Edwin Tan (MSSc, CSFT, ACTA) is Managing Partner of Brief Academy. He has over 20 years of experience working with families, couples, and adolescents. He is a passionate and dynamic trainer whose expertise ranges from conducting professional courses to personal development programmes for adult learners. He has taught a wide range of courses at government and private organisations, primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.

Edwin uses metaphors and stories extensively to make his workshops interesting and practical for his clients. He is often described as an enthusiastic facilitator and many participants have found his workshops to be interesting and fun. He is appointed as a Registered Supervisor of the Certified Solution Focused Therapist Program and Associate Examiner for the Canadian Council of Professional Certification (CCPC Global).

Lily Koh is a Certified Solution-Focused Coach and a Certified Image Professional, specialising in leadership presence, business etiquette and emotional intelligence.    With over 20 years of experience in the corporate world and as an executive coach and facilitator, she has helped many Asian leaders strengthen their gravitas for greater impact and gain an advantage in business/career prospects. Lily has an innate ability to connect and enhance clients’ self-awareness.  She works with them in assessing their individual strengths, emotional intelligence and identifying performance opportunities to achieve leadership effectiveness and team goals.

Corporate clients include HSBC, UBS Bank, CIMB, IE Singapore, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Daimler, Agilent Technologies, etc.  She has also trained regionally in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and China.

Having lived and worked in many countries, including the Philippines, Hong Kong, United States and China, she brings along a wealth of experience from all over the world.  

Mong Lan is a Professional Certified Coach (ICF) and a Certified Solution-Focused Coach registered with Canadian Council of Professional Certification (CCPC Global). She is the first Accredited Trainer for Resilience Doughnut® registered with Lyn Worsley (Australia) in Malaysia. She is also the appointed Chinese Program Director and Faculty Member of the Canadian Centre for BRIEF Coaching.  

Mong Lan is actively involved in training and consulting for over 20 years. Her recent coaching assignments include executive coaching for senior leaders and owners of Small and Medium Enterprises, team coaching for senior management, and customised team training and coaching program for top management teams to cultivate coaching culture.  

Mong Lan has developed a strength-based intervention that combines team coaching and experiential training methodology to assist organizations shaping their culture towards Strength-based Organisations.  Some of the recent success stories of this intervention are:

• A year-long Leadership Coaching Program for a Process Control Instrumentation and System Integration company, which had resulted in 87% employees’ engagement.

• A 1-year Sales Talent Development and Coaching Program for a Beauty and Personal Care company, which had resulted in 70% sales revenue increment.

Kevin is an award-winning L&D practitioner who has more than 19 years of experience in leadership development, training and coaching. Kevin is a sought after corporate trainer, conference speaker, and peak performance coach. His vast corporate experience has seen him holding a senior role with one of the world’s largest financial institutions. He was the winner of the prestigious Learning & Development Leadership Award at the Global HR Excellence Awards 2012 awarded by World HRD Congress. Recently, he was named as “The 100 Most Influential YOUNG Entrepreneur in 2016” by MATRADE.   

Many fortes that distinguish Kevin from other trainers are his great amount of energy, enthusiasm and passion in life. A dynamic speaker, Kevin knows how to inspire his audience to “take charge of their life” and bring out the magnificent in them. His ability to empower others comes from his expertise in the areas of NLP, Hypnotherapy, Time Line Therapy, Solution Focused Coaching, MBTI, FIRO-B, and EQ. Having completed more than 800 coaching hours, he is now a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) recognized by International Coach Federation.

The Founder and Program Director of the Solution Focused Brief Coaching Program at the University of Toronto.  She is a highly sought-after speaker with a naturally engaging personality often appearing on podium at international conferences and symposia where coaching is talked about.

She relentlessly questions and advances coaching as a research-based practice. Her studies in collaborative dialogue and transformative learning contribute to the research and practice of coaching and its pedagogical methods. She resides in Toronto with her family including a lazy but sweet dog, Cookie.

A well-renowned Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, author and co-Director of the Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute. He has developed programs like ReTeaming, Twinstar and Kid’s Skills. He hosts his own TV show, teaches, writes and is an internationally acclaimed lecturer, famous for his skills in explaining even complex issues in a fun and popular way.

He has also worked with corporations and businesses and uses the Solution Focused approach in creating and improving the psychological environment of the workplace.

A passionate Solution Focused Brief Coaching Practitioner and Design Thinking Specialist with nearly 20 years of experience in education and talent development, specializing in learner-centred curriculum and pedagogy. As a former concert artist, Dr Koh believes in creative potential of each and every client, and is passionate about helping clients meet their best self through in-depth reflection and daring applications. Dr Koh’s primary interest lie in maximizing learner potential through various learning designs and methodologies, of which coaching is one of the most effective tools that promote deliberate practice and thinking outside the box.

As a Coach, Dr Koh has worked with clients from various sectors including education, healthcare, non-profit, and public service. Dr Koh’s current role as Vice President of the Canadian Centre for Brief Coaching covers a wide range of responsibilities including Leadership Education through Coaching and Training, Curriculum Design, as well as Project and Talent Management.

ING Insurance Berhad

International Enterprise Singapore

International Medical University

Johnson & Johnson

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Kulicke & Soffa

Manjusri Secondary School

Ministry of Defence (Singapore)

MISC

MITCO

Microsoft MSN

National Starch & Chemical

North East CDC

OCBC Bank

Ogilvy

OPUS International

Petronas

Prudential Assurance

Public Bank

RHB Bank

Sarawak Energy Berhad

Shan You Counselling Centre

Sime Darby - Hertz

Singapore Prisons Service

SITA

ST Electronics

Telekom Malaysia

Tenaga Nasional

Tenet Sompo Insurance

University of Malaya

University of Toronto

Volvo