Asia Leadership/Executive/Capacity Coaching Network

This page is designed to help our nonprofit partners across Asia easily identify and connect with experienced leadership coaches for both individual and group support. Each Coaching session typically lasts 60 to 90 minutes and is tailored to each leader's needs. You can review their profiles by clicking each name to see their bio, expertise, and how they can support you with local context and languages, helping you find the best fit.

Below, you can explore the profiles of our coaches available in the NPB Platform who are based in Asia. Click on their name to access their NPB profile:

Embodied Leadership Coach Muneeb Ur Rehman from Pakistan

He is an Embodied Leadership Coach and Applied Performance Practitioner who specializes in using somatic and embodiment-based approaches to support authentic, value-driven leadership and organizational development. With over 10 years of experience across diverse sectors—including climate change, education, women empowerment, technology, and youth development—he works with individuals, teams, and organizations to strengthen leadership presence, communication, and culture by reconnecting with the body as a source of intelligence and awareness. His approach integrates science-backed somatic practices to help leaders align their actions with their values, navigate complexity, and lead with clarity and confidence.

He offers a range of services including executive presence coaching, embodied communication workshops, resilience and stress management programs, and leadership development series, as well as team culture transformation and innovation labs. His work supports leaders and teams to manage pressure, reduce burnout, improve collaboration, and foster trust and cohesion within organizations. Through experiential and practical methods, he enables clients to enhance performance, unlock creativity, and effectively navigate change, ultimately contributing to healthier, more adaptive, and high-performing organizations.

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CPCC Co-Active Leadership Coach Mutiara Alam from Indonesia

Mutiara (she/her) is a people person, which explains her dedication to her work in the public policy sector and coaching. She is a mission-driven professional with experience in project management, public sector advisement, and impact evaluation. Her research and work experience has been in the small and medium-sized enterprises development, social assistance, trade facilitation, and the digital economy. Mutiara is a dedicated advocate for racial equity and is actively involved in supporting the Racial Equity Index initiative, which aims to measure and improve racial equity in the global development sector.

As a facilitator and certified Co-Active coach, Mutiara helps individuals, particularly women leaders, and impact-driven organizations to discover their purpose, exercise their courage, and achieve their desired impact. Her coaching program provides a safe and supportive environment for self-discovery and growth, akin to an oasis in the desert. Mutiara received her professional coach certification CPCC from the Co-Active Training Institute and is also working on creating various care spaces through www.AndSelfcare.com.

Mutiara is excited to explore opportunities in economic development, women empowerment, business impact, and digital data governance. She is a curious person who enjoy traveling and learning about different cultures. Mutiara has lived in four countries and traveled to 14 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, as well as 12 states in the US.

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Leadership Coach Clarice Cabanlit from the Philippines

My mission is to empower leaders and employees, building their capacity to transform their workplaces into thriving environments where productivity and impact flourish. I achieve this by crafting dynamic learning experiences, encompassing leadership development and team-building programs, training sessions, workshops, and leadership coaching, all complemented by the passion for meaningful conversations.

In my various work with organizations, I have come to recognize that leaders are key influencers of workplace culture. I believe that effective leaders play a transformative role in cultivating an environment where individuals not only thrive, but also work collaboratively with a sense of safety. By championing values of communication, trust, and respect, leaders can inspire a shared vision that encourages team members to contribute their best selves through excellent work. I am dedicated to guiding leaders in honing these skills, fostering a culture that not only enhances individual growth but also fuels collaborative synergy among team members, ultimately leading to a more productive and impactful workplace.

With my company, Work Well Teams, I facilitate meaningful conversations and relevant learning experiences that are seeds for impactful change and transformation within organizations.

