Rashmi Airan challenges leaders to face the invisible prisons that shape their choices and limit their growth. A keynote speaker, consultant, and unapologetic truth-teller, she brings her raw story of success, collapse, and reinvention to audiences worldwide.

As a first-generation Indian American, Rashmi was raised to chase excellence. She graduated with honors from Columbia Law School, thrived in corporate America, and built her own law practice. But success came with hidden cages: cultural pressures, inherited orthodoxies, and blind ambition. One small compromise, fueled by fear and the pressure to provide, led to a federal prison sentence.

Prison shattered everything she thought she knew about herself, but it also exposed the deeper truth: she had been imprisoned long before by ego, judgment, and unspoken rules. Six months behind bars stripped away those layers and forced her to rebuild on a foundation of courage, self-awareness, and integrity.

Now known as a "recovering government, corporate, and real estate lawyer," Rashmi is a globally recognized speaker who explores the ways people and organizations confine themselves to patterns, assumptions, and norms that quietly dictate outcomes. With over 30 years in business, law, and finance, she has seen how good people make bad choices when these hidden pressures go unexamined. Her RISE THROUGH ITâ„¢FRAMEWORK is a guide to breaking free, reframing adversity, and leading with clarity.

Her insights are grounded in research on resilience, growth, and leadership, and she has worked with leaders at Coca-Cola, Merck, Cardinal Health, Comcast, Sotheby's, and Hershey's. Deloitte has recognized her transformational impact, and her story has been featured on ABC, PBS, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Rashmi sparks conversations that matter. She pushes executives, entrepreneurs, and teams to confront blind spots, dismantle self-imposed prisons, and rise through struggle with integrity and courage.

Beyond the stage, she is a proud mother of two, a boardmember for the Overtown Youth Center/Alonzo Mourning Foundation, and an Ambassador for The Key Clubhouse. She is also an avid hiker and traveler who believes the real adventure begins when we free ourselves from the prisons of thought and expectation.

Her message is urgent: the most confining prisons are not physical. They live in the mind. Freedom begins when we rise through them.