Coaching for the Community
If you’re looking for a change in your careers, your paths in life, your relationships with yourself and the people around you, take this opportunity to gain more awareness and clarity on your next steps ahead with a coach on a 1-1 session at your own arrangements! Read on to find out more about the profiles of the coaches participating in the next edition!
Coaching for the Community – 24th February 2024
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Coaching for the Community – 26th October 2024
Coaching for the Community – 22nd March 2025
Coaching for the Community – 23rd August 2025
Coaching for the Community – 8th November 2025
Coaching for the Community – 18th April 2026
Our next run will be on 18 July 2026 – Saturday, 2pm to 5pm.
More details and sign-up link: HERE
Coaching for the Community is our way of making coaching accessible while giving back When you join a session, you’re not just investing in your own growth. You’re also contributing to something meaningful.
Together, our community has raised S$22,965 over the past two years.
• S$4,720 raised in 2024 for Caregiving Welfare Association
• S$18,245 raised in 2025 for Ambulance Wish Singapore
From our Coaching for the Community initiative, we are honored to be the only coaching organization to be conferred with 2 hearts by the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC).
Photos from our previous events
Testimonials from clients who have experienced this initiative!
You will get to speak to each and every one of them on 18th July, and decide on who you would like to work with the best to arrange for a separate coaching session with them on what you would like to work on.
To find out more about this pro-bono coaching initiative, check out the link here, and share this initiative with your friends and family too!
Here are their profiles for your preview, and see you on the 18th of April!
Alice Wong
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Life Coach | I help individuals create fresh starts
I am a life coach passionate about working with individuals who want a fresh start in their life or career; to gain perspective and courage to navigate life transitions while experiencing fulfillment from work, life and relationships.
I have over 20 years of leadership experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings. Drawing from my own journey of overcoming burnout and perfectionism, where poor work-life balance even affected my family, I bring deep understanding of the complexities of modern life. Whether working with young adults or senior executives from diverse backgrounds, I understand the nuances and breakthroughs my clients seek.
I have also started activity-based coaching for seniors, using simple, engaging activities to support emotional well-being and spark joy, confidence, and connection.
In my free time, I enjoy badminton, experimenting comfort food cooking and giving back to the community through volunteering.
I am dedicated to helping my clients find clarity and courage to achieve their goals. Contact me to discuss how I can support you.
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Austine Yeo
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Austine is an ACC-certified coach who specializes in career and life coaching. With her unique background in human resources and a degree in psychology from NUS, Austine offers a holistic approach to guiding individuals towards career success and personal fulfillment.
Austine leads a dynamic professional life as a seasoned HR Professional, boasting extensive experience across various HR functions—from Recruitment to Payroll—in businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to MNCs. Drawing from her background in psychology and her hands-on experience in human resources, Austine brings a unique perspective to career coaching. She excels in helping clients uncover their personal strengths and navigate their career paths with confidence and clarity.
With a keen eye for identifying fallacies and loops, Austine guides you through a journey of self-discovery and growth. She creates a safe, non-judgmental space where you can freely explore your strengths and vulnerabilities. In her coaching sessions, she seeks to increase awareness of areas that may have been overlooked or deemed unworthy of discussion. By addressing these hidden aspects, clients gain deeper insights and are better equipped to make informed career and life decisions.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Austine channels her passion for personal development into creating events that promote self-awareness and positive change. Whether practicing yoga or enjoying a game of bowling, Austine believes in fostering holistic well-being and growth—both personally and professionally.
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Ava Nyon
Profile
Life & Clarity Coach (ICF Coach-in-Training)
Ava is a Life and Clarity Coach who believes that true growth begins when we feel safe enough to slow down and truly listen to ourselves. She creates a calm, compassionate space where individuals can reflect, reconnect, and rediscover their inner voice without judgment.
She brings empathy and deep curiosity into every coaching conversation, supporting her clients in gaining clarity, confidence, and self-connection. Her reflective and intuitive style helps individuals navigate transitions and move from uncertainty to purposeful action. Ava believes that meaningful growth unfolds when we approach ourselves with awareness, kindness, and the courage to pause and listen inwardly.
As a working mother, Ava sees parenthood as one of her greatest teachers. It has taught her to pause, reflect, and grow alongside her two wonderful sons — learning that the best lessons come not from perfection, but from presence. Parenthood has deepened her understanding of patience, compassion, and the quiet strength that comes from believing in someone’s potential, even when they cannot yet see it themselves.
Together with her boys, Ava finds joy in nature walks, journaling, and shared moments of laughter and gratitude — gentle reminders of the beauty in slowing down and simply being present.
Her life philosophy is simple yet profound: to live with presence, listen with compassion, and help others reconnect with their light.
