Recommendations
I would recommend Vivek for any opportunity as a coach, mentor, or leadership role as his abundance of experience, strategic approach, and bright personality makes him an asset to any organization he serves.
Vivek is an excellent problem solver and always has creative solutions to challenges. In addition to his professional skills and experience, he has a positive attitude and is always willing to go above and beyond to help. Vivek’s character, integrity, and leadership style is truly in a class of its own and I am proud of the positive impact that he has brought to our leadership team and organization altogether. It has been a genuine pleasure working with Vivek. I have no doubt that he will be a valuable asset to any team and I wholeheartedly recommend him.
Mike Le
CEO of Advesa Digital Solutions and Breadstack Technologies Inc.
Map Labs is better off for our session with Vivek. We are a profitable, customer-funded business with product-market fit. Our challenge was - and is - scaling our business. I was looking for a framework for execution and the habits to carry it out. Vivek's two-day workshop got us the framework. For two days, he asked us to hit "pause" on our day-to-day work and take time to introspect and look ahead. Vivek set the stage, facilitated discussions, and documented every outcome of our self-analysis and future. His experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, and familiarity with the methods and tools was invaluable. After two days, we knew where we were going, why, and how we planned to get there. He then put it into MGS and taught me how to keep track of our progress. I still have his 11 flip-chart-sized Post-It Notes stuck to my office walls with our thoughts and plans from that session. Those are daily reminders to push towards our ambitions. We're building the habits to get us there with daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly conversations about how we're doing. I speak with Vivek regularly to seek his advice and keep myself and Map Labs accountable.
Noel Pullen
CEO of Map Labs
I highly endorse Vivek as a professional coach. Seeking personal development in my journey from entrepreneurial creative marketer to corporate executive leadership, I found quick rapport and a multifaceted leader with a wealth of knowledge and experience to help define my path. Vivek has a vast toolkit, honed from years of executive leadership as well as entrepreneurial know-how, and this combination makes him uniquely able to advise on personal growth across a wide range of challenges. Definition of my personal goals, even as they morphed, remained front and center in our work together, and despite a few pivots, he helped me define and achieve achieve “Dream Big” goals in 9 months of work together. Whether you seek professional advancement, personal development, or connection with a really cool human being, Vivek is a top choice!
Karni Baghdikian
Director, Global Marketing at Ring
We brought Vivek on to facilitate a strategy session for BarrelWise in December of 2020. His structured approach and years of experience were instrumental in the development of a three-year strategic plan. Vivek was professional, organized, and a pleasure to work with. I would happily recommend his services
Jason Sparrow
Co-Founder, CEO at BarrelWise Technologies
In ports and harbours all around the world, the most experienced ships’ captains make room at the helm for a special consultant known as a pilot. These special consultants are navigational experts with years of experience before they are allowed to call themselves a pilot. They have real-world knowledge of the issues the ship faces, such as its depth, currents, and hazards, as well as being experts in handling ships of all sizes.
Vivek is that pilot you need for your business. No matter how successful the enterprise has been doing so far, there is always the possibility of doing things better and avoiding the hidden rocks and hazards that aren’t on the old charts you have at hand.
His decades of real-world experience leading teams around the globe give Vivek the experience to show you what has worked for others. His methodologies and tools show you how, with a little help navigating, that your enterprise could be in Blue Ocean waters quicker and more effectively. He combines the best of real-world practical knowledge with the best of management theory to give you completely new insights into how to better chart a course for growth and success.
I have known Vivek for some time now, and I have worked with him in non-profit and commercial enterprises. I have recommended him already to others already, with great praise coming back. Vivek's style of coaching makes a real difference and it opens up a whole new way of thinking about business problems. Coupled with your industry expertise and his expert pilotage, your enterprise will circumnavigate the shoals and unseen hazards that could sink your company without his help.
Vivek is that pilot you need for your business. No matter how successful the enterprise has been doing so far, there is always the possibility of doing things better and avoiding the hidden rocks and hazards that aren’t on the old charts you have at hand.
His decades of real-world experience leading teams around the globe give Vivek the experience to show you what has worked for others. His methodologies and tools show you how, with a little help navigating, that your enterprise could be in Blue Ocean waters quicker and more effectively. He combines the best of real-world practical knowledge with the best of management theory to give you completely new insights into how to better chart a course for growth and success.
I have known Vivek for some time now, and I have worked with him in non-profit and commercial enterprises. I have recommended him already to others already, with great praise coming back. Vivek's style of coaching makes a real difference and it opens up a whole new way of thinking about business problems. Coupled with your industry expertise and his expert pilotage, your enterprise will circumnavigate the shoals and unseen hazards that could sink your company without his help.
William Archer
Strategy Director at TELUS
It was valuable to have Vivek guide us through a flexible framework that created buy-in and alignment between investors, board members, and the executive team. We walked away with a clear understanding of our priorities, actions, and accountabilities. As a CEO, it was much more rewarding to feel comfortable being a participant in this session rather than also playing the facilitator role as in previous years.
Harrison J. Brown
CEO & Co-Founder – HeadCheck Health Inc.
I would highly recommend Vivek as a business coach. We hired Vivek to support us through a restructure and rebrand and he was instrumental in this process. He introduced to us many great business practices and systems that we still use today that has helped keep our team aligned and focused on company priorities. Vivek was a pleasure to work with, both professionally and personally speaking. He constantly challenged myself and our team and made sure that we left every strategy session and conversation with a clear set of action items and goals to move our business forward. Thanks you Vivek for all your support and guidance!
Danny Birch
Co-Founder, Hero Home Care
