Experience
Leona is a passionate coach and her mission is to promote and sustain her clients’ successes. Leona specializes in inspiring her clients to deliver their personal best. In her most recent appointments she supported her clients to excel in their leadership competencies and helped them engage their teams to deliver higher performance. Leona draws from a corporate experience of 18 years including senior leadership roles in financial services and frontline operations (Insurance Australia Group). She managed people strategy, built and delivered high performance culture via KPI/Scorecard management and introduction of continuous improvements via benchmarking. Leona also participated and delivered in various corporate projects to ensure delivery of organizational purpose and strategy.
Expertise
Leona followed her passion and left her corporate appointment in 2007 to become a full time executive coach and facilitator. Leona has been delivering coach approach leadership workshops for MNCs in Australia, China, India, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Leona’s expertise and key interests focus around Energizing for High Performance; Motivation and Competencies Development; Coach Approach & Facilitative Leadership; Value, Beliefs and Vision Clarification; and Transformative Coaching for Sustainable Results. Her industry experience in facilitation and coaching includes: Banking, Insurance, Retail, Logistics, Public Utilities, Pharmaceutical and Technology.
Coaching style
Leona engages her clients with a warm and open style. While she impresses her audience with her high energy during public speaking, she flexes her style to meet client’s needs during coaching sessions.
Qualifications
Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation),
Master Coach and Certified Trainer (American Board of NLP)
Certified Coaching Clinic® Facilitator (Corporate Coach U)
Certified DiSC Trainer (Everything DiSC)
Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA Australia)
Hong Kong Programme Director of (CMA) Coach Masters Academy
Founding member of IAF (International Association of Facilitators) Hong Kong Chapter
Member of HKIHRM (Hong Kong Institute of HR Management), APAC (Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches), and the HKICC (Hong Kong International Coaching Community).
Coaching philosophy
Being a professional coach, Leona has coached over 500 clients and her clients have ranged from emerging leaders to C-level executives. She partners with her clients through transitioning and personal breakthroughs. Leona believes that people have all the resources they need to be successful and coaching is a matter of drawing out unused resources in her clients. Her coaching methodology aligns with the International Coach Federation Core Competencies, and she uses inside out coaching approach and the “Awareness, Clarity & Choice” model to facilitate sustainable positive change for her coaching clients.
