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Nicola Stephens

Sharpshooter · DISC type CD
Executive leadership coach at Agile Basics
📍 Singapore, Singapore

Nicola Stephens is an Executive Leadership Coach at Agile Basics, helping leaders enhance their acumen and navigate corporate politics. She is also a Founding Partner at The FAVE Leader, focusing on facilitative leadership. Colleagues and clients often describe her as exceptional, innovative, and intuitive.

Nicola is a strong advocate for preventing burnout by creating separation between work and life. She values authentic connection and vulnerability in leadership, often sharing her own experiences with fear and self-doubt to encourage others to lead more openly and build genuine trust with their teams.

She once insightfully suggested bringing back the "smoker circle"—not for nicotine, but to restore the powerful, problem-solving connections that happen when colleagues from all levels informally gather.

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Experience
31 Years
Current Role
Executive leadership coach
Location
Singapore, Singapore
Personality Overview

How Nicola shows up

Rigorous & Demanding
Precise But Practical
ROI Driven

They put a lot of effort into ensuring personal success. They like to stay in control of the negotiation or defining of the terms. They respond well to strong and respectful communication.

Priorities

Topics Nicola cares about

Agile Methodologies
As a certified Scrum Master and Agile Coach, she helps organizations adopt agile ways of working to deliver value in a complex world.
Leadership Development
She coaches senior leaders and department heads on how to command influence, lead with authority, and rediscover fulfillment in their roles.
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Career

Work history

2-2017
Executive leadership coach
Agile Basics
1-2021 - 7-2025
Partner & Learning Facilitator
The Facilitative & Visually Engaging Leader
1-2016 - 1-2017
Project Director
GoBear
4-2015 - 12-2015
User Experience Director
GoBear
10-2014 - 4-2015
Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master
SGX
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Media appearances

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Education
1987 - 1991
Education details unavailable
Muizenberg
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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