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11 December 2011
International Coach Federation, Singapore Chapter, Interview with Tara Kimbrell Cole
Member of the Month, Interview published in the International Coach Federation Newsletter, December 2011
Excerpt
What's been the biggest shift in your professional life? Personal life?
Perhaps it was through my experience of Einstein, with whom I was blessed to spend time as a very young child; passion for that which I do has been a part of who I am for most of my life. Indeed it was Einstein's deep resonance with nature that called me to discover my own, motivating me to leave Manhattan without a destination and for the completely unknown in 1988. This facilitated the biggest shift in my personal and professional life.
Click here to read the full interview.
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13 November 2011
The Telegraph, London, 13 November 2011
Rodney Galpin, who has died aged 79, was a Bank of England official much admired for his skill in pouring oil on troubled waters – an attribute that was notably deployed in the rescue of Johnson Matthey Bankers and in his later chairmanship of Standard Chartered.
Click here for The Telegraph's obituary of Rodney Galpin.
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3 November 2011
Singapore Institute of Management recently gathered a dynamic group of successful women for the SIM Women's Leadership Forum 2011 to discuss gender diversity and women's leadership.
The Guest-of-Honour, Ms. Grace Fu Hai Yien, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts & Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources opened the forum with inspiring remarks on the challenges women face in the workplace.
Ms. Tara Kimbrell Cole, CEO of Synovations, gave the key note address on "Achieving a Gender Diversity that Leads to our Highest Potential".
Additional noteworthy speakers sharing their own insights included Ms. Grace Yip, Practice lead, Accenture Management Consulting –Talent and Organisation Performance (Singapore), Ms. Alicia Yi, Managing Director, Korn/Ferry International, Dr. Ann Tan, Chair, SCWO Women's Register and Ms. Junie Foo, Chair, Board Agender.
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10 October 2011
Synovations deeply regrets the unexpected passing of its revered and invaluable advisor, Mr. Rodney D. Galpin on 6 October 2011 in the United Kingdom. Mr. Galpin's accomplishments include having been the Chairman and CEO of Standard Chartered Bank and Executive Director of the Bank of England. He was a man of great foresight and vision, with a far reaching understanding of the value and meaning of life, innovation and leadership. His stalwart support of Synovations was a guiding light and inspiration for all at Synovations.
1 September 2011
Invited by Singapore Management University's Lee Kong Chain School of Business, Tara Kimbrell Cole, Synovations' CEO spoke at the Wee Kim Wee Centre's CEO Talks Series. The Wee Kim Wee Centre is tasked with promoting deeper understanding of the impact of cultural diversity on the business environment. Previous CEO speakers at the series have included among others Tony Fernandez (AirAsia), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) and Jerry Yang(YaHoo).
The topic of Kimbrell Cole's presentation was: "Leadership: Becoming a Human Being", and the content responded to the question "How do we develop ourselves into genuine human beings capable of leading to the future of our highest potential?"
She explored the changing shape of leadership in the 21st Century and provided an introduction to the work of the MIT Presencing Institute and the Society of Organizational Learning and their significance for the evolving nature of sustainable business.
The talk was greeted with enthusiasm and appreciation by Dr Kirpal Singh, Director of the Centre, faculty and students.
http://www.business.smu.edu.sg/wkwc/ceo_talks/CT2011.asp
21 May 2011
Synovations catalyzing innovative thought, Tara Kimbrell Cole & Oceanic Explorers invited a select group of art and history aficionados to a presentation and cocktail reception at Art Trove Gallery by Nicolai von Uexkull on the Tang Treasure.
The Cargo, considered the best existing collection of gold, silver and ceramic artifacts from the Tang Dynasty (618-906 A.D) was discovered in an underwater shipwreck off Belitung, Indonesia in 1998.
Baron von Uexkull fascinated the guests with the dynamic history of the discovery and some of the contents, dating to 826 A.D., which re-wrote Chinese art and trade history.
Afterwards the enthusiasts toured the Waterloo street gallery's celebrated retrospective of the rare art-works (1920s-1980s) of the German Expressionist, Ewald Platte (1894-1985). One of the greats of the German art scene of the 1920s, Platte exhibited with the likes of Picasso, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger and Matisse.
He was banned from exhibiting in 1933, and his work labeled "degenerate" in 1937, and in 1943 a bomb wipe out over 30 years of Platte's life work.
Press Release
11 January 2011
Founding CEO, Tara Kimbrell Cole of synovations® Pte. Ltd. is pleased to announce that the company is working with multinational branding company Band® Pte. Ltd. to redesign and enhance the synovations® website.
Kimbrell Cole anticipates the new site to be operational in the first quarter of 2011.
