I am Shri Taralkar,Executive and Leadership Coach

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Shri Taralkar is a distinguished coach who leverages extensive experience to empower senior leaders and teams, foster a culture of relentless improvement, and champion the customer-centric values that drive organisational success. Explore the world of Shri Taralkar and embark on a transformative journey toward excellence and innovation. With over two decades of expertise in executive and leadership coaching, agile transformation, and cultivating value-centric cultures, Shri Taralkar is a distinguished professional who stands at the forefront of individual and organisational empowerment.

Melbourne, Australia

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Organisation transformation

Strategic planning

Leadership and group coaching

Lean Portfolio & Project management

Senior Stakeholder management

Team Designs & Operating model

Flow Framework

Lean Design Thinking

Agile Design Thinking

Scrum Design Thinking

Kanban Design Thinking

Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

Advanced Business Analysis

Change management

Experience

Vanguard Active
September 2020 — October 2023
WoW Practice Lead
Overseeing the Ways of Working, managing Communities of Practices with team leadership and Scrum coaches, ensuring the technology is providing exceptional digital customer experience with timely feature delivery. Also responsible for identifying trends and developing strategies to improve overall organisation’s delivery performance.
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Zen Ex Machina, ATO
April 2020 — September 2020
Enterprise Agile Coach
I led embedding agile practices in CCS division, enhancing the contact centre customer experience, optimizing resources, and elevating customer interactions.
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Telstra
August 2018 — January 2020
Group Coach
Working with a customer-centric Service Mission at the time. I oversaw a multi-located feature teams model employing agile practices. By introducing relevant metrics, teams delivered business value and superior customer outcomes. I played a key role in designing team structures that led to a desired 'cultural shift' and mindset. This involved targeted training for leaders and team members, cultivating new habits for enhanced performance and outcomes.
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ANZ
May 2017 — August 2018
Tribe Coach
I introduced and implemented the program cadence in the Payments division, encompassing inception workshops, training, team design, and major planning, leading to multiple high-performing teams. I guided pragmatic planning events and squad formations, aligning work with strategic Domain portfolio themes. I contributed to practice communities and trained trainers for transitions in India.
AGL
July 2015 — May 2017
Team Delivery Coach
I led teams advancing digital experiences, including workshops to fast-track new group integration during Forming and Storming.
Medibank
February 2015 — May 2015
Iteration Manager
Working closely with the PMO to execute the Program of work within delivery teams. Collaboration: Encourage and develop cross-functional digital delivery teams. Coaching: Sprint management, Scrum ceremonies, Blocker management.
MYOB
August 2010 — February 2015
Delivery Lead
I led a motivated multi-region team for an innovative platform development across Australia and Malaysia.
HP
February 2010 — August 2010
Delivery Manager Release
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Tieto, Healthcare & Welfare
November 2006 — December 2009
DevOps Engineer
I was responsible for managing server/IT Infrastructure & virtual test environment for the application software developed across Units, onsite/offsite.
CMS Computers Ltd
December 2001 — October 2009
Service Delivery Manager
As a Service Delivery manager, effectively managed more than 30 corporate customers, as well as was responsible for people management of about 30 direct reports in the IT service management.
Nexus Computers Pvt Ltd
December 1998 — December 2001
Senior Network Engineer
I was responsible to manage the Network Infrastructure for the ION Exchange India Pvt Ltd co. along with the NT and Microsoft Servers Administration

Academic Journey

January 2003 — June 2006
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Active
Pune, India
Bachelors of Computer Application (BCA. Information Technology and Software Engineering)
Feb 2011 — Jan 2013
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
Master of Business Administration (MBA. International Business Strategy, Innovation, and IT)

Projects

New Ways of Working (NW0W) implementation

September 2020 — March 2023

About this project

The goal of this Initiative was to adopt Global New Ways of working implementations and change. I had a leadership role in the New Ways of Working at Vanguard. I lead the enterprise Vision, and strategy and cultivate a local roadmap for the regional context. Accelerated the organization's transformation timeline by 2 months, implementing the Ways of Working Strategy to elevate business maturity over an extended 2-year period.

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Lean Portfolio Governance

September 2021 — March 2023

About this project

The goal was to capture and visualise Time-to-Market for projects. Track the time taken to deliver new products or features from ideation to launch. Shorter timeframes indicate increased agility and efficient processes.Return on Investment (ROI): Evaluate the financial impact of your agile initiatives by comparing the costs incurred with the benefits gained, such as increased revenue or cost savings.

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Measure what matters - Metrics

March 2023 — June 2023

About this project

Measuring the value delivered to customer and stream performance. NPS, ENPS, feature adoption rate, Cycle times, Throughput, Lead time, Defect rate, DORA metrics.

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