Preethi Srinivasan – A Voice of Resilience & Transformation
Preethi Srinivasan’s extraordinary journey of resilience and triumph transforms audiences, shifting perspectives, and igniting change. An award-winning speaker and a five-time TEDx presenter, she delivers insights that challenge, inspire, and empower. Her words are a beacon of hope, instilling courage, and determination in those facing adversity.
A trailblazer in disability advocacy, Preethi is the first female quadriplegic to represent India at international disability conferences. With a PhD from IIT Madras in Feminist Disability Studies, she is a leading expert on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and the intersections of disability, gender, and sexuality.
Once a state-level cricketer and swimmer, Preethi’s life changed in an instant due to a spinal cord injury. Rising from unimaginable challenges, she has dedicated her life to empowering India’s most marginalized community. As the founder of Soulfree, she has spent over a decade restoring dignity and independence to individuals with spinal cord injuries. By inviting her to speak, you offer your audience a rare and unforgettable experience while supporting her mission of empowerment and financial independence.
Once a state-level cricketer and swimmer, Preethi’s life changed in an instant due to a spinal cord injury. Rising from unimaginable challenges, she has dedicated her life to empowering India’s most marginalized community. As the founder of Soulfree, she has spent over a decade restoring dignity and independence to individuals with spinal cord injuries. By inviting her to speak, you offer your audience a rare and unforgettable experience while supporting her mission of empowerment and financial independence.
Why Are We in Need of Inspiration?
Every organisation needs happy and healthy individuals for optimisation of productivity in the long run. Most employees in every organisation at one point or another undergo the following circumstances.
| PROFESSIONAL STRESS | PERSONAL STRESS |
|---|---|
| Choking deadlines and targets | Family worries |
| Hectic lifestyle with no time for healthy eating, rest | Lack of quality time with family and friends |
| Inter-organisational miscommunication and conflict | Health issues (BP, insomnia, diabetes, cardiac problems etc) |
| Financial pressures | No time or energy for exercising |
| Strain of career growth–climbing up the organisational ladder | No quality rest (meditation, yoga, reading) |
| Travel | No quality time with children |
This vicious circle of stress has led to the following impact on the human mind:
- A natural tendency of people to become mechanical, unemotional and to lose themselves in the attempt to win the world.
- A never-ending rat race that keeps people occupied to the extent that they forget their priorities, which should be their families.
- A feeling of helplessness of being caught in the web of material achievements and the tendency to seek for more wealth, without a purpose.
What Are the Benefits Of an Inspirational Talk?
Preethi Srinivasan's Inspiration provides us with the reality check we all desperately need – she brings us back to the very core of our lives. Through her own example she urges us to recognise and fulfil our true potential!
- Perspective – Preethi encourages us to look at ourselves from within (introspection and self-analysis) and without (view our lives with respect to the larger picture). Her life exemplifies how a positive perspective can affect one's quality of life!
- Purpose – Each of us are Divine Beings and each of us have a special purpose in life. She reminds us of how unique and special we are, and of how blessed and gifted our existence really is. Only when we realise our true purpose will we be able to realise our full potential – which is infinite!
- Passion – Passion is an automatic by-product of the first two P's. When we're purposeful, we're passionate – there's integrity, joy, love in our lives and in our work when we know we are serving a larger purpose. Preethi's life is in itself a testament as all her realisations are experiential and not theoretical.
- Present Moment Awareness –The human being is seemingly programmed to never be in the present moment – we are always either in the past or in the future. However, self-awareness and introspection can help us develop the practice of Present Moment Awareness because in the present moment there is always bliss – no fear, no sorrow.
- Peace – When we awaken to that within us that is not momentary, not fleeting, not changeful, we experience the state of peace that is intrinsic and natural in us always. We just need to open ourselves to it!
Can Preethi Guarantee that everybody will get all this – no, there are no guarantees in life! But, most definitely lives will be touched, changed in ways no one thought possible – that’s for sure! Kindly reach out to Preethi (preethi@soulfree.org) to invite her as a motivational speaker. Thanks in advance.