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Desmond Huang
Profile
Desmond is an ICF Coach-in-Training with over a decade of combined experience across two distinct fields: complex technology and human-centric education. His extensive career has helped him realise that sustainable success isn’t just about what you achieve on the outside, but aligning to what feels true on the inside.
Drawing from his multi-faceted background as a senior engineer in a healthcare AI startup, where he was hands-on in both technology and operations, doing network and security engineering in both government and private sectors, to a full-time drum educator, Desmond brings a unique blend of analytical rigor and patient, empathetic guidance to his coaching. His engineering experience provided him with a strategic, systems-thinking framework for managing complex projects and stakeholders. Concurrently, his years as a drum educator honed his skill in holding a supportive learning space, paying deep attention and adapting his communication style for a diverse clientele ranging from children and adults, to seniors and individuals with special needs, to help them express themselves and grow at their own pace.
Desmond’s interest in coaching is fueled by his personal journey in self-work and development. Having successfully navigated his own major career pivot and setbacks in life, he knows firsthand how transformative change happens when you take conscious action with a clear plan. He partners with clients, and provides consistent and steadfast support as they unpack complex challenges, discover what is truly authentic for them, and co-design a clear actionable path forward.
Outside of his professional life, Desmond enjoys drumming and is a certified Grade 8 drummer. He believes a healthy body is integral for a healthy heart and mind, finding energy and balance in fitness – through exercise like running, cycling, and strength training. Whether it’s performing a technically demanding metal drumming piece or working out, Desmond keeps his mind and body engaged.
Desmond partners with clients wherever they are at, bringing along his unique blend of analytical rigor and patient guidance. He is there for them – providing logical structure and steadfast support they need to make conscious, aligned choices and lead authentic, fulfilling lives.
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Hung Yi
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Hung Yi is a career and leadership coach with over 15 years of diverse and global experience across various industries, including e-commerce, strategy consulting, real estate, banking, social impact and academic institutions.
Her focus is in helping growth-oriented and driven leaders and professionals with navigating career transitions, effective team and stakeholder management, organizational restructuring, and creating fulfilling careers with better work-life balance in a rapidly changing world.
Hung Yi’s extensive experience working across startups, MNCs, and GLCs has equipped her with a unique perspective on challenges faced by today’s leaders and working professionals and the necessary skills to overcome them. In her most recent corporate role, she established the organizational development team in Shopee HR and drove global initiatives across 12 countries related to organizational culture, performance management, talent development, career progression, employee engagement and work-life harmony.
Her career highlights also include leading the strategy team at CapitaLand in close collaboration with C-Suite, driving consulting projects across SEA in Boston Consulting Group for global conglomerates and government agencies, and looking at regional markets in Credit Suisse. Personally she has also undergone multiple successful career transitions, each time to a different industry and function and leading a bigger team.
Hung Yi has also developed a coaching framework that helps her clients chart practical paths tailored to their values and strengths, while navigating career trajectories and changes with confidence. Her clients describe her as being able to provide clarity and structure for complex situations in a firm yet empathetic manner, ensuring both their success and holistic growth.
Hung Yi is also an adjunct lecturer and course lead at Singapore University of Social Science, teaching courses on leadership and teamwork to both working professionals and undergraduate students. In addition to having more than 500 hours of coaching experience, she has also obtained a MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a double degree in Accountancy and Business from Singapore Management University.
Beyond coaching, Hung Yi is passionate about making an impact on the world, having volunteered in several countries like Guatemala, Bangladesh, China and Cambodia. She enjoys exploring the world, having traveled to places such as Cuba, Peru, Bolivia and Arctic Circle. She also enjoys activities such as hiking, qigong and multiple chess-related games for personal enrichment.
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Melanie Huang
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
There is a moment Melanie carries with her into every coaching session. In her most uncertain season, someone held an umbrella over her. Not to clear the fog. Just to walk with her through it. That moment showed her what it means to truly be seen. It is why she became a coach. And it is why she keeps showing up.
With over 17 years of HR experience spanning SMEs, MNCs and startups, and currently serving as a Global HR Director in the tech industry, Melanie has spent her career working alongside people at every level — from fresh graduates finding their footing to C-suite leaders navigating the weight of the room. She has seen what it looks like when people thrive. And she has seen what it looks like when they are holding everything together on the outside while quietly running on empty.
Her coaching practice reflects that breadth. Her clients span students and retirees, homemakers and entrepreneurs, people at career crossroads and couples feeling a distance they cannot quite name. What they have in common is not a specific problem. It is the sense that something feels off, and the courage to finally say so.
Melanie’s approach is genuine, curious and non-judgmental. She loves deep conversations and sitting with someone in the silence. She will not give you answers. But she will help you hear yourself, including the parts you have not been ready to say out loud.
Outside of coaching, she is an avid hiker who finds stillness in nature, a mother of two who parents with questions rather than answers, a volunteer mentor at NUS and a storyteller at NLB. Everything she does points back to the same belief: there is a light within every person. Her job is simply to help you find the switch.
