Speaking
Bring the thinking
into the room.
Arjun Sen brings three decades of real business experience to the stage. Ideas earned inside businesses. Questions designed to help your leaders see their own business differently.
The bridge to ZenMango
The stage is another business room.
Most business speakers arrive with a presentation.
Arjun arrives with thirty-plus years of operating questions.
He has been the executive responsible for the result, the advisor asked to find what others were missing, and the person in the room when an attractive idea had to survive contact with operations.
That changes the conversation.
ZenMango begins at Step Zero: before solving the stated problem, determine whether it is actually the problem. Arjun brings the same discipline to speaking. The objective is not simply to give an audience more information. It is to help them see something they may not have seen before.
Speaking topics
Conversations that create a different tomorrow.
A small number of business territories. Each is rooted in work Arjun and ZenMango have actually done, not a catalog of generic keynote titles.
Why Arjun
He has sat on both sides of the table.
Arjun has been the executive responsible for the answer and the advisor expected to find it.
Before founding ZenMango, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Operations at Papa John's and helped lead the 3,000-restaurant organization through record growth while helping create its online ordering business. Over the following three decades, his work has touched more than 100 brands across multiple industries.
That combination matters on a stage.
The difference
Your audience does not need another hour of information.
They probably already have too much.
Arjun's job is to make them notice.
He does not come to tell your company what ZenMango knows.
He comes to help your company see what it knows, but may not yet recognize.
- The assumption everyone stopped questioning.
- The customer moment nobody owns.
- The leakage hidden behind a good score.
- The reason a competitor is chosen.
- The difference the organization possesses but has never articulated.
- The business opportunity sitting one question earlier.
Your business comes into the room
A customized keynote, not a customized title slide.
Every engagement begins before Arjun walks onto the stage.
For significant leadership meetings and company events, Arjun learns the business, the audience and the decision the organization is facing. Where appropriate, he studies the customer experience, leadership questions and industry context before shaping the keynote.
So the audience should not feel, "Arjun gave us his speech."
They should feel, "Arjun understood our business."
What leaders say
"One of the most 'Business-Intelligent' minds in the business today."
"Clear, strategic, actionable insights that drive the business."
"I think of Arjun as the horse whisperer to visionary brand marketers. He helps them see beyond the data to find each brand's unique path into the hearts of their customers."
"Passionate, engaging speaker who shares his wisdom with humor. Your attendees are guaranteed to leave with 3 actionable ideas."
Where Arjun speaks
Built for rooms where business decisions are being made.
Leadership meetings
Executive teams, senior leadership gatherings and strategy off-sites.
Company conferences
Organizations bringing leaders and Team Members together around growth, brand or customer experience.
Industry conferences
Restaurant, retail, service, consumer, healthcare and other customer-driven industries.
Franchise & operator meetings
Where brand promise and operational reality have to meet.
Client & partner events
A business conversation designed to make the host organization more valuable to its audience.
Boards & small leadership rooms
A keynote can become a conversation when the room calls for it.
Speaking formats
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Short bio
Arjun Sen is founder and CEO of ZenMango®, The Step Zero Growth Practice. A former Fortune 500 executive, operator, author and advisor, he has spent more than 30 years helping leaders identify what is limiting topline, bottomline and growth, and uncover the customer feeling and business decision capable of changing it.
50 word bio
Arjun Sen is founder and CEO of ZenMango®, The Step Zero Growth Practice. A former Fortune 500 executive and longtime operator, strategist and advisor, Arjun has spent more than 30 years helping leaders uncover hidden business constraints, build one-of-one brands and turn customer feeling into measurable growth.
Introduction for the stage (customized to your audience)
Arjun Sen is founder and CEO of ZenMango®, where he helps businesses see what they may be missing before deciding what to do next.
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Before you book, see how he thinks
The strongest proof is not another claim. It is letting a meeting planner or leadership team sample the thinking before buying the hour.
Begin the conversation
What should your room see differently
when the hour is over?
Tell us what your leaders are facing. We will start there.
The ZenMango system
One body of thinking. Four expressions.
Speaking is not a side business. It is one way ZenMango carries the same business thinking into a room.
ZenMango work
We find it with you.
Speaking
We help your room see it.
Thinking
We publish what we notice.
Books
We put the ideas on the page.