PROFESSOR SATTAR BAWANY Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Business Administration (Preston University, Cheyenne, WY, USA)
Executive MBA (Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA, USA);
B. Bus. in Marketing( Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia)
Post-Graduate Dip. Marketing (UK); Dip. Sales & Marketing (S'pore); F.P.M.A. (UK); F.C.I.M. (UK); M.A.M.A. (USA); M.M.I.S. (S'pore); M.S.I.M. (S'pore); M.M.D.I.S. (S’pore); M.S.H.R.I. (S’pore); M.i.K.M.S. (S’pore)
 

Dr Sattar Bawany is an entrepreneur, executive coach, international business executive, and an educator with over 25 years experience, including 15 years with leading management consulting firms in the area of organisational effectiveness, human resource management and executive coaching & strategic leadership development. In addition to his business and consulting career, Dr Bawany has over 15 years of concurrent academic experience as an Adjunct Professor & Senior Faculty teaching senior managers and professionals’ business strategies, entrepreneurship, international business, and human resource courses at various leading universities.

He is the Adjunct Professor of Business Strategy from the Paris Graduate School of Management (PGSM) and the Honorary Academic Advisor of International Professional Managers’ Association (IPMA).

Dr. Bawany is currently the Head of the Transition Coaching Practice of DBM Asia Pacific. As a member of the DBM Asia Pacific Leadership team, he is responsible for managing business development initiatives and executive coaching projects in the region.

He was an accredited Chair & Executive Coach of TEC International, the largest professional organization for CEOs worldwide. Dr Bawany has coached a range of leaders, from CEOs, to senior vice presidents, and high potential managers. His current work in organisations focuses on encouraging individual initiative and leadership from a systemic perspective in order to achieve clearly defined business results. His specialty is effectively linking people processes to business outcomes.

Prior to joining DBM, he was the Head of Mercer’s Global Information Services Business Unit and Asia Pacific Monitor Program. The Asia Pacific Monitor’s Intellectual Capital Exchange (ICEX) program provides members with strategic and operational human resources information spanning 15 countries in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Mercer, Dr Bawany was the Senior Director of Forum Corporation (global leader in leadership and customer experience) responsible for managing the client relationships for Forum’s strategic global accounts. Dr Bawany has also previously assumed the role as the Head of Hay Learning Services Asia Business Unit of Hay Management Consultants (The Hay Group). He was also then concurrently assumed the role as Senior Consultant of Hay’s Emotional Intelligence (EI) & Leadership Practice.

Prior to being in the consulting and professional services industry, Dr Bawany consolidated a successful career in business development, marketing and general management. He has an extensive practical background with more than 20 years experience in sales and marketing for consumer and industrial market segments for several industries in the private and public sectors. During this period of time, he had assumed various senior sales and marketing management as well as general management positions with several leading global organisations. His key responsibilities then include the formulation and implementation of strategic business and marketing plans for the Asia-Pacific Rim markets. He had received numerous commendations and awards for his outstanding sales and marketing achievements.


He is regular speaker at international and regional Conferences, Workshops and Seminars on Strategic Human Resource Management, Talent Management & Succession Planning and Executive Leadership Development. His articles on HR, Career Management and Talent Management including Executive Coaching have been published frequently in the ‘The Straits’ Times’, CCH ‘AsiaSTAFF’ publication; Singapore Management Institute’s (SIM) “Today’s Manager” magazine and Singapore Human Resources Institute’s (SHRI) ‘Human Capital’ magazine. He has also appeared regularly on MediaCorp’s Radio’s 93.8FM Live as a studio guest.

Dr Bawany has trained and consulted for global and regional corporations from various industries in the private sector such as Nokia, Caltex (ChevronTexaco), Philips, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Schneider Electric, KLM-Airfrance, Borealis-Borouge, DELL, AstraZeneca, Mastercard; CitiGroup; DBS Bank;Tyco; GE; ExxonMobil, StarHub, Celcom, Cap Gemini, Petronas and also in the public sector such as Singapore’s Prime Minister Office & Civil Service College (CSC), ASEAN-EC Management Centre (AEMC), Asia Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI), MINDEF Centre of Management Development (MCMD) and others.

He is a Fellow and Member of the Academic Board of The International Professional Managers Association (IPMA) in UK. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and founding member of the Marketing Council Asia (MCA). Dr Bawany is a member of various professional institutions including the American Management Association (AMA) and the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) in the US. He is also a Member of the Marketing Institute of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Singapore Training & Development Association (STADA), Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), Marketing Institute of Singapore (MIS) and the Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI). He is also a Practicing Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and International Association of Coaches (IAC).

Dr Bawany obtained his Ph.D. degree from Preston University, Cheyenne, Wyoming and his doctoral thesis was on “Key Success Factors in Developing a Knowledge Driven Learning Organisation in the New Economy”. He also holds an Executive Masters in Business Administration Degree from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California; as well as Bachelors in Business Degree (Marketing Major) from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

Dr Bawany is highly regarded for his practical "how to" approach, and for his ability to communicate with his audiences and to make learning fun and a pleasurable experience.