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Course outline

Duration

2 Days

Programme leader

Thomas Lim is an accredited Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP) trainer and holds the Specialist Adult Educator (SAE) credential with the Institute of Adult Learning. He is the co-author of the PEARLS Coaching Framework, featured in the book Think Coach Thrive!: Building Antifragility in Organizations Through Workplace Coaching. With over 30 years of corporate and consulting experience across both the public and private sectors, Thomas has served in senior roles with Andersen Consulting, Gartner, SingTel, IMDA and SportSG. His career spans IT, business strategy, organizational transformation and leadership development. He has consulted with CEOs, Vice Presidents, and senior leadership teams across Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, India, Korea, Hong Kong, China and Japan, driving projects on business alignment, digital transformation and strategic growth.

Thomas has trained and coached leaders across a wide range of Singapore statutory boards and government-linked organizations, including People’s Association, National Council of Social Services, Building & Construction Authority, Early Childhood Development Agency. He has conducted classes for C-Suite, Senior Leaders and Middle-Managers for both Public and Private Sector participants, including agencies from other countries such as Brunei and Saudi Arabia. Some recent Tech-related companies he has trained in Systems Thinking recently include People’s Association, NTT Data Singapore, Accenture (ASEAN) and NCS. 

In addition to his consulting and training practice, Thomas is a certified International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC coach and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He has authored over 30 published articles on Forbes.com covering topics such as systems leadership, workplace coaching, digital disruption and growth mindset. His international and multi-sector experience, coupled with his thought leadership, makes him a trusted advisor for organizations seeking to build agile leaders capable of thriving in the volatile and complex environments of today.

Irene Chia, founder of Whitespace Management Consulting, is a seasoned Organisational Development (OD) practitioner, ACTA-certified trainer, ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and ICF Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC), she specialises in systems development, organisational transformation and leadership development. Her work focuses on aligning people, purpose, processes and culture to strengthen organisational effectiveness, resilience and sustainable business performance.

Irene has designed and facilitated OD interventions for more than 200 organisations across Asia. She provides transformative coaching and ontological team coaching to leaders and managers and has trained more than 10,000 learners. Some of her clients include Accenture, AIC, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cargill, EPSON, GovTech, Keppel, MAS, Merck, MOHH, NETs, NKF, NTU, PA, PropertyGuru, SIA, SIAEC, Scoot and SMRT.

Her OD consultancy at Singapore Tourism Board included “Transform Together” project that supported the shift into a high-performing economic development agency through culture building, leadership development, business process review and learning capacity interventions. In the People’s Association, she co-led Learning Organisation initiatives that strengthened culture, leadership capability, resilience, internal cross-functional collaboration and external partnership with community leaders through generative dialogue platforms, Train-the-Trainer and systems-based interventions.

Leveraging systems thinking, coaching methodologies and psychometric assessments, Irene adopts an evidence-based and people-centric approach to organisational transformation. She enjoys facilitating strategic conversations, building stakeholder alignment and guiding leaders and teams through complexity and change with clarity, empathy and agility. Irene currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches (APAC), contributing to the advancement of coaching and leadership capability across the region.