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An energetic, incisive, warm, and challenging catalyst who inspires, facilitates, and leads individuals and organizations to positive change, improvements, and growth.
Dr. Nilesh Khare is a seasoned business and corporate strategy professional, CxO and business coach, advisor, board member, speaker, mentor, academia leader, and trainer. He brings more than 27 years of experience, expertise, and global exposure. He focuses on strategy from vision to implementation, strategic organizational transformation, performance management, strategic and business planning, firm valuation, business feasibility, market entry strategies, and strategic leadership. He also specializes in corporate governance particularly for family-owned businesses.
Nilesh cherishes his ability to bring reason, and informed thinking as his key sources of contribution to his client interactions. His strengths lie in helping his client build a comprehensive and structured perspective on strategic space, and carry out robustness tests on paths toward future goals. He helps his clients– individuals and organizations– build stronger mental models, greater awareness of underlying rationale and assumptions, greater convictions, and make better decisions. He brings straightforwardness, integrity, and missionary purpose to his work. Helping people and organizations develop, become more competent, and grow excite him the most.
Currently, he coaches CXOs, serves on the advisory/management boards of corporate, NGO, incubators, and mentors startups. His recent clients come from the manufacturing, ITES, Media, deep Tech, and Academia spaces. He visits leading business schools including IIMs, and lives with his family and parents in Bhopal.
Prior to relocating to Bhopal, India in 2017, Nilesh served in academia and consulting in the USA, UAE, and in India. Nilesh brings experience in consulting from majors such as PwC, KPMG, and the Henley Center. His training and consulting clients include market leaders from industries as wide as FMCG, Petro Chemicals, Food, Media, and Financial Services from India, USA, and Nigeria. Nilesh led strategic transformation at Jagran Lakecity Business School and served on the academic council and the board of management at the University between July, 2017- and Dec. 2021.
He earned his Ph D in Business and Corporate Strategy from the Ohio State, Columbus, OH, USA. He also holds MBA in Finance and Marketing from IBS Hyderabad, CFA (ICFAI), and bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication from MNIT Jaipur. He is a certified coach with credentials such as ICF-ACC, and a Registered Corporate Coach (RCC) from the World Association of Business Coaches (WABC).
CXO/Executive Coaching— Leadership Conversations
Lonely at the top? Get an unbiased expert sounding board for clarity.
What is it?
Each CXO brings a unique context involving a successful individual with experience and expertise, and a mix of challenging and complex organizational and personal leadership situation. They often need to ensure responses that ensure success. The selection and execution of an appropriate response require framing the right questions informed with deep, fast, courageous and unbiased expert thinking. This is where they find themselves alone, without adequate time for reflections, and painfully aware of the absence of a support that may ensure unbiased and courageous exploration. Nilesh’s coaching approach with CXOs involves creating an informed space for them where they can reflect with assurance of an unbiased engagement. It invites them to explore questions, point of views, and choices and underlying rationale and build a comprehensive and cohesive challenge-response mental model for themselves. Nilesh also brings his own experience and expertise to create that space.
Who is it for?
An individual CXO facing organizational and personal leadership challenge or an organization that wants to provide support for its CXO or CXO-to-be to realize their true potential.
How does it work
- It starts with a complementary 45-60 minute chemistry check session to ascertain that the coaching is the right intervention for the context, and the coachee and the coach are the right partners for coaching.
- The issue at hand determines first stage contracting with pre agreed number of coaching sessions lasting from 60 to 75 minutes each. 5 to10 sessions with 7 to 15 days gap in between are more common. Some issues might require longer association with more sessions.
- It is not uncommon where CXOs often request a few on demand sessions post the contracting sessions as and when they need. These sessions are often scheduled with 7 to 15 days prior notice.
Business coaching
Striving hard to just stay where you are? Upgrade to the new zone.
What is it?
Marshall Goldsmith’s “What got you here won’t take you there” also applies to organizations such as MSMEs, family businesses, professional corporate, academic institutes that get stuck at a level. Current mindsets, culture, norms, policies, procedures, and systems prevent an organization from getting to the next level.
Nilesh’s business coaching involves a series of interactions with top executives individually and in groups of various sizes. Each engagement lasting for 18-24 months goes through the phases of identification and consensus on shared and relevant vision, values, principles, frameworks for organizations 2.0. That often results in a new structure, system, shift in culture, policies, etc. Success is measured in terms of new mindset, behaviors, and outcomes.
Who is it for?
An organization that aspires to strive for the next level and finds current mindset and culture as the core stumbling block.
How does it work
- It starts with a diagnostic engagement lasting for about 2 to 3 months involving conversations with key individuals and a few group conversations.
- The first set of diagnostics often results in realization of where organization can go, what all would it involve, and if organization has courage and appetite in resources, time and patience to initiate and follow through strategic transformation. The next phase often transforms the role from a coach to board advisor/mentor
Board Membership/Advisory
Enrich your board with a proactive expert voice on strategy, performance management, execution, and governance.
What is it?
Dr. Nilesh sits on the advisory/supervisory board of corporates, NGOs and incubators. He brings integrity, fairness, global exposure, straightforwardness, and deep expertise in business and corporate strategy (Diversification, Vertical Integration, Strategic Alliance, M&A), business feasibility, market entry, strategic transformation, performance management, institutional development, and 27 years of experience in consulting across myriads of industries and organizations to his board advisory role. He often serves on the committees overseeing new business/initiative development, performance appraisal and compensation of top management, selection, and corporate governance issues.
Who is it for?
Any private or public organization that has commitment to ethical practices and aspiration to grow and become a better version of itself. It is important for Dr. Nilesh to assure that the organization is serious about an active and engaged board member and he is in a position to add value to the conversation and decision making.
Mentoring
Enrich yourself with expertise and resourcefulness on strategy, funding, team building and execution.
What is it?
Dr. Nilesh provides mentorship to startups, startup CxOs, and young leaders from business families who often assume leadership roles where they may lack technical expertise or experience needed to execute the role efficiently and effectively.
Who is it for?
Business families who are grooming family members to take on leadership roles, startups.
Consulting
Find an informed solution to a specific challenge related to strategy, execution and governance.
What is it?
Dr. Nilesh provides consulting services on strategy, business feasibility, scenario planning, firm valuation, financial modeling, and market entry to the clients. While Dr. Khare guides and takes an overall responsibility of the project and delivery he is assisted by his associates who provide technical skill and research support.
Who is it for?
Any firm who has specific project based need related to Dr. Khare’s areas of expertise.
MDP/Executive Education
Make your teams and leaders get better.
What is it?
Dr. Nilesh has taught strategy, international business, strategic innovation, intraprenuership, and entrepreneurship courses in three different countries at various levels including working professional PG programmes, flagship MBAs and Ph.D. His custom designed corporate management development programme may include workshop/simulation/case based sessions for enabling deeper appreciation for strategy tools and frameworks and their applications. The duration, topics covered, and pedagogy depend on the specific need of the client and the level of the audience. He also engages in speaking sessions on the topics related to his areas of expertise.
Who is it for?
Firms of MSME size and beyond for their senior middle management or top management teams/individuals. Consulting corporations.