Caroline Burns

I am a multiple business founder and executive director with:
- 16 years’ experience living and working in Asia with a deep understanding of the corporate environment, business culture, cross-border businesses and workforce capabilities and challenges.
- Built a scaleable digital business platform with a regional virtual team to service global clients based across Asia and also UK, Middle East and US.
- Led profitable regional consulting businesses, managing reputation, legal, compliance, risk, employee development, and engagement strategies for global companies.
- Focused on sustainable profitability in a highly competitive industry against established global corporates by being innovative, investing internally in the business and nurturing long-term client relationships.

I have strong strategic planning capability as a business consultant and business owner and can help your company:
- Identify blind spots, patterns and interactions that constrain value-creation and agility (ie “what might we be missing here?”);
- Find evidence-based, actionable insights to inform strategic decisions;
- Focus on talent retention, engagement and performance in competitive markets to create better value.
- Identify and build strategic partnerships to expand services, improve agility or increase revenue resilience.

Qualifications and memberships
- Senior Accredited Board Director, Singapore Institute of Directors https://credentials.sid.org.sg/profile/drcarolinemaryburns364849/wallet
- Listed Entity Director Programme, Singapore Institute of Directors
- Member AICD, 2010-
- Member Women on Boards, 2006-
- PhD, University of Sydney Business School, 2014
- B. Business (Valuation), 1992
- B. Architectural Studies, 1989