Career and Life Design

About

Hee Soo Yin, EdD, MCC-ICF, CMCS-NCDA, ACTC-ICF

Executive Director, Principal Coach, Consultant, Mentor Coach and Coach Supervisor

Trained as a lawyer, Soo Yin practised law for five years before following her passion in people development to make a career change to education, where she quickly established herself as a trusted leader and progressed to senior management roles.

She has over three decades of experience in education, workforce development, learning and professional development, coaching and consultancy work in private, non-profit & public organisations and in government, spanning industries from law, finance to education.

Experience Overview

A future-oriented and strategic leader passionate about bringing out the best in people and teams and enabling their development, performance and growth, Soo Yin has coached and worked with leaders in established large private & public organisations and emerging enterprises.

She is committed to make a difference to leaders, professionals, teams & their organisations needing to both manage the complexities of change and create their future in a way that honours who they are, what matters and purpose. 

She helps clients cultivate inner capacities of self-awareness, systemic perspective, presencing and meaning-making alongside relational skills for collaboration and stakeholder engagement, so that they can lead and work with greater agency, integrity and impact.

As a Birkman Certified Master Professional who customises solutions and interventions to her clients’ needs using the Birkman Method, Soo Yin’s clients have valued Birkman insights on how their perceptions impact how they think, feel, act and relate and how they can use these insights to help them bring out their best as leaders and as high performing teams. Clients also appreciate her use of Birkman career insights in career coaching. A certified My Worldview practitioner, Soo Yin also coaches leaders and their teams and facilitates their vertical development to work with complexity using My Worldview.

In Team Coaching, she partners teams to develop a systemic stakeholder-focused and future-oriented perspective, and co-creates with them, a developmental process to build their capability to co-create value with and for their stakeholders as high value-creating teams.

Soo Yin has a Doctorate in Education (Durham University, UK), a Master of Laws (University College London, UK), a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) (National University of Singapore), and a Master of Divinity (Trinity Theological College). She also completed the General Management Programme from Harvard Business School and the Strategic Management Programme from INSEAD in Singapore.

Her professional credentials include: Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Certified Master of Career Services (CMCS) with the National Career Development Association (NCDA), Advanced Certification in Team Coaching (ICF) and Specialist Adult Educator (Curriculum Development) with Institute for Adult Learning. She has certified with leading global coaching schools, including as a Certified Transformational Master Coach with Coach Masters Academy Global, a Certified Marshall Goldsmith Executive and Team Coach, a Certified Senior Practitioner in Team Coaching with the Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI).

She is also an Advanced Certified Coach Mentor (Fran Fisher), trained in Career Practitioner Supervision (NCDA) and in Systemic Team Coaching Supervision (Renewal Associates, RA and the Academy of Executive Coaching, AOEC).

Her clients recognise her as a coach, coach mentor and supervisor and facilitator who holds a safe, non-judgmental space, which helps them quickly identify their needs, shift mindsets, uncover blind spots & stuck places, redefine comfort zones, to accelerate their performance, growth and impact.

As a Certified Journal to the Self Facilitator, a Certified Mindfulness Teacher (Sounds True & Greater Good Science Center) and Registered Sandplay Therapist (Association for Sandplay Therapy), she also facilitates Inner Development and Personal Process work for her clients. She has more than two decades of experience designing & facilitating learning at Universities, Tertiary Institutions and in various professional contexts in Singapore.

Specialties

Leadership Development and Executive CoachingMentor Coaching and Coaching Supervision
Inner and Integrative Development Career and Life Design
Vertical Development – MyWorldView AssessmentBirkman Assessment and Solutioning
Systemic Leadership and Team CoachingLearning Design and Facilitation

Anita Rajendran-See, PCC-ICF

Executive and Team Coach

An Industrial Organizational Psychologist and Director, Human Capital, Anita is a successful executive with over two decades of Commercial HR Business Partnership & Leadership expertise, experienced in industries as diverse as Biotech, Animal Health & Nutrition, Education, Travel & Hospitality, Aquaculture and Agriculture. 