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Executive Leadership Coach Sabnam Mostari from Bangladesh

She is an ILM Level 7 Leadership Coach and Mentor for C-suite leaders and a PCC-certified coach (ICF), as well as a practitioner accredited by EMCC (EIA for individuals and ITCA for teams), making her Bangladesh’s first triple-accredited leadership coach. With over 15 years of diverse experience and more than 3,000 coaching hours, she specializes in executive and systemic team coaching, conflict management, and leadership development, supporting entrepreneurs, senior leaders, and teams to lead with authenticity, dignity, and impact. As the Co-Founder of D Leader and a leader in sustainability-focused initiatives, she works at the intersection of leadership, organizational development, and social impact.

Her expertise spans strategic planning, organizational change, DEI, sustainability, and human system dynamics, complemented by strong capabilities in facilitation, storytelling, and mindset development. She has worked extensively across corporate, nonprofit, and academic sectors, including teaching HRM at university level and contributing to regional leadership communities as a former EMCC APAC ambassador. Her approach creates a safe and reflective space for leaders to uncover blind spots, strengthen self-awareness, and take purposeful action. Through her coaching, clients gain clarity, resilience, and the ability to navigate complexity—often leading to transformative personal growth, stronger teams, and measurable progress in organizational impact.

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Executive Leadership Coach Zuhaib Shaikh from Pakistan

He is an organizational development consultant and leadership coach with over 15 years of cross-sector experience, specializing in supporting nonprofits and social impact organizations to translate their missions into sustainable results by strengthening their people, leadership, and internal capacity. He works closely with executive leaders, senior teams, and program managers to enhance strategic clarity, improve team alignment, and build high-performing, purpose-driven cultures. His core services include leadership development and executive coaching, strategy and vision facilitation, team effectiveness and culture building, and capacity building through tailored training and program design.

His approach is grounded in human-centered and systems thinking methodologies, integrating frameworks such as Adaptive Leadership and Design Thinking to address complex organizational challenges. He is particularly experienced in supporting organizations through periods of change, growth, and transformation, with a strong focus on the human dynamics that drive impact. His work has led to tangible results, including coaching over 500 leaders, delivering more than 500 workshops, supporting large-scale training initiatives reaching thousands of educators and youth, and contributing to programs that have scaled impact to tens of thousands of beneficiaries. Through experiential and reflective learning, he enables organizations to build resilient teams, strengthen leadership capability, and achieve meaningful, long-term impact.

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Leadership Coach Arjav Chakravarti from India

He is an experienced leadership coach and consultant with over 22 years of cross-sector and international experience, working with leaders at all levels—from CEOs and directors to team managers and individual contributors—across nonprofits, foundations, startups, and for-profit organizations. His expertise focuses on coaching leaders, aligning management teams, and strengthening organizational culture. As an ICF-ACC certified coach and Lumina Spark practitioner, he offers tailored 1:1 coaching, leadership team alignment sessions, and group workshops to support areas such as vision setting, navigating priorities, empowering teams, and building high-performing organizations. His approach is highly personalized, confidential, and flexible, enabling leaders to gain clarity, manage complexity, foster trust within teams, and drive meaningful, sustainable impact within their organizations.

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Leadership Coach: Mohamad Cholid from Indonesia

He is a Certified Global Leadership Coach with over 10 years of coaching experience and a diverse leadership background spanning media, corporate, and nonprofit sectors, including senior roles in editorial leadership and as a Director in the health and pharmaceutical industry. He specializes in supporting organizations—across businesses, nonprofits, and government institutions—to scale their impact, strengthen operations, and build sustainable growth. His key services include developing scale strategies, assessing organizational and team readiness, supporting financial sustainability, facilitating strategic planning, and redesigning organizational structures and resource management systems. He works with leaders at all levels, from managers to CEOs, across multiple industries and cultural contexts. His approach combines strategic thinking with practical implementation, helping organizations clarify priorities, optimize team effectiveness, and foster a learning culture that enables long-term impact and adaptability.

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Capacity Coach: Suntaree Rangkusone from Thailand

She is a professional consultant with extensive experience supporting organizations across sectors to strengthen leadership, improve management practices, and enhance overall effectiveness. Her work focuses on leadership development, strategic planning, and team performance, helping organizations design both short- and long-term strategies, including operating models, MEAL frameworks, fundraising, and communication plans. She works closely with leaders and teams to build strong leadership capabilities, improve supervisory practices, and apply practical management tools and frameworks. In addition, she provides team coaching and leadership training to foster collaboration and alignment.

