Sharon Thompson-Tan - Head of Asia Pacific

Sharon has been a trusted, strategic thought partner, coach and mentor to many senior executives and leadership teams. Having personally worked in senior leadership positions in both Finance & Human Resources functions within global corporations, she understands first-hand how to strike the right balance between the competing demands of delivering results and developing leaders. She’s well-versed in facilitating systemic changes across multicultural, cross-functional organisations inclusively through shared leadership, co-creation, and fostering collaboration amongst stakeholders at various levels. She is qualified in team coaching by ICF and certified MCIPD.Sharon Tan (+65 9008 3982 SG / +44 7521 926645 UK) sharon.tan@aoec.com

Rachel Ooi - Coach

Rachel is a versatile, prescient servant-leader who has devoted nearly 30 years of her professional life to lead and scale digital and sustainability innovation. She is recognised for her global thought leadership in these areas by Global Forbes Council and has authored Amazon #1 International Bestseller #unshaken in Digital Genesis https://t.ly/XS99R . She is an expert on pivoting enterprises in their emerging ecosystem, adding value in shifts, convergence, disruptions and integrations for growth (including M&As, Ventures). Rachel held global executives roles with P&L responsibilities, where she built and scaled consulting, marketing, and digital-deep tech global businesses with success as Chief Growth Officer at Dentsu APAC, MD at Accenture, GM at GE Digital; CMO at WPP and numerous other commercial leadership role with Deloitte , Ericsson, NXP and Syngenta. Certified Board Chair and ICF-PCC Systemic Change Coach, Rachel is privileged to have coached and mentored more than 100 CEOs/CXOs and senior executives on transitions, leadership transformations, and systemic change. She devotes her personal time on Impact Board Councils (HCSA Community Services, Law Society of Singapore, SRG, Regenesis) in shaping their policies, transforming cultures and developing stewardship in these communities. She has been honoured for her contribution as an Adjunct Associate Professor on her 3Ps expertise (People-Planet-Profit) by the Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore.

David Ng - Coach

David is a certified mentor and executive coach, chartered accountant, and consultant CFO with more than 30 years of broad industry and international exposure. His ongoing engagement as a CFO in start-ups and his research work allows him to draw on broad perspectives to engage on topics of leadership, network building, organisational development, strategy execution and operational efficiency. David gained rich experience through his global and regional leadership roles as senior executive, coach and advisor in challenging start-ups and respected MNCs. These roles were based out of Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Sydney, with a focus on Emerging Markets and Intellectual Property, in wide ranging industries namely Biotechnology, Pharma, Media, Consumer Products, Intellectual Property, Investment Banking, Consulting and Accountancy. Having coached senior executives for close to 15 years, David enjoys working alongside clients who seek to explore new possibilities in their performance mindset and outcomes. His experience in capital markets combined with a deep research ability enables him to serve in mentoring roles at various business accelerators as well as lecturing at business schools where he enjoys combining industry practice with peer-reviewed academic adventures.

Soo Yee Leong - Coach

Following illustrious careers with the last being an executive director, Soo Yee is a certified professional coach partnering C-Suite and senior executives to lead change, grow successful teams and thrive. She was the first Asian on ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Executive Board, where she led its business in Asia, the Americas, Europe, Middle East and UK, besides its digital transformation programme.Prior to ACCA, Soo Yee held senior leadership roles at AIA and Citibank, after starting her career in sales and marketing at Shell.COACHING APPROACHSoo Yee brings a unique blend of transformative coaching, agile and design thinking to support leaders and executives lead change and innovation, achieve breakthrough performance, elevate employee engagement and improve personal wellbeing.She has coached teams and senior executives around the world in organisations which includes BP, Deloitte, Nexia, Sephora and Qualcomm. Her areas of coaching: organisation transformation, innovation, culture agility, leadership, growing high performance team, wellbeing and career growth/transition. EDUCATION AND TRAINING• Bachelor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore • Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation (ICF)• Certified Transformational Master Coach, Coach Masters Academy Global• Certificate on Hogan Assessments• Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance• Certificate on Design Thinking, Stanford University Graduate School of Business• Positive Intelligence CoachSoo Yee loves nature, the arts and meditation. She is a passionate advocate of diversity, equality and inclusion who volunteers at Beyond Social Services, a Singapore charity and mentoring platform which makes mentoring accessible to aspiring women leaders globally.

Christine Kong - Faculty

PCC (ICF), CSA Coach Supervisor

Christine had a long career in education that allowed her to lead schools as School Principal and a cluster of schools as a Cluster Superintendent. She is currently coaching and training school leaders and has extended coaching and supervision practices to coaches from ICF Malaysia, doctors in the National University Hospital and leaders from Teach for All.

Christine has been a coach since 2014 and holds a PCC from ICF and Coaching Supervision Diploma from Coaching Supervision Academy, UK. In addition, she is certified in Emotional Intelligence EQi 2.0 and holds certificates for Positive Psychology Coaching, Foundations in Gestalt Coaching and Foundations in Action Learning.

She engages with international coaches and is a lifelong learner who believes in her own vertical leadership development as leader and coach. She holds an MEd Guidance and Counselling (Nanyang Technological University, NTU), BA (Hons) Social Science (National University of Singapore), Diploma in Educational Administration (NTU) and Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching (NTU).

In her free time, she enjoys her holidays and treks to places less travelled.

Personal philosophy: Seek new landscapes with courage, curiosity, and wonder.