Meet
David

David Thirumur is immensely passionate about people and about making a difference in their lives. He firmly believes that every human being is designed for greatness. To this end, he empowers people through helping them discover their unique purpose in life, and to let go of and overcome anything that stands in the way of that goal. This enables them to have a happy, successful and productive future—allowing them to use the fulfilment of their goals to become a dynamic and positive force for good in their communities.

“It is my deep rooted belief that people are awesome” says David. “Stored up within each soul is potential that can change the world if it is only released. Each person can make as big an impact on this earth as Albert Einstein, George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, and the hundreds of others that the world looks up to and admires.

David constantly challenges those he comes across to discover their purpose and live it. “There’s no glory in carrying your potential to the grave with you,” he says. “It’s sad how the richest place in the world is the graveyard. Imagine all the world changing ideas and potential that is buried there! Who knows where the human race would be at the moment if each person lived the way they had the potential to?”

David’s main work with people is getting them to re-evaluate their mindsets and examine the negative patterns in their thinking and reasoning that hold them back. “Every action springs from an emotion which is caused by a thought that springs from a paradigm in our heads” says David. “Most of the stuff we believe about ourselves and about life isn’t true. And so I’m not here to tickle your ears. I’m here to challenge your way of thinking and make you evaluate everything you’ve ever believed to see what holds you back from living the life you were designed for.”

David’s inspiration comes from both his life and the life of his father. His father, Thirumur Ramesh, is involved with a number of charity and social projects around India. It was through seeing his father influence the lives of numerous Deaf and Underprivileged people on a daily basis that he came to realise that there was no limit to what people could accomplish if they believed that they could.

In addition, when facing some troubled years as a teenager, David was given needed support from certain peers and mentors that believed in him and gave him the strength to pull through. Having emerged wiser and stronger from the difficulties, David pledged to do the same for others. He determined at the beginning of his career that his focus in life would always be to help others overcome life’s difficulties and to grow into their God-given potential. As such, David lives out this life goal in every day of his life.

David is also a passionate social entrepreneur and helps regularly with projects for education and care for the Elderly. He helps to oversee the running of a preschool for underprivileged children in Hyderabad in order to give the children of low-income families a better chance at a successful future. He also is a leader and an active participant in the “Adopt a Grandparent” movement that brings happiness and cheer to Old Folks Homes across India.

He also helps to conduct weekly motivational leadership sessions for the Deaf. More recently, he has become involved in educating young social entrepreneurs in different countries in Africa.

David’s work has been well received and has earned him accolades from various places. In 2015, he was recognised for his excellence in Youth Training by EOTrainings Pvt. Ltd. in Washington D.C.

In 2018, he received recognition for his dynamic speaking abilities from the Dale Carnegie Institute in New York. Also in 2018, he was named the “Keynote Speaker of the Year” and “Leadership Coach of the Year” in the state of Telengana, India.