Devendra has been an Executive Coach for more than 11 years. What makes him particularly effective is the 30-year career in the international financial industry that he brings to his clients. The latter experience includes finance, global markets, operations, processes, project management and mergers & acquisitions. The diversity of his roles, combined with his keen observations of human behaviour has given him deep insights into corporate organisational dynamics and managerial challenges.

The coaching clients Devendra has worked with include leadership executives, middle level managers, emerging leaders, high-potentials, entrepreneurs and professionals within industries like banking & finance, public sector healthcare, engineering, insurance, public sector and non-profits.

While his experience is diverse by way of clients as well as industry, Devendra has proven particularly effective in improving outcomes for managers experiencing changes in role, level and responsibility. His familiarity with the way organisations function has helped many not only become more efficient managers but also transcend into effective leadership.

Devendra’s personal style and experience of living and working in India, the UK and Singapore have fully equipped him to successfully coach individuals from widely different levels, disciplines and cultures. His biggest strength lies in providing different perspectives, reframing issues and unearthing solutions that may be lying undetected in the subconscious mind. Devendra’s collaborative and influence-based management style has made him an effective Coach, utilizing his significant cultural skills to enhance his clients’ understanding and performance. His professional approach to coaching, including giving non-judgmental feedback in a direct manner while injecting a degree of humour when appropriate, allows exploration and creation of new paradigms and behaviours to achieve desired outcomes.

Additionally, being a trained psychotherapist, Devendra is uniquely placed amongst coaches. While coaching focusses on helping clients move from the present to a better future, psychotherapy delves deeper and into the past to identify and resolve underlying root causes of dysfunction. Devendra is equipped to seamlessly traverse the entire spectrum with his coaching clients, should their presenting issues turn out to have such deeper or/and historic roots.

Devendra also allocates time for pro-bono coaching with client segments less able to afford professional fees. In particular he has collaborated the ICF Singapore Chapter to provide services to private and public charitable organisations. This has ranged from leadership development to EAP support for staff.

Devendra has lived in seven countries (including India, UK and Singapore) and travelled to over ninety. He is an exhibited photographer and published author. His other interests are philanthropy, reading, cooking, geo-politics, diving, riding his motorcycle and driving motor boats. Devendra lives in Singapore.