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Subscribe to Rehan’s quarterly newsletter where he shares three interesting ideas you should know about. One each from the fields of: AI & Future of Work; Focus & Productivity; and Storytelling.

Rehan the Thought Leader

Rehan is the Founder & CEO of Improve Executive Focus. Previously he was a thought-leader in the future of work for a global telecoms firm. He has advised across several industries including telecoms, technology, mining, airlines, oil and gas, life sciences, professional services, and banking. He is also the author of the book Distracting Ourselves to Death , which aims to explain why we are so distracted and what can we do about it.

He is a visiting professor at HULT International Business School where he teaches post-graduate courses on:

  • AI & the Future of Work

  • Leadership: A Moral Perspective

  • Personal Influence

A trained social scientist, Rehan holds a MA in Applied Social and Market research, as well as an MBA in Strategy. He has been a feature writer for Gulf Business magazine as well as a business columnist for The National newspaper.

When not consulting and writing about business issues, Rehan is also a published novelist. His novels include: the Carnegie nominated A Tudor Turk series, as well as a Tomb of Empires.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khanrehan/

email: info@rehankhan.com

Rehan the Novelist

A keen observer of history and techno-science, Rehan Khan, has always been intrigued in how ideas and inventions move from one civilisation to the next, and how they change as they shift across different cultures.

He is the author of a Tomb of Empires (2024) a historical fiction set in 90BC in the Middle East, the Carnegie nominated A Tudor Turk trilogy (2019-2022) set in the Ottoman Empire and Tudor England, and the upcoming fantasy sci-fi series, Tales of Khayaal (2025) set on the Earth like planet of Ikleel. These gripping stories also ask readers to consider the role of virtue within the human story

Some interesting facts about Rehan are:

  • When his daughter was six years old she asked him “Daddy, what do you want to be when you grow up?”-  as an executive working in a company, it really got him thinking and it was the spark which ignited his writing career.

  • His first novel (Last of the Tasburai) took four years to write, his second (Scream of the Tasburai) took two years, the third (Legends of the Tasburai) took 18 months, the fourth (A Tudor Turk) 12 months, the fifth (A King’s Armour) took 9 months, and the sixth (A Demon’s Touch) also took 9 months. 

  • He is particularly interested in the myths, legends and narratives which unite people from different parts of the world, and what role virtues play within the human condition.

email: info@rehankhan.com