Our Mission

To close the gap between Asia's ambition and its leadership capability.

Asia is the world's fastest-growing economic story. The region's leadership infrastructure has not yet caught up. We exist to change that — one leader, one coach, one organization at a time.

Naveen Ks

Co-Founder, LCA

◇ A note from the founder

Why we started Leaders & Coaches of Asia.

For years, as internal & external coach, I coached leaders in USA. Most of them were of Asian origin first generation carrying the weight of two contexts, building careers in one country while keeping a foot in another. The work was rewarding, and the conversations kept circling the same place: what's happening back home is faster, harder, and more consequential than anything I'm helping these leaders navigate here.

That observation kept growing. The Asia growth story was no longer a forecast, it was the present tense. And the leaders steering it were largely doing so without the kind of senior, private, outside-the-system coaching that I had been able to offer their counterparts in the US for a decade.

Then I met Masae Araki.

Masae had been doing parallel work for years — coaching Japanese expats & executives based in USA and Europe. The first time we talked about Asia, we found we had been drawing the same map. The gap was real. Someone needed to build the bridge.

Hemani, Jeff, Sunanda and a small group of other senior coaches joined the conversation soon after. None of us pretended this was easy or that we had all the answers. We did agree on the first step: bring leaders and coaches across Asia-Pacific into one room, even a virtual one, and let the conversation we kept having privately happen openly — in front of the leaders who needed to hear it most.

That is what the LCA conference is. It is the first deliberate step toward something larger: a platform where organizational leaders and the coaches who serve them meet seriously, exchange honestly, and together build the leadership infrastructure Asia's next generation of organizations will require.

We are early. We do not pretend otherwise. What gives me confidence is that the coaches and leaders we have invited into this work have shown up with more rigor and generosity than we expected. The signal we have been receiving suggests that the bridge is needed and that we are not alone in wanting to build it.

Thank you for being here at the beginning.

Naveen Ks
Co-Founder, Leaders & Coaches of Asia
With Masae, Hemani, Jeff, Sunanda — and a growing community of coaches and leaders across Asia-Pacific.

◈ What we believe

Three principles that guide everything we do.

Principle One

The right coach changes everything.

The leaders we have seen transform their organizations are not the ones who attended the most programs. They are the ones who, at the right moment, worked privately with a coach senior enough to challenge them and skilled enough to do it without judgment. We exist to make that match deliberate, not accidental — pairing senior executives with vetted, ICF-credentialled coaches who understand the cultural and commercial complexity of Asian markets.

Principle Two

Coaching is how organizations think and adapt.

Frameworks travel. Cultures don't. The organizations pulling ahead in Asia are the ones embedding coaching not as a perk for the C-suite but as a way of working — how managers have hard conversations, how teams hold one another accountable, how leaders develop their successors. We facilitate the systemic conversations that make that shift possible.

Principle Three

The human dimensions of leadership are the work.

In an era when AI can do an increasing share of the analytical and operational work, the dimensions of leadership that remain irreducibly human — judgment, empathy, vision, trust — become the defining competitive advantage. These capabilities are not built in classrooms. They are built in conversation, with someone outside the system, over time. That is what we are building infrastructure for.

△ Who this is for

Built for the leaders and the coaches who serve them.

Two distinct, complementary communities. One platform bringing them together to unlock organizational potential across Asia-Pacific.

For Organizational Leaders

Revolutionise your leadership approach.

Senior executives, CHROs, and decision-makers responsible for building high-performance organizations in Asia's fast-evolving business landscape.

Access vetted executive and team coaches
Gain peer insights across industries and markets
Translate coaching into measurable business results
Build an internal coaching culture that scales
Navigate AI disruption with human-centered leadership

For Leaders →

For Leadership & Executive Coaches

Build collaborative partnerships.

ICF-certified professionals, organizational consultants, and transformational coaches seeking meaningful access to Asia's most progressive organizations and leaders.

Connect with senior leaders actively seeking coaching
Showcase expertise through curated platform events
Engage in cross-cultural Asian market dialogue
Advance the coaching profession across Asia-Pacific
Collaborate on organizational transformation mandates

For Coaches →

Powered by partners who believe in this work.

Organizations supporting the leaders and coaches building Asia's next generation of organizations.

Your organization's greatest advantage is its leaders.

Join Asia's fastest-growing community of leaders and coaches committed to building smarter, more resilient, and more human organizations. Start with the July 2026 conference.

