Membership Directory - Individual
Suman Balani
MD at Flourish Consulting Pte. Ltd.
About
Personal Profile: Suman is an executive Coach and facilitator who creates developmental programs for individuals and organisations. She brings together a unique blend of coaching skills with a strong business-building background to empower individuals and teams to become highly engaged performing leaders, striving also to contribute to the community. Suman is also an Accredited Boss Whisperer?, a coaching methodology designed to transform valuable, highly intelligent, task-driven senior executives/professionals balance their high performance with emotionally intelligent conduct, whilst recreating a sense of focus, and vibrancy in their people and organizations. Suman adopts a strengths-based philosophy in her work, believing that each person has extraordinary capabilities and when personal development starts from a place of strength, the impact of the change is exponentially greater. Suman has over 25 years of leadership experience in healthcare, payments and technology services, including positions in corporate strategy development, business operations, strategic marketing, product development and technology innovation. Leveraging on her strong corporate track record, Suman has brought the benefits of coaching to organisations by helping the leaders build capacity for sustainable performance whilst concurrently displaying emotionally intelligent conduct. Sumans style of evocative coaching enables leaders to gain deep self-awareness, and experience powerful shifts in their perspective allowing them to be open to new and better ways of working. These new insights help them to better appreciate and embrace the work of their teams resulting not only in more innovative and creative outcomes, but also highly engaged and motivated teams and co-workers. A strong communicator and strategic thinker, she is able to bring clarity and renewed energy to executives and teams through her skilful coaching conversations. Suman has to her credit over 1900 hours of 1-on-1 and group coaching, with over 500 individual clients in Singapore and Asia. Suman served as the President of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Singapore Chapter in 2019, driving initiatives to introduce coaching to the community and to shape the coaching landscape in Singapore. She is also a Board Committee Member of SPD, a non-profit organization creating inclusivity for persons with disabilities, and a member of the planning committee of Over-the-Rainbow, an organization that aspires to transform youth mental wellness through self-care and service projects. Suman is based in Singapore and works across Asia. Professional Qualifications executive Masters in Coaching and Consulting for Change (Clinical Organisational Psychology) from INSEAD business School Bachelors of Science (Computer Science/Information Systems) from the National University of Singapore< ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Erickson Certified Professional Coach (ECPC) Coach Masters Academy Certified Professional Transformative Coach Certified Gallup Strengths Coach Accredited Boss Whisperer? (ABW) Points-of-You Expert facilitator Mastery in Deep Facilitation Advance of the Spirit (Deep Coaching) Certified Integrative Enneagram Practitioner Certified MBTI Step I and Step II Practitioner Certified Harrisons Assessments Practitioner Certified REACH Practitioner Certified DISC Personality Profile Practitioner Certified Behavioural and career consultant Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment Other Assessments / Tools Used Various 360 assessments leadership Maturity Framework Workplace Big Five Belbins teams Hogans Assessment Immunity to Change Motivational Interviewing Group Process Facilitation Action Learning Expertise / Services Provided executive Coaching Boss Whispering® Strengths-Based Coaching Consulting Elevating Women in leadership Mindfulness Reflective Practice Group Coaching/Facilitation Languages Services offered in English Conversational in Malay and Bahasa Indonesia Clients Served I have served a wide range of public, not-for-profit and private sector clients including Agency for Integrated Care Allergan. American Association of Singapore. Attorney Generals Chambers. Autism Association of Singapore. AWWA. Boehringer Ingelheim. Caledonian Investments Childrens Cancer Foundation. Civil Aviation authority of Singapore. Community Foundation of Singapore. CPF Board. CROCS. EDB. Eden School. Evonik. HCA Hospice Care, Housing Development Board, Inland Revenue authority of Singapore. INSEAD Institute of Technical Education LEGO Liberty Insurance Singapore Lifeskills Resources Markit, Microsoft , Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Health, Singapore MG Real Estate Pte Ltd. Monetary authority of Singapore National Council of Social Services National Parks Board NUS business School - executive & Undergrad Education NVPC OCBC Oriental Motors Perfetti Van Melle Planet Asia Pte Ltd Global Sanofi Aventis Singapore Sembcorp Marine SMU Singapore Cancer Society Singapore Cruises Singapore International Foundation Smiths Detection Spring Singapore / Enterprise Singapore The American Club TOTAL Oil Asia Pte Ltd. The HUB Singapore, Unilever Singapore Ultra Clean Technologies UOB. YCH International
One Sentence Introduction: Creating Leaders and teams that Live and Lead Consciously
Primary Focus: Corporate Leaders & Teams
Coaching Specialities: Teams, Special Needs, Relationship, Life - Balance/Integration, Leadership, Executive, Creativity, Conflict Resolution, Coach Supervision/Mentoring, Change Management, Career, Business
Professional & Life Experience: Consultant, Entrepreneur, Executive, Facilitator, Finance/Investment, Manager/Team Lead, Married, Non-Profit, Parent, Speaker, Trainer
ICF Membership Number: 9020761
Credential: PCC
