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  • Who we are
  • What we do
  • Our Approach
  • The Team
  • Community of Practice
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Appreciative Coaching

Sharon Thompson-Tan

Managing Director, Leadership Coach & OD Consultant.

Sharon is a seasoned and well respected senior executive in finance, human resources, leadership and organisation development.  She has over 30 years of experience driving change systemically across different cultures and functions.  She adopts a pragmatic approach towards improving leadership and organisational effectiveness to ensure a balanced outcome in business performance, people and processes.  


As the former Chief People Officer of a non-profit international organisation, she worked closely with the executive and leadership team to scale up and grow their global presence. Prior to this, she was instrumental in driving the acceleration of a European MNC in Asia in her role as their CFO & VP of HR of Asia Pacific, setting up new entities, strengthening leadership teams across major cities like Delhi, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries.  She is skilled in building a high performing teams that are collaborative and entrepreneurial.   


Her solid business acumen is matched with her strong capability and dedication in developing leaders & talents. Her entrepreneurial spirit, leadership skills and financial knowhow is a unique combination of yin and yang qualities in driving sustainable change across the organisation.   She is valued and trusted by many leaders as a strategic partner, mentor and coach in building successful and effective organisations. 


Linkedin 

sharon@besonder.com 


Dane Tang

Executive Coach, Consultant & Trainer.

Dane Tang is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited Certified Executive Coach. She is also a sustainability and management consultant, life strategist, trainer and speaker.    


EXECUTIVE COACH Dane develops bespoke programmes for her clients combining ICF accredited HAPPYTM Coaching System with Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and Design principles to empower individuals and organizations to reach their full potential and be the best version of themselves.    


LIFE STRATEGIST Dane is a certified Designing Your Life Coach with Stanford’s d.school DYL program. She combines Design Thinking techniques with coaching to help her clients to design a life that brings purpose, happiness and fulfilment.    


MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT With 25 years of diverse corporate experience with top tiers MNCs across Oil & Gas, FMCG, Healthcare, Retail and F&B industries, Dane understands first-hand the challenges faced by organisations and what needs to be done right down to operationalisation. Dane is experienced working senior leaders and executives across diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds.   


Linkedin 

dane@besonder.com 


Wendy Chin

Leadership & Career Coach

Wendy's career spans more than 3 decades in the fast-paced IT industry covering local, regional and global businesses. She served in various executive leadership roles overseeing marketing, sales and business operations in both the corporate and start up world. 


She works with executives, leaders and forward thinkers who aspire to realise their full potential to create unique value and make lasting impact on the business they lead, the role they play and the people they work with. 


People whom she has coached in the course of her career have stated that she is approachable, passionate and committed in helping them grow.  She is creative in helping them to see beyond their current circumstances to pave the way to greater success. 


Her approach to coaching is that of journeying with her clients to help them discover new energy and new potential; thereby empowering them to reach their goals by harnessing their personal strengths, values and insights. 


Linkedin 

wendy@besonder.com

DR Jenson Goh

Systemic Team Coach, OD Consultant

Jenson is sought after by companies around the world for business and IT consultancy particularly for his insights on business excellence, systems thinking, design thinking and organisational learning. He was awarded the prestigious Business Excellence Green Jacket Assessor by Enterprise SG. He is an expert certified in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, WSQ Advanced Certification in Learning and Performance, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, LEGO® Six Bricks and Playbox facilitator. Jenson was the former Chief Information & Learning Officer of a public listed company worth $1B operating in Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and the UK. He led the IT function and was also responsible for designing and implementing group-wide learning strategies and programs to cultivate systems thinking based learning culture in the organisation. 


Jenson dedicated more than 2 decades of his career with the National University of Singapore, where he earned his PhD in Information Systems, researching into ways an organisation can strategically renew itself through IT innovation towards social, environmental and economic sustainability. In his last role in NUS, he was Director of Studies where he designed transformative programme to develop students into proficient system thinkers and in the application of innovative teaching methods to drive learning. Prior to that, as the Chief Enterprise Architect,  he led many strategic and mission critical IT initiatives to support the University’s teaching, research and administration.  His work in the University has won more than 20 international and national awards in innovation, quality, case writing and teaching.


Jenson volunteers passionately in numerous organisations, for example he is the President of Asia Pacific Coordinating Policy Council of System Dynamics Society, co-opted executive member of Tech Talent Assembly, Vice Chairman of SG75 My Home Competition and board member of Casa Raudha Woman Home to name a few. Most of all, he served his country as the Head, Manpower and Logistics (NS) in the Singapore Police Force and held the rank of Superintendent, one of the highest accolades given to National Servicemen, and was responsible for the operational readiness of 1,600 NSmen for more than 10 years. For his dedication, he received multiple awards from the Commissioner of Police and Division Commander including the most prestigious Home Team NS man of the year award in 2018.


Linkedin 

jenson@besonder.com

Dr John Kenworthy

Senior Coach

Dr John Kenworthy is a behavioural neuroscientist, certified leadership coach, author and trainer. Having spent more than thirty years in business across various industries and geographical regions, John understands the cultural diversity in Asia.  Anchored upon his strong business acumen and pragmatic approach, he is highly effective in helping leaders achieve their full potential in a global environment.  He builds on the strengths of the leaders through his incisive coaching to create results that are aligned to their business strategy. 


John, an IT geek himself, specialises in coaching IT leaders, scientists and engineers. He helps them stretch beyond their technical expertise to become better leaders of people who are effective in engaging across multiple disciplines and management levels. He enables them to see the big picture so that they are able to add value to the overall business.


John earned his Doctorate from Henley Management College and has an MBA in Technology Management as well as an Advanced Diploma in Coaching. He is a Master NLP Practitioner and John Maxwell Team Certified Coach. He is a featured speaker at several professional international conferences and is well recognised professionally through publication of his writings. He is the author of the Leadership Coaching book, "What's better today?"  He skilfully bridges the rigour of academic research with the practical needs of business and leaders. 


John is British by birth, Singaporean by choice and he has been living in Singapore for more than 25 years.

 

Mobile  +65 9170 5908 

Skype  johnkenworthy


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