For Business Owners, CEOs and Marketplace LeadersLeadership is a lonely journey. Business leaders often find it difficult to talk to someone in confidence regarding issues in the business, their family or even their own lives. Christian business leaders find it doubly challenging, especially as they endeavor to integrate faith and business. Executive or life coaches are limited in their capacity to appreciate the issues faced by Christian business leaders, and the advice they give seldom aligns with the Word of God.
But now there is a platform where you can seek godly counsel from experienced mentors –
The GBNV Mentoring Program.
A. Leadership Mentoring
This one-on-one Leadership Mentoring will provide you with:
1. A Leadership Mentor and Personal Coach who is committed to help you succeed in life and business
2. Apostolic covering, practical guidance and prophetic prayer support as you ride through the blips of business, and take the risks necessary to expand your business.
3. A Spiritual Advisor who will journey with you and help you step into God’s promises and destiny for your life
4. A Visionary Strategist who will provide input and inspiration for pioneering business models that combine profitability and Kingdom purposes.
Mentoring Outcomes These one-to-one Leadership Mentoring sessions will help you identify and help resolve issues in business, family and life. Confidentiality is strictly preserved.
Through the Leadership Mentoring sessions, you will be empowered to:
- Embrace Your Divine Assignment in the Marketplace
- Receive a Kingdom Vision for Your Business
- Experience Success – God’s Way
- Identify and Overcome Obstacles
- Take Risks and Seize Opportunities
- Recognize Your Anointing and Maximise it
- Manage Success and Avoid its Pitfalls
- Step into Your Destiny as God’s Kingdom Entrepreneur
The Leadership Mentoring is conducted by Dr Naomi Dowdy.Having founded and led several organizations of global impact, Dr Dowdy is no stranger to entrepreneurship and business. She has an in-depth understanding of the issues Christian business leaders face on a daily basis. A successful leader and pastor for more than forty years, she has helped business owners and CEOs move up to the next level through her spiritual counsel, leadership mentoring and apostolic covering.
B. Business Mentoring In a business mentoring role, GBNV helps you to understand the strategic issues in your business, develop and nurture your core strengths, turn your weaknesses into strengths, understand and build measures to combat competitive threats, gear up to take advantage of market opportunities. One of our main tasks is also to build godly values in your corporate culture.
GBNV employs a unique '2-mentors-to-1-mentee' model which has been proven to provide an intensified focus on the business issues and at the same time benefits you by injecting a greater width of expertise, which is drawn from a rich pool of experienced professionals, consultants and successful business owners (all of whom are believers) applying ideas, proven strategies and processes, achieving business transformation through a hands-on mentoring approach and side-by-side implementation. Some specific areas which our mentors can assist you in include:
1. Strategic Business Review
2. Operational Business Review
3. Marketing Strategy Development
4. Mergers & Acquisitions Find out more about the above areas
The GBNV Mentoring Program is a chargeable program. For a 5 session program of a minimum of 2 hours per session with 2 mentors(Business Mentoring), your investment is only S$1,200. This works out to only S$60 per hour for each mentor!
Meet the Mentors
Boyd Au is the former Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Enzer Corporation Ltd. He was responsible for managing the growth of the Group and providing strategic directions for the Group. He currently heads 7 Notes Capital and is a trainer and coach for budding entrepreneurs.
Boyd holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Hull, a Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from the Singapore Institute of Management and a Diploma in Industrial Management from the Institute of Industrial Management (UK). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Chandra Widjaja has over 18 years of professional experience in business consulting, investment, mergers & acquisitions and business development. He has been involved in a wide-range of businesses throughout the different stages of their development, from the conceptualisation stage through to fund raising and expansion. He is currently a director of an electrical cable distribution company with regional presence.
David Lum is the former Managing Director of CPG Facilities Management. He has spent many years covering the Hong Kong and China markets where he established joint venture operations. David has significant experience helping companies internationalize and his passion is to assist Christian business owners expand their business by venturing overseas.
Gan Choon Beng is a director with Infinitus Law Corporation and is the Head of the Corporate, Commercial and Technology Department.
He has extensive expertise in the field of corporate law including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. He has advised various clients in several recent corporate finance transactions involving the raising of more than US$100 million investment capital, and he has also advised technology start-ups including investee companies under the Technology Incubation Programme of the Singapore National Science & Technology Board now known as Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), and spin-off companies from the National University of Singapore. He is involved extensively in regional joint ventures and cross-border transactions.
A substantial part of his practice includes technology licensing, commercial law, franchising, computer law and advising on internet and e-commerce transactions, and management corporations.
Dr Gilbert Tan is an Associate Professor of Management Practice, at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). He is actively involved in executive education at SMU and at the National University of Singapore (NUS, 1989-1999). Prior to joining SMU, he was the Principal Consultant at IC2 Training Consultancy (1999-2004). His clients include Creative Technology, Great Eastern Life, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, MDSO, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Police Force, and PSA Corporation. He has written and presented papers at regional and international conferences in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, the United States and Canada. His articles appeared in international and regional journals, such as Creativity and Innovation Management, Current Topics in Management, International Journal of Management, Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. His research interests include corporate social responsibility, creativity, and spirituality at work.
Jacob Tay founded Info-Tools Pte Ltd in 1992. He was the first to develop real estate database management software and subsequently started Singapore's first and largest multiple listings services. He also started Singapore's property portal iProperty.com, Asia's Largest Property Portal network. Jacob is currently an investor in online marketing platforms.
Matthew Tanis currently the CEO of a regional environmental engineering & water treatment company. His professional experience encompasses more than 20 years in global marketing management and business development and has held various management positions and key consulting positions in wide-ranging industries.
Matthew has had significant experience in business restructuring and the evaluation new technology and has successfully worked on the commercialization of several new technologies which resulted in a number of startup companies in NTU. His other professional appointments include:
1. Chief Operating Officer : Institute of Environmental Science & Engineering/ Nanyang Technological University 2. Associate Research Director : Nanofrontier/ Nanyang Technological University 3. Mentor : Ascendas/ NUS (National University of Singapore) Entrepreneurship Centre Mentorship Programme 4. Board Member : The New Charis Mission (Halfway house for drug addicts) 5. Board Member : RiverLife Community Services
Seow Kiat Wang is a partner in a private investment company which he co-founded in 2005. Prior to this, he has more than 20 years of operational experience in the electronics related manufacturing industry. Kiat Wang received his first class honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1984 and his Masters degree in Engineering from the same university in 1988.
Victor Leong has worked as a corporate lawyer and an investment banker. He has extensive experience in the areas of business advisory, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and capital market issues. He has worked with various governments and corporations in Asia for many years. He has assisted many high growth companies in raising capital, advised corporations on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, corporate and debt restructurings. He is currently heading Xtreme Lubricants Lab.
Past Engagements:
The mentors have collectively helped more than 30 business owners sort out their business and leadership issues.They do this on a voluntary basis as a ministry to the marketplace. The fees received from the mentoring program are channeled towards the Community Transformation projects (after minimal operational costs are deducted).
Testimony: Both the Leadership Mentoring and Business Mentoring have been very effective in dealing with the hard issues faced by business owners. Solutions offered are both practical and spiritual. Mentors are very supportive and offer good guidance without actually interfering in the life of the business owner or the business.
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