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Premesha McDonald (née Motha)
Profile
Premesha McDonald (née Motha) is a coach who helps people find balance, clarity, and growth across the multiple roles they play in life, particularly those navigating demanding, fast-paced, and high-stakes careers.
For Premesha, balance is not about doing less, it’s about operating with clarity, control, and connection in the moments that matter most. In high-pressure environments, how you communicate with yourself and with others shapes how you lead, make decisions, and perform. She works with individuals to deepen that communication, understand what is driving their thoughts and emotions, and use that awareness to respond with intention rather than reaction. Through this, they create alignment across their roles, not by stepping away from ambition, but by engaging with it more consciously and effectively.
With over a decade of experience as an executive recruiter in the commodities and trading industry, Premesha understands what it means to operate in a high-pressure, performance-driven, and often cut-throat environment. Her career has been built around advising and connecting ambitious professionals across global trading, mining, and energy markets, individuals who thrive on challenge but often struggle to slow down and reconnect.
Her strength as a coach lies in creating a space that is both emotionally open and strategically grounded. She helps people allow emotions to surface, understand them, and move through them, so they can think clearly, act decisively, and perform at their best. Alongside this, she brings a structured lens: looking at the bigger picture, breaking it down into clear priorities, goals, and actions, enabling consistent progress and stronger outcomes.
Premesha’s passion for coaching stems from her own transformation. As a working mother balancing leadership, ambition, and self-expectation, coaching helped her find clarity in the chaos. It allowed her to deepen her relationships with her parents, husband and colleagues, communicate more openly, and feel a stronger sense of connection, gratitude, and alignment in her life. At the same time, she became more intentional in how she approached challenges, taking action with less hesitation, overcoming procrastination, and improving the quality of results she was able to achieve.
What inspires Premesha most is seeing people move from tension to alignment, from feeling stretched across roles to operating with clarity, connection, and purpose.
Her stand as a coach is to help people in demanding environments build sustainable success, creating careers and lives that feel not just accomplished, but deeply aligned and whole.
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Lois Toh
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Lois has consistently defied expectations in her professional experience by becoming one of the youngest leaders in both public and private sectors. Having experienced career transitions and challenges, her journey has been defined by a relentless pursuit of excellence and a passion for driving impactful change.
Throughout her career, Lois has cultivated a unique blend of professional acumen and a bold, adventurous, and resilient spirit that sets her apart in her commitment to support her clients in overcoming obstacles and create actionable plans for success. Her track record speaks volumes. From spearheading national pilots to managing multi- million-dollar projects, she has thrived in diverse and challenging environments.Collaborating with senior leaders across industries, Lois has honed her ability to navigate complexities and drive results that matter.
Her mission extends beyond mere professional success—it’s aboutigniting the dreams and aspirations of those she works with. Adventure is at the core of who Lois is. Scaling the world’s highest mountains isn’t just a hobby; it’s a metaphor for her approach to life and work. She believes in pushing boundaries, venturing into uncharted territories, and embracing the unknown. It is this adventurous spirit that fuels her dedication to empowering individuals to surpass their limits and embark on transformative journeys, both inward or otherwise.
As a life coach, Lois brings a unique perspective informed by her rich and varied experiences. Whether it’s guiding clients through career transitions, overcoming personal challenges, or providing a safe space for a client to express their desires or gain self-awareness, she’s here to support every step of the way.
So, if you’re ready to embark on a journey of growth, transformation, and self-discovery, Lois invites you to join her. Her mission is to inspire individuals towards pushing boundaries. Together, she walks with her client as a trusted guide, bringing dedication and courage towards writing the next chapter of your story.
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Yan Yi
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Yan Yi has been actively involved in the coaching and personal development scene since 2017, organizing events and leading workshops that have impacted hundreds of people.
Presently, he is the Head of Engineering at StraitsX, managing 33 engineers and managers across the region. He is also engaged by various tech companies to coach their teams to become more effective performers.
Yan Yi’s coaching style is centered around empowering his clients to discover their own solutions, rather than being given answers. His clients appreciate him for his insightful observations, grounded presence, and stand for their growth. This approach has helped countless leaders find clarity in crises, hone their leadership skills, and enhance their decision-making processes.
Yan Yi is also an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) since 2020 accredited by the International Coach Federation. He also holds an Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) from the Institute for Adult Learning Singapore, and is one of the selected trainers at Executive Coach International (ECI) for our Skillsfuture program.
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Zell Liew
Profile
Zell understands that chasing your dreams is never as straightforward as it seems. With over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and business owner, Zell brings a unique perspective to his coaching practice—one grounded in real-world challenges and the resilience required to overcome them.
