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Not what we promise.
What actually
happened.

Four leaders. Different crossroads. Different industries. What they share is what shifted when they stopped working around the problem and started working on it directly.

Individual Coaching

Leaders who came
at a crossroads.

Some came with a specific challenge. Others came with a feeling they could not quite name. All of them left with something they did not have when they arrived.

The Shift

"I got promoted to director along the way."

Pat
Director, Google APAC
Individual Coaching  ·  Google APAC
New market. New team. Old ceiling.

Pat came to coaching at the point where a new role in a new market had begun to reveal a gap between who he had been and who he needed to become. The role was not the problem. The way he was relating to it was.

The coaching did not solve the role. It changed the person in the role. And along the way, something none of us had planned for: a promotion to director.

What changed

The external result was the promotion. The internal shift was earlier: a change in how Pat showed up in rooms he used to find difficult. The promotion followed naturally from that.

Individual Coaching  ·  Technology Sector
The role had outgrown its previous shape.

Rowan had been in the same organisation for seven years. The role had grown significantly. The seniority had grown. The influence had grown. And yet something was not adding up. The performance was there. The recognition was there. And still, something was costing more energy than it should.

The work was not about the organisation. It was about the version of Rowan that had been built to survive in a previous version of the organisation, and that was now getting in the way.

What changed

The distinction Rowan left with: the difference between performing leadership and inhabiting it. A sustainable version of themselves in the role, rather than one that required constant effort to maintain.

Leadership coaching
The Shift

"I stopped performing the role and started being it."

Rowan
Senior Director, Technology
The Shift

"The team problem turned out to be mine to solve, not theirs."

Edgar
Regional Director, Professional Services
Individual Coaching  ·  Professional Services
The team was the problem. Or so it seemed.

Edgar came with a team in friction. He had done the right things: the team-building, the process improvement, the difficult conversations about performance. The friction remained.

What emerged in coaching was not new information about the team. It was new information about Edgar's relationship to conflict, to authority, and to the particular kind of discomfort that comes when a team requires something from a leader that the leader has not yet learned to give.

What changed

The team got better. Edgar got different. Which came first is hard to say. What is clear is that the team could not shift until Edgar did. The coaching found that sequence and worked with it directly.

Four Leaders. One Coach.

What actually changed.

Rowan, Pat, EeKe, and Edgar each came at a different crossroads. A new market. A team in friction. A role that had outgrown its previous shape. What they share is what happened next.

The coaching did not solve the problem. It changed the person solving it.

"I got promoted to director along the way."
Pat  ·  Director, Google APAC
CoachingGoWhere in session

"The coaching did not solve the problem. It changed the person solving it."

In Their Own Words

What clients say
about the work.

These are LinkedIn testimonials. The words are theirs. We have not edited them.

“

I was a nervous wreck stepping into my new role. Anna's coaching brought me through an amazing introspective journey where I found my core beliefs and threw out all those that were holding me back. Now I greet every day and challenge with a twinkle in the eye.

Stan Lim
Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Creative Singapore
“

Anna worked with me on my self-awareness and authenticity, which in turn helped transform our business into one of the most successful data center start-ups in Asia. I will gladly partner with Anna again.

Johnson Tan
Managing Director APAC, CloudHQ
“

Emma creates the kind of psychological safety where leaders navigating growth, transition and complexity can do meaningful development work. She understands that it is the relationships in the room where the learning actually lives.

Laura Sciore
Leadership Coach, BTS
“

If you are looking for not just optimistic comments but objective coaching backed with science, I would highly recommend Anna. I was always able to reach an answer after spending time with her.

Susie Kim
Product Strategy Lead, Google
“

Anna is an incredibly empathetic and insightful coach. Her ability to hold space while simultaneously challenging you to go deeper made every session both safe and transformative. I left each conversation with more clarity and more courage than I arrived with.

Wei Lin Chiang
Head of Strategy, Financial Services
“

Working with Emma on team dynamics completely shifted how I understood what was blocking us. She has a rare ability to name what the room is not yet saying, and to create the conditions for the team to hear it without becoming defensive.

David Osei
VP People, Pharma Asia Pacific

These testimonials are from LinkedIn. See more on our LinkedIn page.

Leaders we have worked with come from

Google  ·  GSK  ·  BCG  ·  HSBC  ·  Siemens Healthineers  ·  GE Healthcare  ·  KPMG
Dentsu International  ·  Capgemini  ·  Airbus  ·  Alstom  ·  Alibaba  ·  Club Med
Singapore Government Agency  ·  Reckitt  ·  Mead Johnson  ·  Panduit  ·  Transcom

Est. 2015
Singapore
1,000+
Leaders Transformed
50+
Years Combined Experience
12+
Industries

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