About
Samar Farooqui
India's first professional slackliner · Free-solo highline record-holder · Keynote speaker on resilience, fear & change
Samar Farooqui is India's first professional slackliner and free-solo highline record-holder — he has spent over a decade walking lines strung hundreds of metres above the ground, with no net and no leash. Educated in Adventure Tourism at Queenstown Resort College, New Zealand, he is globally recognised as a pioneer of the sport and has established the majority of India's highline locations since 2013.
A near-fatal fall changed both his life and his work. Relearning the simplest movements from the ground up taught him what balance really means — not the absence of fear, but the skill of staying composed while everything moves underneath you. Today he brings that hard-won experience into boardrooms, helping corporate teams navigate fear, uncertainty and change through his VUCA Athlete's Framework.
A TEDx and INK speaker and former GoPro India ambassador, Samar has worked with RPG Group, Capgemini, VFS Global and Amdocs, taught the sport to everyone from celebrities to refugee children, and delivered government-backed programmes across Chhattisgarh, Karnataka and Odisha.