Experience Overview

Anita is a seasoned and accomplished Human Resource Director, Business Partner and Professional Coach working with the C-suite and Business Leaders, cultivating impactful partnerships with internal and external business stakeholders. She consistently delivers a cohesive, well-balanced, strong team accomplishing measurable business results. With her background in Human Capital, Anita believes strongly in Employee Engagement being the core of a successful organization and is well versed in all facets of HR.

She co-coaches with Soo Yin and works closely with senior leaders on coaching teams and team leaders to develop high value creating teams in one on one and team coaching conversations. As a coach, her clients value her insights and make amazing progress over a short period of time and keep coming back. She creates a psychological safe space for her clients to uncover their need and wants, values and behavior patterns.

As an ICF – Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Certified Practitioner in Team Coaching with the Global Team Coaching Institute, and a Certified Transformational Master Coach with Coach Masters Academy Global, Anita places high value and focus on building and nurturing High Value Creating Teams to accomplish organizational objectives and deliver successful outcomes.

Specialties

Executive CoachingMentoring & Training
Leadership & Team CoachingTalent Acquisition and Retention
Team DevelopmentChange Management 
Talent Management & DevelopmentEmployee Engagement

Wu Mi Yin, EdD, PCC-ICF

Executive, Life and Parenting Coach; Organizational and Professional Development Facilitator, Well-being and Renewal Facilitator

Trained as a professional town planner, Mi Yin worked in Hong Kong and Sydney for five years, before she moved into the fields of organizational development and professional development in Singapore. She has over two decades of experience facilitating leadership, organisational and professional development in organisations.

A firm believer in holistic development and the importance of well-being and positive relationships at work and at home in bringing out the best in every individual, Mi Yin has designed and facilitated Renewal programs and retreats for almost two decades and is also an experienced Transformational Professional Coach, Parenting Coach and Family Life Educator. 

Experience Overview

Mi Yin has over two decades of experience of working with senior management to shape their corporate mission, vision, values, culture and work processes to enhance corporate effectiveness. Motivated by her passion, she investigated the professional development of teachers in Singapore in her doctoral research and subsequently built on her research to design and facilitate year-long capacity development programs for senior and master teachers. She also designed and facilitated Renewal Experience programs for teachers for almost two decades. 

She led and facilitated Renewal retreats from 2003-2012 in the Ministry of Education’s Teacher Renewal Experience, where thousands of teachers had benefited in re-orienting and re-energizing themselves to become more whole as persons, building healthier relationships with themselves, their work and others, and being at their best more often. She co-authored the book “Tending Our Gardens: reflections to nourish our growth and renewal” (1st Ed 2012, 2nd Ed 2022) to share her learning and insights on renewal gained from her experience.

Healthy relationships with self and others determine the fruitfulness of our pursuit — a key insight Mi Yin gained through working with committed leaders, educators and parents.  For her, building healthy relationships is a journey of personal growth and transformation. This journey is necessary for people who desire to create value in their families, workplaces, communities and society. Mi Yin finds joy in serving those who are keen to build skills and capacity in developing healthy relationships, through workshops, retreats and coaching conversations.

Her clients value her calm presence, the safe space provided, her thoughtful perspectives and unwavering support offered. Her clients also appreciate her capacity to listen and care deeply about their growth, and her honest inputs and perspectives in service of their development and pursuit of what they care about.

Mi Yin holds a Doctor of Education (University of Western Australia, Australia), a Master of Town and Country Planning (University of Sydney, Australia), and a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR). She is a Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation).

She is also Adjunct Facilitator with the Greenleaf Centre for Servant-Leadership (Asia), a Certified Transformation Professional Coach (Coach Masters Academy Global), a Gallup-Certified Strength Coach, a Certified Parent Coach and Family Life Educator with Focus on the Family Singapore.

