Anna Tan
CEO and Founder
Anna's passion spans 25 years’ experience of orgnisational transformation and change consulting. This encompasses training, coaching and mentoring with numerous and varied clients across the world, spanning MCN’s industries, Government, public sector bodies and not-for-profit organisations.
Background:
Anna is a highly successful award winning consultant with over 22 years experience of leading multi-million dollar portfolios, as a project, programme and business transformation consultant. She has numerous accolades and won the prestigious UK Government – Cabinet Office Project and Programme Management Award. She has co-published several academic papers on ‘Communities and Trust’.
She coaches C-suite and top level executives from MNC’s across APAC, transforming their business results.
Anna is a Executive Education Fellow at the National University of Singapore, with the Advanced Computing for Executives (ACE), specialising in Change Management and Leadership Development.
Qualifications:
Professional Qualified Coach (ICI), Advance MSP (Managing Successful Programmes), Advance PRINCE2 Project Management, Neuro Linguistic Programming Master and accredited Conversational Hypnosis.
Emma Noguchi
Managing Director
Emma is the managing director of Coaching Go Where, a leadership coaching and consulting firm with a footprint in Europe and Asia.
For the past decade, Emma has been focused on coaching and developing leaders and leadership teams. With an unwavering faith in human potential, Emma coaches aspiring managers, directors and executives from various industries, focusing on helping them gain clarity and self-awareness. She also teaches coaching skills to managers so they can in turn -develop and coach their team members- to unleash greater performance.
With a cross-cultural background, Emma is also passionate about grooming Asian Leadership to support diversity and inclusion in all organizations she works with.
Background:
Emma has more than 15 years of combined corporate experience in advertising, marketing and HR consulting. Educated as a lawyer in France and India, she moved to Japan and worked her way up in the Advertising industry, both for Japanese and International agencies. She was also the head of Carre Noir Japan, a French design agency. In her last roles, she was a regional director for Publicis Group, handling key clients worldwide, as well as the director of Mercuri Urval Asia, a global HR consulting firm specialized in executive search and leadership advisory.
In her free time, Emma is an avid mindfulness practitioner, enjoys competing in triathlons and cooks vegan dishes with vegetables she grows in her garden.
Qualifications:
Professional Certified Coach (PCC) ICF, Conversational Intelligence, Narrative Coaching
John Nielsen
Senior Executive Coach
John is a passionate leader using thought provoking questions to help others find the new answers and learn about undiscovered talent. He is known for challenging the norm and setting new standards for what is possible, leveraging all aspects of diversity and inclusion by living and breathing it, to solve tomorrows challenges in inclusive approach with the mindset “nothing is impossible”. John’s life purpose is to inspire and help managers and leaders realize their full potential creating lasting impact in their organizations being authentic, using emotional intelligence and letting leaders being the best version of themselves realizing their big dreams and goals.
Background
John has more than 30 years international experience building, leading and transforming large customer service organizations in both EMEA and Asia. He worked at Microsoft for 24 years and has reputation as inspirational and thought provocative senior leader and executive, leading and coaching people and organisations to new dimensions. He leadership principles has always been “listen to learn”, “ask to understand” and “believe in yourself”.
He is a global citizen, born and raised in Copenhagen/Denmark, moved to Germany for over 25 years, and has since lived and worked in Singapore for over the past 6 years.
Qualifications:
ICC ACC, Marshall Goldsmith Executive Coach, Marshall Goldsmith Team Coach, Marshall Goldsmith GLA 360 Certified, Insights, Hogan Assessment Certified
Yoko Francis
Associate Coach
Yoko specialises in cross-cultural communications, targeting multinational corporations. As an executive coach, she works with senior leaders in diverse environments to better understand how they can lead mixed teams crossing cultural boundaries. Yoko’s philosophy is to move through life without fear, and to stay positive and grounded in all circumstances with keeping a genuine smile – as a way to brighten the world around. Yoko believes that coaching is the most effective way for people to realise who they are and to make them enable to move their life forward.
Background:
Yoko has 20 years of corporate experience with Ministry of Finance in Japan and Financial Institutions in Singapore. Yoko also has an experience of setting up a small jewellery business as an entrepreneur, travelled to India to source gemstones, design and handcraft jewellery items. Yoko was born and educated in Japan. Yoko has lived in Singapore since 2003.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degrees of Education with focus on child psychology.
Speaks in Japanese, English, and Hindi.
Ivan Foo
Career Coach
Ivan has been working with the more subtle – yet critical – aspects of human aspirations for the best part of his career; starting with Team-building, Executive Headhunting, Recruitment and Career Consultancy, and progressing into Executive Coaching services for professionals.
Background:
With more than 10 years of Senior Level Recruitment, Ivan has supported countless individuals through coaching conversations focusing on outcomes and results that matter to them. Ivan spans professional work-life and self-improvement themes with clients, giving them the uplift in performance they seek.
He is a faculty member of a coach training institute, training aspiring coaches to impact more lives.
Qualifications:
Associate Certified Coach (ACC) ICF