Saurabh Anand
Director | Principal Trainer
Areas of expertise: Training and consulting in technology, strategy, analytics, business management, and learning and development.
Awards: ‘Innovation for Impact Award’ 2016-17 | ‘Associate Excellence Award’ 2018-19 | ‘Innovation for Impact Award’ 2020-21 by CSC
Relatability is the name of the game for Saurabh. Having lived and worked in many countries, he has excellent facilitation skills and cross-cultural sensitivities that he channels into training diverse groups of professionals. His workshops are filled with lively interactions that deliver complex concepts through non-textbook, pop culture references.
Saurabh started Accord in Singapore in 2009. Here, he designs and facilitates workshops on analytics, data visualization, machine learning and AI, offering training and consulting services to clients. He has an Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) qualification and is engaged for training leading corporations and Government agencies in Singapore.
As an empaneled trainer at the Civil Service College (CSC), Singapore, Saurabh has worked with various Government agencies, training over 7,000 public service officials. Through CSC, he has conducted customized, in-house analytics workshops for MHA, MOM, MOT, BCA, MINDEF, AVA, NEA, PA, MCI, Sport SG, ITE, Republic Polytechnic, MND, IRAS and NLB. He has also directly worked with HDB, MAS, UOB, PSA, OCBC, to name a few, and has trained Singaporean and Malaysian SMEs selected under The FinLab’s accelerator program.
Besides training engagements, Saurabh consults with organizations to help design roadmaps for building analytics competencies at all levels of their organizations. From developing customized courses on analytics to advising leadership teams on various analytics initiatives, Saurabh brings in his years of experience working with different sectors and organizations to offer invaluable advice.
What our participants say
“Trainer was excellent. One of the best trainers and course that I have attended. He made a perceivably boring subject into an interesting and useful one. He was also humorous, engaging and very well prepared.”
“Engaging instructor. Really helps to explain complicated technical stuff in an understandable way, with lots of real-life example and applications. The last part about trends and reminders as the world uses more data analytics are important and often missed e.g. It is not what you can do, but also what you should do, taking care of the sensitivity and how recipient would perceive it.”
“It sounded like a very boring topic, but the trainer Mr Saurabh Anand made it very interesting. Well-taught and spread out hence not draining to our minds. I also appreciated that trainer was very engaging and encouraging throughout the entire workshop. PowerPoint slides were also made simple and not wordy like other workshops I have attended. One of the best trainers I have met since all my virtual trainings!”
“Saurabh was an excellent instructor. I actually learnt a lot from him through his simple explanation and well-thought examples. Saurabh is able to address all my queries effectively and provided suggestions on how I can improve my current processes at work. I strongly recommend Saurabh and this course and wished to attend more courses in the future that will be taught by him.”
“Trainer is very engaging who uses pictures & layman terms to explain to let us understand this complicated topic. He is very patient & passionate about data analytics. By far, he is the best, engaging trainer I’ve met. I understand & like data analytics much better after attending his session.”