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Lessons from the career of a career coach

An experience of nearly being sacked - because the boss didn't like the way I spoke - helped pave the way for a new path in life.

Published Fri, Oct 25, 2019 · 09:50 PM

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    HOW did you get into this business? What does it take to be an effective coach? How big is your team?

    These are just three questions I often get from people I interact with. Let's start with how it all began.

    September marked the 20th year anniversary of my entrepreneurship journey. During my years as an employee in the corporate world both here and in Hong Kong, there were no career coaches, or at least, I was not aware that any existed. To cut a long story short, I stumbled into the outplacement business - I did not engineer for it to happen.

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