Arnab Gupta

Agile Coach & Digital Transformation Leader w/15 years of innovation and entrepreneurship experience. Practitioner and Coach of Agile, Lean Startup, Design Thinking & Service Design methodologies. Certified Scrum Professional®︎; Management 3.0 Facilitator.

Committed to helping organizations achieve true business agility and innovation. Led agile & digital transformation initiatives within organizations, from Fortune 50 multinationals to startups. Skilled at coaching, hands-on mentoring, and teaching, to drive a shif in mindset and core behaviors, so that practices are not adopted mindlessly.

Experienced in:
● Onboarding teams, consisting of diverse backgrounds, to core principles of agility and Agile practices.
● Strengthening team’s understanding of the "why" of Agile & allied disciplines, enabling them to tailor practices to their own needs
● Improving cross-functional collaboration & customer-focus using targeted interventions/initiatives
● Bolstering team cohesion and autonomy, especially when scaling ● Guiding culture change so that engagement & ownership levels improve, and a growth mindset emerges
● Expanding Agile across an array of enterprise functions (incl. sales, marketing, channel management, non-IT product dev., etc.)

Some accomplishments:
ー Coached a cross-functional team in insurance firm towards establishing an Agile working style for new business channel development, as it scaled from 8 → 120 members.
ー Forged 1st agile development partnership between Japan's largest ICT service provider & a SEA Agile software house
ー Helped raise $1.3M Series A funding in 6 mo. as founding member of Japanese-Singaporean mobile startup
ー Led business modeling and partnership strategy for a Japanese mobile healthcare consortium of 40+ members
ー Contributed to ICT-enabled health monitoring of victims after 2011 earthquake in N. Japan & PM's initiative on chronic disease prevention using mobile IT.
ー Pioneered service design & partnerships for Japan's 1st scientific laboratory asset service, winning $1.5M/year contract

Previously: Mobile adtech startup in SE Asia; Developed healthcare IT business in Japan: BizDev @ GE; Engineer @ Agilent; AR researcher