Coach
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Brenda Bence, MBA, CSP
brenda@brendabence.com | http://www.brendabence.com | SingaporeBIO NOTES
Brenda Bence is passionate about two things: leadership and branding – and how the two work together. She is the Founder and President of Brenda Bence International, with offices in the U.S. and Asia, and she helps leaders and corporations build inspiring leadership brands from the inside out. After earning her MBA from Harvard Business School, Brenda spent the first part of her career building mega brands for Fortune 100 companies like Procter & Gamble and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she was a senior leader responsible for brands across 50 countries. Running her own company since 2002, Brenda's clients span 30 countries across 6 continents, including some of the world's largest and most trusted organizations like 3M, AIA, Bank of America, BP, Citigroup, Danone, Deloitte, Lilly, Lazada Group, General Motors, Google, The Hershey Company, ING Bank, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, Kraft Heinz, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Ogilvy, PwC, Shell, Sheraton Hotels, Shiseido, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS AG, U.S. Department of State, and the Young Presidents Organization, to name a few. With over two decades of full-time coaching experience, Brenda has coached nearly 1,000 executives from 60 nationalities and 70 industries, to help them achieve peak performance as leaders. She consistently ranks among the Top 10 Executive Coaches worldwide and the Top 10 Branding Experts worldwide, by Global Gurus. She is also recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the Top 50 World Leaders in Coaching. As a Certified Global Speaking Professional, Brenda delivers inspiring keynote addresses to international audiences around the world, presenting her unique and proprietary content in an approachable and humorous way at conferences, conventions, and corporate gatherings. Brenda is the author of 11 award-winning books. As a columnist on the topics of executive coaching, leadership, and branding, Brenda's articles have been featured in more than 450 media outlets across the world, including NBC TV, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, Financial Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, SmartMoney, LinkedIn News, Cosmopolitan, Yahoo News, and The Los Angeles Times. Brenda is a popular guest on podcasts and radio shows.
COACHING SPECIALTIES
C-Suite Peak Performance Coaching,Corporate/Executive Coaching,Executive Leadership Development,Global Leadership Coaching,Leadership Personal Brand Development,Leadership Team Coaching,People Management and Leadership Coaching,Sounding-Board Coaching for Senior Leaders,Success/Career Coaching,Transition Coaching
COACHING MODE
Face to Face,Zoom & other video-conferencing media,Global Reach with Telephone
COACHING CERTIFICATION
Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
OTHER COACHING CERTIFICATION
Int'l Coach Federation, Int'l Association of Facilitators, Global Speakers Federation
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
Brenda Bence International
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
APAC (Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches), Asia Professional Speakers Singapore (APSS), CSP and CSP Global (Global Speaking Professional; Professional Speaker Hall of Fame), American Chamber of Commerce (Singapore), Board Certified Coach (BCC), Global Speakers Federation, International Coach Federation, Harvard Business Club of Singapore, National Speakers Association (NSA - USA), MG 100 Coaches
NUMBER OF YEARS IN COACHING
20
COACHING INVOLVEMENT
Full Time
GENDER
Female
What do you think you bring to Coaching
Devoted, down-to-earth, pragmatic. Quick to build rapport with a good sense of humor. Tough when needed, but supportive at the same time. As one former client said, “There was a benefit to Brenda being a female coach. She wasn’t a ‘shrinking violet,’ but she wasn’t a hard-charging, over-the-top type of coach either. She was an excellent challenger and an absolute role model for how to communicate.”
Past Work Experience
Procter & Gamble, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Current Position
President/Managing Director
Nature of Employment
Corporate