About Myself

The windmills of my mind

I was always fascinated by the working of the human mind, yet, like many of us, did not make time to pursue my interest. Until about twenty-one years ago, that is, when my life took a defining turn and led me down a rabbit-hole seeking answers to individual personality, behaviour, and choices; aspects all governed by the mind. 

You know that nothing changes and vacillates faster, nor is as fixed and obstinate as the mind. And whilst we cannot see, nor touch, nor point to it, the mind is the most powerful of all phenomenon known to humankind. 

Goal!

This curious playground, moving goalposts with, was to become home. This was to be my life’s work, and I would revel in it.

My past in the corporate sector would serve me well by allowing for a deeper appreciation of the intricacies most of my clients would be involved with. Roles from trainee to head of enterprise provided the confidence and dexterity to work with fishermen to chairmen.

Success? 

Enterprise life had me developing business and markets in which to sell my employers’ wares. Not a fine choice of career for a sociable introvert; I’d actually set out to work contra my basic nature. Success was perpetually bitter-sweet; I was rewarded and bid to deliver more. 

Same old, same old? Truth.

Success moved my cheese further away from my true work and my life’s purpose. In seeking acceptance, I bought into everyone’s stories more than I should have. Mine own though, not nearly enough. 

You’ve likely done that too, and ignored your own real calling. Until light-break.

Dawn

The attempt to scout my own dark for my script proved a challenge. I required wisdom to wade and work through set ways, emphatic statements, comfort in habit, and so much more “stuff” that my mind preferred. 

Mr Leonard Cohen (rip), in Anthem, sang: “There is a crack, a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in”. Ring the bells.

My work and workplace

I work with your and my own mind in its journey of knowing and leading one’s own self and everything external, such as as community, enterprise or state. My workplace lies at the intersection of the operating mind, brain, intelligence, memory, habit, and ego. And more. The location map on the home page shows you the lay of that land.

This work represents close to twenty-one of forty-one years of my professional life. Clients are kind to say they experience authenticity, courage, and ownership. I’d like to think their experience of me today is in line with my core beliefs, values, and raison d’être.

And you…

If you’re deeply interested in the mastery of your own self and all else via that, read through the other sections and write in. Surprise yourself. Gift yourself the entirety of you.

Warmth.

V

Vivék Singh
Psychometrist, Certified Master Coach, and
WBG* credentialed Board Leadership Trainer

Flags: hoisting some; lowering, folding some

I’ve assessed and coached across industries and experience levels, working with thinking, personality inventories, and resultant behaviour. WBG* credentials allow me to train directors in global board leadership standards based upon OECD`* principles of corporate governance. 

I have served to both build and erase brands: Barista Coffee — start-up team, giving the first 72 espresso bars; and with Standard Chartered Bank — the closure of the Grindlays Bank in India brand post its acquisition; respectively. I’ve worked as CEO, Chair, amongst others; and served society in various roles including one as the Convenor of the first ever Gender Sensitivity Committee for the Delhi State Council of the CII*. 

Divisions led have included business and brand development, revenue, research, marketing, sales, architecture and design, project management, value chain, environmental planning, IT, CRES, risk, BCP, and DRM.

* WBG   World Bank Group
* OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
* CII Confederation of Indian Industries