Disruptive & Crisis Leadership Masterclass Series

“Leading in an era of constant disruption and times of crises would require a distinct set of competencies and these include, but are not limited to, a combination of variables such as visionary and entrepreneurial skills, innovation-driven mindset, and experimentation (disruptive mentality), cognitive readiness and critical thinking (mental agility), emotional resilience, empathy, and social skills (people agility), driving for success (results agility), and resilience and adaptability (change agility).”
Sattar Bawany (2023)

Overview

Developed Advanced Leadership Skills for Success in a Disruptive and Digital-Driven Workplace

We are pleased to announce the launch of the latest series of Executive Masterclass programs, made possible through collaboration between the European International University (EIU Paris) and Centre for Executive Education Pte. Ltd. (CEE). These innovative executive education programs are curated and designed by a team of instructional designers and curriculum architects from the Disruptive Leadership Institute (DLI).

These Executive Masterclass Series provide leaders with the relevant knowledge, skills, best practices tools, and approaches towards creating their digital transformation strategy and ensuring it is aligned with the business and growth plans of their organization. This is achieved by developing a suite of disruptive digital leadership competencies which include cognitive readiness, critical thinking, innovative thinking, agility, and resilience along with emotional and social intelligence skills such as empathy and relationship management.

Given the current disruptive, digital, and VUCA-centric business environment era of Industry 4.0, now, more than ever, leaders have to navigate unfamiliar, challenging times, a quickening pace of change, increasing expectations, and a rising tide of rapidly-evolving conditions. Against this backdrop, we have designed, developed, and successfully delivered in recent years, this series of leadership development programs that leverages best-in-class or thought-leadership concepts, tools, and techniques to drive organizational & leadership excellence.

The program is designed to provide CEOs, C-Suite Leaders as well as both current and upcoming functional leaders with a platform to develop from being ‘good to great’. It is specifically aimed at enhancing and developing the skills, knowledge, and behaviors of the participants. The participants will develop their understanding of leadership effectiveness and how it will lead to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for their respective digital-driven organizations.

Case Study Methodology

Simply put, this executive education program is highly experiential with various learning approaches including the case study method.

The case study approach is effectively a discussion of real-life situations that business executives have faced. Often, executives are surprised to discover that the objective of the case study is not to reach a consensus, but to understand how different people use the same information to arrive at diverse conclusions and make relevant recommendations to resolve the organizational challenge(s). When you begin to understand the context, you can appreciate the reasons why those decisions were made.

The time you spend here is deeply reflective. You’re not only working with case materials and assignments but also taking on the role of the case protagonist—the person who’s supposed to make those tough decisions. How would you react in those situations? We put people in a variety of contexts, and they start by addressing that specific problem(s) or organizational challenge(s).

The faculty or facilitator’s role is to guide you in examining and resolving the issues—but the beauty here is that they don’t provide you with the answers. You’re interacting in the classroom with other executives—debating the issue, presenting new viewpoints, countering positions, and building on one another’s ideas. That’s how real learning takes place.

Program 1: Leading Digital Transformation & Disruptive Innovation at the Workplace

Overview

Digital Transformation (DT/DX) is the process of integration and leveraging of digital technologies (including but not limited to artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, and blockchain technologies) into all aspects of an organization to create new or enhance existing business processes, culture, and customer experience (CX) to meet changing market requirements.

Leaders play a critical role in the digital transformation journey by bringing expertise, judgment, healthy skepticism, and concern for long-term value. Foundational to any transformation is getting the right data in the hands of business leaders so they can make informed and effective decisions. To undergo true transformation at scale, leaders must nurture a healthy culture—or change it promptly if it shows signs of resistance.

Key Learning Outcomes

Develop disruptive mental agility and understand how digital technologies are radically changing competitive environments, and how leaders can leverage them to ensure the sustainability of their organization.

Understand how to shape organizational culture and behavior to become digital-first, lead with a growth mindset and become accepting of change and continuous, iterative improvement.

Program 2: Transforming the Next Generation of ``Disruptive Digital Leaders” at the Workplace

Overview

In the past decade, leaders have recognized the need for greater oversight of critical levers of business performance such as strategy, risk, major transactions, and “people” including talent management and succession planning to ensure business sustainability. However, today, leaders need to identify, assess and develop their human capital to ensure that they always have a strong pipeline of talent coming in to help them execute the corporate strategy effectively in the highly disruptive and digital-driven business environment.

