an ecosystem approach to career & professional development
about rohan.
Rohan has 15+ years of leadership experience in scaling some of the world’s most popular consumer tech products. Rohan holds a degree from UC Berkeley and has completed post-graduate coursework at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Rohan was an early LinkedIn employee, rising from a college intern to a senior leader in the Product organization. He spent 10+ years through the company’s IPO and acquisition by Microsoft to ultimately oversee Global Strategic Partnerships for several multi-billion dollar business lines. He also held a similar role at Dropbox prior to its IPO. Rohan is a Co-Active Trained Coach and has completed guest lecture work at UC Berkeley and Columbia University in addition to facilitating custom courses at organizations like VMware, ServiceNow, The San Francisco Giants and many others.
As an Executive Coach, he has thousands of formal, paid 1:1 coaching hours with Founders, Senior Leaders (Director+) and Emerging Talent in both technical and go-to-market roles at companies like Meta, Alphabet, Uber, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Snap, Adobe, Deloitte, ServiceNow, Dropbox, Confluent, Life360, Checkr, Roman Health, HackerOne and many others. He has coached professionals to transformational outcomes in the areas of: becoming inspirational leaders, up-leveling their organization’s talent profile, demonstrating executive presence, navigating difficult conversations, building strategic negotiation and stakeholder management skills amongst many others.
He primarily works with leaders in tech, media and finance, but also has broad industry experience, such as the lead executive coach role for the San Francisco Giants Front Office Executive Team. Rohan delivers world-class coaching from his core values of giving back to his community, intellectual and geographic diversity (especially as an immigrant entrepreneur) and leaning into difficult conversations with empathy.
His firm’s name, Arbor Advisory, lends credence to the “ecosystem” approach to career and professional development which is common in Silicon Valley.
about arbor.
Harnessing an “ecosystem approach” to professional growth and career development enables individuals to exceed their potential. This is especially effective in today’s remote and distributed work environments. Healthy and productive interpersonal relationships, strong communication & presentation skills and transparent leadership are critical to success.
Achieving long-term professional success is similar to the growth of the majestic and resilient Redwood Trees that are ubiquitous to Northern California, where Arbor’s founder has worked for over a decade. Firmly planting and fortifying one’s roots to build a “T-shaped profile” (both breadth and depth) across hard and soft skills is only the first stage of growth. Next, one’s intertwining interactions with their broader ecosystem (such as colleagues, employees, stakeholders, partners, investors and competitors) require careful cultivation and landscaping. Arbor Advisory’s name is rooted in credence to this ecosystem approach.
Arbor’s founder has spent over a decade as a senior leader in technology startups and multi-billion dollar corporations in Business Development and Strategic Partnerships capacities, with direct experience in Product Development, Go-To-Market and Sales initiatives as well. Arbor’s founder specializes in effective communication and has delivered thousands of hours of high-stakes presentations and public speaking engagements.
Arbor Advisory delivers value to growth-oriented individuals and organizations across three pillars: Coaching, Advisory and Instruction.
offerings.
Coaching: Executive, Leadership & Career
Ongoing advisory to help grow one’s ‘leader within’, with a specialization in effective communication, public speaking and managing high-performers. End-to-end interview coaching including resume review, interview preparation and salary negotiation
Advisory: Strategic Partnerships & Business Development
Thoughtful analysis of the ecosystem and major players in which an organization operates (e.g. insights on competitors, partners, adjacent companies)
Advisory on structuring strategic partnership deals, building and growing an effective BD organization and guidance with the end-to-end recruiting process
Instruction: Educational Courses & Speech Coaching
Personal speech coach to help develop and deliver high-stakes presentations including keynote speeches, sales and funding pitches, executive presentations and more.
Course instructor and guest lecturer on technology partnerships, developer/API ecosystems, effective communication and many more topics. Keynote speaker and panel moderator.
organizations impacted.
Arbor Advisory provides value directly to a growing list of organizations and/or to professionals elevating their careers within them. A small sampling:
