Archives: What Our Clients Have To Say

“Prof Sattar Bawany has a very effective coaching style and approach. First and foremost, it comes across that he takes the coaching engagement very personally – there is a very strong vested interest in ensuring the coachee succeeds. Certainly, the breadth of his experience is impressive and provides a very good perspective for the senior leader whom he coached and transitioned to his new regional senior leadership role. There is certainly a case to be made about learning from the best, and he has this unique ability to distill learnings from the best-in-class leaders globally and pass that on in his coaching program. There is no doubt that my leader has benefited greatly from his experience with Prof Bawany as his Coach. I have seen my leader improve in all areas. I have no hesitancy in recommending DLI and Prof Bawany as a top-tier professional C-suite executive coach to any client keen on engaging him for a similar assignment.”

“The extensive case studies of global leading organizations including Microsoft, Netflix, Starbucks and DBS Digital Banking highlights the importance of the leaders’ role in both creative disruption and disruptive innovation by connecting resources and people adeptly to build an innovation-driven and customer-centric culture to develop and implement digital transformation agendas within their organization.

The Action Learning Workplace Project as part of the Post-Workshop Assignment enables the participants to implement the newly acquired leadership skills and tools at a rapid pace within their organization and, crucially, to adapt quickly to change by adopting a ‘disruptive digital mindset’ and lead the disruption of their organization again and again to ensure their sustainability in the highly competitive era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0).”

“Based on our various interactions and mentee feedback, it is amply clear that the engagement was highly valued-add ing in terms of self-reflection about leadership styles and learning techniques to adapt them based on different people and situations. Your open, honest, direct style of interaction has been very helpful in quickly gaining relevant insights. At the same time, your support in sharing and applying critical tools to manage different levels of influence and impact has also been helpful to shorten the learning curve in the mentees’ leadership development journey.”

“I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your ongoing executive coaching for one of our Global Senior Vice President. Thanks to your cross-cultural coaching the said senior leader could, in his new role, bridge the cultural gap and better work to meet the company expectations. He could feel and understand the impact of cultural differences in his new challenge and he learned how to build a good relationship with collaborators emphasizing cooperation, group goals and harmony in his new working environment.”

“You have provided me with the understanding and tools to make informed decisions about my future, managing key relationships and the future of our business. Your guidance through a process of diagnosis and prompting to focus on solutions to problems or managerial leadership challenges allow me to be effective in my current and future leadership roles.

The Executive Coaching support has been instrumental towards the improvement of my effectiveness in interactions with my employees, peers, and senior management team. In my interactions, you have been able to demonstrate the uncanny ability to quickly identifying the salient points of any situation and partnering with me in formulating a strategy to achieve the best possible outcome.“

“The “Managerial Coaching Skills” Workshop which you had successfully facilitated has allowed the SLT members to leverage a fully developed coaching model which enables them to immediately implement in the workplace resulted in the development of a coaching culture within Prasarana.

The Group Executive Coaching sessions as well as Individualised Executive Coaching for selected members of the SLT members have raised their standards for constructive, collaborative conversations with their respective teams, and they have developed practical business-based skills and competencies. This has not only shaped the 4 individual leader’s performance but also, increasingly build broader organizational capacity.”

“The talent cohort has benefited tremendously from your group and individual coaching sessions and your generous sharing of insights and knowledge. In particular, the cohort had enjoyed the numerous intellectual sparring sessions and the way you challenged their thought processes to come up with innovative and yet pragmatic solutions to address the current business situations and issues that they were facing. In addition, the exchanges were often tempered with a high level of emotional support and encouragement from you which helped them to remain focused when the going got tough.”