CALI Coaching Program
What choices would leaders make?
Areas of Coaching
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