The leadership team should know the mission-critical roles and ensure that effective learning & development, as well as compensation strategies, are aligned to them. They mustn’t understand just these roles, but the capabilities and competencies needed for these roles to thrive, and the assessment of talent against these capabilities. They need to partner with the human resources team to formulate the strategy to attract and develop the top talent to ensure their readiness to take on these critical roles.

Key Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of how to recognize the development of top talent as a priority and entirely rethink how the role leaders’ play in ensuring talent development.

Identify the right talent management and succession model for the mission-critical roles that will suit the organization’s circumstances and business requirements. Develop a collective understanding among the senior leadership team on matters of talent management and succession planning.

Program 3: Leading Crisis Management at Workplace with the 'C.R.I.S.I.S.' Framework

Overview

This masterclass focuses on the key elements that enhance executive and board crisis leadership and what factors may undermine meeting the organizational goals and business results. In an organizational crisis Boards, executives and senior managers face a myriad of organizational challenges as they navigate a range of expectations and obligations. These come from a range of stakeholders including communities, regulators, shareholders, and employees. This course teaches essential ways to communicate and collaborate with every level of your organization during a crisis event.

Key Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of the root cause of a crisis and how to use key best practice tools and frameworks towards managing a crisis effectively.  Participants will also be able to discuss the correlation between crisis and risk management strategies and ensure the effective flow of communication within the organization for managing crises. Leverage the “C.R.I.S.I.S.” Leadership Model to prepare and develop the next generation of leaders to enable them to integrate continuity and contingency planning at organizational and departmental and operational levels. Finally, the participants will be able to create, document, and communicate their organization’s crisis and contingency plans and procedures.

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Program 4: Leading High Performance Teams with the ``S.C.O.R.E.`` Framework

Overview

High-performing teams have become a principal building block of the successful digital transformation strategy. Although teams are at the core of any change initiative, success will often depend on how well each team member operates and collaborates with others. Today’s highly disruptive, as well as VUCA-driven networked business environment, not only provides a challenging environment for leaders to operate in but would need to 6 depend on their teams, which are critically important to getting work done.

Open communication in high-performing teams means a focus on coaching instead of directing. Communication is the very means of cooperation or collaboration between team members. One of the primary motives for companies to implement teams is that team-based organizations are more responsive and move faster.

Key Learning Outcomes

Development of a well-defined ‘Team Charter’ which includes the team’s mission, shared purpose and values, and goals and understand the effective communication strategies to ensure a fast, clear, accurate communication culture.

Learn how to maximize the value of coaching as a process for helping team members to think for themselves and facilitate the process of self and group discovery. Develop a culture of rapid response approach in decision making where team members can adapt, adjust, and, when necessary, pivot in real-time on how to approach the implementation of the digital transformation project.

For the detailed Course Outline for any of the above programs, please submit your request here.

Program 5: Driving Organizational Success with the “Results-based Leadership” (R.B.L.) Framework

Overview

Innovative organizations are leveraging new business models, service innovations, and applying technologies to disrupt industries and develop new markets globally. Leaders are in a unique position to help their companies redefine the future through pre-emptive 4 innovation. It can be hard to know when to pull the trigger on changing a company’s course and to determine whether it is the strategy that should change or the execution of the strategy or both.

Developing a culture of innovation internally leads to higher employee engagement, empowerment of employees to assist in solving some of the organization’s most critical challenges, and effective method for capturing their ideas and acting on them, and finally, leading to an increase in cost savings and productivity.

Key Learning Outcomes

Understand the meaning of innovation and disruption, and their impact on the sustainability of the organization as well as to support the development of an innovation-driven culture to drive passion and productivity.

Acquire the best practice tools and frameworks to develop a process for innovation and successfully foster by using design thinking methodology (high level) to transform into an innovative organization for the digital economy.

Program 6: Transforming an Innovation-Driven Culture with Design Thinking (DT) Framework

Overview

One of the leader’s primary role is to become more engaged and effective stewards of business performance and shareholder value by driving a high-performance organizational culture. This could be achieved by taking a systemic approach to the development of a high-performance culture and strategy taking into consideration the customer service, sustainability, and other factors valued by customers and employees.