"Working with synovations® to develop both the brand and digital strategy was an opportunity to collaborate with a firm that takes organizational learning to a higher level of awareness," says Bickerton. "Developing the logo required a deep understanding of the systems, processes and thinking that Tara, with her international team of senior consultants and executive coaches, employ when working with Fortune 500 companies and other multinationals in dynamic growth mode."
From its offices in Singapore and Connecticut, USA, synovations® assists clients in optimizing business opportunities through development of their Innovation Capital® Among synovations®' multinational clients include BHP Billiton, Microsoft and Standard Chartered Bank.
Band, with offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing and Paris, provides 360-degree brand strategy, marketing and digital services throughout Asia Pacific for multinational companies that are established in or are entering Asian markets. Band's clients include Datacraft, United Information Technology, Adidas, Tiger breweries, Cisco, BASF and Microsoft.
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Thursday 29 July 2010
synovations® is pleased to announce Tara Kimbrell Cole, its CEO, joined speakers from Deloitte Consulting, Mercer, Hewitt Associates and Korn Ferry’s Futurestep at the Asia Pacific Employee’s Benefits Conference 2010, 29-30 July 2010, held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore. In the session on Innovative Solutions in Employee Benefits, she presented "Developing a Platform of Sustainability for Your Company"
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Wednesday 17 June 2009
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations® Pte. Ltd. gave a presentation at the Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches’ June Monthly Talk. The topic was "The Imperative for the development of Integrated Economic, Social and Environmental Thinking for our Sustainability" and emphasized the importance of coaching for its development.
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Wednesday 1 April 2009
synovations® is pleased to announce that Tara Kimbrell Cole, its Managing Director, in her capacity as an Executive Council Member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), Singapore made a presentation to the American Chamber of Commerce’s Human Capital Group, entitled "Paradigm Shifting Times and the relevance of professional Coaching". The presentation explored the paradigm shift underway in the business landscape that puts the spotlight on executive development and the relevance of ICF and its objectives for raising the standard of professional coaching in Singapore.
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Thursday 4 December 2008
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations® Pte. Ltd. gave the key note address at the electronic industry Annual Human Resources Management Congress 2008. "Coaching Leadership in Relentless Turbulence" was presented to over forty participants and focused on today’s absolute necessities in executive development:
- INNOVATION CAPITAL®: the capability to foresee, adapt, profitably shape and / or implement strategies in periods of rapid change
- Highly tuned collaboration, the core collective competency for competing today.
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Monday 2 June 2008
synovations® is pleased to announce Tara Kimbrell Cole, its Managing Director, was a speaker at the TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investment) Conference™, Asia 2008 on 29 May 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. In the workshop on Corporate Governance, she presented her thoughts on "Widening the Circle of Engagement in Sustainability" from her book "Sustainable Profitability" to be released in December 2009. (ISBN: 978-981-08-088-4). The TBLI Conferences are the largest global networking and educational events on Triple Bottom Line Investing and Environmental and Social Governance.
For the last 10 years, TBLI has enabled participants to meet the thought leaders on all matters of sustainable investment; from Carbon Trading, Project Finance, Cleantech Private Equity, Alternative Investments, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Biofuel, Fund Performance and Strategy, Water, Micro-finance, Human Rights, Palm Oil, and the latest research.
On 29 May 2008 Global experts from around the world gathered in Bangkok to share their knowledge.
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Monday 28 January 2008
synovations® is pleased to announce that its managing director, Tara Kimbrell Cole has been accepted into the Society of Organizational Learning’s (SoL, www.solonline.org) Coaches Community of Practice.
http://www.solonline.org/ConsultingAndPrograms/coaching/
The SoL Community of Practice is an ongoing learning/research community in which the best practices, insights, and themes that arise from the coaching relationships in a particular organization are shared. This ensures continuous learning and improvement for both the individual client and the sponsoring organization.
SoL is a non-profit, member-governed corporation, and intentional learning community composed of organizations, individuals, and SoL communities around the world.
SoL was formed in April 1997 to continue the work of MIT's Center for Organizational Learning (1991-1997). Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization is the founding chairman of SoL.
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Saturday 14 December 2007
synovations® is pleased to announce Tara Kimbrell Cole, its managing director, delivered the key note address at AIESEC Singapore, National Leadership Development Seminar 2007, Developing Leaders Day.
AIESEC is the world's largest university student organization & international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society.
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Tuesday 13 November 2007
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, joined Jimmy Choo, OBE, Her Excellency Zanele Makina, High commissioner, South African High Commission, Singapore in addressing women leaders at The International Women Executive Congress 2007 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
Tara’s presentation, “Success ‘As Usual’ Is Not Sustainable” made the case for women executives to answer “the call” by take the lead in delivering sustainability.
