Growing emerging & next-gen leaders

'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