Gerard Lai | Coach Profile | Collective Change Institute
Gerard Lai
– Expertise in Executive Coaching & Mentoring, Talent Management, Strategy & Planning, Action Learning, Organization-wide Development and Transformation in both private and public business sector organizations, including Global MNCs, and broad exposure to diverse Asia-Pacific businesses, political and legal environments.
Professional Background
Gerard brings together a unique blend of assessment/development/facilitation/coaching skills with his rich corporate experience coupled with his strong foundation in human resource management, talent management, and organizational psychology makes him an ideal resource for designing and creating sustainable organizational development and leadership solutions to help senior executives and teams become the best at who they are — authentic leaders and high performing teams focused on exceptional organizational performance. He is a strong advocate of bringing enterprise, team, and individual development needs together with a clear goal in mind to create a culture of accountability for building leadership capability.
His ability to balance academic frameworks and business pragmatism in his program design helps refresh their thinking and inspire them to work on opportunities with refined focus.
Coaching Specialty
- Executive Coaching
- Leaders in transition and transformation
- Self Development and Empowerment
- Purpose and Well-being
Personal Background
Gerard also studies areas that are close to his heart – agile organization, future of work, artificial intelligence, data analytics, future of leadership, design, and innovation, business strategies, workplace culture transformation. His interest in people and organization development began when he was in his first leadership role as a people manager in the mid-90s. He had the chance to reflect on what he likes best about working with people and organizations. It was the focus in helping individuals and leaders to explore unknowns, uncover what they are comfortable bringing out in themselves, and never a day less enjoying seeing them growing to make a difference in their organization, teams, and society.
Coaching Style
- Encourager and supportive
- Humorous and effective
- Open and authentic
- Direct and candid
- Action- and goal-oriented
Personal Philosophy
My personal philosophy and coaching approach is to unlock a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is about helping them to learn rather than teaching them. For me, coaching is not only about inspiring but also supporting and encouraging others to get the results they want to achieve.
