Paresh Shah, MBA, CPBC

For over 25 years, Paresh Shah has been a trusted executive coach and advisor to Boards, CEO’s, C-Suite, Senior Armed Services officials (Secretary level) and other leaders of public and private companies, non-profits, governments and business owners seeking to drive professional and personal growth and success. Mr. Shah combines a strong analytical underpinning with leading-edge expertise in leadership & mindfulness. He has the gift of helping his clients discover transformational results in their executive roles along with personal well-being – an essential combination for all leaders today.

Based on work with clients globally throughout the Pandemic, Mr. Shah’s research confirms other studies that many executives and employees are overwhelmed, stressed, and seeking performance support due to the Pandemic, societal disruptions, and losses so many of their team members and clients have incurred.

The requirements for effective leadership today have fundamentally changed from even a few years ago. It requires leaders to exhibit heightened levels of compassion (including for themselves), listening, creative solutions, inspiring purpose, and the ability to co-create new possibilities with team members and clients.

As co-founder and Chief Value Architect of Lifter Leadership (www.liftersrising.com), Mr. Shah and his team have been coaching and training clients in these methods, now essential to all businesses, since 2017 (see GAMA/Finseca Main Platform talk and TedX at (https://www.liftersrising.com/talks).

As an elite coach, master facilitator and organizational trainer, Paresh has travelled and served clients in over 50 countries, and in worked in most major industries. While industry expertise is not necessary to be a transformative coach, two industries in which Mr. Shah has personal interest, breadth, and depth of experience are 1) Financial Services and 2) Media:

Financial Services examples: GAMA/Finseca Main Platform Speaker LAMP 2019, GAMA/Finseca Leadership Training, Citizens, ComputerShare, Advanta, Mastercard, Hancock Insurance, Thrivent, Fortis Financial, Client Focus (State Farm vendor), AARP and others.

Media examples: Disney, ESPN, NPR, AOL, Time Warner, CBS, USA Today, Gannett, AT&T, Rosetta Stone, Charter Communications and others.

Harvard MBA, Engineer, Global Leadership Expert, Mindfulness Yogi and highly-relatable coach and "Advocate for his clients’ Awesomeness", Paresh brings a fresh, energetic approach to everything he does, leaving clients moved by his passion for their success, his deep listening, the diverse performance tools he provides, and the clients' own discovery process.

In addition to client events, Mr. Shah has been invited to Speak, Train or Participate in Conferences such as: