Abhijeet Garde
BONNIE DOON
Summary
20 years of international exposure specialising in providing consulting, strategy, design and delivery that transforms traditional businesses into easy to run, thriving digital businesses. Clear understanding of building businesses ground up having run my own career transformation coaching business, which highly benefits from my corporate experience of working with multinational and fortune 500 companies as a digital business transformation consultant.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
CEO
Reality Simplified
04.2022 - Current
- Founded a holistic career transformation coaching platform with end to end business automation
- Implemented AI Assisted Automation platforms to help clients grow their business
- Created coaching courses and tools to help clients succeed
- Optimizing business processes and workflow to streamline coaching businesses
- One-on-one coaching and hand holding clients to troubleshoot and breakthrough business problems
- Conducted online training sessions and workshops to deliver live results
- Closely engaging clients to drive results
- Content creation on YouTube, Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram to drive engagement and build brand identity and market authority.
- Lead teams for Funnel creation, Website Creation, Brand Development, SEO, Social Media Content creation, Lead generation, Lead nurturing and Conversions.
- Created end to end automated systems enhanced by AI to streamline the entire business operation.
Head of Business Solutions and Strategy
Cognizant Softvision
01.2019 - 01.2023
- Conducted thorough market research to identify emerging trends in the industry that informed future business decisions.
- Helped a clients streamline their business operations using Digital Engineering to drive predictable outcomes and performance uplift
- Helped a large insurer de-risk transformation of a multi-million dollar platform
- Helped a large Insurer streamline and automate their business operations by adopting an outcome-focused delivery model so that they can effectively compete with Neo Insurance competitors
- Led and mentored Cognizant Softvision communities to adopt the Spotify-based Pod framework to enhance the cohesion of desirability, viability and feasibility of the digital products delivered.
- Duties:
- Liaising with the C-Suite to understand the ask and lead the strategy, design and implementation of large transformational programs, especially for Insurance and Banking customers of Cognizant
- Mentoring and handholding squads comprising Architects, Designers, Testers and developers to work in an outcome-focused operating model to ensure the delivery of digital products that have perpetual relevance in the market.
- Lead design workshops, prototypes, and technical proof of concepts to help establish the product vision so that informed investments are made, ensuring the success of the endeavours.
- Led project bids, business case development and proposals leading to some significant wins for Softvision
- Specialization in drawing program/product vision and bringing it to life using the right choices of technology implementation using a business outcome-focused mindset
- Set and monitored annual budgets for departments and entire business.
Business Platform Architect
Insurance Australia Group
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Achieved more than 50% reduction in technical debt in Digital Workspace
- Delivered Enterprise Mobility and Collaboration Strategy of international scope, enhancing the productivity of more than 13000 employees.
- Developed end-user personas to ensure fitment by using Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design principles.
- Achieved stakeholder agreement in a complex environment of diverse individual interests in Enterprise Mobility and Collaboration strategy.
- Duties:
- Developing and documenting the Architecture for programs ensuring alignment to IAG Business and Architectural Goals.
- Accountability for the technology solution for a program including the production and quality control of all relevant architecture artifacts required to support the program.
- Communication of Architecture to governance bodies, asset forums and project teams as determined by IAG Governance and communication policies.
- Alignment of the solution to IAG's enterprise architecture, standards and policies, challenging the status quo where required and justified.
- Reviewing of solution delivery to ensure it conforms with design, or adjustments to design if required.
- Identifying opportunities to remediate technical debt.
- Ensuring that program architecture is met by the individual streams of work incorporated in the change.
- Identifying tactical solutions and ensuring that technical debt is recorded correctly and remediation plans are implemented where possible.
- Contributing to the development and maintenance of effective, maintainable and useable technology strategies and roadmaps that support the business needs.
- Contributing to the development and maintenance of technology strategy and roadmaps that support the day to day operations and growth of the IAG business.
- Building strong professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders through the use of effective and timely communication and by investigating and resolving problems within agreed timeframes.
Solutions Architect | Practice Manager
Wipro Technologies | Wipro Digital
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Won $4 million deal and established an offshore CoE on SAP m365 for one of the big four banks of Australia.
- Established an offshore testing environment for a leading Australian Insurer on a “Lab for hire” basis saving them more than $5000/day.
- Consulted and delivered a field force automation and work order management solution on SAP Smart Work Manager for a leading Australian utility company increasing Field force productivity by 150%.
- Delivered an innovative, accolade-winning PoC to provide a native-like look and feel on a hybrid mobile app stack for one of the Big Four banks.
- References available upon request
Education
Masters - Information Systems
ISEP
01.2004
Bachelor of Engineering - IT
MITM
01.2000
Skills
- Brand Development
- Business Process Strategy & Design
- Business Architecture
- Marketing strategy
- High converting copy writing
- Business workflow automation
- Expert in coaching and consulting clients to deliver transformational results
- More than a decade of experience in delivering digital platforms and products that drive business results
- Remotely led global teams to deliver transformational results for the clients
- I offer a unique blend of mindset coaching, business coaching, workflow optimisation and AI automation to create easy to run hassle free businesses that deliver more by working less
Accomplishments
Delivered life transformations through my coaching
1. An IT professional overcame anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication to launch his purpose aligned consulting business - https://youtu.be/5MiTXQOfoXw
2. A school teacher healed strained relationship with her teenage kids and launched her parenting coach business - https://youtu.be/q3M3_2Kx-Fw
3. A corporate product developer launched her independent online coaching business that helped her replace her corporate salary and create a stable stream of income - https://youtu.be/Nl-_TRIb5uo
Language
English
French
Hindi
Marathi
Interests
Business automation and growth using AI
Mindset coaching
Meditation & Breath work
Coaching content creation on YouTube
Speaking and engaging on Podcasts
Timeline
CEO
Reality Simplified
04.2022 - Current
Head of Business Solutions and Strategy
Cognizant Softvision
01.2019 - 01.2023
Business Platform Architect
Insurance Australia Group
01.2016 - 01.2019
Solutions Architect | Practice Manager
Wipro Technologies | Wipro Digital
01.2012 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - IT
MITM
Masters - Information Systems
ISEP
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