Tara Kimbrell Cole

Location: Singapore
Language: English, Italian, Bahasa Indonesia

Tara Kimbrell Cole brings to AIIR over 15 years of experience coaching executives and creating initiatives that solve complex market challenges with systemic solutions. Tara is a strategic thinker who facilitates the development of authentic leaders, senior management teams, and customer-engaged cultures. She focuses on the development of leaders’ personal mastery, collaborative capability, alignment of vision with learning and strategy, and systems.

Tara has lived in Asia for 30 years, enhancing her expertise in cross-cultural communication, cultural sensitivity, and fluid environment navigation. She is a member of Women Corporate Directors, the Society of Wharton Fellows and approved by the WBG International Finance Corporation for appointment as nominee director on the boards of their investee companies in Asia Pacific.

Tara brings her own business leadership experience to her coaching as a chief executive, financial market innovator, and international entrepreneur. Throughout her twenty-year financial services career, Tara formulated and directed financial strategies, expanded customer bases, and commercialized intellectual property for the companies she led. She established trusted networks among leaders and policy‐makers in regional and international businesses across industries and government sectors. During her career, Tara was a CEO and board member of a financial services software company. As CEO she directed strategy and business development to deliver innovative systems to a $2 trillion market.

Following a successful finance career working in New York, Europe and Asia, she broadened that expertise with extensive education in organizational learning and professional development.