Dr. Parekh has over 40 + years’ experience, across multiple business verticals. Dr. Parekh has two avatars. One as a serial entrepreneur who has created products and sold them as well as the IPR and the second is as an individual mentor who enjoys working with people and developing them to their fullest potential.

He started his career with audit, moved to accounts, then finance; then shifted to Sales and technology and grew into training. He has been CEO for various listed companies. This diverse exposure across products has allowed him to gain holistic insights into organizational workings; understanding and adapting to customer needs, and tailor solutions/inputs to suit the needs of the customer. He is presently an independent consultant working with a large number of companies in enhancing performance.

During his pre-training days, Dr. Parekh has predominantly worked in BFSI. He set up one of the first Mutual Fund distribution companies, selling Mutual Funds and Insurance through a network of agents. He later joined Kotak group and looked after the training from a national level. This entailed interactions with customers, agents, channel partners, internal staff. This gave him deep insights into people related to financial behaviour.

As a consultant, Samir has been involved in providing performance related solutions to customers, aimed at improving effectiveness on the job. To this end, he has done trainings on high level strategy, leadership development, building financial acumen, performance coaching, team management, team building. His involvement has been in training middle to senior/ top management levels.

From past 10 years Dr. Parekh has been actively contributing to the mission of Vivekanand Kendra “Man-Making and Nation Building” by teaching lessons from Bhagavad Gita and  also teaching the younger generation with online classes. He has been working with the younger generations in guiding them to live live according to Indian value systems.

Dr. Parekh has been a visiting faculty for IIM Calcutta and various other management schools He has completed his Ph.D from University of Wisconsin on “Increasing measurable effectiveness of training” and is a certified implementer for “Servant Leadership”.

He is one of the members of FEIL (forum for emotional intelligence learning) and has presented papers on the subject. His speciality has been a study involving the use of Emotional Intelligence in Sales Leadership. His work has been appreciated by various leaders in the field.

Being a finance professional, his clientele has featured a number of banks where he has done work on customer service, interdepartmental collaboration, upselling and cross selling, leadership, etc. The banks he has worked with include Kotak Bank, HDFC bank, RBL bank, State Bank of India.