Zell’s coaching philosophy stems from personal experience — there are different forms of love. Some, despite good intentions, can inadvertently limit our potential. Others create the space for authenticity, vulnerability, and growth. He strives to create environments where clients feel safe to speak their truths, face their fears, and pursue what truly matters to them.
What sets Zell apart is his ability to guide clients toward deeper insights than they initially seek. In one instance, a client approached Zell feeling frustrated about limited job prospects. Through their coaching partnership, not only did they address the immediate frustration, but they also uncovered a long-buried dream of working with startups and eventually building a company—shifting their entire perspective and reigniting their passion.
This pattern repeats in Zell’s practice: clients come with one challenge and leave having resolved multiple layers of their lives.
Clients describe Zell’s coaching style as empathetic, open, and non-judgmental—creating a space where they feel safe to share their deepest thoughts. At the same time, his direct approach doesn’t let clients “escape their own bullshit,” as some have put it. This balance of compassion and accountability helps clients access their inner wisdom and find authentic answers.
While training in ICF-aligned coaching methodologies, Zell draws from his diverse background as an author, conference speaker, and workshop facilitator to offer a well-rounded approach that acknowledges both practical challenges and emotional nuances.
Whether you’re navigating career transitions, personal growth challenges, or simply seeking greater clarity about your path forward, Zell provides a kind yet direct partnership focused on helping you unlock your potential and move confidently toward your dreams.
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Kai Yong
Profile
Kai Yong is an ICF Coach in Training, passionate about helping professionals unlock their potential and achieve meaningful growth. With over two decades of experience in Human Resources and Operations across ASEAN, China, and the U.S., he specialises in career transitions, performance enhancement and leadership development.
Kai Yong’s holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management. He is a firm believer in lifelong learning and stays updated with the latest trends and best practices in coaching and career development.
As a team leader, he has guided professionals at various career stages-guiding them through leadership challenges, career shifts, and personal growth as a Manager. His structured, data-driven approach integrates problem-solving, performance insights, and drive tangible client improvement, such as gaining confidence, and achieving career clarity in a safe environment.
Kai Yong’s passion for coaching stems from his own journey of self-discovery and career transitions. He values self-awareness, resilience, and lifelong learning, believing that every individual has untapped potential. An avid photographer and reader, he enjoys books on personal growth, leadership, and philosophy, drawing inspiration from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, I Ching, and The Art of War.
Kai Yong believes that clarity drives growth. Through proven coaching techniques, deep listening, questioning, thought-provoking conversations, he helps clients overcome limiting beliefs, gain new perspectives, and take purposeful action.
If you’re ready to gain clarity, enhance leadership skills, or navigate a career transition, Kai Yong is here to support your journey.
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Joane Yuen
Profile
Joane Yuen is a Career Coach who partners with early- to mid-career professionals, managers, and sales leaders seeking clarity and confidence in their next career or leadership chapter, or aiming to reach new heights in sales performance.
With a strong background in sales, business development, career advising, and leadership development, Joane is passionate about helping individuals unlock their potential and take purposeful steps toward meaningful growth
Drawing from two decades of experience spanning sales, business development, career advising, and program leadership in experiential learning for MBA candidates, Joane brings both strategic insight and empathy to her coaching. Her exposure to diverse professionals navigating career transitions and leadership challenges informs her holistic and practical approach.
Joane believes that every person has the ability to design a career that aligns with their strengths, values, and aspirations. Her coaching style is curious, compassionate, and pragmatic – focusing on deep reflection, self-awareness, and actionable strategies for success.
As an ICF coach-in-training, Joane is committed to professional excellence and continuous learning under the guidance of certified ICF mentors. She creates a safe and supportive environment for clients to explore new perspectives, strengthen their confidence, and lead with authenticity.
In addition to her coaching journey, Joane holds a leadership role in higher education program management and remains deeply committed to empowering others to thrive—in their careers and in life.
Joane is jovial and approachable, with a natural warmth that puts others at ease. Outside of work, she enjoys the outdoors and running, a reflection of her balanced and energetic approach to life.
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Geri Kan
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Geri is a leadership communication coach who empowers executives to become more influential and intentional leaders by helping them discover and align their values and purpose with their actions. With 250 coaching hours under her belt and having worked with individuals from MNCs to government statutory boards to not-for-profits, Geri helps individuals and teams develop leadership communication skills to inspire, influence and succeed in fast-changing, diverse, and global work environments.
A senior Corporate Communications leader, she has led teams in multinational technology companies including HP Inc, Lenovo, and IBM, and she currently leads Strategic Communications at NCS, SingTel’s tech services arm.
In between Corporate roles, she started her own practice, The Communications Catalyst, to make a more direct impact, coaching executives to unlock their leadership narratives and build stronger connections with their audiences integrating strategic insights, interpersonal dynamics, and the power of storytelling. Having been a senior exec in Singapore and in New York, she understands the challenges leaders face in today’s fast-paced, logic-driven business world.
