Biography

Leading diverse teams and coaching leaders when they step into a new role and face new challenges.

With a multinational career and broad experience in the financial services sector in Asia, I’m a highly accredited executive coach, facilitator and organizational change consultant.

Combining my experience in the financial services industry with my extensive credentialed coaching education, I help you gain insight into your own motives, interests and concerns in order to understand the explicit links to challenges you might face in communication, leadership and management.

By facilitating greater awareness of leadership and communication style and impact, I enable you to identify and understand your own strengths and critical areas for development. I understands how to engage, connect with people at different levels, how they think and behave, and how their values and experiences shape their performance and work satisfaction levels. These skills allow me to successfully guide organizations and individuals to create impactful and sustainable changes by practicing new and creative ways to shift behavior.

With 20 years of career experience at Citigroup, Jardine Fleming, Morgan Stanley, ABN Amro, JP Morgan and RBS, my expertise included bottom line responsibility and successful leadership of diverse teams. These experiences have provided me with resilience, appreciation for and adaptability to different cultures, great insight, and a keen ability to understand behavioral patterns and facilitate positive change.

I works with clients in a variety of sectors, including professional services, legal, manufacturing, telecommunications, non-government organizations, and non-profit organizations.

I am passionate about 3 areas within my Coaching practice, and demonstrate niche competency as under:

Transitions

-Change in role involving bigger team management across countries and many of those country heads who may have more no of years of experience and are older in age to the leader who is their manager.
-When a person is promoted to a senior role, managing “imposter syndrome”
-Fear of the unknown and dealing with the pressure of high expectations from their peers, boss, colleagues and other seniors as well as their own high expectations.
-Enhance Resilience or create awareness to be more resilient.
-Enhance self-awareness about their blind spots. -Expand their thinking to uncover their own barrier and address it, with respect to their blind spots.

Communication

-Enhance executive presence.
-How to foster healthy, honest, and timely dialogue and safe space to manage conflicts and difficult situations.
-Manage difficult communication styles and behaviors among the team. How to have a constructive conversation despite having differing views.

Leadership

-Understand how to deliver feedback effectively.
-How to foster healthy, honest, and timely dialogue in crisis or difficult times.
-How to be a coach to the team.
-Enable management and development of strategies to help collaboration among the team.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Master’s Degree in Change(INSEAD) along with numerous coaching accreditations including; PCC ICF, ICC Level 2 Certified Coach, C-IQ Enhanced Skills Coach, Ontological Coach, Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence, Successful Negotiation – Essential Strategies and Skills: University of Michigan, Harrison Accredited Practitioner, DISC Certified Practitioner, GENOS EI Certified Practitioner, LEA 360, ICF Hong Kong Chapter Ex-Board Member.

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Certifications and Qualifications

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