Communicating
Testimonials
Speaking Engagements:
At the Global Summit of Women 2005,
"Tara Kimbrell Cole motivated and inspired women in business and government sectors from 75 countries... It was an insightful 'call' to take a pro-active leadership in bringing forward sustainable solutions. Her delivery was received with great enthusiasm."
Irene Natividad
President, Global Summit of Women
"Tara Kimbrell Cole is a thought leader, bright and intelligent. She is at the leading edge of thought on issues in the region (ASEAN) and ways to take advantage of the innovation taking place."
Hannah Sorscher
CFO
Citicards, Canada
Past President
The International Alliance of Women
"If you have not had the privilege of hearing Tara Kimbrell Cole speak, then you are in for a rare treat. Her courage, self- motivation and humour make her an absolute delight, a truly motivational experience not to be missed – her message can change your life."
Sattar Bawany Ph.D.
Managing Director
DBM Singapore
Selected Presentations by Tara Kimbrell Cole
A presentation at The Triple Bottom Line Investment conference (TBLI) held in Bangkok.
Tara Kimbrell Cole offers a rating system to accelerate the process for rating the sustainability of corporate profitability and makes a case for doing so. Read more...
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A presentation at "CONSULTATION & MASTER-PLANNING FOR DALAT and THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY IN LAM DONG PROVINCE", organized by the Lam Dong People's Committee in Vietnam (opening session)
Tara Kimbrell Cole makes the case that serving underserved markets with sustainable, innovative solutions presents opportunities for businesses to engage and develop local markets. Read more...
Key Challenges to Becoming a Strategic Business Partner and Human Capital Leader in Asia
A presentation at Singapore Management University, Mercer Human Capital Consulting & Singapore Business Federation's "Strategic Human Capital Management, Executive Education Program" held in Singapore.
Tara Kimbrell Cole explores key challenges to becoming an HR business partner and human capital partner in Asia for this Strategic Human Capital Management Executive Education Program.
She begins by recounting a story that provides a compelling analogy. She concludes that HR leaders and CEOs have a significant fundamental challenge in common and then explores four other key challenges. Read more...
Change: Friend or Foe?
Shifting Perspectives
What is your reaction to the major revolutionizing forces that are drastically changing the world you live in today?
A presentation at Singapore Institute of Management's CEO Briefings Club held in Singapore
The ability to shift perspective is the core challenge that all CEOs face in discovering and realizing business opportunities from problems and challenges. Indeed that all companies face in building the thinking capacity of their executives and their capability to meet competitive threats and to innovate. If we go through life fully focused only on the business 'at hand' or business 'as it has been', we miss those opportunities that are out of our focus. We can only see them by shifting our perspectives.
Tara Kimbrell Cole reviews the seven global forces of revolutionary change in process today and the practice of shifting perspectives. In the problems presented lie businesses opportunities that could potentially create sustainable economic value.
The information presented is based on research studies from the following: the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, World Health Organization, various United Nations Agencies and other respected institutions. Read more...
Strategies for Growing the Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs
A presentation at The Global Summit of Women "Leading the 21st Century Economy" held in Mexico City.
Tara Kimbrell Cole explores strategies for growing the next generation of entrepreneurs including the core challenge that the next generation will face in their entrepreneurial undertakings which she identifies as developing business models of sustainability.
She summarizes the changing environment and identifies some future trends that will impact the next generation of entrepreneurs. She addresses potential inherent strengths which women entrepreneurs would do well to further cultivate and proposes some strategies to prepare for the challenges. She concludes with some thoughts on the roles that women's entrepreneurship and business organizations may wish to take in the process. Read more...
New Business Models for ASEAN Opportunities
A presentation at The International CEOs Conference held in Malaysia
While ASEAN rides the boom cycle of 'over-demand' for its rich raw materials, the spill over of manufacturing from China and the growing middle class, Tara Kimbrell Cole encourages CEOs to find pioneering opportunities. Some of these opportunities can be seen amidst the major revolutionizing forces that are in the process of changing life today - and over the next 20 years. These opportunities can result in sustainable, profitable solutions that build domestic markets and engage more efficient utilization of resources. An important feature of their sustainability is that they all make the pie bigger. However, to see them requires looking beyond developed consumer markets here and in the rest of the world.
After outlining the pertinent revolutionizing forces, she nominates the generic features of the profitable business models that the revolutions are spawning, reviews two successful examples and concludes with some steps forward. Read more...
Women - The Emerging Economic Force: Driving the Shift to a New Paradigm
A presentation at The ASEAN Women Summit held in Malaysia.
Tara Kimbrell Cole elaborates on the dual aspects of this challenge with regard to its application in multi national corporations in the region and privately held business. She proposes a specific course of action for ASEAN business women's consideration and contends that the actions will enable women to drive the process of the shift to a new paradigm. She describes the new paradigm and reviews some of the strengths that women executives have demonstrated and the regional and global environment which brought those strengths into the limelight. Her conclusion is that these strengths and the market environment will support a shift to that new paradigm. Read more...
Survival of The Fittest: The Power of Knowledge
A presentation at Women's Business Connection Annual Luncheon held in Singapore.
The ability to shift the lenses through which one sees the world is a core challenge that we all face in discovering and realizing opportunities from problems. And that all companies face in building the thinking capacity of their executives and their capability to meet competitive threats and to innovate.
Tara Kimbrell Cole reviews research from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., The Milken Institute in Los Angeles, World Health Organization, and other sources on the seven major forces of revolutionary change underway and the practice of shifting perspectives on the challenges they present. In the problems presented lie sectors of business opportunities that could potentially create sustainable economic value as well as opportunities to make a difference. Read more...
Women's Productivity and Innovation
A presentation at The Global Female Invent & Innovate Conference held in Singapore
Tara Kimbrell Cole explores two key challenges that inventors and innovators face in the current market environment. Read more...
Monetizing the Value of Gender Friendly Policies
A presentation at The Annual Global Forum of the International Alliance for Women held in Washington, D.C.
For all women have accomplished, public corporations and institutional investors have historically placed agendas related to women in the social responsibility category. At the time of this, pushing forward diversity policies had only been engaged via social responsibility agendas and movements. Yet women know that women at multiple levels of participation make an equal contribution to that made by men to the value of corporate shares. Women remain locked in a struggle to achieve equal pay for their equal or sometimes superior contributions. Tara Kimbrell Cole proposes that the value placed on women's productivity will only be recognized and equal value be achieved until the issues surrounding diversity policies distinctly and directly demonstrate their impact on share value. This presentation and its related white paper were early calls for research on this subject. Read more...