
Robin Speculand
MBA
Singapore, SINGAPORERobin Speculand passionately lives and breathes strategy implementation. He continually creates new approaches to support leaders in transforming their organizations and is one of the world's most prolific writers on the subject.
Robin has founded three companies, three business associations, and is the CEO of Bridges Business Consultancy Int. Singapore Airlines was among the first organizations to embrace this new field and engaged Robin to support its global strategy implementation.
He is known for his breakthroughs on implementation methodology and techniques, including the Implementation Compass™, a proprietary framework built on the eight areas for excellence for execution; Readiness2Execute Assessment; Ticking Clock© Model, a framework for digitalizing an organization; Digital Maturity Index, a self-assessment that reveals a person's level of digital maturity; and the 40 Digital Best Practices Benchmark.
Robin also co-founded an online education forum—the Strategy Implementation Institute—that provides leaders with a community, online course, and online certification in the field.
In 2014, Robin recognized that digital transformation was markedly different and presented new challenges. He researched the challenges globally and in 2018 co-authored the white paper Transforming Your Company into a Digital-Driven Business. In 2021 he co-authored the white paper The Future of Strategy Implementation.
In 2021 Robin was co-nominated with Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Bank, for the Thinkers50 "Ideas into Practice Award." and winner of the "Business Strategist" Singapore 2021-22 by Prestige.
Robin has published five books on strategy implementation. His latest, World's Best Bank—A Strategic Guide to Digital Transformation, is an Amazon bestseller. His pioneering work has been featured in media worldwide, including BBC World and Forbes. He is a TEDx speaker and an educator for Duke CE, IMD, and an adjunct member of Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore. He is an award-winning and Harvard-listed case writer and a GlobalScot appointed by the First Minister of Scotland.
Outside of work, Robin competes in Ironman events around the world and calls Singapore home.
Robin Speculand passionately lives and breathes strategy implementation. He continually creates new approaches to support leaders in transforming their organizations and is one of the world's most prolific writers on the subject.
Robin has founded three companies, three business associations, and is the CEO of Bridges Business Consultancy Int. Singapore Airlines was among the first organizations to embrace this new field and engaged Robin to support its global strategy implementation.
He is known for his breakthroughs on implementation methodology and techniques, including the Implementation Compass™, a proprietary framework built on the eight areas for excellence for execution; Readiness2Execute Assessment; Ticking Clock© Model, a framework for digitalizing an organization; Digital Maturity Index, a self-assessment that reveals a person's level of digital maturity; and the 40 Digital Best Practices Benchmark.
Robin also co-founded an online education forum—the Strategy Implementation Institute—that provides leaders with a community, online course, and online certification in the field.
In 2014, Robin recognized that digital transformation was markedly different and presented new challenges. He researched the challenges globally and in 2018 co-authored the white paper Transforming Your Company into a Digital-Driven Business. In 2021 he co-authored the white paper The Future of Strategy Implementation.
In 2021 Robin was co-nominated with Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Bank, for the Thinkers50 "Ideas into Practice Award." and winner of the "Business Strategist" Singapore 2021-22 by Prestige.
Robin has published five books on strategy implementation. His latest, World's Best Bank—A Strategic Guide to Digital Transformation, is an Amazon bestseller. His pioneering work has been featured in media worldwide, including BBC World and Forbes. He is a TEDx speaker and an educator for Duke CE, IMD, and an adjunct member of Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore. He is an award-winning and Harvard-listed case writer and a GlobalScot appointed by the First Minister of Scotland.
Outside of work, Robin competes in Ironman events around the world and calls Singapore home.
Workshop: Strategy Implementation for Leaders
Leaders need the ability to craft a winning strategy and the skill to implement it. But only a few have both.
The challenge is that leaders have been taught how to plan but not how to implement. This is reflected in the high implementation failure rate.
No leadership team walks into a conference room and declares, ''Let's create a bad strategy!'' Each member of the leadership team thinks the strategy is good. But only when a successful implementation follows...
Workshop: Strategic Thinking for Leaders - An Essential Skill in Today's Turbulent Times
Today, leaders need to be increasingly more aware of their strategic landscape, conscious of their business operating model and constantly aware of new threats. This dramatic accelerated business transformation is affected by artificial intelligence, algorithms, augmented and virtual reality, nanotechnology and other new technologies-all coming to fruition at the same time. Many organizations are racing to...
Workshop: How DBS Became the World's Best Bank
DBS Bank adopted "Making Banking Joyful" as its digitalization strategy as early as 2014. It became a passion that unintentionally turned into a rallying call for a banking industry revolution.
Under the stewardship of Piyush Gupta, Group CEO, DBS became the first bank in the world to win the top three banking award within a 12 month period-the equivalent of a movie winning the top three Oscars!
This absorbing, informative and enlightening one-day workshop explains in-depth...
How to Implement Digital Keynote
The top three reasons why there is such a high failure rate are that leaders fail to change their mindset and the culture of the organization and to recognize that it's not...
Excellence in Execution – More Critical than Ever Keynote
have been taught how to plan but not how to execute their plan, and this has created a strategy execution skills gap. The skills gap is a key reason that significantly more strategy executions fail than succeed.
This keynote addresses not only how leaders can become excellent in execution but why their success is more critical than ever.
After creating a strategy, leaders have to execute it, which is far from a fait accompli-especially in a digital world where...
Digital Implementation for Leaders A one-day impactful and informative workshop
- No conference tables - learn in an open environment
- No printed workbook - receive an online link to all materials
- No fixed agenda - fluid building blocks with time to dive into what you need
Leaders in many organizations are being asked to implement digital initiatives, and they often struggle to understand how the many moving parts come together. This workshop is designed to support leaders in...



