Raj Adgopul

Raj Adgopul grew up in a village in central India, in a family recorded on his birth certificate as Other Backward Class. He spent four years in Mumbai sharing a room with twenty three other people, with a personal space of six feet by three.

In 2002 he was recruited into the NHS by staff interviewing in Mumbai and arrived in England with five pounds. He trained and worked as a nurse, took a degree and a postgraduate qualification, and nineteen years after landing here gave a TEDx talk at the O2 in London to an audience of a thousand.

Raj speaks on resilience, adaptability and belonging and he is funny. The humour is not decoration, It is what lets an audience stay with material about caste, poverty and race without going quiet on him.

Sessions

The Mumbai Mindset
Resilience, adaptability and problem solving, drawn from the survival instincts of four creatures that thrive in the slums of Mumbai. Interactive, with a team exercise. 60 or 120 minutes. Works as a keynote or as a development session for a team away day.

Resilience Redefined
The keynote version of the story. What actually carried him from a village with no prospects to a stage at the O2, why most of it was unglamorous, and what it says about the difference between resilience and simply enduring things. 45 to 60 minutes with questions.

Beyond Borders
Race, belonging and active by standing, for staff networks, inclusion weeks and EDI programmes. Unconscious bias, the difference between intentional and unintentional racism, what stepping in actually looks like at work, and what it is like to be recruited into an organisation from abroad and then have to live here. In his home village people spat at him over his caste. In England he met something quieter. Having both is what lets him open the subject without putting a room on the defensive. 45 to 60 minutes.

Just Off The Boat (after dinner)
Stand-up. First performed at the Hardy Har Comedy Festival in Dorchester in July 2025. For dinners and awards evenings where the brief is to send people home in a good mood.

Organisations Raj has spoken for...............
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, as keynote speaker at their innovation event. King's College Hospital London. Care Concern Group. The National Association for Patient Participation. TEDx at the O2, London. Claycots Primary School, Slough. Budmouth College, Weymouth. Gillingham School sixth form, 300 students.

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