Trainer Profile

Prof. Sattar Bawany

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.

In addition to his business and consulting career, Prof Bawany has over 25 years of concurrent academic experience as an Adjunct Professor at various leading universities and currently serves as a Professor of Practice in Disruptive Leadership and Digital Transformation with the European International University – Paris (EIU). In a recent interview with EIU Paris, he was acknowledged by the University as a global thought leader with a proven track record in the area of executive leadership development and executive coaching for CEOs and C-Suite leaders across the world.

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 who have had a major influence in the field of leadership development and coaching. .

In July 2023, he was named by CEO Insights Asia magazine as one of the “Top 10 Best CEOs in Singapore”. 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.

  • Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Executive Education (CEE Global).
  • Managing Director as well as Certified C-Suite Master Executive Coach & Facilitator with Executive Development Associates (EDA) the Asia Pacific.
  • Master Facilitator of Action Management Associates Inc. (AMAI) suite of critical thinking programs
  • Strategic Advisor & Member of International Professional Managers Association (IPMA) Board of Trustees and Governing Council.
  • Adjunct Professor and member of International Advisory Board of Curtin Graduate School of Business (CGSB), Curtin University, Western Australia.
  • Adjunct Faculty & Master Facilitator for global leadership development programs of Harvard Business School Publishing
  • a member of the Duke Corporate Education (CE) Global Learning Resource Network (GLRN).