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“The brain is the organ of adaptation. It is also the organ of relationship.”
Dr. Paul Brown
About Us
Nandini Das Ghoshal
Nandini is the Chief Learning Architect of ION Consulting International Pte Ltd. Based in Singapore, she is a seasoned leadership coach, counselor, and learning facilitator. Nandini leverages her training in psychotherapy and applied neuroscience to help clients enhance "human energy" in the workplace, focusing on personal empowerment, mindset, emotional intelligence, connectedness, performance, and collaboration. She employs the GROW model, applied neuroscience, neurobehavioral modeling, and narrative therapy.
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Nandini offers executive coaching, change management engagements, training and facilitation, bespoke leadership programs, team effectiveness interventions, and career transition coaching.
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Along with Dr. Paul Brown, Nandini co-edited and co-published "Brains Inspiring Businesses for Leaders," which distills applied neuroscience insights for individuals and teams. She is a sought-after speaker at leadership conferences, sharing her expertise on neuroscience's role in business leadership.​
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​As the co-founder of the women's leadership program "The Story of Me" (2018-2022), Nandini empowered women from Singapore, Mumbai, London, and Hong Kong to break inner barriers and create powerful personal narratives.
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With over 24 years of industry experience, Nandini has excelled in various roles, including corporate leader, knowledge entrepreneur, brand strategist, content strategist, consumer insights professional, and academic researcher. She has been instrumental in driving significant organizational changes and fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
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Nandini has collaborated with leaders and organizations such as Singtel, IPSOS, UBS, Mediacom, Streamz, Standard Chartered, Women in Payments, IHG, Colgate Palmolive, Boehringer Ingelheim, UWCSEA School, and Coke Digital, showcasing her expertise across diverse industries.
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Accredited with the International Association of Coaching (IAC) as a Masteries Practitioner, Nandini is also an alumna of Dr. Paul Brown’s Science of the Art of Coaching Programme. She holds certifications in Extended DISC (USA), Lego Serious Play, and Hofstede’s Culture in the Workplace (CWQ). Additionally, she has an Advanced Certification in Training & Assessment (ACTA) from IAL, Singapore.
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Nandini has served as a research advisor to the International Coach Federation (ICF) in Singapore. She co-founded the boutique consultancy, Insights and More, and has worked as a researcher and case writer at INSEAD, Singapore. Her extensive work in consumer insights has significantly influenced market strategies and brand positioning for various organizations.
Living with her family in Singapore, Nandini embraces new safe technology. She is also a Reiki therapist and mindfulness coach, dedicated to fostering holistic well-being in both personal and professional realms.
(Late) Professor Paul Brown PhD
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Prof. Paul Brown was the Co-founder and Chairman of ION Consulting International Pte. Ltd. As a practising clinical and organisational psychologist, in 2008 he held the world’s first visiting professorial appointment in organisational neuroscience at London’s South Bank University following his Visiting Professorship in Individual and Organisational Psychology at Nottingham Law School (2002-11). He was Professor of Organisational Neuroscience, Monarch Business School Switzerland and Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, UK, and was attached to three other UK universities for higher degree supervision.
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He taught annually at the UK’s Royal College of Defence Studies for twenty-five years and has taught as a guest lecturer at the Fulbright / Harvard Kennedy Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With a long-standing professional advisory interest in how family businesses are handed on to the next generation and in innovation, creativity, start-ups and incubators, his own research interests within the framework of applied neuroscience focus on how to track energy flow in organisations and developing an integrated theory of the individual and the organisation.
Practising for fifty years not only as clinical and organisational psychologist but also as an executive coach and supervisor, he had in recent time co-authored Neuropsychology for Coaches: Understanding The Basics (2012: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press); River Dragon (a novel about the ethical dilemmas of an executive coach, 2014: Spartan Press); Neuroscience for Leadership: Harnessing The Brain Gain Advantage (2015 Palgrave Macmillan, which won a category Gold in the 2016 Chartered Management Institute’s ‘Management Book of the Year’ awards); The Fear-Free Organization (2015 Kogan Page); and All the Brains in the Business (2019 Palgrave/Macmillan), exploring the unique contribution, differences, and value that women bring to organisations. He writes an occasional column called Brain Gain for the management publication Developing Leaders. In February 2016, when there were still seventeen Republican candidates in the field, he predicted in print that Donald Trump would become President of the United States and showed within his Limbic Leadership model why that was likely to be the case.
Dr Paul Brown and Nandini Das Ghoshal initiated and co-edited Brains Inspiring Businesses for Leaders, along with UK based publisher Ideas for Leaders, which carries a provocative prologue ( by Dr Paul Brown ) and thirteen chapters on application on neuroscience on team dynamics and leadership work. The contributors were his own students who now embody the teachings of Dr Paul Brown in their own work as coaches and facilitators. It was published in February 2024, the same month that he passed away, leaving behind a very inspiring legacy.