Umbrex is pleased to welcome Atul Kannan with Eagle Leaf Group. Atul was a consultant at Bain prior to starting his consulting firm, Eagle Leaf Group. He stared his career at ExxonMobil, where he held several roles, including in Engineering and as a section head. Atul focuses on diligence, research, and strategy for PE and […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Chandler Arnold with Renegade Consulting Collective. Chandler has spent 20+ years designing and implementing purpose-driven impact initiatives for social enterprises, family offices, and more than fifteen Fortune 500 Companies. These companies include The Walt Disney Company, Pizza Hut, Ford, Target, New York Life, The Coca-Cola Company, and others. Chandler has […]
Zaheera Soomar shares a post that explores the problem of prospective employees following an organizations’ assessment of their ‘cultural fit’. I came across a few LinkedIn posts about candidate experiences and organizations requests in recruitment. I read through the comments to see how others felt and it didn’t leave me feeling comfortable. I tried […]
Robbie Kellman Baxter shares her latest post on key subscription-based business strategies. This week she covers the new metrics of subscription models. Selling is hard. You have to find the prospects, attract their attention, build their trust, understand their needs and goals, and then get them to sign the agreement. It’s much easier to […]
In this article recently published in the El Economista, David Uriarte explores how COVID-19 has encouraged medical and social experiments on sustainability, the economy, and the management of companies. One of the ways in which human beings have managed to advance our knowledge and civilization is through experimentation. Experimenting means testing in order to […]
Dan Markovitz shares a free workbook to accompany his latest book. Response to my latest book, The Conclusion Trap, has been strong, but I’ve heard from some readers that they’d like a workbook to accompany it. Done. You can download the Conclusion Trap Workbook here. For free. Gratis. No charge. $0.00 dollars. In it, […]
Sean McCoy shares an article that explains why most post-merger integrations fail. Most mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their intended synergies and deal rationale, because most post-merger integrations (PMIs) fail. Most post-merger integrations fail because they did not beat The 4 Clocks. There are 4 clocks counting down in PMI, a clock each […]
Robyn M. Bolton makes a poignant observation on the popular approach to innovation and provides a few tips on how to punch out of the proverbial box. The definition of insanity is repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting different results.” This quote, often (wrongly) attributed to Albert Einstein, is a […]
I’ve worn glasses since 9th grade. My corrected vision has always been fine. Then three years ago, age 47, I was experiencing serious eye fatigue when working on the computer. I couldn’t keep the text in focus. Over the course of a year, seemed like the problem was gradually getting worse. I thought: “too much […]
Keeping the resolution to be healthier, fitter, and more environmentally conscious is made easy in Supriya Prakash Sen’s vision for cities of the future. Strap up your boots and take a leap of faith towards a brighter future. Walkability can be a financially savvy strategy! Research has shown that designing a city for Walkability […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Chris Rooney with BosunPartners. Chris has spent the last five years building Wipro’s Digital business and the global leader of the Digital Transformation practice, serving a series of clients on strategic business initiatives from design ideation to business operations. Before Wipro, he was COO of a series of privately held […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Divya Agarwal. Divya spent eight years with McKinsey having started as a business analyst out of college. She is a creative, committed, and analytical partner to industry-leading clients to deliver organization turnaround of $500M+. Expert in culture and organization structure redesign, talent strategy and people analytics, and designing and delivering […]