Leaders should continue to assess the organization’s strategy including feedback on products, business opportunities, and from its partners. Transforming to a high-performance culture (HPC) of any organization takes time, effort, and commitment. But it begins with clear, visible changes in behavior, especially by the leader’s efforts to transform its organizational culture, starting with a new strategic digital vision.

Key Learning Outcomes

Develop an understanding of how organizations can help foster long-term shareholder value by deepening their understanding of the strategic importance of a high-performance culture as well as leveraging on tools towards ensuring that management is forging a culture that is aligned with the business strategy.

Understand the leader’s fundamental role in ensuring that culture, values, and behaviours align towards achieving a high-performance organizational culture.

Program 7: The World of Work (WOW) Impacted by Disruptive Technologies of the Future

Overview

The workplace of tomorrow is an uncertain place. We live in a rapidly changing world, and digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and big data are rapidly changing the fundamental nature of how we live and work, communicate and do business and disrupting traditional industries and redefining the employee-employer relationship.

Leaders at all levels need to understand the strategic implications and impact of these disruptive changes on contemporary work practices and understand how to support the design of a secure future amidst this disruption. What new, disruptive technologies are on the horizon? How will jobs change? What challenges will employers and employees face? How can the breakthrough processes and systems help businesses and employees to create innovative solutions to overcome such challenges?

Key Learning Outcomes

Understand the leader’s role of strategic importance in the disruptive ‘new normal’ workplace. Understand how to meet the challenges of the coming decades in the highly disruptive and increasingly digital-driven workplace of the future.

Develop insights on how to transition the current work to be ready for the ‘Future of Work’ and understand how the roles of firms, employees, and public policy have changed and created the labor market of today including the ‘Gig Economy’.

The Benefits of Attending

  • Learn the best practices towards the development of a digital-driven culture at the workplace
  • Understand how to ensure successful implementation of digital transformation initiatives
  • Learn the best practices on leading and adapting during disruptive times
  • Develop strategies for transition of the current work to be ready for the ‘Future of Work”
  • Shape organizational culture and behavior to become digital-first, lead with a growth mindset
  • Support the development of the innovation culture to drive passion and productivity.
  • Leverage on tools towards development of a high performance-driven culture that is aligned with the business strategy
  • Recognize the development of top talent as a priority and entirely rethink how the role they play in ensuring talent development.
  • Understand the crucial competencies and develop the KPIs required in driving for success in a disruptive changing world of work
  • Understand how to adapt their leadership and communication styles with key stakeholders
  • Build an open and trust-based partnership with key stakeholders for successful digital transformation implementation
  • Develop relationship management and social skills at the digital-driven workplace
  • Craft a 90-Day Personal Disruptive Digital Leadership Development Plan

Profile of Your Chief Master Facilitator

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Professor Sattar Bawany serves as the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Disruptive Leadership Institute LLC (DLI), an independent advisory firm headquartered in New York, with a global footprint in leadership development, executive coaching, and board advisory services. He also leads the firm’s Boards & CEOs Advisory Practice worldwide, guiding a team of elite consultants comprising former board members, CEOs, and senior executives from across diverse industries.

Under his leadership, DLI is uniquely positioned to provide trusted, high-impact advisory solutions to boards and C-suite executives. The firm offers expertise on complex governance matters, including management buyouts, board evaluations, dual-class share structures, succession planning, and special committee advisory work. Each engagement is treated as distinct, with tailored strategies that align with clients’ strategic goals and fiduciary responsibilities, delivered with agility, discretion, and deep industry insight.

Professor Bawany brings a rare blend of global executive leadership, academic scholarship, entrepreneurial acumen, and consulting experience. His career spans over 35 years across prominent multinational human capital, management consulting, and executive education firms. He has successfully led strategic initiatives and major client engagements, maintaining strong boardroom and C-suite relationships across sectors and geographies. His impact is evident across industries as he empowers organizations and leaders to thrive in an era of constant change. Through his work as a C-suite leadership master coach, management consultant, board advisor, and keynote speaker, he has become a pivotal figure in the transformation of business leadership for the digital economy.

