Ramit Sethi

I Will Teach You To Be Rich
This flagship 60-90 minute presentation covers:

• Why don’t people manage their money? Why is this so hard — and important?
• Optimizing your credit cards and setting up the right bank accounts & retirement accounts (even with just $50)
• Negotiating Like an Indian: Late fees, cable memberships, car, house
• Conscious Spending: How to spend extravagantly on the things you love, but cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t
• The Psychology of Automation: Creating a bulletproof personal-finance system
• Picking investments
• Relationships & money, philanthropy, and living a rich life

The Psychology of Behavioral Change
This 60-minute presentation covers in-depth psychological strategies and tactics tested on 1+ million students to change financial behavior. It’s not just attitudes — we all “know” we should manage our money, but we don’t. What matters is changing actual behavior.

• Why we “know” we should manage our money…but don’t — and how to change that
• Techniques, tactics, and twists I use to measurably change financial behavior
• Why “keeping a budget” and “financial literacy” are precisely the wrong frames to use when motivating behavioral change
• Specific positioning and messaging used to drive behavioral change, including conversion tests
• Research from areas of health and animal behaviors showing how to change behaviors
• The importance of psychology, not just A/B testing
• How to get over “information overwhelm” and credibility deficits

Other topics include:

Why Entrepreneurs Win
How do entrepreneurs think differently about success, risk and reward, and even day-to-day activities? What does it mean to take educated risks? And why is failure almost always taboo? Sethi covers the basics of his ideas about entrepreneurship using real-life examples, including how he has started a number of companies, battled fancy New York lawyers, and has won. But he also covers his ventures that have failed, and the valuable lessons to be learned from them.

Everything You Thought About College Admissions and Scholarships Was Wrong
Imagine how many times you’ve heard something like this: “I hope my son/daughter gets a scholarship so they can go to college” or “I’m not going to apply to Harvard. Even if I got in, I couldn’t afford it.”

These are some of the most commonly misunderstood ideas when it comes to college admissions and scholarships. Sethi, whose scholarships entirely covered his undergraduate and graduate education at Stanford University, describes the common mistakes that high-school students make when applying for college admissions and scholarships. He gives specific, actionable advice for crafting the best application possible. And he changes the way students think about succeeding in their goals.

Sethi has co-founded and manages ScholasticAdvising, a research and advising company targeting college admissions and scholarships.

Custom topics available upon request.