Sharon Tan, Head of Global Partnership Asia, Faculty & Coach

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

Christine Kong, Faculty & Coach

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.

Soo Yin Hee, Faculty & Mentor Coach

Soo Yin partners leaders, professionals and teams to enhance their performance, development and impact. This includes facilitating vertical development or the systemic growth of how one thinks and perceive the world and capacities to navigate complexity and uncertainty.

She brings a wealth of experience in senior leadership roles in law, education, workforce development, learning and professional development, leadership and team development in private, non-profit and public sector organizations and in government, spanning industries from law, finance and education.

As a coach, she partners with leaders, professionals and teams who are having to deliver on business as usual and co-create the future, whilst navigating complex challenges. Her clients value her integrative, inner and vertical developmental approaches to facilitate individual, organizational, systemic changes and collaborative value co-creation. Her coaching credentials include Master Certified Coach (ICF) and Advanced Certificate in Team Coaching (ICF).

She is a Doctor of Education (Durham University, UK) with a Master of Laws (University College London). She also completed the General Management Programme (Harvard) and the Strategic Management Programme (WDA-INSEAD).

She trained in Gestalt Coaching (AoEC) and certified in a range of transformational and systemic coaching approaches with leading global coaching institutes. She also trained in Career Practitioner Supervision (NCDA), Systemic Team Coaching Supervision (RA & AoEC), and as Advanced Certified Mentor Coach (FF). She is certified in the Birkman Assessment (Mindset, Motivation, Self and Social Perception), My WorldView Assessment (Vertical Development) and Team Connect 360 (Team 360).

An avid life-long learner, she loves to take walks in nature, and choral music. She also volunteers to coach youths and young adults at tertiary institutions.

K Chyan, Faculty & Coach

KC is an executive coach, organisational development practitioner, facilitator, and trainer focused on leadership development and unlocking human potential. With a background spanning engineering and the arts, he combines a systematic approach with creative vision to help leaders navigate complexity, build resourcefulness, and lead with authenticity. His trauma-informed and human-centred practice creates reflective spaces for deeper self-awareness, clarity of purpose, and meaningful growth. 

KC dedicates much of his creative and systems work to pro bono initiatives, partnering with teams and communities across sectors in Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Hungary, South Africa, and the United States. 

He is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with grounding in Gestalt and Ontological approaches, and also serves as a mentor coach, training and developing professional coaches. KC is a Newfield Certified Coach, Certified Systemic Team Coach, Certified Health Coach, and a graduate of the internationally recognised International Gestalt Organization and Leadership Development (iGOLD) program.

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.

Joy Leong, Coach

Joy is a certified coach, facilitator, and organisational development specialist with over 20 years of experience supporting individuals and teams to grow, collaborate, and lead with authenticity. As an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC), she brings a grounded and human-centric approach to her work, drawing from a strong background in healthcare leadership, adult learning, and systemic team development.

She has led organisation-wide initiatives in service excellence, onboarding, and change facilitation within the public healthcare sector, and previously co-developed experiential learning programmes in the social enterprise space focused on values-based teamwork and collaboration.

Joy’s coaching is strengths-based and empathetic, supporting leaders navigating transitions, teams seeking trust and cohesion, and organisations committed to people-centred leadership.  She is certified in Systemic Team Coaching, Gestalt Coaching, MBTI Step II, and holds an Advanced Certificate in Organisational Development. Joy’s strengths—Responsibility, Empathy, Relator, Individualization, and Achiever—reflect her thoughtful, tailored, and committed approach to transformation.

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.

Jason Woolley, Coach

Executive & Team Coach PCC (ICF), Supervisor

Jason brings an authenticity to the coaching relationship; a “shop floor” perspective. Utilising the clarity of coaching for his own leadership development and career advancement within Media, Marketing and Communications he has been a country brand lead for Dentsu X Singapore, a General Manager for GroupM Vietnam, a Regional Director for GroupM APAC, and also delivered a short engagement consulting for KPMG Vietnam as Chief Digital Officer. These are all roles that incorporated elements of financial accountability, client servicing, internal executive stakeholder management, and team leadership.

Providing coaching since 2011 his original focus was on working with small-business owners and entrepreneurs, as they are at the results-focused cutting-edge of demand. As coaching became more recognized by businesses and, having been able to apply coaching skills internally within his corporate roles, Jason has expanded his practice to include not just 1:1 coaching but also team coaching, facilitation and training, and now also includes Systems Inspired C-Suite / Leadership Supervision

Currently his clientele is split between corporate leadership development, with many of his clients in management, country or regional leadership roles, and personal or mindset coaching for effectiveness using the iEQ9 Integral Enneagram Assessment.