Tara Kimbrell Cole is an expert in the field of leadership development and executive coaching whose organizational learning and business expertise assists clients in Asia, Europe, and the United States. She is recognized for co-creating targeted programs with clients to solve organizational development challenges with systemic solutions. Ms. Kimbrell Cole is a strategic thinker, who facilitates the development of leaders and senior management teams. She has an in-depth understanding of organizational learning, diversity, and cross-cultural communication. Her business leadership and direct experience in multiple Asian countries enhances her navigation of culturally sensitive and fluid environments. Following a successful career as a Chief Executive, financial services innovator, and international entrepreneur Ms. Kimbrell Cole broadened that expertise with extensive education in leadership, organizational learning, and cultural studies.

She is CEO of Synovations® Pte. Ltd., the consulting firm she founded based in Singapore, serving multi-national organizations across a range of industries. The company co-creates, designs, and delivers organizational development programs to build leadership, systems thinking, innovation capabilities, highly-tuned team collaboration and manage change while optimizing business opportunities. Leading the firm's consulting strategy, business development, and service delivery in 14 languages; she is a lead executive coach, consultant and directs an international team of organizational development consultants and executive coaches.

Her experience in human and organizational dynamics, leading businesses, interacting with corporate and thought leaders, innovation and systems thinking is the genesis of her coaching for executives in some of the world's leading corporations. As a learning and development consultant and executive coach, she customizes client programs focused on the development of leaders' personal mastery, collaborative capability, and alignment of vision, increasing systems understanding in the broader context of markets, community, and the environment. Ms. Kimbrell Cole's signature approach builds the capacity to foresee, adapt, develop, and implement profitable strategies in periods of rapid change. She works with executives preparing for senior levels of leadership (from Hi-Potentials to C-Suite). Selected clients include multi-national corporations and educational institutions: Microsoft, BHP Billiton, Standard Chartered Bank, ev3 (Covidien), Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., INSEAD and the National University of Singapore Business School and Singapore Management University Executive Development.

Ms. Kimbrell Cole is a Board Member of the Global Association of Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) Communities (GASC) and the Founding President and Board Chair of SoL (Singapore), an affiliate of the GASC (www.solonline.org), a global network to promote systemic learning, for the development of individuals, their organisations. In line with the organisational development work, she is a Master's Degree candidate (2016) in Executive Coaching at Middlesex University, UK, an approved consultant by the Council of Trustees of the founding Society for Organizational Learning in Cambridge, Massachusetts (since 2007) chaired by Peter M. Senge. Ph.D., a credentialed coach by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a former member of the Executive Council of the ICF, Singapore.

She utilises a range of methodologies and practices acquired over 17 years of organizational development work and training, including: certificated studies in Coaching from a Systems Perspective by the Society for Organizational Learning's Coaching Community of Practice, Solution Focused Coach certification by Canadian Council of Professional Certification, certificated studies by The Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, N.C. USA. and certification in the administration of l