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ABOUT THE BOOK
Innovation Starts With I aims to strengthen the human capabilities that matter the most right now, such as self-awareness, curiosity, originality, empathy, resilience, collaboration, intuition, and adaptability. As a reader, you can expect to walk away with an entrepreneurial mindset, think more like an innovator, and become a better problem solver.
Through Saleema’s personal story and insights from interviewing 100 leaders, as well as speaking and facilitating workshops to audiences around the world, Innovation Starts With I takes you on a journey to proactively reinvent yourself while sharing practical advice on how to increase your influence and level up your impact.
By future-proofing yourself, you’ll be better positioned to do work that matters while maximizing your impact in this noisy, fast-evolving world.
SALEEMA VELLANI | OMAN BOOK TOUR 2021
Innovation Starts With I Moderated by Aisha Al-Kharusi • Al-Rud'ha MQ Coworking Space
Dec 18 | 16:00 – 17:30
Fireside Chat with Noha Hefny & Hanane Benkhallouk United Nations Hub | Mission Possible Opportunity Pavilion • Expo 2020 Dubai
Dec 13 | 10:00 – 11:00
SALEEMA VELLANI | DUBAI BOOK TOUR 2021
Fireside Chat with Tariq Qureishy Dubai Business Women Council • Dubai Chamber
Dec 12 | 9:00 – 11:00
Fireside Chat with Shayaan Aijaz Ztartup • Dubai Healthcare City
Dec 12 | 14:30 – 16:00
Public Book Signing Wafi Gourmet • Wafi City
Dec 12 | 17:00 – 20:00
Fireside Chat with Noha Hefny & Hanane Benkhallouk United Nations Hub | Mission Possible Opportunity Pavilion • Expo 2020 Dubai
Dec 13 | 10:00 – 11:00
Fireside Chat with Rozina Nawaz • Ismaili Centre Dubai
Dec 14 | 20:00 – 21:30
Creating Connections with Lara & Yves Bite Me Burger • The Ritz-Carlton DIFC
Dec 15 | 9:30 – 11:30
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Saleema Vellani is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, an adjunct professor, and the author of Innovation Starts With “I”. At the age of 21, Saleema co-founded and launched Brazil’s top-rated language school to finance an orphanage and social development programs. Shortly after, she co-founded and ran a leading online translation agency in Italy to help companies expand their digital presence globally. For over 12 years, Saleema has led 100+ international organizations, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies to their next stage of growth and innovation.
Currently, Saleema is the Founder and CEO of Ripple Impact, which is an accelerator and community that helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses and platforms. She also consults as an innovation strategist to the World Bank, teaches Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University, and is a frequent guest lecturer at business schools.
crowdfunding
campaign
On August 3, 2020, Saleema and her team launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise money from their community for a successful book launch. They broke the record for a self-published author in terms of support on a crowdfunding platform as well as with such a strong global reach. Saleema and her team met over 25% of their goal on the first day of the campaign, pre-sold over 1000 copies of the book, raised over $36,000 from over 640 backers in nearly 50 countries. You can view the crowdfunding campaign page HERE
INNOVATION starts with I, gets executed through WE,
and has a Ripple Impact on the WORLD.