Paresh Shah is a unique combination of a media technologist, Harvard MBA, successful entrepreneur, creative and trained mindfulness yogi.  His abilities to cross multiple worlds have made him a sought after Executive Coach, leadership and team trainer, meeting facilitator, keynote speaker, strategist, and advisor to senior executives.

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Paresh has provided thought-leadership to clients across industries for over 30 years, and has conducted business in 22 countries.  His thinking has been featured at leading conferences such as TedX, SXSW (South by Southwest), Wisdom 2.0, International Yoga Expo, Junior Achievement Global, (WBEC) Women’s Business Executive Conference, (NMSDC) National Minority Supplier Diversity Council, International Advertising Expo, Disrupt HR, Ignite Talks, and other major conferences and corporate events.

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Paresh’s has also been featured in publications such as Forbes, CEO.com, Inc., Entrepreneur, Psych Central, Smart CEO and Killer Startups.  

 

Paresh helps clients drive performance by applying his expertise to help to motivate, engage and retain key talent, address the rampant stress and overwhelm leaders and their teams are feeling, and cultivating deeper customer loyalty.  His executive coaching clients describe him as "someone who deeply cares for their success, insightful, highly practical and can relate to people of all ages and backgrounds". 

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Paresh is a top rated Adjunct Professor of Leadership and teaches in Executive Education and MBA programs.  He was an early executive at Monitor Company, a strategic consultancy formed by several Harvard Business School professors including World-renowned strategist Michael Porter.  There, he served numerous clients in strategy, organizational effectiveness, and revenue maximization.  He also was part of the senior team for organizational development and leadership training for internal teams and clients. 

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Paresh unites the analytic, action-driven business mindset typical of an MBA education with leading-edge approaches to human performance, organizational excellence, creativity and ancient wisdom.  He is popular yoga and mindfulness instructor in Los Angeles.   In 2017, Paresh was invited by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to his home in India, to be a participant in a 3-day symposium, along with 30 other thought leaders to discuss solutions to global challenges of poverty, and enterprise to create a world that works for all. 

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Paresh received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and served as an officer of Harvard University.  He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland and worked at Northrop Grumman in Aerospace for many years.