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Lauren Houghton

A leadership strategist and executive coach, Lauren has over 25 years experience in organisational effectiveness, talent management, and leadership capability. She held senior roles at Microsoft, Credit Suisse, BHP Billiton, and Rio Tinto.

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Expertise

25+ years
experience

Masters in Education Psychology

Neurolinguistics Practitioner

Member of
ICF

Experience and background

Lauren is an accomplished leadership strategist, executive coach and skilled facilitator to CEO, C-Suite executives, managers, and their teams. She offers over 25 years of expertise in driving organisational effectiveness, enhancing talent management, and building leadership capability. Lauren has robust commercial experience, executive leadership and corporate governance exposure combined with her cross-cultural expertise derived from 15 years of living and working in Singapore.

Lauren has held senior leadership positions with Microsoft, as APAC Director, People and Organisational Development with Credit Suisse, Regional Head of the IT Institute Asia Pacific, Global Programme Leader, BHP Billiton and Project Change and Communications Lead for Rio Tinto. She is Founding Director, of Breakthru Leadership Pte Ltd, operating across Asia Pacific and Co-Founder of two start-up companies in Singapore.

Lauren's approach

Her clients are typically Managing Directors, Chief Functional Leaders (CIO, CTO, CMO, CPO, CFO), SVP/VP’s, Directors, and Managers. Lauren also supports teams from telecommunications, financial services, ICT, professional services, health care, investing and insurance, retail, global resources, manufacturing, and FMCG sectors. She delivers C-suite programs for the Eruditus Executive Education, UUM OYA Graduate School of Business and NUS Graduate School of Business.

Lauren is a founding member of Peter Senge’s Society of Organisational Learning. She strategises and co-creates innovative, pragmatic, and holistic solutions with her clients to lead to effective and healthier organisations and people, by adopting a systems approach to change and transformation. She has an open and energetic style, embodies deep listening, and adopts a non-judgmental relationship established on trust and disclosure with clients. Her mission is to support clients to create, shape and (re)-invent a future that brings success and fulfilment. She brings a creativity and agility in supporting their execution of results. She is energised by the focus on “what if?” and in co-creating the path to getting there.

Qualifications and memberships

  • Master’s degree in Education (psychology) University of the Witwatersrand
  • Bachelor of Education Honours in Psychology
  • Bachelor of Physical Education (Sport Science)
  • Professional Certified Coach with International Coaching Federation
  • Neurolinguistics Practitioner
  • Accredited in Human Synergistics International, Market Responsiveness Index MRI™, Bar-On EQ 360™ and EQ-i™ , GENOS Emotional Intelligence, Focused Energy based Indicator, FIRO-B and Workplace Big5 and CLS 360 and Circumplex Team Styles
  • Board member for the Society of Organisational Learning, Singapore.

Personal insights

Preceding her corporate life, she enjoyed a welcome sojourn as a professional squash player and long-distance runner. She co-manages a small farm in the rural countryside of New South Wales, Australia with her partner and soul mate. When not in Singapore, she enjoys the company and temperaments of a small herd of Alpacas – who always provide a welcome challenge, balance, and provocation to her corporate life perspective.

What our clients say

It was incredibly easy to create bond and communicate with Lauren. I believe that rather than leading the conversation, she took the time to get to know more about me first. I have had several coaching sessions and I have always felt that my past coach was trying to push or pull me into their zone.

I genuinely felt that Lauren made the effort to understand me & found a way for me to join the coaching journey willingly and voluntarily. I therefore enjoyed every bit of the sessions and found it absolutely rewarding and enriching.

Country Managing Director, American Multi-National Conglomerate

I felt very comfortable and secure in honestly sharing my challenges and shortcomings as a leader with Lauren. She asked me questions that led me to think about a situation a lot more deeply than I did before or reframe my approach to my leadership style.

Lauren also provided me with generous support through validation which I appreciated a great deal. By the end of my program with her, I felt that Lauren had helped me discover my own leadership potential in a very sustainable way.

Senior Assistant Director, Public Healthcare

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