Coach
Sook Leng has 25 years’ experience spanning across various functions in MNC, family owned, public listed, non-profits and held roles as Financial Controllers, Group HR Director, Change Management, Head Corporate Planning and Chief Operating Officer across multiple industries ranging from financial services, insurance, shared service, manufacturing, education, hotel and property development. On this backdrop, she has gained an extremely broad and in-depth knowledge of several industries, operating at different functional roles and kept abreast of the impact of latest developments.
Some of the organisations she has worked with includes Tokio Marine Malaysia, HSBC, Iclif Leadership and Governance Centre, MAS Catering, Paramount Corporation and Parkroyal hotel. She had successfully managed business turnaround to become profitable, organization restructuring, culture and business transformation, systems automation, initiating new start-ups and transitioning businesses into their next phase of growth.
Her strength is the ability to cut through complex issues and develop customised practical solutions. She is versatile in working with different personalities from diverse cultures and background, across all layers and functions in an organization. She has conducted facilitation at GILD Asia 2017 and 2018 to an intact team of entrepreneurs as well as provide executive coaching to senior leaders in MNC in the Asia Pacific region.
Sook Leng is also actively involved in the coaching community serving as EXCO member in both the coaching associations in Malaysia, International Coach Federation (ICF) Malaysia and the Association of Coach Supervision and Mentor. She was also a coach to women entrepreneurs with an NGO who empowered single mothers to generate sustainable income for their families. Sook Leng has served in the Nomination Committee in the ICF global board for the review, shortlisting and election of board members.
Some of her qualifications and credentials include MBA Finance from Nottingham University Business School, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – ACCA, Certified Gallup Strengths, Certified Genos Emotional Intelligence, Certified Hogan Assessor, Certified WAVE personality Assessor, Certified MBTI and Certified Practitioner Neuro Linguistic Programming Certified Practitioner, ABNLP,US.
