Nilesh Parikh

Nilesh is an organizational leadership consultant, executive coach, and team effectiveness coach.  He also serves as Managing Director for Seven Stones Leadership Group.  Nilesh works with successful founders, executives, and leaders to embrace their full humanity while sharpening clarity and focus, increasing the impact of their time and energy, and attaining deeper fulfillment.   Nilesh is currently keenly interested in supporting clients in developing deliberate practices to support sustained, embodied change.  Nilesh works across a wide range of industries, from tech to financial services.  Some of his recent clients include Open Table, UPenn, HotSpot Therapeutics, Goldman Sachs, LPL Financial, Accenture, Cox Enterprises, and Cribl.

Nilesh brings a unique combination of first-hand experience as an executive and extensive training and deep experience as a coach and consultant. As a former direct report to Merrill Lynch’s COO, Nilesh led Merrill’s business consulting, executive coaching, team effectiveness, and succession planning efforts. 

Nilesh also led a key sleeve of Merrill’s DEI agenda as a team leader on Merrill’s Executive Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Before joining Merrill, Nilesh worked both domestically and internationally at UBS Financial Services. There, over the course of over a decade and multiple roles, he led their executive coaching and team development functions, built and led an acclaimed training program where he oversaw 500+ early career financial advisors and planners, played a central role in launching and scaling an internal startup and designed and delivered a national program to increase the leadership and coaching effectiveness of UBS’s over 300 field leaders.

Nilesh earned a BBA with Honors from the University of Miami and an MBA from INSEAD, where he studied in Singapore, France, and the US (Wharton). He is a Certified Financial Services Coach, Kolbe Certified Consultant, Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Leadership Circle Practitioner, Corentus trained team coach, Positive Intelligence trained coach, and is certified as an advanced practitioner in the 6 Team Conditions based off of the seminal work of Richard Hackman and Ruth Wageman at Harvard.  He is currently completing a learning journey in Interpersonal Neurobiology and doing deepening work at the intersection of Somatics and Anti-Racism.

Nilesh currently serves as Board Chair GrowHaus, a food access and social justice non-profit. He also recently completed two terms as a Director on the University of Miami Alumni Board and a term on Colorado’s Workforce Development Council.  Nilesh and his wife are based in Denver and spend as much time as possible with their two daughters playing in the mountains.