Arshish Kavarana

About Arshish Kavarana

My clients, most of whom represent Fortune 500 firms often ask the question – “What do you think about this?”. I’m extremely grateful to have a job that gives me a platform to answer it.It should come as no surprise that real estate is the second largest P&L line item for most companies. What surprises people is that more than any other factor it affects the largest line item – people / talent.When we sit down to solve real estate challenges together, we are really developing more sustainable business models and solutions. Keeping in mind that every dollar saved and every additional employee who’s excited to come to work, is a step closer to building the firms of the future, our very real trade-offs make these some of the most crucial decisions clients will ever take. And the hard working people making these decisions deserve the best tools / insights and strategies to help them make these decisions.Over the course of my career, I’ve helped firms effectively reduce the cost and overheads of their real estate spaces and portfolios. They’ve also pursued talent oriented expansion strategies, and weighed each decision against potential employee experience and engagement gains or losses. In summation, we’ve developed a workplace strategy that works for everyone.I’m equally passionate about internal consulting projects. Having worked on sales improvement, tech development and deployment, process optimization tools and projects, I’ve seen first-hand how little changes can achieve big gains.At the end of the day, it’s all about long term positive impact in everything you do.

Experience

1. Executive Director Head of Occupier Consulting and Digital

   Colliers

   Nov 2021 — Present · IN

   Dual role with responsibility for:Occupier Consulting, which entails winning new client accounts and extending our service capability for existing accounts.Key focus areas include:• Portfolio strategy, business case structuring and cost optimization• Location Advisory and future growth plan development• Future of work: Hybrid models, balancing employee productivity and engagement, return to normalcy processesDigital Initiatives, which entails streamlining internal tech processes and delivery of client tools to enable decision makingKey focus areas include:• Digitization of the transaction process• Reduction of turnaround time and faster outputs for clients• Creation of digital dashboards and interactive decision making tools

Education

• King's College London

  Summer School course, International Political Economy

  2012 — 2012

• H.R. College of Commerce and Economics

  Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Financial Markets (Hons)

  2010 — 2013

• King's College London

  Summer School course, Quantiative Methods & Statistics

  2012 — 2012

• IMD

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2018 — 2018

• Harvard University

  Developing Others, Business Administration and Management, General