The Disruptive Leadership Institute (DLI) is a strategic partnership between iGroup and the Centre for Executive Education (CEE) with the mission to support leaders at all levels globally towards transforming their organization to succeed in the highly disruptive and digital-driven workplace.

 

The Institute also serves as a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Executive Education (CEE) where both organizations place cutting-edge research at the core of what they do. DLI research programs produce rigorous, independent thinking to offer fresh perspectives on managing the leadership and organizational challenges in a highly disruptive and ever-changing workplace of the future. This includes the identification, assessment, selection and development of next-generation of ‘disruptive digital leaders’ and ensures their readiness to meet the challenges during times of disruption and crisis.

 

iGroup is also a strategic partner of CEE in offering the suite of leadership development, executive coaching and talent management solutions to the global marketplace through 17 sales channel partners around the world. iGroup’s core customers are the academic and government research institutions, and in recent years expanded into the healthcare and corporate markets

 

Our Institute value proposition is empowering leaders with top academic research integrated with real-world experiences relevant to their organization’s context and business environment. We bring proven flexible approaches when co-creating leadership development learning journeys with organizations where the focus is on closing the “knowing-doing” gap and enabling leaders to apply learning the next day to contribute sustainable impact to their organization. We support the organizational development by linking individual leader’s growth to organizational capabilities expansion with tangible business outcomes materializing at the end of the learning journeys.

 

The Institute developed the innovative “Disruptive Leadership 4.0 Masterclass” , which is essentially a series of executive development programs including executive coaching, for CEOs and C-suite leaders, incorporating the best practices tools, frameworks and contemporary approaches as well as case studies of successful organizations based on the extensive research published in the books “Leadership in Disruptive Times” (Business Expert Press, 2020) and “Transforming the Next Generation of Leaders: Developing Future Leaders for a Disruptive, Digital-Driven Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)” (Business Expert Press, 2019).

 

As a result of participating in this Masterclass series, the participants will be able to gain a holistic view of the best practices that enables them to build high-performing teams, lead cross-functional initiatives, and drive innovation and profitable growth. They will also be able to develop new strategic insights, global perspectives, and leadership skills that will enable them to lead change, improve their ability to capitalize on disruptive innovation, finance growth and build a sustainable competitive advantage for their organization.

 

DLI faculty includes experienced and successful business practitioners, authors, academics, consultants and executive coaches who focus their cutting-edge research and thought leadership into practical solutions to real-world challenges, often lending their specialized knowledge as consultants and advisers to the world’s most respected organizations. They also design and facilitate our executive development programs which are packed with engaging and interactive learning experiences. Through live sessions, experiential group-based exercises, and action learning workplace projects.

About Our CEO & Chief Curriculum Architect

Prof Sattar Bawany is the Chief Executive Officer and C-Suite Master Executive Coach of the Centre for Executive Education (CEE).

He is also concurrently the Managing Director as well as Master Executive Coach & Facilitator with Executive Development Associates (EDA) the Asia Pacific.

Prof Bawany was awarded the “2019 Executive of the Year for Human Resources Consulting” at the Singapore Business Review (SBR) Management Excellence Awards 2019.

Over the past 30 years, working with clients globally across various industries, Prof Bawany has delivered coaching engagement as well as developed a series of professional development and initiatives designed to enhance the leaders’ capabilities in leading and engaging a multigenerational and diverse workforce.

In addition to his business and consulting career, Prof Bawany has over 20 years of concurrent academic experience as an Adjunct Professor teaching senior executives, leadership and organizational behavior; international business strategies, and human resource courses at various leading universities in the Asia Pacific region.

Prof Bawany is presently the “Professor of Practice of Disruptive Leadership ” for the MBA in Disruptive Leadership & Digital Transformation by the “IPE Management School, Paris. ” He was until recently the Adjunct Professor with Curtin Graduate School of Business (CGSB) and a member of the International Advisory Board of Curtin Business School, Curtin University.

He has assumed various senior management roles, including that of Managing Director and Talent Management & Executive Coaching Practice Leader for DBM Asia Pacific. He was also the Global Information Services (GIS) Business Unit Leader with Mercer HR Consulting. Before joining Mercer, he was the Head of Hay Learning Services and Senior Consultant of Organizational Effectiveness & Management Development (OEMD) with Hay Group (now part of Korn Ferry).

Prof Bawany is an accomplished author and has published extensive series of articles on related topics such as Talent Management and Leadership Transition, including a Chapter on “Maximizing the Potential of Future Leader” in the Book “Coaching in Asia: The First Decade.”

His book on “Transforming the Next Generation Leaders: Developing Future Leaders for a Disruptive, Digital-Driven Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)” (2019) published by Business Expert Press (BEP) LLC, New York, is available on Amazon.

“Transforming the Next Generation of Leaders” provide organizations with the systematic and fact-based leadership development approach and strategies they need to develop their high potential (future) leaders in today’s fast-paced highly disruptive, increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) and the digital-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (better known as Industry 4.0).

The book has been endorsed by leading global thought leaders and business practitioners including Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There as well Thinkers 50 – #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World.

His latest book on “Leadership in Disruptive Times” also published by Business Expert Press (BEP) LLC, New York was released globally at the end of July 2020.

Leadership in Disruptive Times focusses on navigating the organizational challenges following the aftermath of the unprecedented global COVID-19 crisis by providing organizations with the relevant tools, frameworks and best practice approach to develop and map their own digital transformation journey in today’s highly disruptive, increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) and the digital-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (better known as Industry 4.0).

The book has been similarly well received and endorsed globally by academicians, CEOs, CHROs and C-suite business leaders and global thought leaders.

He holds an Executive MBA from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA and a Bachelor in Business Administration (Marketing) from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

Prof Bawany is a member of the Advisory Panel for China-ASEAN Business Association (CABA) and RHT G.R.A.C.E. Institute. He is also a Fellow of the International Professional Managers Association (IPMA) and The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). He is a Professional Member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). He is also a Practicing Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the International Association of Coaching (IAC). He was awarded the “Certified Master Executive Coach” (CMEC) accreditation status by the International Professional Managers Association (IPMA).

iGroup is the leading information services company in Asia Pacific, serving more than 2,000 institutional customers across Asia Pacific, and also fast expanding in other regions like North America, Latin America, Europe, and Middle East. iGroup has 18 physical offices located across Asia Pacific and the USA, with total employee size of 1,200. It also works through 17 sales channel partners around the world. iGroup’s core customers are the academic and government research institutions, and in recent years expanded into the healthcare and corporate markets.

The Centre for Executive Education (CEE) is an award winning and the premier network for established human resource management and executive development consulting firms globally.

CEE has established global strategic partnerships with Executive Development Associates(EDA), International Professional Managers Association (IPMA), Action Management Associates Inc. (AMAI) as well as a network of Affiliate Partners across the Asia Pacific region.