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Tara Kimbrell Cole ACC, CSFC

Tara Kimbrell Cole is a corporate coach to business leaders, chief officers, managing directors and executives preparing for senior leadership roles. She is approved by The Council of Trustees of The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), Cambridge, MA, USA, chaired by Peter Senge Ph.D. as a consultant member and accepted member in the SoL Coaches Community of Practice. Her clients range from major multinationals such as BHP Billiton, Standard Chartered Bank, Microsoft to educational instituions such as INSEAD and National University of Singapore Buessiness School.

With a history as a chief executive, entrepreneur and serial financial innovator (grantee of patents), she is experienced and qualified in assisting clients across a range of industries in maximizing business opportunities through the development of genuine leadership, Innovation Capital® and sustainable profitability. She facilitates the integration of economic, social, environmental and governance thought.

As an executive coach, Tara has focused her work on the development of leaders' self awareness and personal mastery to facilitate collaboration and aligned vision which delivers corporate profitability and sustainable economic value through the deepening awareness of whole systems and the broader context of markets, community and environment.

As a senior executive, Tara was called on to make leadership decisions. With 29 years of experience in solving complex problems and delivering cutting edge solutions, in the U.S.A., Europe and Asia, She recognizes that leaders do not necessarily access all their skills, strengths and resources. Often some of their greatest capabilities lay dormant or latent. Her coaching is designed to support executives in realizing themselves to deliver their best performance.

With her international experience as a chief executive and member of the board of directors, she has utilised coaching as a practical method of implementation in business, executive development and whole systems solution delivery in challenging, fluid operational environments.

Tara's experience in business innovation and systems thinking is the genesis of her coaching. She engages a multi-dimensional approach which includes a systems perspective methodology supported by combination of expertise derived from business, innovation, finance, clinical psychology and coaching to deliver sustainable value to her clients.

An Alumna and Fellow of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-present, Tara utilises a range of methodologies and practices acquired through her experience, including:

• Currently obtaining a Master's Degree in coaching with Middlesex University
• Society for Organizational Learning Coaching Community of Practice's Coaching from a Systems Perspective. http://www.solonline.org/ConsultingAndPrograms/coaching/
• Certificated studies in Coaching from a Systems Perspective by the SoL Coaching Community of Practice.
• Member of the Presencing Institute graduates community at MIT
• Solution Focused Coach certification from the Canadian Council of Professional Certification.
• Certificated studies at The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), Greensboro, N.C. USA.
• Credentialed and accredited as a coach by the International Coach Federation.
• Certified in the administration the leading assessment and psychometric instruments including Lominger, Benchmarks® 360, Skillscope® 360, Firo-B, Hogan and Meyer Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)

She has served as a member of the executive council of the International Coach Federation, Singapore, the executive committee of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, Singapore and is an active member in other local and international professional organizations.

She is the author of a seminal white paper on generating corporate profitability and shareholder value from executive diversity.

She speaks frequently at conferences on this, related issues, innovation and Sustainability, including:

• in 2008 at the TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investment) Conference™, Asia
• in 2006 at the first International Consultation & Master-Planning for the Development of the Knowledge Economy in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam
• in 2005 at The Global Summit of Women in Mexico City.

Tara is the founder and a Member of the Board of Directors of Global Trade Finance Network Pte. Ltd., a software company with patented international trade finance product, www.tradefinancenetwork.com. The chairman of the board of GTFNet was the late Mr. Rodney D. Galpin the former chairman & CEO of Standard Chartered Bank and executive director of the Bank of England.

In 1994, she founded International Aval Asia Ltd. ("IAA"), which was first to introduce non-recourse export receivable finance to exporters and local banks in the Asian market and the secondary distribution of these cross border receivables generated in Asia. IAA was the exclusive Asia representative of BB Aval GmbH ("BBA") for over four years, the export finance (forfaiting) subsidiary of Berliner Bank, Germany, USD 6.5 billion capital. By 1996 BB Aval had become one of the largest traders of Indonesian assets in the forfaiting market.

In 1981, Tara founded Interdiscount Ltd., a boutique merchant banking company in New York specializing in the financing of letters of credit and insurance company guarantees generated from private placement investments which company was the first in its market to offer fixed rate financing.