Akshat Dhawan

CEO & Founder, Rally Sports

Akshat Dhawan is the founder of Rally Sports, a Dubai-based platform helping athletes find coaches, clubs, and communities across the UAE, now running across seven-plus venues and built without outside funding. Raised between the UAE and India and educated in the UK, Akshat took the leap into entrepreneurship in Dubai after a period of real financial hardship, rebuilding from the ground up on belief and consistency rather than capital or connections. On Decoding Wisdom, he goes beyond the business story to talk candidly about the identity void that follows losing a dream, the pressure of body image and comparison, and what it actually takes to build something - not just muscle or a company, but purpose and peace on the inside.