Sahar Hashemi OBE

Strategic Advisor on Market Disruption & Entrepreneurial Culture

Sahar Hashemi OBE is a globally recognised entrepreneur and a definitive authority on market creation. Best known for revolutionising Britain’s café culture with Coffee Republic, she has spent three decades proving that breakthrough growth comes from identifying the possibilities others overlook. Now leading the Buy Women Built movement, Sahar operates at the critical intersection of consumer behaviour and retail innovation, partnering with major platforms like Ocado to scale over 1,000 female-founded brands. A former member of the UK Government Scale Up Taskforce, she deconstructs how organisations can move beyond process-heavy structures to reignite the entrepreneurial energy required for repeatable, sustainable success.

Sahar specialises in "Execution Discipline," reframing innovation as a practical, learnable skillset. She examines how to design agile cultures that prioritise customer-centric experimentation over boardroom speculation. For 92 Speakers’ clients, she provides a rigorous framework for strategic agility, demonstrating how to turn raw consumer insights into dominant market positions.

An electric and grounded presence, Sahar offers C-suite boards a roadmap for systemic innovation.

Signature Keynotes

How to identify, test, and scale entirely new sources of growth.
What separates ideas that resonate from those that never move markets.
Turning early intuition into disciplined action and measurable value.
Why market-making requires a different mindset than optimization.
Designing organisations that innovate consistently without chaos.

The Hashemi Effect

Innovation becomes actionable, repeatable and strategic.

Audiences gain the ability to:

See opportunities where others see constraint
Design experiments that lead to real outcomes
Build organisations that treat innovation as a capability
Understand how new markets and categories are created
Move from insight to execution with confidence

Why Book Sahar

Sahar Hashemi brings credibility from real entrepreneurial success, combined with frameworks that help leaders do innovation not just talk about it. Her work resonates with organisations navigating transformation, growth plateaus, and the challenge of sustaining innovation over time.

She is particularly compelling for audiences looking to shift mindsets from improvement to creation, and build environments where breakthrough thinking produces measurable results.

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