Combining her coaching skill with her background in Communications, she helps clients deepen their self-awareness, clarify their values, and develop the skills to have impactful conversations that drive results. Geri’s coaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that growth, connection, collaboration, curiosity, and impact are essential for effective leadership and personal transformation.
When she’s not at work, you can find her reading, running, cooking, or practicing Jazz piano. She believes that great leaders are like jazz bandleaders – they lead their team toward a joint outcome, leveraging each individual’s instruments, strengths and skills and allowing each person to shine, and yet making sure the music is coherent and in sync.
Geri holds a BA in Communications from UCLA and a graduate degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where she was the first recipient of the S Rajaratnam Scholarship. She’s also a graduate of the INSEAD Coaching Certificate course. In 2021, Geri was named to the ”Singapore 100 Women in Tech” list, and in 2022, was recognized as a DEI Champion by Campaign Asia.
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Haodan Yang
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Haodan is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with a focus in helping people find their love for life. The love here refers to several things: a career, a job that one could be inspired by, passionate and firing up for, or a life partner whom you want to spend life with.
Tapping into her experience of feeling like she had nothing left for a long time, and to the point now where she could find and be in love with all aspects of her life, Haodan knows what’s needed to overcome the feelings of hopelessness and make it work. Her strength lies in her ability to resonate well with individuals who may be struggling in different aspects of their lives, and be able to provide a safe space for them to open up and explore what’s missing, and how to move forward.
Haodan’s passion for coaching and helping her clients runs deep because of what she has experienced for herself when she sought out coaching for the first time. She saw how the different aspects of her life and environment transformed as she began to gain clarity in just one domain of her life. As such, she saw the world in an entirely new lens which allowed her to overcome multiple barriers in her life, as well as achieving a speedy career progression with promotions in a row including during the Covid period, which was almost impossible then in her industry. And in the same period of time, Haodan has also met someone who’s almost everything she could wish for in a partner.
What inspires Haodan the most about coaching is the empowerment process – from being hopeless to hopeful in life. Her stand as a coach is to be able to empower more people to get the love they wish for in life.
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Hsiao Jiun
Profile
As a Pharmaceutical Science graduate, Hsiao Jiun has spent the past 15 years working in the pharmaceutical industry, where she has honed her skills in sales and management. Throughout her career, she has consistently achieved top sales awards and has proven herself as a successful leader in the field.
Over the past 10 years, Hsiao Jiun has transitioned into a role as a Commercial Excellence and Training manager, where she is responsible for overseeing regional operations and has been recognised with the prestigious Commercial Excellence of the year Award for two consecutive years.In 2017, she made a conscious decision to invest in her personal growth and development. During the challenging times of the Covid-19 pandemic, she took the opportunity to further expand her learnings by completing courses in Project Management (PMP) and Data Analytics. Additionally, she discovered a new passion for Aerial Yoga and has dedicated herself to become a certified teacher in both Aerial and Wheel Yoga.
Hsiao Jiun firmly believes that continuous learning and pushing past one’s comfort zones are essential for personal growth and development. In her spare time, she enjoys practicing yoga, crocheting, and knitting. She is also a proud volunteer with the Singapore Cancer Society, where she knits scarves and beanies for cancer patients. These experiences have taught her the importance of giving back to the community and using her skills to make a positive impact on the lives of others.
As a coach, she brings a unique blend of professional experience, personal growth, and a passion for helping others reach their full potential. Her background in sales and management, coupled with her dedication to self-improvement and giving back, allows her to provide valuable insights and guidance to her clients. Hsiao Jiun believes that her diverse experiences have equipped her with the skills and empathy needed to support individuals in overcoming challenges, setting goals, and achieving success in both their personal and professional lives. She is committed to creating a safe and supportive space for her clients to explore their potential, break through barriers, and create the life they desire.
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Vivek KJ
Profile
Vivek is an ICF life coach in training, helping clients gain clarity to navigate interconnected problems in everyday life such as work/life balance, career growth, personal goal setting, and aligning life to personal core values. His clients appreciate the ability to help remove internal conflicts, setup habits and systems to manage life
more effectively.
Vivek’s early exposure to financial struggles and pursuit of existential questions about purpose in life started his self-help journey. Taking inspiration from his parents who were NLP trainers, Vivek equipped himself as a Master Practitioner of NLP. He started his ICF coaching journey in 2022 and has 120+ hours of client coaching.
In his professional life, Vivek has an MBA in Strategy from the USA and has led several global transformations at fortune 100 companies. The strong consulting and strategic thinking skill set honed at work is a perfect complement to his coaching skill.
Vivek brings more than a decade of learning and problem solving, through navigating life’s problems using basic self-help concepts, NLP, ICF coaching and consulting skills. As a coach, he blends these skills to customize his approach and help clients go through transformative personal journeys.
