Experience that can hold the whole system in view.
Our partners bring senior leadership, advisory and Organization Development experience across Asia, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
David Heng
David Heng is an executive coach and family business advisor who works with business owners, board members and top leadership teams across Asia, the United States and Europe.
He brings more than 30 years of corporate experience to his coaching and advisory work, including senior roles at the Singapore Economic Development Board, the World Economic Forum in Geneva and CIMB Group. As a leadership coach and family business advisor, he has worked with leaders across family conglomerates, technology, pharmaceutical, semiconductor and financial-services sectors.
David helps leaders and families work with the visible demands of strategy, transformation, succession, governance and culture change, as well as the quieter dynamics underneath: trust, power, safety, conflict avoidance and the occasional boardroom silence pretending to be alignment.
In the age of AI, his work focuses on what technology reveals about leadership and culture: how judgment is formed, whose voice counts, what truths remain unsaid, and whether organizations are becoming wiser or merely faster. He helps leaders build the psychological safety, change agility and organizational maturity needed to use AI without quietly outsourcing their humanity to the dashboard.
David holds a Master of Science degree from the acclaimed international MSOD programme at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management and an Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute.
Dato’ Sri’ Dr. Vaseehar Hassan
Vaseehar Hassan is one of the earliest executive coaches in Asia. He began coaching with the establishment of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre in 2005 and has since coached senior management teams in multinational corporations across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He combines extensive academic preparation with wide corporate experience, having served as CEO, Chairman and Director of multiple financial institutions and corporations over a period of 30 years.
He began his career in merchant banking in 1981 and in 1990 was appointed Chief Executive Officer to manage the Saudi conglomerate Dallah Al Baraka’s portfolio of businesses in Malaysia. He spent the next 20 years with the group, managing businesses across banking, food, healthcare, plantations and real estate, and serving on the boards of companies and financial institutions including Bank Islam Malaysia, Utama Banking Group and RHB Banking Group. This gave him experience working with people at every level, from operations to senior management. He was also the Founding Chairman of two financial institutions in Malaysia.
During the merger negotiations of Bank Utama and RHB Bank, Vaseehar developed a deeper interest in the psychodynamics of human behaviour. He completed the Consulting and Coaching for Change programme jointly run by INSEAD and HEC, graduating with Master’s degrees from both institutions and with Honours from HEC. He later completed a Doctor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2013.
Vaseehar has served as adjunct professor with Unitar and is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations. He continues to serve on boards as an independent director. For his contribution to attracting Middle Eastern investment to Malaysia and to the Malaysian financial sector, he was honoured with Datukships from the states of Penang and Sarawak. His publications include The Malay Leadership Mystique and a contribution to Global Leadership Perspectives.
Mark Austin
Mark Austin is the co-creator of The Leadership Frequency and a partner with Global Leadership Dynamics Asia.
He provides coaching and leadership development to executives and boards, helping align organizational priorities, develop high-performing teams and cultures, and integrate executive rewards strategies with growth objectives to support organizational transformation.
Over the course of his career, Mark has held leadership and advisory roles across global media, technology, healthcare and life sciences organizations, including Cedars-Sinai, Intuit, Amgen, the Los Angeles Times and Warner Bros.
Mark served as Vice President and Head of People & Culture for Warner Bros. Discovery across Asia-Pacific and the United Kingdom, where he led HR strategy and organizational effectiveness initiatives across fourteen countries. During a period of significant industry transformation, he partnered with senior leaders to develop leadership capability, guide organizational design and executive compensation strategy, and support the company’s transition to streaming and digital platforms while helping integrate major acquisitions across international markets.
Earlier in his career at Warner Bros. Entertainment, Mark led global organization development and change-management initiatives affecting more than 5,000 employees across multiple divisions. His work included designing leadership-development programmes, coaching senior leaders and teams, and leading enterprise culture and innovation initiatives that improved leadership effectiveness and organizational performance.
He has been a keynote speaker for The Conference Board and SHRM and has served as guest faculty at California State University, Northridge, Antioch University and Phillips Graduate University.
Mark has lived and worked in the United States, Sydney, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mark holds a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from California State University, Northridge.
Maria Odiamar Racho
Maria Odiamar Racho is an intrapreneur, C-suite advisor and community builder turned investor and founder.
She is the Founding Managing Partner of Kapwa Capital, an angel syndicate with a mission to build generational wealth in both funders and founders. In addition she is also an Operating Partner of Qubits Ventures, a venture-capital firm focused on quantum technology and the future of computing.
With more than 28 years of business experience across sales, IT, HR and finance, Maria has advised and coached organizations from startups to established companies. Her large-scale business transformation work spans strategy, systems and culture alignment; internal venture launches and corporate incubation; problem-solution and product-market fit; fundraising strategy; startup proof-of-concept and acquisition work; merger and acquisition integration; founder-to-CEO and founding-team-to-executive-team transitions. In her corporate ventures role at Allstate she founded Intrapreneurs@Allstate, an 800-person corporate incubator. The incubator ran internal “shark tanks” and startup challenges, contributing to Allstate’s recognition as one of Fortune’s 2023 Most Innovative Companies.
Maria's passion and focus are investing in underserved yet overperforming founders and opening doors for under-represented communities to learn about and access investment opportunities that build generational wealth.
Maria completed an Executive Master of Science in Organization Development at Pepperdine University. She is a published researcher and speaker on Asian American leadership and open innovation, a National ACE business coach, a board member of Advancing Justice Chicago, and an appointee to the Women’s Business Ownership Council by the office of Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker. Rooted in her Filipino heritage, Maria migrated to the United States when she was two years old and embraces both her Filipino and American identities.
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