVENT TIMELINE

This is the timeline of my journey.

2014 am

Netherlands Champion of Humorous speech

The first, yet the toughest speech competition I have ever been. I tried to make my audience laugh by sharing my disastrous attempts of trying a Bollywood actor, and leave them with an inspiring message of never to quit your passion or dreams. The speech took me to European Finals in Lyon where I not only won 2nd prize but got thunderous applause.

2015 pm

European Champion of Public speaking

400 people in the audience in Porto and I entered to give my speech evaluation. The heart was pumping and I started. That was the most magical 3 minutes of my life because that performance made a champion in speech evaluation and pushed me in the world of professional speaking.

2016 pm

The Launch of “Speak like everyone is listening”

Took the first baby step in the world of professional speaking and launched my website and videos. Within 2 months I had my 1st client, UvA and I did a 4-hour workshop on how to speak confidently like everyone is listening.

2017 pm

A New Stage: TEDx - Art of Networking

Speaking at TEDx was a dream come true moment for me. In 2017, I had the honor to speak at TEDx Manipal University in India. It was a big moment as I shared my golden rules on how to network and connect with people.

2018 am

The World of Vlogging - Method in Madness

Vlogging is fun and a speaker it is double fun. In 2018 I started my 10 episodes vlog series with theme Last minute speaker. Every episode had a tip on how to make that cracking speech and also a new expression/idiom from a famous location across the globe.

2019 am

"What's your Plan B" - Concept

During my sabbatical in 2019, I came up with the idea of the book called "What's your Plan B". The first drafts of this book were written from the sunkissed white beaches of Maldives. The rest of year was spent in research and interviewing people who have survived adversity professionally. By end of 2019, the draft 2 of the book was completed.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Sabyasachi, the author of “What’s Your Plan B”, distances himself from the self-help herd by establishing his book not as an universal recipe, but rather as a companion for everyday actions and decisions. He has no ambition to lecture you on what makes a good professional as much as provide you with real-life examples of how others, including the author himself, have navigated adversity and anxiety without losing sight of their individual targets, whatever those may be. Though I believe the author hadn’t planned his book to take on a Covid-19 theme, one can’t help but see in his hands-on approach important lessons to struggle through a pandemic that has put on hold so many of our plans. Most of us could use a bit more resilience – and a Plan B – so we don’t lose focus on what gives meaning to our lives.”

Pedro Miguel SilvaAssociate Partner, Deloitte

“This book is a very useful guide of how to not only survive but thrive when adversity strikes. The examples make the reading vivid and the notions really comprehensible, while the tips make the guidance really applicable.

My key takeaway: All we need is to not be taken by surprise. That means to look intentionally for the red flags of individual adversity and be ready like scouts for universal black swans.”

Anastasia SideriDirector of Communication, Coca Cola Company

PM Congress Key Note raises the bar

Sabyasachi Sengupta gave the PM Congress 2019 attendees the gold standard of how to start a key note and followed with insights on adversarial management that caused a buzz between both business and academics in the coffee lounge following his remarks

His 12 April 2019 presentation on the 3 key components of adversarial conditions he expects to drive future challenges were exampled with specifics and mitigation ideas. Giving all of us food for thought and actions to take back at the workplace.

Are you ready for the future? Are you watching the right trends? Do you know what the indicators mean? The presentation was backed with documented and antidotal insights. A suggestion for the next time to see that Saby is presenting — don’t miss it!

Liz HectorOrganiser PMI chapter Netherlands

Saby gave a 3-day training to my company over Sales Pitch. Everyone was impressed on the way he managed to make an impact, we caught ourselves “correcting” each other based on the comments Saby made during the training from the very first day. He managed to provide a high level training using intelligent stories taken from daily activities and keep our attention the whole time. During the training, everyone had the opportunity to practice and realize what the strong points are and what needs to be improved and most important how to improve. Saby is a talented speaker who love what he does and we are grateful we took the opportunity to leverage from him “

Maria MastrogiannopoulouCommunity Lead- MSG Global

“An excellent approach to the art of networking, Sabyasachi gets to the essence of the importance of seeing yourself the way you want others to see you and provides you with a practical framework that can help you create a network that goes far beyond your activity on Linkedin and gets to the heart of what it is to build and sustain relationships.”