Following
Your Dot.
Resilience. Purpose. Perspective.
What happens when life stops following the plan? Drawing on a journey across elite sport, corporate leadership, entrepreneurship and survival, Dr Kaushik Sridhar explores how uncertainty can reshape perspective, choices and the way we define success.
The dots rarely make sense while we are living them.
Careers change. Plans unravel. Confidence gets tested. Sometimes the path ahead becomes completely unclear. Following Your Dot is about what happens next.
Rather than treating resilience as simply “bouncing back”, Kaushik explores how people can move through uncertainty with greater clarity, perspective and purpose. The keynote combines personal storytelling with practical reflection, inviting audiences to think differently about success, adversity, decision-making and the experiences that shape us.
A story people can feel. Ideas they can actually use.
The session is designed to leave people reflective, energised and more comfortable navigating change without pretending uncertainty can be eliminated.
Clarity over certainty
How to keep making useful decisions when the full answer is unavailable.
Redefining resilience
Moving beyond “bouncing back” to adapting, learning and continuing forward.
Perspective under pressure
How difficult moments can change what matters, what we notice and what we choose.
Purpose as practice
Why purpose is less about a grand statement and more about the choices we make repeatedly.
Success on your terms
Permission to question inherited definitions of achievement and choose a path that fits.
A career and life built on unexpected turns.
Kaushik left home at 13 to train at the John Newcombe Tennis Academy in the United States, competed internationally, moved to Australia, completed an MBA and PhD, and built a two-decade career across sustainability, consulting, academia and leadership.
Then, in 2023, a journey through the Middle East became an abduction. The experience forced an entirely different confrontation with fear, uncertainty, control and purpose. That moment did not create the idea behind Following Your Dot, but it sharpened it.
Built for the room, not forced into a formula.
30–45 minutes
A focused, story-led keynote for conferences, community events and organisational audiences.
- Resilience, purpose and perspective
- Strong narrative arc
- Optional audience Q&A
45–60 minutes
A more personal and conversational format that gives audiences space to ask questions and go deeper.
- Leadership and wellbeing
- Career and life decisions
- Audience-led discussion
60–90 minutes
A tailored internal session that connects the story to organisational change, uncertainty and leadership.
- Team reflection
- Practical discussion prompts
- Tailored to organisational context
A human story that works across very different rooms.
The keynote can be adapted for leadership teams, staff, conferences, students and community audiences. The emphasis changes depending on the room, but the central idea remains the same: how do we keep moving when the route ahead is unclear?
Personal. Conversational. Built to connect.
The strongest versions of this session feel less like a lecture and more like a shared conversation about uncertainty, choices and what really matters.
The goal is not simply to inspire. It is to stay with people.
His insights on life’s purpose and how to focus on your dot was relatable and fantastic.AIESEC Australia
Warm, invigorating and captivating… the audience was engaged at a deep reflective level.Leadership audience feedback
Inspiring and practical, with a genuine ability to connect complex experiences to everyday choices.Participant feedback
Kidnapped by Hezbollah: Freed by Purpose
The memoir expands on one chapter of the journey behind Following Your Dot: fear, decision-making, purpose and leadership when control disappears. It is deliberately grounded in the human choices made under pressure rather than the spectacle of the event itself.
For organisations, signed books can also be incorporated into selected speaking engagements as an optional audience package.
Create a session people will still be talking about afterwards.
Every engagement can be tailored to the audience, event theme and context. Share your audience, preferred format and what you would like people to leave thinking or feeling, and Kaushik can shape the session around it.