Overview

Professor Sattar Bawany is the CEO of Disruptive Leadership Institute (DLI) LLC, New York, and the Managing Director of the Centre for Executive Education Pte Ltd.

He is also the C-Suite Certified Master Executive Coach for Executive Development Associates (EDA Inc.)

He has over 35 years of international business management experience, including 25 years in executive coaching and leadership transition coaching, group facilitation, leadership development and talent management, and succession planning with global human resource management consulting firms.

CEO Weekly magazine in its October 2, 2023, Edition, named Prof Sattar Bawany alongside Dr Marshall Goldsmith and Tony Robbins as the "Top 15 Exceptional executive coaches globally" who have had a major influence in the field of leadership development and coaching.

In November 2019, Prof Bawany was awarded the “2019 Executive of the Year for Human Resources Consulting” at the 2019 Singapore Business Review (SBR) Management Excellence Awards. In July 2023, he was named by CEO Insights Asia magazine as one of the “Top 10 Best CEOs in Singapore”.

In addition to his business and consulting career, Prof Bawany has over 25 years of concurrent academic experience as an Adjunct Professor, teaching senior executives international business strategies and leadership development courses at various leading universities. He has partnered with CEOs and c-suite leaders in supporting them in their leadership role-to-role transitions, where he applied a holistic transition coaching approach to evaluating the leader's readiness and identifying potential barriers to success in their new roles.

Professional Background

He has assumed various senior management roles, both globally and regionally with global human resource consulting firms including Hay Group, Mercer HR Consulting, Forum Corporation, and DBM, focusing on talent management, senior leadership development, organizational development, and transformation. Prof Bawany has worked in and delivered engagements globally with a focus on the Asia Pacific region.

Prof Bawany is an accomplished author and has published an extensive series of articles and books on topics such as Disruptive Leadership, Crisis Leadership, and Leadership Transformation Leadership Transition. His latest book titled “Leadership in Disruptive Times: Negotiating the New Balance (2023)” was published in May 2023 and endorsed by global thought leaders, CEOs, CHROs, and business leaders.

His other book titled “Transforming the Next Generation of Leaders for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)” was published in July 2019. He is one of the pioneer Executive Coaches in Asia Pacific who was invited to be a contributing author on “Maximizing the Potential of Future Leaders in Coaching in Asia the First Decade” which was published in January 2010.

Executive Education Philosophy and Approach

Prof Bawany tells it like it is, acting as an honest mirror for his client and the team strengths and opportunities with this co-active partnership coaching style will result in the client leading an outstanding executive team. His teaching style revolves around developing a high-trust, collaborative relationship so both the client can dive into what choices they need to make. Usually, this means looking at who they are, what he or she feels, how he or she thinks, and how these match—or don’t match—what they need to do to ensure both individual and organizational success.

From the feedback received, he has consistently excelled in coaching CEOs and c-suite leaders in transition and developing their team leadership effectiveness skills in delivering value, collectively and individually by ensuring a workplace culture where the coachee demonstrates a repertoire of leadership styles that creates a high-performance culture. Characteristics of this culture are collaboration, empowerment, and fulfillment. Collaboration is the most important of these characteristics and this includes having challenging conversations with team members.