Bob Kohli

Bob Kohli is a Director and Senior Advisor at Soul Family Business Advisors. He has 15+ years of experience in global advisory & consulting, including 4 years at a leading strategy consulting firm Bain & Company, and 8 years as a family business advisor. He also serves as an Independent Board Director for a Saudi-based family conglomerate.

Bob’s specializations include family enterprise governance and change management. He supports families to work through their differences and achieve intergenerational alignment on their future legacy. This includes  supporting the development of family constitutions & councils, conflict resolution, next generation coaching & development, and succession planning. Bob also specializes in business turnarounds and transformations centered around robust governance and change management systems, developed in close collaboration with family owners, board directors and business executives. These include an aligned vision & strategy, strategic management, and performance management. He has worked closely with family business leaders, C-suite executives, and senior management at Fortune 100 companies, through tough periods of change including the 2009 global crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bob has developed a reputation among family boards & business leadership for driving an analytical, performance-based culture in the family and business across areas of strategy, operations, human capital, and finance. While at Bain & Company, he led several projects in strategy (investment, growth, turnaround) and change management for Fortune 100 clients. His sector experience includes healthcare, oil & gas, technology, private equity, and luxury goods across verticals of retail, trade, manufacturing, and services. His articles have been featured in prominent regional papers, magazines and family business platforms and he actively speaks at conferences and on the radio on a variety of family business issues.

Bob holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and a B.S./M.S. in Computer Science. He has obtained his Advanced Certificates in Family Business Advisory and Family Wealth Advisory from the renowned Family Firm Institute (FFI) in Boston. Bob is also an Associate Certified Coach, certified by the International Coaching Federation and a Professional Co-Active Coach trained at the distinguished Coactive Training Institute. He has over 250+ coaching hours and actively mentors young next-generation leaders and entrepreneurs.