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This article "If you’re unhappy at work, a hasty job change may not help" really resonates with me because it is a topic often comes up in coaching conversations - many people are not just unhappy with their jobs; they’re disconnected from its purpose. We spend a large part of our lives at work, so it’s natural that work often defines who we are. There is nothing wrong with that. But we often feel that something is missing when identity is built only on the "what": - What ti

A participant shared this during a coaching workshop that I facilitated for a group of educational leaders last week. It reminded me of a story: A boy was observing a caterpillar struggle to push through a tiny hole in the cocoon to become a butterfly. Feeling sorry for the caterpillar, the boy cut the cocoon open to make the hole bigger. The butterfly emerged. But, it would never fly. Turns out, the struggle to break free is a natural process that forces fluid from the butt

'I felt like an imposter in my first 3 years of leadership,' a young leader shared with me recently. For some of us, that feeling doesn’t quite go away, even as we grow into more senior roles. But this young leader's experience is the reason I’ve chosen to focus my work on emerging and next-gen leaders. They are often the ones who need the most support, yet receive the least of it. In many organisations, the assumption is that new leaders need mentors to guide and advise th

Reflections about authenticity (like this CNA article ) always resonate with me. Authenticity is a topic that is close to my heart but one that I couldn't articulate very clearly until I started on my journey to become a professional coach. As I coached others and as others coached me, I became clearer about what authenticity looks like and why it matters. It all began with this question - who am I? It is a question that we don’t often ask ourselves because we assume we know

Read this CNA article, "Why the mid-life crisis for millennials looks different in Singapore" a couple of weekends ago . After getting over the fact that I am really growing old, (if the millennials are already experiencing mid-life crisis), I realised that the sentiments shared by the millennials in the article resonate with me because these were the questions I had asked myself when I was in my 30s and these were the same questions I asked myself recently even in my late 4

"It's not how good you are now; it's how good you're going to be that really matters," says Atul Gawande, American surgeon, writer and public health researcher. Watch this Ted Talk where he tells his own story of how having a coach helped him to become a better surgeon and how we can all become better versions of ourselves by having a coach.