Evolving Strategies, LLC

Founded in 1999, Evolving Strategies helps leaders, teams and organizations learn, lead and change. Clients include Accenture, Ashland Inc., Bank of Oklahoma Financial, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), East West Bank, Northern Trust Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Spencer Stuart, Thomson Reuters, United Airlines, the United States federal government, and Zebra Technologies.

Founder

Forbes Coaches Council

Forbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only organization comprised of leading business coaches and career coaches. Members are hand-selected by the Council’s selection committee.

Official Member

PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in New York. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of its products. 

As of January 2021, the company possesses 23 brands that have over US$1 billion in sales annually. PepsiCo has operations all around the world and its products are distributed across more than 200 countries, with annual net revenues of over US$70 billion. PepsiCo is the second-largest food and beverage business in the world based on net revenue, profit, and market capitalization, behind Nestlé.

As part of the CIO transition, I led a team of employees and consultants to build the initial change management office (CMO) to enable the global technology organization to support Pepsico's digital transformation journey.

Global Information Technology | Strategy & Transformation Team | Senior Director

Northwestern University

Served as faculty for 'Executing Strategic Change,' a core, graduate level course of the Master of Science, Learning and Organizational Change program. The Master's program is grounded in concepts of cognitive science, psychology and education, and focuses on the applied areas of strategic change, performance, knowledge management, and learning.

Adjunct Faculty

Corporate Executive Board

Every year, the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) equips over 20,000 senior leaders from more than 10,000 organizations across 110 countries with the intelligence they need to respond quickly to evolving business conditions. In doing so, CEB helps them more effectively manage their talent, customers and operations to exceed business objectives.

As an Associate Director, I sold of CEB's HR-related best practices research, decision support tools, and executive education to a membership of the world's leading corporations and not-for-profit institutions.

Associate Director

Lante Corporation

Lante Corporation, a technology consulting company, customizes core extended enterprise applications to provide clients with new features to enable them to benefit from the trend toward information that is more interactive, real-time, collaborative, extended, and private.

Client Relationship Manager

Accenture

Accenture is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, providing consulting and outsourcing services through its strategy, digital, technology and operations capabilities.

Transition/Transformation Manager

CA Technologies

CA Technologies software and solutions have been powering innovation for over 35 years. Founded in 1976, CA Technologies has over 11,500 employees in 45 countries helping businesses thrive in a new world where every business is in the software business. CA Technologies has been recognized as a value leader by industry analysts and has been hailed as one of the “World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes, as well as one of the greenest companies in the United States by Newsweek®.

Sales and Marketing Associate (Pansophic Systems, Inc.)

Strengthen Your Change Leadership with a Coach You Can Trust |Forbes Contributor |Accenture Alum |Former NU Adjunct Faculty

Clients partner with me to address three key areas of need:

1. EXPANDING YOUR LEADERSHIP IMPACT
 	• Elevate Your Leadership Potential with Personalized Coaching
	• Foster Your Inclusivity as a Leader
	• Amplify Your Leadership Presence
	• Deepen Your Leadership Self-Awareness
	• Hone Your Coaching and Mentoring Skills

2. USING CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR STRATEGIC EXECUTION EXCELLENCE
	• Master the Six Levers of Change Leadership
	• Develop Resilience and Adaptability as a Leader of Change
	• Build High-Performance Teams

3.  COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT
	• Communicate Effectively and Efficiently
	• Resolve Conflicts with Courage and Confidence
	• Engage Your Stakeholders 
	
Delivery method(s) are customized based on my client's preferences and needs. This may involve a combination of one-on-one in-person or virtual coaching sessions, team workshops, assessments, and ongoing support to ensure growth and development.

About me
I coach executives for swift, successful, impactful change in themselves, teams, companies, or industries. If this describes you and you're ready to make a transformative impact and lead with more confidence, let's go.

With over two decades of experience, I've had the privilege of guiding leaders and teams from diverse industries, functions, and locations to not just navigate, but truly excel in today's ever-evolving business landscape. Helping clients develop the change leadership skills to tackle complex challenges like digital transformations, process enhancements, and customer engagement strategies is what I do.

My proven approach fuses structure and adaptability. I tailor my approach to the distinct needs and objectives of each leader or team, using proven assessments, tools, and strategies as needed. 

My work is grounded in practical experience, having served as a leader and member of multiple high-performing teams (and some low-performing teams as well) with organizations such as Accenture and PepsiCo. By delving into and applying research on leadership, learning and change as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University, I co-created and delivered a course on executing strategic change in the Masters level program. 

I'm honored to have earned a spot on the Forbes Coaches Council. Serving as a mentor, most recently as part of D CEO's Emerging Women Leadership Network, is also a privilege.

Sandy Schwan

The Product Leap

I write weekly Newsletter on my journey from being a Software Engineer to a Product guy.

Writer

Sage

Building accounting mobile apps for accountants and their customers. Using data driven approach for product growth. 
- Roadmap creation and ideation
- Product analytics
- Cross functional collaboration
- Release management

Product Manager

Maropost

Led the team in successful launches in different areas of marketing product.

- Successfully launched bi-directional SMS marketing.
- Led the research for SMS marketing by closely observing the market trends, users
and competitors.
- Collaborated with the Product Marketing for GTM - giving demos and preparing content.
- Increased the customer acquisition with new customers engaging in SMS marketing.

- Successfully launched transactional messaging product. Managed the roadmap and shared the product goals.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to compile product requirements, prioritize features for alignment with product and business goals.
- Worked with the Scrum team, built trust and improved Sprint velocity leading to improved team performance.

- Successfully redesigned entire product.
- Heard customer feedback on old UI and usability. Worked with UX team on new Brand
design.
- Collaborated with UX team on A/B design testing.
- Worked with Scrum Team to deliver redesigned features based on feature usage. Launch resulted in improved customer satisfaction and NPS.

- Led the team of mobile developers towards successful product launches.
- Advocated the mobile first approach in product development leading to more focus on mobile area.

Team Lead

- Successfully released increments to mobile SDK.
- Led the team on iOS and Android developers in collaboration and code reviews.

Senior iOS Developer

SPADEZ SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

- Led the team of mobile app developers in various mobile app projects.
- Received positive feedbacks from various clients leading to improved portfolio that led
to more project acquisitions.
- Requirement gathering

Senior Software Engineer

SPAN Systems

- Successfully launched Norwegian and Swedish mobile app projects.
- Successfully launched ASP.NET technology based web application for US client.

Software Engineer

Ionnor Solutions

- Successfully launched 2 mobile applications for Norwegian client. 
- Completed various POC's for organisation's portfolio.

Software engineer

After working almost 7 years as a Software Engineer in different roles, I was offered an opportunity to work as a Business analyst. The opportunity that I took. I always envied product roles and their contribution in Product Development. And it was my turn to be one.

For around 6 years, I have worked in different product roles, learning new things and product areas. I have failed, learnt and achieved in this period. There were challenges, but with right support, process and actions, I faced those head on.

Deciding to take that leap was not easy. Simply because I was leaving behind my technical experience and embracing a new one. With time I have realised, that is just a mindset. With proper research and process, you can take "The Product Leap" with confidence.

With my experience of moving into product role, I am here to share those experiences and help the professionals who are at that stage now.

Follow me to know about my experiences and how that can help you in similar times.

I write a weekly Newsletter on my learnings and the actions I took, that helped me take that leap.
Subscribe to my free Newsletter - https://www.nitishrana.net/subscribe

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