Our Team

Kai Foong TAN

Founder & Principal Consultant | Registered Psychologist(Singapore) | Professional Certified Coach(PCC), ICF | Leadership Development Practice Director, INSEAD

Kai Foong is passionate about partnering with leaders on their transformational journey in the context of gaining more self-awareness, to discover their purpose and to develop adaptive skills in order to gain personal and organizational success. Kai Foong has worked with senior business leaders globally (CEOs/Presidents) of Fortune 500/Global 1000 organization across financial services, building and cement industry, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, retail over the last 20 years. Her specialty lies in the area of individual change in the context of executive coaching, assessment and development of leaders. Her current portfolio of work revolves around coaching senior leaders and their management teams to be more self aware, agile and resilient in this global VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous). She also works with helping organizations design and build talent systems to support the people strategy to drive organizational goals.

Darryl CHEN

Senior Consultant | Associate Certified Coach(ACC), ICF | Executive Master(Distinction) in Consulting & Coaching for Change, INSEAD | Coach, INSEAD

Darryl is an experienced leadership consultant working mainly with mid-level to high-level managers in SMEs and MNCs to enable individuals to transition from being a manager to being a leader. His clients include leaders across a broad range of industries such as manufacturing, finance, hospitality and aerospace.

His roles in previous organisations (logistics, manufacturing, and IT services) range from being an internal process consultant to project management to customer-facing roles. These roles have enabled Darryl to develop appropriate and relevant considerations to balance both the “managing business” and “managing people” perspective.

Darryl’s approach towards facilitation and coaching tends to be goal or solutions focused by emphasizing the importance of how his coachees think and feel towards their current situation and their goals. His strength in building relationships means that he is quickly able to establish and hold a safe space for his learners/coachees whilst asking them “brave and bold” questions to challenge and disturb their current frame of reference.

Linda TAN

Senior Consultant | Masters in Human Resource Management | CPCC (Certified Professional Coactive Coach)

Linda is an experienced consultant working with executive teams to develop talent management practices to identify and develop talents to build engaged and sustainable organizations. Her clients include leaders across a broad range of industries such as manufacturing, finance, FMCG and pharmaceuticals. Having been an internal consultant and coach, Linda appreciates the importance of context and culture in organisations. She work with leaders to inspire change and bring a “down to earth” approach in execution. Linda designs and facilitates workshops that build on an environment of trust for authentic conversations to discover what’s important, what’s present and define actions for the future. She uses visual practices to help teams make their thinking visible. She also coaches individuals to live a life more aligned with their purpose and values, bring to light different perspectives on challenges and take actions that serves them.

Michael TAYLOR

Senior Consultant | M.A. in Industrial Organizational Psychology, Minnesota State University

Michael is a consultant and former business unit leader with global experience in assessing and developing leadership talent. His combination of consulting and business experiences has provided Michael with a unique understanding of how to make leadership development practical and successful. Michael’s passion has been supporting organizations in their leadership challenges during times of change. His approach removes obstacles to learning by addressing the current culture and capabilities of the organization that hold it back. Michael has worked closely with senior leaders at the global, regional, and functional levels to address change. For example, he co-developed a 2-year program to support a transition in leadership and change in business model for a business that was being spun-off of its parent organization. The program focused on nominating new leaders to act as change agents during the period of transition and developed their change management and strategic thinking capabilities. Michael has also developed a 2-year leadership development journey for an IT function of a global pharmaceutical company. The journey aimed to re-ignite passion in leadership and equip all leaders with the ability to move from a localized, siloed organization to a global, matrixed organization after a period of restructuring and lay-offs.

Su-Chzeng ONG

Su-chzeng has more than 12 years international coaching experience. She specializes in leadership coaching in cross-cultural business environments and travels globally to coach. She partners her clients to integrate and tune in to their core selves and values, reframe their challenges with shifting mindsets, identify what is limiting their greater success and to choose powerfully to take action to grow personally and professionally. Su-Chzeng has many years of diverse experiences having lived for more than a decade each in London, in Tokyo and in Singapore, in addition to her early years in Malaysia. She brings with her over 30 years of business experience having held various business leadership roles at senior management level, including director and vice-president, variously at JPMorgan Chase Bank, Jardine Fleming Asia, Robert Fleming London, Collins and Macmillan Publishers, UK. Su-Chzeng also coaches with the Centre for Creative Leadership, IMD, INSEAD, amongst many other coaching organizations. She is also a founding member of the International Coach Federation in Singapore with coaching accreditations are from BCC (Board Certified Coach, USA), CCPC (Canadian Council of Professional Certification). She is also an accredited Coach Supervisor, Coach Supervision Academy, UK.