His excellence in leadership development and coaching has earned widespread recognition. In October 2023, CEO Weekly magazine named him among the Top 15 Exceptional Executive Coaches globally, alongside luminaries such as Dr. Marshall Goldsmith and Tony Robbins. In July 2013, he was honored as one of the “Top 10 Best CEOs from Singapore” by CEO Insights Asia. In November 2019, Professor Bawany received the “Executive of the Year for Human Resources Consulting” award at the Singapore Business Review (SBR) Management Excellence Awards.

An accomplished author, Professor Bawany has written extensively on crisis leadership, disruptive change, and the future of work, contributing thought leadership through his books, articles,white papers, research reports, and global keynotes. With his visionary approach, Prof. Bawany continues to shape the next generation of transformative leaders and trusted boards globally.

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Executive coaching is a concept that has moved from the world of sports to the executive suite and is designed as a means to help senior executives manage a constantly changing business environment and refine their leadership skills. But coaching is not limited to senior levels. Increasingly, people all over the world, at all levels, utilize executive coaches to help them achieve their full potential. The process focuses on the participant’s goals, reinforces learning and change, and increases self-empowerment.

Transition coaching encompasses the goals of executive coaching but focuses on a specific niche, the newly appointed leader (either being promoted from within or being hired externally). Leadership transitions are among the most challenging situations executives face. Take the case of a leader who might enter a new position thinking he or she already has all the answers, or just the opposite, the leader might lack a clear understanding of what to expect from the role. The goal of transition coaching is to reduce the time it takes for new leaders to make a net contribution to the organization and establish a framework for ongoing success.

Effective coaching is a major key to improving business performance. Executive coaching focuses on the qualities of effective leadership and improved business results. It is comprised of a series of structured, one-on-one interactions between a coach and an executive, aimed at enhancing the executive’s performance in two areas: Individual personal performance and Individual organizational performance.

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The “Leadership In Turbulence”, your go-to executive newsletter dedicated to helping leaders navigate the complexities of today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and digitally disruptive (VUCAD) world.

In an era where crisis is constant, change is exponential, and transformation is non-negotiable, traditional leadership approaches are no longer sufficient. Leaders must be agile, emotionally intelligent, and future-ready—able to inspire trust, build resilient teams, make bold decisions, and leverage emerging technologies to stay ahead of the curve.

This “Leadership In Turbulence” Newsletter is designed for C-suite executives, senior leaders, HR and OD professionals, and aspiring change-makers who are committed to leading with purpose, clarity, and confidence, despite the chaos around them.

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In a world where disruption is the only constant, where AI is rewriting the rules, and where geopolitical and economic shocks ripple across markets daily, even the most seasoned leaders find themselves navigating uncharted territory.

At the Disruptive Leadership Institute (DLI), we recognize that C-Suite leaders need more than frameworks—they need real-time wisdom, grounded insights, and bold strategies that adapt to relentless change.

That’s why we’ve launched the “Ask Your Master Coach Series”—an exclusive opportunity for you to pose your most pressing leadership and organizational questions directly to our Master Coaches. These are seasoned leadership advisors who’ve helped global CEOs and boards thrive through disruption, reinvention, and crisis.

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Our distinguished team of highly experienced and seasoned senior-level executive coaches, each possessing a proven track record of enhancing leadership performance and fostering enduring organizational excellence, has earned widespread recognition for their transformative impact on leaders across diverse industries. Our clients consistently express appreciation for our panel of coaches’ insightful coaching style, deep expertise in leadership development, and unwavering commitment to empowering executives to lead with authenticity, resilience, and strategic clarity.

Many of our clients’ testimonials highlight our panel of coaches’ ability to rapidly build trust and rapport with their coachees, creating a safe and reflective environment for personal growth. Executives from multinational corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations have described our coaches’ coaching styles and approaches as “life-changing,” noting that it not only enhanced their leadership capabilities but also strengthened their emotional intelligence and decision-making skills. A common sentiment shared by clients is that our coaches possess a rare ability to ask the right questions—those that provoke deep introspection and inspire meaningful change.

The original and complete Testimonials, extract of which is appended below, can be found here.

“Prof Sattar Bawany can quickly get to the core of issues and have an extensive set of actionable recommendations. Working with him has amplified my strengths and addressed my key development areas. Each coaching session has left me with valuable insights and new leadership strategies I could implement immediately which include new approaches to difficult conversations to new ways to inspire my team.