Outside of coaching, he enjoys spending time with his family, listening to audiobook and focusing on personal growth. His recent personal pursuits include recovering from paralyzing overthinking, developing healthy relationship with food to lose weight, strength training to improve physical health and connecting with his emotional self to experience a fuller life.
Vivek strongly believes that everyone can take small steps to move towards their dreams. He hopes to partner with you to help you take the first step!
Sean Chua
Profile
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Sean is an ICF credentialed Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with a passion for storytelling and creating moments of wonder. With over 160 coaching sessions, he helps creatives and gamers who feel stuck in life to rewrite their story, face their fears, and live a life aligned with their true values – a life of wonder.
Starting his own animation business in his early 20s and navigating his own creative career transitions, Sean understands the challenges of pursuing an unconventional path, whether entrepreneurial or creative. His personal growth journey through overcoming digital addiction has also taught him how to build resilience through life’s toughest challenges.
As a former Creative Director heading Asia, who was made Partner, Sean reached the heights of an organization before realizing that was not where happiness came from. After going through a dark chapter that challenged him deeply, he chose to rewrite his own story.
Sean now draws from his background in business, entrepreneurship, and creative storytelling to help clients tap into their own creativity, think outside the box, and navigate their challenges with confidence and clarity. His supportive and playful approach encourages clients to explore heavy challenges in a safe space and see things in a new light. He believes
everyone has the power to craft a meaningful and fulfilling life and is committed to empowering clients to embrace their own authentic story.
Outside of coaching, Sean enjoys songwriting, gaming, and random creative projects like making cocktail ice creams. These passions fuel his creativity and shape his coaching, allowing clients to view their personal growth as an adventure filled with transformation and discovery. Certified in applied positive psychology, his current project is applying the science of happiness to pilot a gamified coaching program that helps people boost their happiness in life.
Whether you’re a creative individual navigating your career, a gamer seeking balance, or someone looking to level up their happiness and fulfillment, Sean is dedicated to supporting you in crafting a path that feels authentic and rewarding.
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Richelle Samy
Profile
Richelle is an ICF coach in training with over 15 years of experience across leading global tech companies, including Microsoft, Facebook, Meta, and Kape Technologies. Her professional background in sales, learning and development, and sales enablement gives her a deep understanding of performance, people development, and the realities of operating in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
Beyond her professional life, Richelle is passionate about fitness, hiking, and reading. She believes in the integration of physical, emotional, and intellectual wellbeing — and brings that same philosophy into her coaching practice.
Her high-performance mindset has been shaped by sport and a deeply personal journey through adversity. Having navigated intense physical challenges and recovery, she brings resilience, discipline, and self-awareness to her work. She understands firsthand what it takes to rebuild, refocus, and move forward with intention.
Drawing from her background in sales enablement and learning and development, Richelle brings practical frameworks and accountability to every coaching relationship — while also holding space for deeper exploration and meaningful mindset shifts. As a partner in awareness, she works alongside leaders, high performers, and professionals in transition who are seeking more than just external success.
Many of the individuals she works with find themselves at a crossroads — navigating career shifts, leadership challenges, or a desire for greater alignment and purpose. Her approach is both structured and intuitive. She challenges her clients to think differently, act with intention, and invest in their own long-term growth.
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Kum Seng
Profile
Kum Seng, a coach-in-training and former Regional CFO, blends senior corporate leadership experience with a deep understanding of evolving life stages.
Being a Star Wars fan and Yoda enthusiast, drawing inspiration from the character’s embodiment of wisdom, patience, and disciplined self-mastery. He believes in the power of continuous learning, often through failure, and values humility, compassion, and emotional self-control as foundations of strong personal leadership. His guiding philosophy is simple: work to live well, you must…and to eat and truly live, you shall…, and prioritise personal well-being and family, trusting that professional success will follow.
These principles have shaped his journey from his early years to becoming a Regional CFO of a global multinational corporation, as well as his roles as a spouse and father. Now in a new life phase defined by FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early), he dedicates his time to giving back through coaching and mentoring, while remaining professionally engaged in executive networking programs.
Drawing on both corporate leadership and life experience, Kum Seng understands firsthand the pressures of senior leadership, complex decision-making, and the challenge of balancing professional ambition with personal priorities at different phases of their lives. Kum Seng supports individuals in defining what truly matters to them and in shaping their own version of success aligned with their current stage of life. He encourages a holistic view of work and life, recognising that priorities evolve over time.
In his coaching sessions, clients are provided with a safe space to share, reflect, and gain clarity. Whether addressing immediate challenges or exploring longer-term career and personal development, each session is centred on the client’s needs and aspirations. With a strong belief in disciplined growth, self-awareness, and continuous learning, he brings a calm, structured, and deeply reflective approach to coaching.
