- DarrahDhillon Strategic AdvisorsManaging PartnerCONSULTING & AUDITSDecember 2017 - Today (7 years and 6 months)Las Vegas, United StatesDarrahDhillon is a strategic advisory firm focused on complex business transformation, including M&A, acceleration, strategic growth initiatives and turnarounds for Private Equity and Venture Capital investors, start up founders and Fortune 500 leaders and their teams.Our firm excels in guiding strategic change, leadership and team performance, and investment advisory.- We guide Senior Executives to optimal business outcomes when faced with complex change, strategic growth challenges and struggling initiatives.- We help leaders and their teams develop sustainable new behaviors, capabilities and ways of working needed to elevate business performance.- We equip VC and PE Investors with rapid foresight and actionable intelligence into team and execution risk for optimal investment decisions and performance.Brooks Darrah and Gurpreet Dhillon, Managing Partners, have 40+ years of combined experience helping senior business leaders successfully navigate high stakes, high risk change from end to end, bridging the often fatal gap between a solid transformation strategy and its execution.We use a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to look at all aspects of your organization and propose unique, tailored plans to prepare your people to work in new ways. These new ways of working could be in response to a shift in services an organization offers, merging of two teams, moving to digital or agile, or another business-critical pivot.We can create the transformation strategy, prepare plans, align leadership, coach internal change agents, engage stakeholders, and/or execute all workstreams supporting the people, process, and/or technology aspects of your change initiative.Our clients include leaders and teams across all functions within Fortune 50, Global Fortune 500, mid-market growth companies, start-ups, and PE/VC firms.
- Pepperdine Graziadio Business SchoolAdjunct FacultyEDUCATION & E-LEARNINGAugust 2019 - October 2022 (3 years and 3 months)Malibu, CA, USALearning Group Consultant within Pepperdine's top-ranked Master of Science in Organization Development program supporting faculty and students with field consulting engagements, student learning contracts, and coaching student teams.Provided mentorship and support to 6 students through their program coursework, thesis research, and consulting projects.Facilitated design and delivery of numerous global client engagements to enable students to learn how to consult to organizations in org design, development, and change.
- AccentureTransformation Coach for Future State, part of AccentureBIOTECHApril 2020 - May 2021 (1 year and 1 month)Oakland, CA, USAFuture State is a different kind of consulting firm - skilled in the craft of design doing. We are practical, connected, innovative, and human-centered. We enable the extraordinary visions that positively impact the world. We achieve this by working with bold leaders in leading and growing companies to help them realize their Future State. We work with global organizations to ensure people are the center of focus to achieve lasting change. We specialize in innovation and transformation, leadership and culture, and enablement and readiness: from executive alignment, to managing complex changes, building process excellence, and developing great teams. We show up every day with the sole purpose of making an impact.
- PhD, Human and Organizational Systems: Collaboration and InnovationFielding Graduate University2014PhD, Human and Organizational Systems: Collaboration and Innovation
- Mini MBA, Business Administration and ManagementPepperdine Graziadio Business School2021Mini MBA, Business Administration and Management
- Master of ArtsFielding Graduate University2011Master of Arts, Human Development: Creativity and Authenticity
- Master of SciencePepperdine Graziadio Business School2004Master of Science, Organization Development
- Bachelor of ArtsUniversity of Southern California1990Bachelor of Arts, Drama, Magna Cum Laude