Whatever my business challenge may be, he has been able to understand my perspective, point out opportunities to expand my impact as a leader and give me custom practices to do so. His style is a perfect balance of empathy and being able to challenge my implicit assumptions leading to not only improving my leadership effectiveness but also making me reflect in new ways on my relationships outside of work as well.”

“Working with Prof Bawany as my Executive Coach was a game-changer! He has been an incredibly transformative experience that has had a profound impact on both my professional and personal life. Prof Sattar provided me with the support and tools that I needed to navigate through these uncertain times successfully. His coaching style was both insightful and motivating and has helped me develop a clear vision for our sales strategy. Through his guidance, I gained the confidence to lead my team effectively and inspire them to reach new heights.

His coaching expertise helped me and my sales team refine our sales processes, improve communication, and boost overall team morale. We were motivated by his passion for sales and his ability to share practical and proven techniques. Through the coaching engagement, I have been able to develop a more focused and results-driven approach, which resulted in a significant increase in sales revenue and we managed to exceed our sales targets consistently and develop long-lasting relationships with our clients.”

“The practical case studies and important lessons you impart across the intensive modules; together with the systematic and fact-based approach of the programme, allow for a deep understanding of the best practices and the pertinent leadership practices that can be immediately applied to our daily work. The learnings are not just critical to our organisation’s digital transformation needs, but also each participants’ professional and personal leadership development.

I would recommend CEE and DLI for any organization looking to develop its senior leadership team. The lessons are practical and the learnings profound. The programme has put us in good stead to deliver on our responsibilities as leaders; as we push forward through challenges and embrace new opportunities that the digitally charged era of Industry 4.0 offers us.“

“As my Executive Coach, Prof Sattar Bawany has quickly become a confidant who I could trust to give an open and very honest assessment of my strengths and areas of development, advice on how a senior leader needs to position himself, and insight into the myriad of insurmountable challenges both current and yet to be encountered. His sound advice on how to resolve issues at the board and senior management level, how to implement these changes, and coaching on how to build relationships and drive focus in the company were excellent. The result was an increase in self-confidence and a sharper focus on what can make a difference to the business.

Prof Bawany acts as a dynamic sounding board, not merely reflecting thoughts and ideas but challenging them and subtly molding them in such a way that woolly uncertainty is transformed into crisp focus, backed by the confidence that the way forward is both achievable and enhancing for both myself as the coachee and the organization.”

“Based on our various interactions and mentee feedback, it is amply clear that the engagement was highly value-adding regarding 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 helped shorten the learning curve in the coachee’s leadership development journey. I am very confident that this c-suite executive coaching engagement will help immensely in driving incremental value not just for the c-suite leader’s contribution to march confidently towards driving and delivering AstraZeneca’s bold ambition to make more meaningful difference to many more Indonesian patients with our innovative science and medicines.

I would highly recommend your service to anyone keen on tailored c-suite executive coaching engagements for senior leaders who need to hone their leadership style to manage the emerging complexities in today’s uncertain business and people environment and drive exceptional results. Thanks again for your deep commitment and support.”

“You have provided me with the understanding and tools to make informed decisions about my future, particularly in managing key relationships and the future of our business. Your guidance, through a process of diagnosis and prompting focus on solutions to problems, especially in managerial leadership challenges, has enabled me to be more effective in my current and future leadership roles. Your support has been instrumental in the improvement of my effectiveness in interactions with my employees, peers, and senior management team. In my interactions, you have been able to demonstrate an uncanny ability to quickly identify the salient points of any situation and partner with me in formulating a strategy to achieve the best possible outcome. I was able to quickly develop a plan to achieve my desired results. These strategies proved highly successful, enabling me to focus more of my time on driving the business.

We would without qualification recommend you as an outstanding CEO Executive Coach to any professional and business leaders who would like to transform their lives and achieve their leadership purpose and values.”

“Your coaching engagements were holistic, and I believe succeeded in bringing out the best in me as a leader and in the team that I am entrusted to lead. Your technique is a combination of years of intensive research and experience as a CEO yourself. It was overwhelming at times, but it helped provide the support and guidance I needed to be an independent leader and to take charge. I have now, the resources that you have kindly shared with me as a refresher and reference. I am grateful that you remain supportive of my personal goals to improve further and become a great leader as well as a better person. Your dedication, commitment, and support go beyond a conventional coach, in my view.

