Samuel is an executive coach, headhunter and entrepreneur with over 20 years of leadership experience. He has since coached and placed more than 500 mid to senior-level positions for foreign and local MNC clients in a diverse range of industries. This includes the Pharmaceuticals, Semi-conductor, Infocomm, Telecommunication, Chemical, Oil & Gas and Engineering sectors.

As an Executive Coach, he helps companies to develop their high potential and to continuously develop current executives’ leadership skills so as to ensure company continued success. He also helps new managers, executives who wish to improve their relationship with co-workers, professionals. Those who want to alter their leadership/managerial styles for better effectiveness should approach Samuel too.

Samuel believes in making a difference and in awakening possibilities in people’s lives. He believes in unleashing the human’s potential to be the best that one can be. He is determined to help people live their lives courageously and passionately. It is this belief and commitment that keeps him motivated to make a personal career switch in the 1990’s from the Infocomm industry to his own headhunting firm in 1998.

Under Samuel’s coaching, his clients discover more about themselves and will gain new insights to their situations. The program should enable them to make better choices and take more effective action. The other benefits that his clients have received include improved working relationships with direct reports/supervisors, increased job satisfaction, positive impact on performance, improved skills (like communication, delegation, conflict management, team building, persuasion, etc), greater productivity, motivation and confidence.

Beyond his professional life, Samuel served as a volunteer towards several community causes such as the Reach-Out Programmes for Aged Residents in Henderson and he also volunteers at the Cheshire Home, which caters to wheel-chair bound residents, working with the movement-impaired residents.

Samuel is a certified Ontological Coach from one of the world’s leading coaching certification institution, Newfield School of Coaching in USA. He is also certified in Job & Career Transition Coaching (with Career Planning & Adult Development Network), Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder’s Coaching and Marshall Goldsmith GLOF 360. He is currently a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Alice Chia has been a Motivation Trainer, Executive and Life Coach since 2005. Alice is passionate about contributing to people’s growth. She specializes in coaching clients in building their leadership skills and personal effectiveness.

With her wealth of experience, she has established a reputation for bringing forth the commitment of clients with effective strategies to unlock their full potential. She is good at creating a safe space for her coaching clients to explore deeply about their compelling desire for self-mastery.

Alice’s clientele ranges from CEOs, directors, managers to social workers, homemakers, teenagers, and even retirees. Alice believes that every human being is unique and that everyone wants to be a champion in their lives. Depending on her client’s needs, Alice listens and customizes the coaching processes accordingly. She believes that good listening and fostering trust shall establish the foundation for any effective coaching to take place. Her corporate clients include HSBC Insurance, The Thought Collective, Petronas, Adita-Birla Group, INTI/Laureate International University and College and Body Contours.

Alice is happily married with 3 children, and pursuing her passion in coaching. With her passion in “discovering” people, Alice continues to develop and hone her skills in personal effectiveness and mastery.

Alice is a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and Coach from one of the world’s leading coaching certification institution, Newfield School of Coaching in USA. She is also certified to lead David Bercelli’s Tension Release Exercises. She is currently a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Tze Meng is a passionate, personable and inspiring trainer and coach who has honed his craft over the past 6 years, having worked with many clients and touched their lives in more than one way.

He champions each individual and their organization in their growth; for he believes that unlimited potential exists in all of his clients.

He has conducted training for people from all walks of life across various industries and companies, including Caterpillar, ACE Insurance, Barclays, Citibank, IBM, SingTel and HP.

As a Professional Certified Coach, he walks the journey with his clients towards their goals, picking up gems, insights and learning along the way.

Being trained in the Enneagram, EQ-i 2.0, ExtendedDISC and MBTI, he uses these tools to bring awareness to his clients, to facilitate desired changes and allow the manifestation of full potential.

With his varied skills and experience in Corporate, Business, Information Technology, Construction, Telecommunications, Project Management and Training and Development, Tze Meng has integrated his knowledge into the training and coaching that he conducts

Akiyo has over 15 years of corporate experience and 10 years of coaching experience. She has a strong passion for supporting people in personal & professional growth and navigating to success, especially in diversified and multicultural corporate environments.

Akiyo has coached and consulted middle to senior management in Fortune 100 MNC and leading organizations with an extensive track record in their respective industries. She has also taught and mentored at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (career development program for MBA candidates), using her honed coaching methodologies and international corporate experience for career & personal development.

For some example, Akiyo conducted leadership and developmental programs for Professionals in middle to senior management

1) To manage & develop cross-border teams with cultural and language nuances in mind. (e.g. Team development and communication in multi-cultural & multi-language Asia for Non-Asian Managements)

2) To effect mindset changes, to overcome challenges, and to achieve desired & tangible results. (e.g. IT Engineers in Management: Improved strategic agility, communication, presentation.)

3) For Executive Coaching. (e.g. Directors, Country Heads, Global Project Leads.)

More About Akiyo

Akiyo was born and raised in Tokyo and Yokohama in Japan. She learned, worked, and lived in Japan, Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore for over 24 years. She is a mother of a boy with a multi-cultural heritage. Former official volunteer guide for Singapore Botanic Garden, she loves herbs, spices & scents and enjoys walking through the tropical gardens. Akiyo resides in Singapore as a Permanent Resident.

Life Before Coaching

With her many years of experience in multi-cultural MNCs like American Express International Inc, Citibank N.A., SAP Asia, and living & working as a professional in overseas, and its actual involvement in individual, operational level, cross-functional level, and reporting lines in complex environments such as international teams on cross-border assignments. Akiyo gained the essence of leadership and communication styles in both business and cultural contexts.

Sox retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2011 after serving 20 years at several key appointments and contributing to transformation efforts and growing leaders in the organization.

Since retiring from the SAF, Sox continues pursuing her passion to make a difference through coaching, training and facilitation. Sox is a dynamic and passionate life performance coach and her passion is in the area of creating a purposeful experiential learning environment, anchored on authenticity, choice, responsibility and challenge. A life-learner herself, Sox advocates the power of questions, and values the importance of learning through being and doing.

She has created programs for inspiring and building teams, some of which are still being practiced today in the units she served. The numerous teams that she led and coached, not only produced results but also had very positive experience such that they are the envy of their peers.

She won SEA games Gold in hockey in 1993, she has had years of personal experience and practice in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual groundedness required for leadership and peak performance. Not only has she achieved significant results in the sporting field, she is also an accomplished trailblazer in her calling as a professional soldier – achieving numerous firsts in the Armed Forces. The most noteworthy accomplishment is being the first woman Artillery Battalion Commander for which she was inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (2014).

Sox’s training is in both Performance and Ontological Coaching focusing on developing one’s ways of being as a means of producing major shifts in perception and behaviour through creating deep personal awareness, self-responsibility and co-creating practices towards desired outcomes.   Her strength lies in engaging her clients holistically through  emotions, body and language to create opportunities for discovery, growth and self-mastery thereby achieving the desired results.  In additional, as a sports enthusiast and a beneficiary of sports psychology, she also coaches individuals and teams for turn-around and peak performance.