Tobaccowala was named by Business Week as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation, and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators.” He is one of only 300 people elected to the Advertising Hall of Fame since 1948.

Rishad is the author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data, which helps people think, feel, and see differently about how to grow their companies, their teams, and themselves to remain relevant in transformational times, and Rethinking Work, which helps people thrive amidst the seismic changes occurring in the workplace due to changing demographics, new mindsets, the rise of distributed work, and the spread of AI.

Rishad is the host of the What Next? podcast and publishes a thought letter called The Future Does Not Fit into the Containers of the Past, which is read by 30,000 people every week.

Rishad Tobaccowala remains a Senior Advisor to the Publicis Groupe, where he has spent his entire 37-year career, most recently serving as Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist of the 100,000+ person firm. Prior to those roles, Rishad was the Chairman of Digitas and Razorfish.

He serves as a board director or advisor to a host of firms including LoopMe, Journey, Growth Catalyst Partners, Dumbstruck, Shift Paradigm, Quilt.AI, and QualSights.

Rishad is also the Chairman of the Tobaccowala Foundation, which helps over 10,000 people in India.

He has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bombay.