Virtual · Asia-Pacific · July 27–29, 2026 · Free to Attend

Agenda

July 17

Wednesday

July 17

Best Practices to Build Coaching Culture in Organisations

Jaya Bhateja

Leadership Coaching Executive Development Organizational Effectiveness Human Advantage Team Coaching Leadership Transformation Asia-Pacific Leaders Organizational Intelligence Leadership Coaching Executive Development Organizational Effectiveness Human Advantage Team Coaching Leadership Transformation Asia-Pacific Leaders Organizational Intelligence

Join us online this July 27,28 & 29

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To close the gap between Asia's ambition and its leadership capability.

Why we started Leaders & Coaches of Asia.

Three principles that guide everything we do.

The right coach changes everything.

Coaching is how organizations think and adapt.

The human dimensions of leadership are the work.

Built for the leaders and the coaches who serve them.

Revolutionise your leadership approach.

Build collaborative partnerships.

Powered by partners who believe in this work.

Your organization's greatest advantage is its leaders.

Agenda

Tuesday, July 15 Pre-Conf

July 22

Panel Discussion Coaching Culture 2.0 : Everyday Conversations become catalyst for growth Tina Palmario Sioson, Naveen Ks,Ooi Wern Earn & Robert Garcia

From Intervention to Culture: Embedding Coaching into the Leadership DNA Allan Ang

Rashmi Shetty Coaching

Enhanced leadership skills tailored to an evolving business landscape

Lead with a Coaching Mindset Damian Goldvarg

July 23

The Coaching Paradox: Why Moving Slowly Creates Results Amit Ghosh

Cultivating Tomorrow's Leaders - Coaching that shapes the futureBhawna Kirpal Mital

Coaching skills for Leaders to enhance Team performance Joel DiGirolamo

July 24

Harmony 2.0. How do we create it? Sachiko Ikushima

Reimagining Coaching at S&P Global: A Scalable, Inclusive, and Future-Ready ApproachRajnish Malhotra

Best Practices to Build Coaching Culture in OrganisationsJaya Bhateja

July 22

July 23

July 23

July 24

July 16

Panel DiscussionImpact of Coaching in Organizations Vijayalakshmi SIftikhar NadeemAkhil Saxena

Connecting to the #voiceinme Rashmi Shetty

Rashmi Shetty Coaching

Enhanced leadership skills tailored to an evolving business landscape

Catalyzing Capability, Collaboration & Commercial Impact Sanjiv Razdan

July 17

The Boundary Hexagon: Building Balance for Leaders Ashish Sehgal

The Leader As CoachJeff Cheah

Coaching Skills for leaders Damian Goldvarg

July 18

Global Leaders & Coaching Yumiko Shito

Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Prasanna Kaliamoorthy

Building Empathetic Leaders through CoachingSusmitha Priyadarshni

July 16

July 17

July 17

July 18

Coaching Culture 2.0 : Everyday Conversations become catalyst for growthTina Palmario Sioson, Naveen Ks , Ooi Wern Earn & Robert Garcia

Allan Ang

Damian Goldvarg

Amit Ghosh

Bhawna Kirpal Mital

Joel DiGirolamo

Sachiko Ikushima

Rajnish Malhotra

Jaya Bhateja

Join us online this July 27,28 & 29

LCA Conference 2026

Tuesday, July 15
Pre-Conf

Panel Discussion
Coaching Culture 2.0 : Everyday Conversations become catalyst for growth
Tina Palmario Sioson, Naveen Ks,Ooi Wern Earn & Robert Garcia

From Intervention to Culture: Embedding Coaching into the Leadership DNA
Allan Ang

Lead with a Coaching Mindset
Damian Goldvarg

The Coaching Paradox: Why Moving Slowly Creates Results
Amit Ghosh

Cultivating Tomorrow's Leaders - Coaching that shapes the future
Bhawna Kirpal Mital

Coaching skills for Leaders to enhance Team performance
Joel DiGirolamo

Harmony 2.0. How do we create it?
Sachiko Ikushima

Reimagining Coaching at S&P Global: A Scalable, Inclusive, and Future-Ready Approach
Rajnish Malhotra

Best Practices to Build Coaching Culture in Organisations
Jaya Bhateja

Panel Discussion
Impact of Coaching in Organizations
Vijayalakshmi S
Iftikhar Nadeem
Akhil Saxena

Connecting to the #voiceinme
Rashmi Shetty

Catalyzing Capability, Collaboration & Commercial Impact
Sanjiv Razdan

The Boundary Hexagon: Building Balance for Leaders
Ashish Sehgal

The Leader As Coach
Jeff Cheah

Coaching Skills for leaders
Damian Goldvarg

Global Leaders & Coaching
Yumiko Shito

Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Prasanna Kaliamoorthy

Building Empathetic Leaders through Coaching
Susmitha Priyadarshni

Coaching Culture 2.0 : Everyday Conversations become catalyst for growth
Tina Palmario Sioson, Naveen Ks , Ooi Wern Earn & Robert Garcia