Beyond leadership, she brings strong expertise in project management, advising teams on delivering higher impact with greater efficiency in cost, time, and quality. She supports organizations in donor mapping and management, proposal development, and strengthening monitoring, evaluation, and reporting processes. Her experience also includes guiding performance management, staff development, and organizational restructuring through participatory approaches. For emerging nonprofits, she offers support on legal registration processes and organizational setup, helping lay a solid foundation for sustainable growth and impact

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Excutive Leadership Coach: Anh Vu Lam from Vietnam/Japan

He is a highly experienced executive coach and trainer with over 20 years of experience across marketing communications and technology, including 9 years dedicated to executive coaching. He specializes in transformational leadership, helping leaders and teams unlock their full potential, navigate complex cross-cultural environments, and drive meaningful business impact. His client-centered approach combines strategic insight with practical application, supporting the development of high-performing teams, stronger leadership capabilities, and more resilient organizations. He has coached leaders from global organizations such as Google, Meta, TikTok, Bloomberg, and Luxottica, as well as startup founders and executive teams across Southeast Asia.

In addition to coaching, he brings deep expertise in learning strategy, sales enablement, and facilitation, shaped by his leadership role at Meta as Asia Pacific Lead for Sales Enablement and Learning, where he led innovative, region-wide initiatives and coached managers across 13 markets. His earlier career spans leading agencies and global tech companies, including Google, with experience across multiple countries and cultures. He is a PCC-certified coach (ICF), CPCC, and a certified practitioner in MBTI, Leadership Circle Profile, and LEGO® Serious Play®. He currently serves as faculty at the Co-Active Training Institute and co-leads a regional leadership program for founders, supporting growth-stage entrepreneurs to scale effectively. His work is grounded in helping leaders deepen self-awareness, strengthen purpose, and build sustainable, high-impact organizations.

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Leadership Coach: Daeun Kim, from Korea

With over 15 years in the NGO sector spanning advocacy, fundraising, organizational development, and program management across Asia and Africa, Daeun Kim brings rare depth and firsthand understanding to her coaching practice. She knows the pressures nonprofit leaders face — and more importantly, she knows how to help you work through them.

As a soloentrepreneur in learning and development, Daeun specializes in helping leaders and teams unlock clarity, strengthen decision-making, and lead with greater confidence and purpose. She currently serves as the Inner Development Goals (IDG) Korea Hub Leader and leads the Ignite Project for the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Korea — both dedicated to building transformative nonprofit leadership across Asia.

Whether you are navigating organizational change, developing a stronger team culture, managing donor relationships, or simply trying to lead more sustainably without burning out, Daeun offers practical, personalized support tailored to your context and goals. Drawing on Co-Active Coaching, the IDG framework, and Berkman assessments, her approach integrates coaching, consulting, and facilitation to address both the strategic and human dimensions of leadership.

Her clients — nonprofit organizations, international agencies, and social entrepreneurs across Nepal, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Korea — leave with not just better tools, but a stronger sense of who they are as leaders and what they are capable of achieving.

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Soft skills, Leadership Coach: Saquib Niaz from Pakistan

With over 15 years of experience working across 7 countries, he brings a rare combination of practical expertise and evidence-based methodology to every engagement. Having trained nonprofit leaders for organizations such as the British Council, World Bank, and Malala Fund, and built capacity for over 200 social entrepreneurs through the British Council DICE Program, he understands the real pressures that mission-driven teams face — and knows how to help them grow through it.

He specializes in emotional intelligence, adaptive leadership, and facilitator development — tools that are not just theoretical, but immediately applicable to the complex, resource-constrained environments that NGOs and social enterprises navigate every day. His workshops are deliberately practical and interactive, using role-playing, case studies, and peer learning to ensure participants leave with skills they can use from day one.