All business leaders and organizations require a coach with impeccable qualities to navigate a disruptive and possibly destructive environment each day. I had the privilege of having you as my coach. Regardless of what it takes, you never swayed in your commitment to achieving our goals, which is to transform us into great leaders. As such, I would not hesitate to recommend you as an Executive Coach to any business leaders or organizations looking to perform at the highest level and enhance their leadership capabilities.”

“Prof Sattar Bawany’s coaching style was very engaging, and the sharing of your in-depth knowledge of leadership made the sessions very authentic and helped me understand my leadership style. You were incredibly insightful on the skills I need to acquire and improve to succeed as an executive leader. I appreciate your availability to be a sounding board for complex and strategic decision-making when challenging changes occur in my hospital. It sharpened my strategic thinking and improved my articulation of thought processes and stakeholder management.

I have benefitted immensely from your coaching and have been using these skills to enhance the care I provide for my staff and patients. I pray that you will continue to bless and inspire new executive leaders with your coaching abilities to be incredible leaders and contribute to making the world better for all.”

“The highly customized CEO Executive Coaching program helps the coachee to perform and transform, rising to the challenges of today and maximizing the future opportunities facing the organization. You have been able to draw on the richest portfolio of assessment tools and combine proven methodologies with a highly tailored approach to meet the needs, expectations, and preferences of the coachee. It’s a powerful combination that gives you an unmatched ability to enhance the coachee’s leadership effectiveness.

It is undeniable that your flexible and objective approach, with the right balance of support and challenge, enabled the coachee to see a clearer path both in solving leadership issues and achieving her leadership and professional development goals.
We would without qualification recommend you as an outstanding CEO Executive Coach.”

“As a former Chief Operating Officer, I found that the experience and insights gained during our C-Suite Executive Coaching engagement have successfully brought out the best leader in me to guide my team in performing their role with high motivation and clear goals. Today, as the Group Chief Financial Officer of Pos Malaysia, I find myself well-equipped and prepared to face any challenges in managing the people as well as stakeholders, especially during the current economic situation.

No doubt the intensive research, resources, and vast coaching experience have contributed to my leadership effectiveness, and it is creating a chain of positive reactions throughout the organization. As such, I would highly recommend Prof Sattar Bawany as an Executive Coach to any organization that is looking into enhancing its leadership capabilities and developing and transforming its senior management team from ‘good to great’.”

“I would like to take a moment to show our appreciation for the excellent work done throughout the delivery of the workshop “Developing High Performance Leadership”. Our company and our brand are committed to delivering exceptional customer service. Our passion for excellence has been complemented perfectly well with the management concepts and the applications done during the three days course. You have successfully sent across our team the importance of leadership effectiveness on organizational success and taught the team how to develop Emotional Intelligence, which is also in line with our internal training on the importance of Emotional Intelligence as a crucial element to deliver the best service to our guests. The split sessions and the personal follow-ups done have been highly effective. Your commitment to the objectives originally set has translated into an engaging and positive course that had a very satisfactory impact on the team. I have only received positive feedback from the team, it was a great learning experience for all of them.”

“I am pleased to share that we have received very positive feedback from the participants for the 2 workshops for our Singapore Management Team. Generous amounts of information were shared, as well as dialogues for brainstorming sessions. Everyone had a refreshed outlook at different leadership styles and there was a lot more collaboration. In terms of delivery style, they felt that the facilitator was engaging and the programme was well structured. It also provided relevant tools and knowledge that can be applied in their respective business and professional situations scientifically and practically. Overall, the programme exceeded their expectations. Thank you for contributing to the development of our team and I look forward to future collaboration with you in terms of our learning needs.”

