Corporate leadership coaching with a multicultural focus
I understand how hard and overwhelming it can be to lead and navigate your team amidst changing expectations and complex challenges. And we can be our own worst critic and get in our way. Or we are expected to fit a certain ‘leadership type.’
With over 20 years of corporate experience helping leaders grow, and as an Asian female leader raised in Scandinavia and having lived in 6 countries, I understand how hard and overwhelming it can be to lead and navigate your team amidst different cultures, organisational expectations, and complex challenges. And to add to pressures, we can be our own worst critic and get in our way. Or we are told we should fit a certain leadership mould in order to be seen, heard and valued.
I too wrestled with the same challenges in my corporate life and was on the corporate treadmill delivering to my KPI’s, holding it together, and covering up, looking for places where I could be my authentic self and do my best work, where differences are included and celebrated.
I believe our world, workplaces, and communities, need leaders who have a deep desire to connect, encourage diversity with courage for greater creativity and impact. My mission is to create safe spaces for connection and courageous conversations for a more inclusive and diverse workplace — where we can bring our best selves to work and thrive. I do this by providing a safe space, with my multicultural and corporate experience and my focus on purpose, heart, and neuroscience.
I have coached leaders in Fortune 500 companies in South East Asia and Australia across professional services, manufacturing, technology and telecoms.
“Ida is an amazing mentor and coach. I’m very thankful to be able to meet her as we worked through areas where to be a better leader with empathy, while leading with my own voice with authenticity. Thank you for this amazing journey and I’m sure many more will benefit from working with you!”
“I was coached by Ida while stepping into my new responsibilities. Ida is a good listener and knew to ask the right questions to help me through my leadership journey. I loved how approachable Ida is, its’ very easy to just tell her things, no judgement and always being curious about how I may interpret things and options available. Ida is very talented at creating powerful metaphors which will stay with me throughout my career as they helped me grasp concepts and ideas easily, which in turn helped me coach others.”
“I would like to thank you for the sessions this year and your help in coaching. It has made a noticeable difference to my leadership style and has enabled me to deliver across multiple projects at once without burning out — something that I would not have been able to achieve had I not been able to move away from the detail. Your coaching style is supportive and thought provoking and you always made me feel comfortable to speak my mind.”