Press Release
Wednesday 8 October 2007
Will Sustainability Initiatives Bring Sustainable Profit?
DuPont, Cemex, FujiXerox and other pioneers share practices
Singapore, October 8, 2007 - An interesting twist from executives ignoring sustainability, in the not so recent past, to a boardroom priority, dynamic growth of investment funds in sustainable business, over 54% of MBA schools worldwide requiring courses on sustainability, the issue of sustainability simply cannot be ignored in today's business world.
"The Corporate Response Forum on Climate Change & Sustainable Profitability" was organized by synovations® and Global Strategy Associates and sponsored by the Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore.
Press Release
Wednesday 18 July 2007
Cambridge, Massachusetts July, 2007 - The Council of Trustees of The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) has accepted Tara Kimbrell Cole, managing director of synovations®, CATALYZING Innovative Thought® (www.synovations.com), based in Singapore and Connecticut, as a Consultant Member effective 18 July 2007.
"It is a pleasure to have Ms. Cole as a new member of our international learning community. We look forward to a productive and satisfying relationship in the coming years," says Sheila McGarey SoL Membership Coordinator.
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Saturday 7 July 2007
synovations® is proud to announce its support for and participation in EARTH-FEST 070707 http://www.greenlive.com.sg/, the initiative in Singapore in support of LIVE EARTH 070707, The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis.
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Monday 23 April 2007
synovations® is pleased to announce that its managing director, Tara Kimbrell Cole has been elected to the executive board of the International Coach Federation, Singapore.
The International Coach Federation (ICF) is the largest worldwide resource for business and personal coaches, and the source for those who are seeking a coach. The ICF is a nonprofit, individual membership organization formed by professionals worldwide who practice business and personal coaching.
The ICF exists to Build, Support and Preserve the integrity of the coaching profession through programs and standards supported by the individual membership.
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Wednesday 21 March 2007
synovations® is pleased to announce the growth of its international team with Ms. Patricia Longueuil joining as Director of Business Development.
Ms. Longueuil has over twenty-five years of experience, having served multinational corporations including General Electric as well as small and medium sized enterprises.
Ms. Longueuil will facilitate the expansion of synovations®' multi-national clients with headquarters in the United States.
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Friday 2 March 2007
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, delivered the opening class for this semester's General Education university-wide module on "Community Service and Social Action" at the National University of Singapore. At the request of the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to "catalyze the innovative thought and commitment" of the students, Ms. Cole presented a lecture entitled "Our Changing World… Shifting Perspectives," a comprehensive talk on "Revolutionary Changes, Reality & Inspiration and the Difference You Can Make".
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Wednesday 16 August 2006
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, presented "Improving Quality of Life by Becoming More Informed Consumers", to the Rotary Clubs of Singapore.
The global revolutionizing forces impacting our natural resources demand that we defend our individual health and environment.
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August 2006
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, founder and chair-woman of The Campaign 4 An Inconvenient Truth builds capacity through the Environmental Challenge Organisation (Singapore), www.eco-singapore.org, also known as ECO Singapore, a youth organisation. ECO Singapore joined forces as the not-for-profit umbrella organization spear-heading the Campaign. Golden Village commits to publicly screen the film "An Inconvenient truth" to open on 26 October 2007 and upon request to screen the film for a minimum of three months at private screenings for corporations and other organizations. The campaign goal is to promote awareness and drive actions by individuals, organizations, and corporations that will assist in Reducing Global Warming and our Carbon Footprints.
Friday 14 July 2006
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, presented "Making the Case for the Sustainable Development of Dalat & Lam Dong Province: Exploring the Path to Innovative Solutions, Business Models and Markets" at the opening session of the first international conference of its kind in Vietnam. "Consultation & Master-Planning For Dalat and the Development of the Knowledge Economy in Lam Dong Province" was held on 14-15 July 2006, hosted by Lam Dong People's Committee and sponsored by Trung Nguyen Company.
Some of the noteworthy speakers and experts included: Thai Quang Trung, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Germany ; Dr. Peter McLoughlin, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland; Dr Heng Chye Kiang, Professor, Head – NUS Architecture Department; Prof. Tay Kheng Soon, Architect-Tenggara, Adjunct Professor, NUS; Mr. Robert Rubinstein, CEO, Brooklyn Bridge, Amsterdam, NL; Dr. Philippe Bergeron (Ing.), Consultant and former Director, RIET-Singapore; Dr Markus Waechter, Director, German Institute of Science & Technology, Singapore.
