Executive Leadership Coaching Services
Based in Hong Kong, our executive coaching services provide CEOs, C-suite executives and senior leaders with transformational leadership training to navigate complex challenges, drive innovation, and achieve a bold vision for the future.
You Will Need Our Executive Coaching Services If:
You are a CEO or member of a senior leadership team who needs to navigate complex challenges, drive innovation, and achieve a bold vision for the future.
You want to inspire, motivate and lead your people to surf the waves of uncertainty and change.
You want to foster a culture of innovation and possibility, leveraging new ways of working and collaborating.
You focus on impact and success that includes but also goes beyond just the numbers. It’s never just about the numbers.
You recognize the importance of continually strengthening your own executive leadership skills and capabilities with adequate training to become the leader everyone wants to follow and create a bold new future with.
Your organization is structured around what works now but not necessarily what will work in the future. You may be stuck in a rut and worried that you aren’t innovating enough to keep up with your customers and disruptive trends. You have an inkling that you could go further, faster.
If you have a bold vision of “what’s next” but are frustrated because you don’t have the buy-in and commitment from your people to make it happen. There is a lack of cooperation, collaboration and engagement.
You’re sick and tired of chasing incremental wins and spending your time on too many things, and so is your team. The lack of clarity and focus is reducing your ability to make an impact and get the kind of return on investment that would allow you to truly unlock your potential.
Why Do You Need This Executive Training?
This executive training can help you:
1. Create clarity for your business by reviewing and prioritizing future possibilities and creating a clear vision with your team.
2. Align people, overcome overwhelm and inspire commitment around future strategies around products, services, projects, or initiatives. Rather than feedback on the past, gain feed-forward input and accountability around what is possible and create structure and culture to support the vision.
3. Unlock resources and new levels of energy, focus, collaboration, and productivity by upskilling the way you organize and communicate.
“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”
What Makes Our Executive Coaching Services Stand Out?
Our work is fuelled by the Future Proof research, methodology and content library. This includes over 100 hours of online videos, exercises, and research from both my best-selling book and as an educator for business schools, boards and organizations, from multinational corporations to metaverse startups. Our practitioners have decades of experience, hail from the heads of organizations, and are united by a desire to create inspiring futures for the businesses with whom we work.
How Is Our “Future Proof” Approach Different from Other Organizational Philosophies?
Our executive leadership training and coaching are centered on the "Future Proof" approach, which Diana Wu David developed. Going beyond traditional organizational philosophies, it's rooted in adapting to accelerating change through continuous learning, values alignment, and community building, broadening the definition of success beyond conventional metrics.
We operate in an agile and entrepreneurial manner that allows you to get things done with speed and ingenuity.
We prioritize both the people involved and the task at hand, fostering cooperation and integrated actions.
With decades of executive experience, we understand the professionalism required for your work and the politics that might encumber bold visions and transformational change.
Our deep experience across Asia, Europe and the Americas gives us context to help solve problems and facilitate groups globally.
Our future focus ensures that you are always “skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” We help you create a compass for a territory for which there is no roadmap.Why Work with Future Proof?
You and your team will have a process & method through the training provided to help surface and act upon shared future goals. You will be equipped with tools and executive leadership practices suited to today’s complex and interconnected challenges and be able to think broadly about how macro forces shaping society will impact the business landscape.
You will be better at articulating what the future looks like, feels like, tastes like, and everyone’s role in that shared vision and empower people to surface bold, new ideas.
You will have deliberate practices to upgrade your or your team’s leadership and collaboration. People are enrolled, engaged and organized in a way that supports their best work and a sustainable people strategy.
You have more opportunities for positive impact as a leader in the organization and for the organization as a whole.How Do We Work with You? What Do Our Executive Coaching Services Encompass?
From consulting to executive coaching to boards, the goal is to create business breakthroughs.
We view you as a business partner who will co-create solutions and programs to support your goals.
1. Consulting engagements run 6-12 months once we have aligned on key goals, milestones, team responsibilities and stakeholders. Depending on the assignment, work may include initial stakeholder or customer interviews/focus groups or a review of previous plans, surveys, or benchmarks from outside organizations.
2. Coaching engagements such as 1:1 C-suite, senior leadership, or team coaching generally run 6-12 months and may include interviewing key stakeholders and reviewing past assessments or performance.
Both consulting and executive coaching may include resources as appropriate from our Future Proof frameworks, facilitation, and online plug-and-play platforms, which can be used to scale across the organization.
3. Board evaluations and advisory cover from a few months (basic board evaluation) to several years if there is ongoing monitoring or work to be done to improve board effectiveness in service of business results.What Do We Help You Avoid?
We help you avoid wasting your time on out-of-context, single-serving interventions that never leave the conference room and feel like they take time from the real work.
We never do work without knowing the context of what we are trying to achieve.
We believe in leading from a place of strength with, not over, the people you work with to create something you never thought possible.
What is Future Proof Not?
While we work with individual CEOs and founders on their leadership and future goals, we do not fundraise or broker any deals, which may lead to a conflict of interest.
We rarely coach junior staff 1:1. If you need support for your next-gen executive leaders, we can create a holistic program backed by our scalable education platform that is a great way to get people ready to lead and can be done in conjunction with whatever coach or coaching platform you use.
What Is Future Proof Lab?
Future Proof Lab, led by Diana Wu David and based in Hong Kong, sets out to empower individuals and organizations to confidently navigate the future of work. Working closely with boards, CEOs and C-suite executives, we leverage proven foresight methodologies and adaptive leadership principles in our executive training and coaching to help them create inspiring futures for their businesses.
A Little About Our Founder
Diana Wu David is a former Financial Times executive with 30 years of corporate multinational and venture-backed start-up P&L experience. She and our clients share a passion for finding better ways to lead and work that result in breakthrough achievements. Ranked #2 futurist in the world by global gurus, a top 50 future of work expert and author of the best-selling book Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration. Her leadership journey began working for Dr. Henry Kissinger.
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Competitive Advantage Through Education
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Pivoting to Web3
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Testimonial
"Diana Wu David's expertise as an executive coach was instrumental in guiding our CEO for the Asia-Pacific region at the National Basketball Association. With a specific focus on new strategic developments and succession planning, Diana conducted comprehensive interviews with leaders across the global organization and the local team. Her insightful evaluations of individual and collective effectiveness provided us with valuable insights to analyze and achieve optimal results for our organization. Thanks to Diana's guidance, we were able to develop a new strategic plan that incorporates cutting-edge elements of web3 and other digital approaches. Additionally, we successfully identified the leadership required to drive these new initiatives forward."
- Gwen Lockington, HR Director, National Basketball Association, Asia-Pacific
Next Steps
If you’re interested in finding out how our executive leadership coaching services might help you future proof your organization, from workshops or strategic offsites to larger-scale programs, or how our founder Diana Wu David can provide valuable insights to your organization as a futurist keynote speaker, please get in touch at [email protected] or book some time in the calendar here. We also offer personal branding courses and personal coaching to inspire you to create a future that matters.