Naresh Malik
Managing Director
Building resilient organizations for transformational change and growth
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
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Naresh specializes in partnering with C-level leadership teams on strategic initiatives 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 high growth Silicon Valley startups with scaling their operations and enabling alignment between product/engineering and customer success teams
Centralization of a corporate Center of Excellence for marketing under a new CMO and alignment with the BU GMs
Enabling new ways of working and change management for processes, metrics and roles to achieve optimal return on investment from an enterprise-wide SAP implementation
Alignment of objectives and ways of working between the leadership teams of an acquired startup and its new parent
Providing feedback and insights as a neutral external partner from interviews and meetings’ observations to help c-suite preempt potential pitfalls while implementing cross-functional change programs
Facilitation of workshops and 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 ventures and to enable teams who can deliver 5x5=25 and not just 5+5=10