The Coach Approach
Confidential 1:1 coaching with ICF-trained coaches — a safe space to work through challenges and grow, at your own pace.
Coaching topics we can cover
Bring whatever is on your mind — some common starting points are below.
Personal Goals
Clarify what matters to you and build a plan to get there.
Relationships
Navigate personal and workplace relationships with more ease.
Work-related matters
Think through career, workload, and workplace challenges.
What can coaching do for you?
Coaching helps you find your own answers, with someone beside you as you do.
Confidence in your own solutions
You gain confidence in finding solutions to your own problems.
Accountability to your goals
You have someone to hold you accountable to meet your goals.
More fulfilling conversations
You drive more fulfilling conversations with family, friends and co-workers.
Clarity and wiser decisions
You gain better clarity of your issues and make wiser decisions.
Six principles, one way of coaching
Every conversation is guided by a shared set of principles that shape how we coach.
Learning
Build a coaching mindset grounded in curiosity and empathy.
Support
A safe, encouraging space where you feel heard and valued.
Conversation
Create safe, trust-based conversations that move you forward.
Holistic
Consider work, life and wellbeing together, not in isolation.
Thoughtfulness
Deep self-reflection that turns insight into meaningful action.
Balance & Excellence
Sustain growth and ambition alongside balance and wellbeing.
Meet the coaches
ICF-trained and experienced ICF-certified coaches ready to walk with you.
Daphne
Co-Active Coach (CPCC), ICF PCC
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Daphne, an ICF-certified coach, passionately guides clients on their journey to fulfilment through clarity and purposeful action. Since 2018, she has supported hundreds of clients from diverse backgrounds. With a strong belief in her clients, Daphne inspires them to challenge limiting beliefs, build self-confidence and become the person they aspire to be.
Melody
Collective Change Institute Coach
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Melody partners with individuals to navigate career transitions, build resilience, and grow with greater clarity and confidence. Drawing on over 10 years of experience in Human Resources and Learning & Development, she supports clients in strengthening self-awareness, leveraging their strengths, managing workplace challenges, and aligning their career choices with their values and goals. Clients appreciate her warm, calm, and thoughtful coaching presence, where they feel supported, challenged, and empowered to take meaningful action towards sustainable growth.
Wendy
IMD Executive Coach
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Wendy, a trained coach by IMD, understands the unique pressures faced by today’s business executives. Having navigated the complexities of multinational corporations and one of the world’s top universities, she is passionate in dedicating her expertise to supporting the next generation of business executives toward sustainable success and personal fulfilment.
Yen-Ceen
Co-Active Coach
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Yen-Ceen creates a calm, compassionate space for reflection, helping others hear themselves more clearly. A grounding presence who listens deeply, asks purposeful questions, and helps uncover meaningful insights, she blends a whole-person approach with thoughtful partnership to support individuals in moving forward with greater alignment and purpose.
Jayshree
Duke Integrative-trained Health & Wellness Coach
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Jayshree has received training in Health & Well-Being Coaching through the Duke Health & Well-Being Programs at Duke University. Her coaching philosophy is rooted in a deep passion for supporting individuals on their health and wellness journeys. She takes a holistic approach that addresses physical, mental, and emotional well-being, prioritizing individualized and compassionate support. Jayshree helps clients improve their fitness, nutrition, stress management, and life balance by tailoring strategies to fit each person’s goals and lifestyle, and partners with them to create customized plans that empower them to thrive, feel confident, and live their best life.
Sarada
Transformative Coach
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Sarada is trained in Transformative Coaching by Wasambe. She offers a supportive space for clients to reflect, grow, and take purposeful action – whether exploring leadership, career direction, or navigating the day-to-day demands of work. Drawing on approaches grounded in mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and the science of habits, Sarada partners with her clients to guide the process while empowering them to stay in charge of their own choices and direction. Her goal is to help individuals uncover what truly matters so they can flourish.
Marie
Newfield Coach (NCC), ICF PCC
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Marie, an Associate Professor and a Newfield Certified Coach (NCC) at NUS, specializes in transformational coaching, leadership, career growth, and well-being. As a coach, she focuses on the role(s) of identity, mindset, limiting beliefs and the story we tell ourselves to unlock new possibilities. She believes in the power of deep self-reflection to create the person in life and at work one believes she/he can and want to be.
Join our panel of coaches
Are you passionate about empowering others to grow and thrive? Join a community committed to supporting the wellbeing and development of the NUS community.
Why join us?
- Accumulate coaching hours towards your ICF credential or renewal.
- Broaden your coaching experience across topics like career development, wellbeing, leadership, relationships, work-life integration, and personal growth.
- Be part of a supportive coaching community that values continuous learning, reflection, and professional growth.
- Contribute to building a coaching culture within the NUS community.
Grow with us
- Facilitate group coaching programmes.
- Support as Coach Training Assistants, and develop into Coach Trainers for The Coach Approach programmes.
- Contribute to coaching research, programme innovation, and community initiatives.
ICF Credentialed Coaches
Hold an active ACC, PCC, or MCC credential? We'd love to have you on our team. Your experience and expertise help us support the diverse needs of our clients.
ICF-Trained Coaches
Completed an ICF Level 1 (60-hour) or Level 2 (125-hour) programme and working towards your credential? Gain experience, build your hours, and grow alongside an experienced coaching community.
More ways to coach and be coached
New programmes and resources are on the way for the NUS community.
Coach Training Courses
ICF-accredited coach training — from a 2-day Foundational course to Level 1 certification. Open to NUS staff only, fully sponsored.
Peer Coaching Community
Engage in peer-coaching with fellow coaches-in-training, develop your skills, and clock hours towards your ICF credentials.
Coaching Resources
Explore tools, articles and materials to support your growth.
Ready to begin your coaching journey?
Register your interest and the Health and Wellbeing team will match you with a coach.
Questions? Email hwb@nus.edu.sg.
