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CALI Coaching Program

What choices would leaders make?

Areas of Coaching

Future of Work

Organizational Adaptation Work

  • Trends/Driving Forces Readings
  • Scenario Forecast & Impact Analysis
  • Best Practice/Technology Adoptions
  • Future-Ready Workforce Programs

Interpersonal

Mindset & Behavioral Change Work

  • Weak Work Ethics
  • Silos
  • Reactive Response Mechanisms
  • Power Politics
  • Generation Gap
  • Gender Dynamics
  • Immunity to Change

Leadership

  • Decision-making
  • Challenge Diagnosis & Prognosis
  • Communication—Messaging, Delivery, Storytelling, Cross-cultural
  • True North—Authenticity
  • Self-Awareness
  • Negotiations

Methodology

Pre-Coaching Consultations

  • Context Analysis Interviews
  • Behavioral-based Interviews
  • Short Essays

Coaching Sessions

Sessions are conducted

  • in-person or virtually
  • 1:1 or small group (<3)
  • Over 5 or 10 rounds.
  • In 4 stages—problem definition, context scanning, action options, self-renewal
  • With a strict confidentiality

Post-Coaching Assessment

  • Impact Assessment
  • Recommendations

Coach Profiles

Samuel Kim

Founding President, CALI
MPA, Harvard University
Worked For/With 30+ Organizations

Expertise: Future of Work; Interpersonal Dynamics; Leadership—Decision-making, Challenge Diagnosis & Prognosis, Negotiations, Cross-cultural Communication
Industry: Government, Politics, Business Organizations in Difficulties

Laura Thompson

Founder, Laura Thompson Coaching
Co-author, RA7: Future of Work
EMP, INSEAD

Expertise: Interpersonal Dynamics—Gender, Brittleness Syndrome; Leadership—Communication, Women, Self-Awareness
Industry: Multinationals based in Asia; Asian companies based in the West

Rahul Daswani

Assistant Director, GovTech Singapore
Former Consultant, McKinsey
Former Consultant, Singapore Prime Minister’s Office
Co-author, RA5: How Leadership Can Be Taught
MPP, Harvard University

Expertise: Interpersonal Dynamics—Gender, Brittleness Syndrome; Leadership—Communication, Women, Self-Awareness
Industry: Multinationals based in Asia; Asian companies based in the West

Junko Yoda

Co-founder of CLinked
Former Asia Pacific Treasurer of Goldman Sachs & Deutsche Bank
ALIF, Harvard University

Expertise: Interpersonal Dynamics—Gender, Brittleness Syndrome; Leadership—Communication, Women, True North, Self-Awareness
Industry: Finance & Investment, Non-profit Organizations, Social Enterprises

Ami Valdemoro

Founder, Three Point Ventures
Co-author, RA4: Why Asia Is Hopeful
MPP, Harvard University

Expertise: Interpersonal Dynamics—Gender, Brittleness Syndrome, Immunity to Change; Leadership—Problem Diagnosis and Prognosis, Communication, True North, Women
Industry: Non-profit organizations, Social enterprises, Corporate Social Responsibility

Daria Istrate

Director, Genentech
Co-author, RA7: Future of Work
MBA, Harvard University

Expertise: Future of Work; Leadership—Women/Gender
Industry: Healthcare

Justin Hartley

Founder, Hartley Communications
Guinness Record Holder in Memorization
Co-author, RA7: Future of Work
MPA, Harvard University/Oxford University

Expertise: Leadership—Communication
Industry: General

Nupur Todi

Consultant, Major Consulting Firms
Co-author, RA7: Future of Work
Ed.M. Harvard University

Expertise: Future of Work—Future-Ready Workforce Programs; Interpersonal Dynamics—Gender, Immunity to Change; Leadership—True North, Women
Industry: Business Organizations

Nishith Jain

Director, ServiceNow
Co-author, RA7: Future of Work
MBA, IIM-Bangalore

Expertise: Future of Work; Leadership—Decision-making, Communication, True North
Industry: Consulting and Investment

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