Narish Malik

Naresh brings 30 years’ experience of leading, coaching and consulting with high performing leadership teams to help them navigate change with confidence and to pursue bold growth challenges with clarity.

Highlights:

• Previously VP Business Development at C-series Silicon Valley IoT startup

• Track record of co-creating new software and services solutions with + $100M impact

• WW Director Strategy & Planning at Cisco Systems and Philips Electronics

• Executive coach to leadership for empowering multicultural, x-functional teams

• Advisor at UC Berkeley SkyDeck startup accelerator

• Trusted partner to C-level Fortune 1000 clients and Silicon Valley startups

Naresh specializes in partnering with C-level leadership to enable the full collaboration potential of their teams for future growth and change. He is passionate about transforming the ‘us’ versus ‘them’ organizational model from functional silos to resilient teams empowered by ‘collaborative trust’ and ‘shared accountability’. He combines executive coaching with consulting and is able to bring a big picture perspective to connect the dots between strategic priorities, execution effectiveness and employee engagement. Most recently his consulting engagements included:

· Helping a high growth Silicon Valley startup with alignment between product/engineering and customer success teams to reduce weekly customer escalations

· Centralization of a corporate Center of Excellence for marketing under a new CMO and alignment with the BU GMs

· Alignment of objectives and ways of working between the leadership teams of an acquired startup and its new parent

· Facilitation of leadership offsites to align team members on their shared purpose, roles/responsibilities and their ways of working

Previously Naresh was VP and head of global business development at Leeo a series-C funded IoT startup. During his 30-year career he has lived and worked in four different countries in leadership roles with global corporations:

· Cisco Systems as Director of Strategy & Planning for seeding future IoT and SaaS growth businesses

· IBM Global Services as Associate Partner for Emerging Business Opportunities including IoT and Cloud offerings

· Philips Consumer Electronics in the Netherlands where he led strategic planning for the CEO’s leadership team to transform the product portfolio and the culture to a more nimble, innovative and outward looking organization

Naresh believes in the power of change as the essential driving force for society to learn, prosper and discover new exciting horizons. He also believes that this is only possible when teams and organizations collaborate constructively – and this single factor is a key determinant of whether leaders succeed or fail! But it doesn’t just happen, it requires intent and effort. This is why Naresh thrives on pulling together his career experiences to help businesses pursue bold initiatives and to enable teams who can deliver more than the sum of their parts.

Follow Naresh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nareshm/