“All of a sudden, a deadly pandemic is at the centre of unprecedented worldwide disruptions. Inadvertently, the Covid‐19 has left organisations with little or no choice but to take the big leap towards digitalization. Prof. Sattar Bawany’s latest book on ‘Leadership in Disruptive Times’ is a timely sequel to his first publication, ‘Transforming the Next Generation of Leaders: Developing Future Leaders for a Disruptive, Digital‐Driven Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)’. In his latest offering, Prof. Bawany recognised the need for organisations to include digital leadership competencies for them to successfully implement transformative initiatives in a highly disruptive environment. He also examines the attributes and competencies of disruptive leadership as they maneuver through the disruptions caused by the Covid‐19 and the post-pandemic digital transformation in meeting the needs of the new normal. In developing successful organizational leadership in the new world order, this book provides valuable guidance and direction on the future way forward.”

“My congratulations to Professor Bawany for his new books, Leadership in Disruptive Times. This is a significant book, and its theme is overdue, particularly when severe disruptions are brought about by the recent Covid-19 pandemic. When times are good, solutions often come easy and straightforward. However, when rapid changes brought about by unexpected disruption, it is not clear if a solution even exists, let alone a good one. It takes an exceptional leader who has experienced disruptive times before to offer us insights and visions to move forward, and quality to be an effective leader. Readers will benefit enormously from Professor Bawany’s new book, and it is my firm belief that this pioneering book will be acknowledged as classic textbook/reference in leadership in disruptive times.”

“Based on the feedback from the C-Suite leaders, as well as from my observations as the CEO and Sponsor, both CEE and you as the Coach have exceeded our expectations for such a coaching engagement.

Today, the C-Suite leaders have someone they can talk to, discuss facts with, and get clear, concise, “right-on” feedback that they can take and immediately implement. Your advice is always spot on! They have learned to have confidence in your counsel because it works. Both CEE and your approach is all about results and relationships and keepsthem focused on these high leverage areas. Your invaluable insights come from the rare combination of being a seasoned and successful global executive development practitioner, having solid academic credentials, and a strong track record of coaching and consulting experience as evidenced by others that you have helped.

We would highly recommend you as an Executive Coach to any organization that would like to transform their senior leadership team and developing a next-generation leadership pipeline”

“The workshop attendees found that the program provided a clear understanding of high-performing team, best practices and practical strategies that they can implement at the workplace. The interactive nature of the program engaged attendees to be involved in their own learning experience through various activities from self-reflections to team dynamics.

Through the interaction, attendees were able to internalize the characteristics of the High-Performing Team elaborated in the excellent SCORE™ Framework, enhance critical thinking and disengage what has hitherto been obstacles to be a high performing team.

Thank you again for such a thoughtful and excellent learning experience!”

“The College of Human Resource Management (CHRM) located in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa would like to express our sincere gratitude to you for your excellent facilitation at the Board Essentials Program. Your presentation on ‘Leading the Board through Times of Disruption and Crisis’ was highly informative, exciting, engaging and truly enlightening. You were able to use relatable case studies that the trainees will apply relevance to, in their professional endeavours. Your Training method accompanied by your enthusiastic and energetic approach provided a perfect learning environment during this session.

We are grateful for your time and we can confidently say that you delivered beyond our expectations and we will not hesitate to work with you on similar training in future.”

“You had successfully helped to communicate to our members the processes, issues, and challenges of managing digital transformation in organisations especially in the context of post COVID19. Many of our members had conveyed their sincere appreciation for such a unique opportunity to join and participate in the webinar and to hear from a distinguished speaker. Your ability to simplify a complex subject is truly admirable. The active engagement that ensued is a testament to the success of the webinar.

The presentation and interaction thereafter were engaging, demonstrating the broad knowledge of strategy and management expertise that you possess which could be brought down for practical application to small and medium-sized companies. We are also very grateful for your generosity to share vast numbers of quality corporate examples and experiences. The disruptive digital mindset is now firmly embedded in the members who had attended the webinar. Thank you for contributing to the development of our SICCI members and I hope there will be a future opportunity for the Chambers to engage your services once again.”

“I would like to extend our sincere appreciation for your sharing. It is highly relevant, thought-provoking and was well-received by our members, many of whom are professionals and business leaders. The Q&A session was dynamic and intense. I am certain that our members have benefited tremendously from this sharing.

The primary takeaway from the session is how to prepare for a prolonged adjustment to the current COVID-19 pandemic and how leaders can be prepared to make the necessary shift in the manner they are leading and engaging the team in the “new normal” of the post-pandemic workplace. The case studies and examples used during the session were also useful.”

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