Kum Seng works with clients to:
- Clarify priorities and define what success looks like at their current life stage
- Navigate career transitions, leadership challenges, team performance struggles and personal crossroads
- Build self-awareness and strengthen personal leadership capabilities
- Develop practical actions aligned with short/long-term goals and values
As an ICF coach-in-training and a dedicated partner in awareness, Kum Seng works collaboratively with clients to help them navigate professional and personal leadership challenges, empowering them to grow into stronger, more intentional leaders both at work and at home.
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Jia Ni
Profile
Jia Ni is coach-in-training, who gently supports individuals in reconnecting with their authentic selves, especially in seasons where they feel overwhelmed, stretched, or quietly burnt out. She creates space for people to slow down, tune in, and rediscover a way of living and working that feels more aligned, grounded, and true.
With over 17 years of experience, Jia Ni’s career has been defined by her passion for creating meaningful, human-centered experiences – first for customers, and now for employees. As a People Developer and Experience Creator at the world’s most awarded airport, she focuses on building a culture of care where employees feel engaged, valued, and connected. In this dynamic and fast-paced environment, she has designed and led initiatives in designing immersive onboarding experience, employee well-being, engagement, and development.
Jia Ni’s journey into coaching is deeply personal. Having experienced burnout and her own path of healing, she understands how easy it is to lose touch with oneself while trying to keep up with expectations. Through her own inner work, she has come to value self-compassion, presence, and intentional living, and she continues to invest in her own growth through ongoing learning and self-reflection.
Her coaching approach is grounded in authenticity, empathy, and mindfulness. She creates a safe, non-judgmental space where clients feel seen, heard, and supported. Through thoughtful questions, she gently guides her clients to uncover their own what truly matters to them and take aligned steps towards their goals, particularly in navigating career journeys, or finding their way back to themselves after periods of stress or disconnection.
Outside of her professional life, Jia Ni finds joy in the simple, quiet moments of life. As a true-blue Singaporean, she enjoys a warm teh-c kosong or a good latte, especially on rainy days with a good read. She loves journaling, exploring mindfulness practices, spending time in nature, and travelling to places off the beaten path. Community and giving back are also close to her heart. She has volunteered with Singapore Red Cross and Metta Welfare Association, and now finds deeper purpose in her role as a Wish Granter, fulfilling the final wishes of the terminally ill.
At the heart of her work is a quiet but powerful belief: Always be kind, because behind every smile, someone might be fighting an unseen battle we know nothing of. This belief shapes the way she holds space, with empathy, gentleness.
Gladys Choo
Profile
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Having taken a courageous leap of faith from standing in front of classrooms to pursue a life coaching role that empowers personal and professional fulfilment, Gladys Choo is a former educator turned Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with focal interest in career coaching and guidance that encompasses a unique yet intricately-linked life coaching slant.
Gladys draws much inspiration and derives tremendous satisfaction from journeying with her clients in overcoming the challenges they encounter to successfully transform the way they work, study and live to their fullest. Till date, she has helped more than 500 adult clients and over 1,000 tertiary-level students from across various walks of life to gain clarity about their career aspirations and development endeavours in both their professional and personal fronts.
Prior to her present coaching stints, Gladys was a senior educator with a proven teaching track record that spanned more than a decade across various government secondary schools and varying student abilities. She is conversant with strategies to connect with youths while leveraging a wealth of grounded, real-world experiences to effectively engage and understand them. Being a proud mother of two girls and fortunate enough to realise an arduous mid-career transition beyond just simply returning to the workplace, Gladys’ life experiences as a career woman and working mum makes her relatable to women confronting similar challenges in these difficult stages of life.
Gladys’ proud passion lies in making a difference, both in shaping the lives of her clients to set them up for success and in lending women and youths much-needed clarity (and a helping hand!) in navigating the hurdles of realising their place in society to live their best lives.
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Omprakash Agrawal
Profile
Omprakash is an ICF coach‑in‑training, bringing nearly three decades of leadership experience across global supply chain, strategy, data science, and commercial roles, and a long track record of developing people to reach their full potential.
Across senior roles at HP, UPS and Dell Technologies, he has led large, cross‑functional and multicultural teams, and is widely recognised as an inspiring people leader. Over the years he has mentored and coached numerous team members and high‑potential talents, helping them clarify their strengths, make career decisions, and grow into expanded roles. His teams have consistently rated him highly on inspirational leadership in internal employee surveys, reflecting his ability to combine high performance with psychological safety, clear communication, and genuine care for people’s growth.
As a coach‑in‑training, he brings this people‑centric leadership into his coaching conversations. He enjoys partnering with mid‑career professionals, emerging leaders, and senior executives who are navigating transitions, redefining success, or seeking greater confidence and fulfilment in their work. Clients can expect him to be calm, structured, and deeply attentive, listening beyond the surface, asking thoughtful questions, and supporting them to identify their true potential and turn insight into practical next steps.