Degrees & Certifications: Professional Qualifications executive Masters in Coaching and Consulting for Change (Clinical Organisational Psychology) from INSEAD business School Bachelors of Science (Computer Science/Information Systems) from the National University of Singapore ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Erickson Certified Professional Coach (ECPC) Coach Masters Academy Certified Professional Transformative Coach Certified Gallup Strengths Coach Accredited Boss Whisperer (ABW) Points-of-You Expert facilitator Mastery in Deep Facilitation Advance of the Spirit (Deep Coaching) Certified Integrative Enneagram Practitioner Certified MBTI Step I and Step II Practitioner Certified Harrisons Assessments Practitioner Certified REACH Practitioner Certified DISC Personality Profile Practitioner Certified Behavioural and career consultant Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment
Website: www.flourishconsciously.com
Email Address: suman [at] flourishconsciously.com
Company Profile: Flourish Consulting is Coaching & Consultancy firm that offers professional coaching to leaders and their teams who aspire to give their best, living , leading consciously and with a heart of the community. We exist to see our leaders and coaches flourish consciously both professionally and personally.Our services - executive and C-Suite Coaching - leadership Development for Emerging Leaders - Elevating Women in leadership - Group Team Coaching - Process Facilitation - Mentor Coaching for Coaches Client Testimonials Suman, Thanks for helping me out to be a better person. Admittedly, I was sceptical of the process from the beginning but the probing, suggestions and ideas to make changes for the better finally made me see the light. And I am most glad and appreciative that you have helped me in what must have been, at that point, my most crucial hurdle in my career. You have enabled me to be happier, friendlier, more approachable and most of all a more valuable team member to my peers and colleagues. - Assistant Chief executive, Public Sector Organisation Suman was firm yet gentle in taking me through a journey of self-discovery, just as I thought I already knew all that I had to know about myself. She has a knack for understanding people, and is tirelessly patient in playing the reflective mirror, a hallmark of an insightful and talented coach. I am grateful to have gained much personal and professional progress, which is also seen by others whom I have to work with. Everyone needs a coach, and you are in very good hands if your coach is Suman. I would highly recommend her. - Deputy Director, Marketing & Events, International Voluntary Welfare Organisation Thanks Suman. I have really appreciated our coaching sessions. You are a very good coach and just by listening to me you are able to help me realise my areas to work on. You have given me valuable insights and definitely helped me to be a better leader. - Group Finance & Corporate Services, Local Singapore Bank I first approached coaching with a huge dose of cynicism, and was highly guarded and cautious during the first meeting so afraid to reveal too much details about my true personality and work behaviours. However, Suman won my trust by her simple yet helpful and logical explanation behind how our minds work. I particularly like her probing question whenever I went back to my old and destructive self by asking me how does that action serve you well. It got me thinking when I played it back and then realised I was not helping myself by adopting a certain approach towards any situations, be it work or personal. Now, I feel entirely unwound, with a less pressing need to have regular tension releasing messages and am certainly happier and can enjoy simpler things in life like yoga practices, sunny weather and equally important is the attained maturity in watching people from the balcony. - Fraud Risk Director, Major International Bank Suman has been instrumental in creating a critical turnaround of perspectives that helped get me out of the downward spiral of negative emotions. She has a great listening ear that comes with understanding and empathy, and yet is able to reflect the tough truth and issues of my unhealthy ways of thinking and management. I love the techniques she has taught, they are very useful and relevant, and greatly appreciate that she always has something new to ask and discuss to continually shape things further at each coaching session. - Director Marketing, Financial Institution Suman is a very patient and good listener. She is able to ask good questions to help me to rethink, relook and reframe my issues. As a result of that, I was able to have the confidence to face my issues and come up with action plans to deal with them. She is very perceptive and has helped me to be more aware of my own communication style and in turn, use it to my advantage. I found her to be very experienced and knowledgeable in the area of team problem-solving and culture building. The whole coaching experience was most enriching and transformational. Thank you very much Suman. - School Development Director, Local Singapore School Suman is personable and treats her coachees sincerely. As she built good rapport with me, I began to open up with her and feel secured sharing and exchanging views freely. She has good mastery in various management topics such as delegation, mindfulness, conflict-resolution, time management etc. I will strongly recommend her service to fellow managers. Thank you very much for being such a good coach to me. I truly appreciate your guidance and coaching over the past 6 sessions. I have made the right decision to engage you as my coach.- Director, Enterprise SingaporeThe outcome exceeds my expectation. Suman demonstrated superb empathy and listening to help me understand where I was, where I could be and how I should proceed. She also keeps me accountable to myself by giving my actionable tasks to move next steps. Suman is excellent. She's a great coach and helped me within 1h to structure the way I'm engaging with my team members and how to approach my newly assumed people manager role in a very demanding and complex environment. Appreciate the coaching opportunity and I'd recommend to every people manager to have a coach like Suman. The experience was great. Overall Suman was great. She is an excellent listener and really good at guiding the participant on a potential journey.- Comments from Microsoft Employees