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Aileen Chee

Aileen is an executive coach and leadership development specialist with 30 years’ experience, empowering professionals and organisations through talent management, coaching, and award-winning leadership programs across diverse industries and global markets.

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30+ years
experience

ICF Professional Certified Coach

Meta Team Accredited

Member of ICF

Experience and background

Aileen is passionate about developing emerging leaders and high potentials within organisations to support its talent management and succession planning for business critical roles. Her extensive corporate career spanning various industries enable her to bring her expertise and best practices to the clients and coachees. She was a Key Account Director for an manpower outsourcing master contract of annual revenue exceeding S$20m.

With over 30 years of leadership development and talent management experience, Aileen specialises in end-to-end process of identifying and validating talent, designing comprehensive development interventions that involves training, coaching and assignments. She leverages on her leadership development and talent management experience in various industries to design, develop and deliver impactful award-winning leadership courses for achieve these outcomes. Throughout her regional career, Aileen has accumulated in-depth understanding of embracing a global mindset, cultural diversity and international business practices in Asia Pacific, Middle East, UK and the USA.

Aileen served as a Board Member of the ICF Singapore Chapter from 2020 to 2023 to support the development of the coaching industry in Singapore. She has coached over 200 professionals globally from multinationals, small and medium-sized enterprises, not-for-profit organisations, and family-owned businesses, in their leadership development and career journeys. She is also the co-author of the book titled ‘Into the WILD – Creating a Coaching Culture at the Workplace.’

As an Executive and Team Coach, Aileen empowers professionals to gain clarity about their career ambition, identify their transferable skills and map the strategy to work towards that ambition. She specialises in leadership development, career planning and management, resilience and building successful teams.

Aileen's approach

Aileen’s approach to leadership development and coaching involves engaging stakeholders to understand their issues and expected outcomes, planning and implementing interventions, and processes to measure changes in leadership effectiveness

She encourage action learning through radical, innovative and experiential processes designed to enhance innovation, business and individual performance.

Aileen has close to 1300 coaching hours and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), trained Systemic Team Coaching, a Maria Reynolds Breakthrough Coaching certified coach, and a certified SoundWave and Team Forging coach. She is also a certified ACTA trainer and facilitator.

Qualifications and memberships

  • Systemic Team Coaching certificate, Renewal Associates & AoEC (2024)
  • ICF Professional Certified Coach (2022)
  • Meta Team Accredited (2022)
  • Certified SoundWave coach (2022)
  • Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA), (2012)
  • MBTI Step I and Step II (EIR) Accredited Administrator (2008)
  • Masters of Arts in Education (Human Resource Development), George Washington University USA (1991)
  • Bachelor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore (1985)
  • Member of International Coaching Federation (ICF)
  • Member of Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches (APAC)
  • Member of Asia Professional Speakers Singapore (APSS)

Personal insights

Aileen loves working with her hands and enjoys handicraft work — from ceramics and woodcraft to both Chinese and Western brush calligraphy.

Another of her hobbies is photography, with a special interest in capturing sunrises, sunsets, travel moments, abstract designs, and interesting architecture.

In her free time, Aileen can often be found spending time with her children or catching up with friends over a cup of coffee.

A hidden skill of hers is baking — she makes a mean batch of brownies, with family, friends, and colleagues claiming they’re even better than those from some well-known commercial shops. On top of that, Aileen is also a trained (amateur) barista.

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