He sees coaching as a meaningful way to give back, creating a grounded, reflective space for clients to gain clarity, reconnect with their strengths, and move forward with greater intention in both their work and lives.
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Ng Lai Har
Profile
Lai Har is a coach-in-training with a deep commitment to supporting individuals as they navigate meaningful transitions, personal challenges and the pursuit of a more intentional life. Her journey into coaching is grounded in a genuine curiosity about people – their stories, their struggles and their untapped potential.
She had over 15 years of experience in the civil service within the education sector, having served in both schools and at the Ministry headquarters. Beyond this, she has also ventured into entrepreneurship—running a home-based business and a family hardware retail business—before eventually selling it. She is also married with a young adult son and enjoys singing in a choir. All these experiences have strengthened her adaptability, resilience, understanding of real-world challenges and the delicate balance of family life.
As a coach, she cultivates a safe, supportive, and trusting space where clients feel heard and respected. She brings a warm, attentive and non-judgmental presence to each conversation. She asks thoughtful, succinct questions that invite reflection and insight, while maintaining a light and uplifting coaching presence.
Her coaching is grounded in empathy, curiosity, and a sincere desire to support each client’s growth. She believes every person already holds the seeds of their own growth and by being a thinking partner and providing a safe, reflective space, she aims to help clients uncover insights, explore new perspectives and move forward with greater confidence and alignment.
Currently undergoing professional coach training, she is committed to continuously integrate new learning into her practice and deepening her coaching competencies. If you are looking for a thoughtful partner to walk alongside you as you reflect, grow and move forward, she would be honoured to support you on your journey.
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Jermaine
Profile
Jermaine Tan is a coach-in-training and military leader who is passionate about helping individuals gain clarity, build confidence, and navigate personal and professional challenges. She is currently undergoing an ICF-aligned professional coach training programme, where she is developing her skills in facilitating meaningful and transformative conversations.
With a background in the military, Jermaine has extensive experience working in structured, high-pressure environments where expectations are high and individuals are often required to perform under stress. Through her leadership journey, she has observed that many capable individuals struggle with self-doubt, lack of recognition, and uncertainty about their future, despite their efforts and potential. This has inspired her to pursue coaching as a way to better support others beyond operational roles.
Jermaine’s coaching approach is client-centred and focused on creating a safe, non-judgemental space where individuals can openly explore their thoughts and challenges. She believes that every individual already has the answers within them, and her role as a coach is to guide them through thoughtful questioning, active listening, and reflection. Her sessions are structured yet flexible, allowing clients to gain clarity, uncover blind spots, and take purposeful steps forward.
Beyond her professional role, Jermaine is deeply committed to personal growth and continuous learning. She values authenticity, empathy, and meaningful connections, and strives to bring these qualities into every interaction.
Jermaine’s mission is to support individuals in breaking out of the “rat race,” gaining clarity on what truly matters to them, and moving forward with confidence and purpose.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1) This sounds too good to be true. Is it really free?
Yes, it absolutely is! You can check out last year’s reviews on Google to hear directly from those who experienced it.
While this initiative is also a fundraiser for Ambulance Wish Singapore, there’s no obligation to donate after your session—it’s completely up to you. Our coaches are volunteering because coaching has transformed their own lives, and they’re passionate about paying it forward.
As an ECI community, we believe in making coaching accessible to more people, so whether you’re curious, seeking clarity, or just wondering what coaching can do for you—this is your chance to experience it, no strings attached.
2) Why do we need to attend this in person? Can we do it over Zoom?
We get it—meeting new people in person can sometimes feel awkward. But here’s why we designed this as an in-person experience:
Vibe Check & Chemistry Match – Coaching is deeply personal, and finding the right coach matters. Meeting face-to-face allows you to get a real sense of their energy, approach, and whether they’re the right fit for you. Even if you read through the coaches’ profiles, the real-life experience can feel completely different—just like how someone’s LinkedIn profile or resume might look great, but you only get a real sense of their personality and working style when you interact with them in person.
Immersive & Comfortable Setting – We know social settings can feel weird, so we’ve crafted a guided experience to make interactions easy and natural. You won’t be left wondering what to do—we’ve tested and refined this to ensure a smooth, comfortable process for everyone. This has been tested and proven, so don’t worry about arriving alone too!
Connect with Our Coaching Community – You’ll get the chance to mingle with different coaches, ask questions, and experience firsthand what coaching can offer—all in a supportive and welcoming space.
So, take the leap! We promise it’ll be worth it. 😊
3) What happens after I sign up on the link?
Once you sign up, you’ll receive a WhatsApp message with step-by-step instructions to the location. We know that trying something new—especially coaching—can feel a little awkward, so this helps ensure you feel comfortable and know exactly what to expect.
This also creates an open channel for communication, where you can ask us anything about the event, and we can provide updates or additional details as needed.