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Diana Chee

Diana is an executive coach and facilitator with over 20 years of experience in leadership development, organisational culture, and engagement across diverse industries, including oil, gas, and logistics.

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Expertise

30+ years
experience

Professional Certified Coach with the ICF

Certified Master Coach

Certified Solutions Focused Coach

Experience and background

Diana is an executive leadership and organisational coach, facilitator and mentor to individuals, teams and companies. She specialises in leadership development, teams, organisational culture and engagement.

Diana brings with her more than 20 years of corporate (MNC and government-linked) experience at global, regional, and country levels. Her extensive senior management and human resources experience spanned across a wide range of industries including oil & gas, chemicals, logistics, trading and manufacturing. She has worked with high-growth as well as sunset business operations, and has dealt with mergers, acquisitions and companies’ integration. Diana led and championed the people and culture agenda at Sony, Philips, Pepperl+Fuchs, Sembcorp, Amcor and Vopak.

Her multi-cultural corporate experience included Asia Pacific countries, as well as Europe and the United States. In her previous capacity as the HR Director for Royal Vopak, Diana championed and provided leadership and business partnership for the entire region and successfully created a progressive work culture.

Diana's approach

Diana believes in an authentic and sustainable approach – often engaging in a spirit of co- creation and co-ownership – when interacting with her clients. She centralises her work around her clients, and adopts a strengths-based approach when coaching and facilitating.

As someone attuned with business and organisational dynamics, Diana supports leaders at all levels: C-suites, management teams, emerging leaders and high potentials on wide-ranging organisational matters like team effectiveness, culture, engagement, inclusion and change management. Some of the organisations she partners with include Kellogg’s, NCS, ResMed, Sembcorp Industries, Singapore Airlines, Singtel and Singapore Refining Company.

Qualifications and memberships

  • Diana has a Master’s degree in International Business Management from Edinburg Napier University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from National University of Singapore
  • Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation
  • Certified Master Coach with the International Coaching Council
  • ITCA Team Coach with EMCC
  • Certified Solutions Focused coach accredited by Canadian Council of Professional Certification, and University of Toronto
  • Certified Jobs and Career Development Coach
  • Her workshop and facilitation work is backed by accredited certification in Learning and Performance
  • She is also certified in Organisational Development & Change Management with Penn State University
  • Diana is a SkillsFuture Mentor for small and medium enterprises, and she sits on the editorial board for Emerald’s Journal – Industrial and Commercial
  • StandOut Strengths Coaching 2023-2024 TMBC, ADP
  • Editorial Board Member to Emerald Journal, Industrial and Commercial.

Personal insights

Diana’s other passion next to coaching, is family. Together with family, they enjoy traveling, good food and quality good time. 

What our clients say

My coaching journey with Diana is fantastic. She’s a coach I can share in confidence, and I know that she goes all the way out to help me be a successful and effective leader. I learnt from her about leveraging my strengths and driving positive changes during organization transformations. Diana is able to clearly translate feedback on my leadership and help shape it further into my organisational contexts.

I learnt to stop/start/continue doing what is meaningful for my team and achieve several (small) wins in my organization transformation process. Even though we are half way through my coaching journey, I already received positive feedback from stakeholders on the visibility of my leadership changes.

Senior VP, GLC, 2022

It has been a pleasure having Diana as my coach. The biggest impact for me is clearing mental blockers which has earlier prevented me from opening up different avenues to my solutions. It is very helpful to have a coach to bounce ideas with, and her coaching tips and tools shared with me at appropriate times for me to apply and practice.

Service Delivery Director, Technology Company, 2021

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