Whether your organization is struggling with team cohesion, leadership transitions, conflict in the field, or the quiet crisis of staff burnout, he offers tailored support across a comprehensive range of services — from leadership and life coaching to capacity development workshops, Train-the-Trainer certification, entrepreneurship training, and 21st century teachers' training. His cross-cultural experience working with organizations across Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and beyond means he brings both global perspective and genuine contextual sensitivity to every program he designs.

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Executive Leadership Coach: Joonyoung Kim from Korea

Joonyoung Kim is a Korean-English bilingual executive leadership coach whose journey is as eclectic as it is impressive. From studying piano and composition at the University of California to leading regional training and go-to-market strategies for global powerhouses like Procter & Gamble, Coty, L'Oreal, Kering, and Richemont across Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and broader APAC — she has built a career that uniquely bridges creativity, global business acumen, and deep human development expertise.

As the founder of Mindesign, Joon is especially passionate about empowering women leaders through her signature coaching program, Redesign Productivity — a transformative journey that helps executive women step into their self-authority, reclaim clarity and balance, and pursue professional ambitions without compromise. Her coaching goes beyond leadership competencies; grounded in the Co-Active whole-person approach, she prioritizes the mind-body connection and emotional agility, choosing to understand her clients as human beings first, and leaders second.

Whether you are an executive navigating a leadership transition, a woman leader seeking greater clarity and fulfillment, or an organization looking to develop creative, resonant leadership culture, Joon offers a deeply personalized and research-informed approach. She draws on her certifications from the ICF, Korea Coach Association, Association for Talent Development (ATD), and her expertise with the Leadership Circle 360 assessment to deliver coaching that is both rigorous and profoundly human. She also integrates digital tools and reflective journaling practices to make every engagement engaging, actionable, and lasting.

With multicultural experience spanning Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Singapore, Thailand, and Korea, she brings genuine cross-cultural fluency and sensitivity to every coaching relationship. She coaches in both Korean and English, across time zones, making her an ideal partner for leaders and organizations working in diverse, international environments.

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Executive Coach: Deepak Menon from India

Deepak Menon is an ICF-certified PCC Executive Coach, Business Coach, and Organisation Development Mentor with a career that spans the corporate, social, and development sectors. With over 1,500 hours of coaching experience working with senior corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and social entrepreneurs across India, the USA, Europe, and West Asia — including 300+ hours dedicated to coaching women leaders — he brings both breadth and depth to every engagement he undertakes.

Before establishing his coaching practice, Deepak built a rich professional foundation at organizations including Oracle Corporation, Frost and Sullivan, Arghyam Foundation, Akvo Foundation, and the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) — giving him an insider's understanding of the pressures leaders face across both the corporate and social sectors. He holds a B.Tech and MBA from the University of Mumbai, and an Environmental Law Diploma from the National Law School.

He has coached social entrepreneurs and senior executives at organizations such as Anthill Creations, IRC WASH, Thomson Reuters, FedEx, and many others, and has served as a business mentor for social entrepreneurs through the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. He also co-hosts WorkWise Pod, a podcast dedicated to making workplaces fairer, more empathetic, and more thriving.

If you are a senior social sector leader navigating uncertainty, burnout, or organizational complexity, Deepak offers two signature programmes tailored to your needs. The Purposeful Leader is a six-month executive coaching journey helping leaders reconnect with their core purpose, sharpen decision-making, and lead with greater clarity and equanimity. The Organisation Development Mentorship Programme is a six-to-twelve month engagement supporting CEOs and leadership teams to develop a holistic view of their organization, solve complex challenges, and build healthier, more resilient cultures.

Drawing on methodologies including GROW coaching, Systems Thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, and Dialogic OD processes, Deepak integrates coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and assessments into a comprehensive and deeply personalized approach.

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If you can't find any of these coaches suitable, please explore more of our International Coaches HERE.

Thank you, and looking forward to collaborating with you all. Kindly reach out to us if you need further support!
Lyn and Muqaddus at asia@nonprofitbuilder.org