Programs for Individuals
Explore learning opportunities for your personal and professional growth.
Programs for Individuals
Explore learning opportunities for your personal and professional growth.

The Center for Asia Leadership is committed to help individuals like you reach your full potential to become highly capable and ethical leaders in a region that faces increasingly complex political, economic, and social challenges. Participate in our upcoming programs and start your leadership journey with us. To learn more about how to bring this program to your organization, click here.
“Arming myself with better knowledge, skill, and insights from this program will help set a better vision in my work”
Hon. Scott Lanete M.D.
Representative 3rd District Masbate
“I am now confident that I can help lead the family business to greater heights.”
Mitch Monforte Bautista
Executive Assistant to the CEO Guevent Industrial Development
“ I was enabled to positively impact several critical employee relationships in my business.”
Ralph Poettinger
Managing Director, Alpine Equity, Alpine Group
“The program from the Center for Asia Leadership helped me be more intentional about learning, reskilling,and upskilling in a VUCA environment.To adopt a growth mindset, to create purpose-driven organisations and experience-driven work models.”
Sandra Khoo
L&D Executive, Malaysia
“We learned the importance of being purpose-driven and having a growth, adaptive mindset instilled in the organization. Critical thinking, creativity, and resilience are critical skills during this pandemic. A blend of work-school-life together is essentially the culture of the ‘new normal.’”
Great Mabuti
Director, Philippines
Virtual Coaching
Coaching helps leaders prepare personally and professionally for the challenges ahead of them.
Coaches from the Center for Asia Leadership have a proven track record, having coached leaders from diverse industries including finance, strategy consulting, politics, government, education, and community development.
Our Center offers one-on-one and group coaching services and are committed to:
Confidentiality
Helping you think and work through your toughest challenges
Advancing the public good
Our Center has identified three areas most pertinent to confronting the current challenges today: the future of work, interpersonal dynamics, and leadership.
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