Noteworthy participants were cabinet and committee members of the Lam Dong Peoples Committee and senior officials from the central Government such as Prof. Dr. Tran Luan Kim and included prominent historians and journalists such as Duong Trung Quoc, member of the RSVN National Assembly.
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April 2006
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, founded and became the chair-woman of The Campaign 4 An Inconvenient Truth, a grass-roots umbrella campaign topromote awareness and drive actions by individuals, organizations, and corporations to reduce their impact on climate change. The film was not set for distribution in Singapore. The first campaign mission is to assure that the film "An Inconvenient Truth" would be distributed in Singapore.
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Saturday 4 March 2006
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, presented "Integrative Learning & Shifting Perspectives: Rich Resources of Innovative Thought for Life and Business" at AIESEC's "Xpand Your Horizonz... Go global!" conference, 4-5 March 2006. AIESEC is the world's largest student organization & international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society.
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Thursday 24 January 2006
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, was the guest speaker at TheEDGE, Singapore's Business and Investment Weekly, PowerWomen* and presented "Strategies for Growing the Next Generation of Women Enterpreneurs" Creating opportunities out of the dynamic changes in our World.
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20 September 2005
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, presented "Key Challenges To Becoming a Strategic Business Partner and Human Captial in Asia" at Singapore Management University, Mercer Human Capital Consulting & Singapore Business Federation's "Strategic Human Capital Management Executive Education Program".
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28 August 2005
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, presented "Change: Foe or Friend? Shifting Perspectives on The Revolutionizing Forces Changing The World" at Singapore Institute of Management's CEO Briefings Club.
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26 June 2005
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, presented "Strategies for Growing the Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs" at the GLOBAL SUMMIT of WOMEN "Leading the 21 st Century Economy" on 25 June 2005 in Mexico City, Mexico.
The Global Summit for Women's lead sponsors included Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, DaimlerChrysler, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Heidrick & Struggles, Hudson Highland Group, American Express, GE, Mckinsey & Company. Ms. Cole, representing Women's Business Connection (WBC), Singapore, was accompanied by other WBC delegates. Women's Business Connection is a Singapore-based globally-linked group of senior business and professional women, whose mission is to connect leading business women across the world to facilitate business opportunities for the well being of individuals, organizations and society.
Press Release
Singapore, 8 April 2005
Consulting Firm Facilitates Executives in Developing New Mental Models to Recognize Opportunities Where None are Obvious.
Companies today need to continuously innovate and extract maximum value from innovation yet at the same time optimize their resources in the capabilities of their senior executives. synovations® puts a new stake in the ground by assisting clients to maximize business opportunities through the development of "Innovation Capital". The company engages a hybrid model composed of consultation and facilitation to achieve the goals of its clients.
Applying Wharton Fellows Pioneering Work on Mental Models
Increasingly, past experience combined with traditional executive development no longer adequately prepares senior executives for a rapidly changing environment. Companies often overlook opportunities on which they are not focused.
These opportunities can only be revealed by shifting perspectives. Cutting-edge work by the Fellows of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania has revealed that changes in mental models can bring forth new business models and create innovative solutions.
synovations® complements this work by facilitating executives in the process, and through the development challenges that go hand in hand with it.
synovations® Commitment - Catalyzing Executive Development in Innovative Thought Tied to Company Strategy and Platform
At the helm of synovations® is Ms Tara Kimbrell Cole, Alumna and Fellow of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Her thought leadership and innovation have been recognized by leaders including:
- Ambassador Evan G. Galbraith, the former founding chairman of GTFNet and currently a United States Department of Defense advisor and Special Representative of the United States Secretary of Defense to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and
- Mr. Rodney D. Galpin, the current chairman of GTFNet, formerly chairman & CEO, Standard Chartered Bank and Executive Director, Bank of England.
Rodney D Galpin has become the first member of synovations®Advisory Board.
Cole is concurrently the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Global Trade Finance Network Pte. Ltd. (GTFNet). GTFNet facilitates the financing of exports, through its patented software solution.
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28 March 2005
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Managing Director, synovations®, CATALYZING Innovative Thought presented "New Business Models for ASEAN Opportunities" at the International CEOs Conference "Global Issues & Challenges Facing Asian Corporations" held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia on 28 March 2005.
The conference was opened by an address from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi and closed by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, tun Dr. Mahatir Bin Mohamad, some of the Noteworthy speakers included Stanley Roth, Vice president- Asia, International Relations, the Boeing Company, USA, the former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Policy Affairs, US Department of State; Datuk john Chadwick, Chairman, Shell companies in Malaysia; Steve Brice, Senior Economist, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore; Dr. Wong Yit Fan, MD & head of Country risk management - Group risk, DBS Bank Ltd, Singapore.
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