Specialties

Wellbeing & RenewalBuilding Healthy Relationships
Capacity DevelopmentStrength-based Development
Personal & Professional DevelopmentParenting
Servant LeadershipOrganisational Development

Chan Lin Ho, EdD, PCC-ICF

Life and Executive Coach, Birkman Consultant, Spiritual Director and Transition Writing Specialist

Lin Ho has more than thirty years’ experience in various leadership roles as educator, researcher, and in policy and professional development and consultancy, in both the private and public sector, working across age groups ranging from children to adults. 

Her experiences of multiple transitions in her career and life are formative of her deep appreciation and respect of the need for holistic integration which involves the spiritual dimension, in one’s personal process in significant career and life transitions. This led her to transition to focus more fully on coaching and spiritual direction to support individuals in their career and life transitions.

Experience Overview

Lin Ho brought more than seventeen years’ of rich experience as a Senior Leader and Educator in Early Childhood to Policy Development as Director at a Government Agency where she led several professional development initiatives to improve the quality of early childhood programmes and practices for children at different ages of their development. This included the development of accreditation standards, training and progression pathways for educarers, early years educators and leaders.

Subsequently, she transited to the role of Senior Consultant with the same Government Agency when she developed and piloted Kidstart, an innovative programme using community-based playgroups based in the Abecedarian Approach. Kidstart helps support vulnerable families by developing parenting skills and facilitating parent-child bonding through a structured curricula comprising enriched language interactions, caregiving and LearningGames.

Lin Ho then transitioned back to teaching to fulfil her passion in teaching and curriculum design as well as in coaching and mentoring as Associate Professor at a University in Singapore where she developed and taught the Mentoring and Coaching in Educational Settings Programme. She was also a Life Coach for undergraduate and graduate students with the University’s Center for Counselling and Life Coaching. Her belief in the critical role leadership plays, led her to develop a pilot mentoring programme in her external consultancy work with a major anchor operator in the Early Childhood Education sector.

Lin Ho uses the Birkman Method, a scientifically validated personality assessment and integrates nature, the arts, contemplative photography, ‘metaphor magic’, visual journaling and sandplay into her coaching and spiritual direction practice. She brings a creative, compassionate, warm and intuitive approach to support others in their personal process of life integration and spiritual formation and in coaching.

Her coaching clients find her coaching deeply inspiring and they value her support and ability to effortlessly open up new perspectives, empowering them to make changes to take action to improve their situation. They value her ability to coach effectively, without losing the element of empathy and care as she keeps the balance between having deep empathy and being logical in her thoughts. Her clients appreciate how she intricately explores with them their desired goals before patiently and compassionately empowering them to achieve their goals. Her unwavering belief in their ability to achieve their goals have inspired them to give their best and to believe in themselves. 

Having experienced various life and career transitions, the desire to support people in their career and life transitions grew within her and led her to study under Leia Francisco, Founder of the Center for Transition Coaching and Writing and Creator of Writing Through Transitions®. As a Certified Transition Writing Specialist, Lin Ho conducts writing workshops that offer resources to help individuals use journaling to navigate their own transitions in career and life. The workshops provide guidance and journaling practices that help clarify and create strategies for a personal transition, learn tools to help them thrive during times of change and transition.

Lin Ho attained her ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Credential and is a Breakthrough Coaching Practitioner certified by Dr Marcia Reynolds, an ICF MCC Coach, ranked as one of the top 5 coaches in the world and 5th Global President of the International Coach Federation. Lin Ho is also a Certified Professional Transformational Coach from Coach Masters Academy. 

She holds a Doctorate in Education from Durham University, UK and is a Certified Transition Writing Specialist. She is a Birkman Certified Professional and Certified Journal to the Self Instructor (The Center for Journal Therapy) and a Jungian Sandplay Practitioner. She received her training in the art of spiritual direction and giving the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises from Kardia Formation, a formation program recognized by the Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Direction.

Specialties

Career and Transition CoachingLeadership Development
Birkman Personality AssessmentPersonal Process  (Sandplay and Journaling)
Transition Writing SpecialistSpiritual Direction

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