Grit keynotes in Nagpur, central India’s Orange City

Why Nagpur books grit speakers

Nagpur’s rooms are practical. Logistics operators, agribusiness exporters, state administrators who move here for the winter session, and manufacturers tied to Vidarbha’s wider industrial belt all deal with long chains and thin margins for error. They do not need a celebrity recap; they need a speaker who can hold a hall and leave teams with a method for the hard middle of a programme. The Grit Code does that with timed, public stories: 7 marathons on 7 continents in 5 days, 21 hours and 51 minutes; a 4,800 km Pacific row in 2023 with the Brothers N Oars crew that raised more than £150,000 for marine conservation; television distributed in 123 countries; and the perspective of a working CEO of Blazing Sand Studios.

The talk is offered as availability for Nagpur, not as a past India engagement.

Where Nagpur meets

• Hotel and conference rooms in Civil Lines – corporate days, association evenings and leadership offsites
• Meeting venues around MIHAN – programmes tied to logistics, aerospace and the special economic zone
• University and institute auditoriums – including technical and management-school rooms
• Trade and industry association halls – exporter, manufacturing and agribusiness gatherings

Why audiences believe him

5 days, 21 hours, 51 minutes

Seven marathons on seven continents: Antarctica, Cape Town, Perth, Dubai, Madrid, Fortaleza and Miami.

More than £150,000 raised

By rowing 4,800 km across the Pacific in 2023 with Brothers N Oars, through 40-foot waves and a cargo-ship near-miss.

Shows in 123 countries

Adventure TV distributed worldwide; Guy in Dubai has 22 million views.

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Nagpur’s economy and who the talk is for

Nagpur is often introduced through two facts that still shape its business culture: it is close to the country’s geographic centre, and it is the Orange City, a historic heart of India’s citrus trade. Those identities now sit beside a third. The Multi-modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur, known as MIHAN, was planned as a combination of airport, special economic zone and logistics park, bringing warehousing, aerospace-related activity and back-office operations onto one corridor. The city is also Maharashtra’s second capital, which means a seasonal influx of administrative work and the conferences that follow government.

Logistics and the MIHAN corridor. Freight, warehousing and aviation-adjacent teams live with disruption — weather, slots, last-mile failures, delayed inputs. Paris’s expedition stories are framed as planning, shift discipline and adapting when a plan fails, which maps onto operations reviews and safety-and-performance kick-offs.

Administration and associations. Winter-capital programmes and Vidarbha industry forums often mix public officials with private operators. Those mixed rooms need a shared vocabulary for persistence rather than a single-sector case study.

Agribusiness and food processing. Citrus growing, trading and processing still matter to Nagpur’s identity and to the wider rural economy around it. Harvest windows, quality standards and export paperwork all punish teams that fold when a season goes sideways. The keynote treats grit as a habit that can be taught, not a personality type.

Campuses and technical talent. Engineering and management institutions in the city feed the same logistics, manufacturing and public employers. Paris can speak to students as both an adventurer and a CEO, so the commercial pressure behind the film is visible.

Sibling pages for Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad sit with this Nagpur booking page on the India hub.

Where the talk fits in Nagpur

• Logistics, warehousing and aviation-adjacent kick-offs
• Industry association conferences and exporter forums
• Administrative and leadership offsites during the conference calendar
• University and engineering-college programmes
• Hybrid all-hands with a virtual version for teams in other Indian cities

Available in Nagpur — not a past-talk list

Paris has not given keynote talks in Asia, and he has no verified personal visit to Nagpur. Pages for Indian cities are for organisers who want to book him in person or virtually. (His regional adventure exception is Pakistan, where in 2024 he filmed a fourteen-day Baltoro Glacier trek to K2 base camp while supporting Maria Conceição — not a speaking engagement, and not an India visit.)