A Strengths-Based Ontological Approach to Leadership and Transformation

Most leadership development focuses on what you do. My work goes deeper towards who you are being as a leader.

Over 20 years of coaching leaders, teams, and couples across Singapore and Asia, I have developed an integrated approach that draws from three disciplines:

CliftonStrengths - understanding your unique talent DNA and how to leverage it deliberately

Ontological Coaching - working at the level of language, emotions, and body to shift how you perceive and lead

Relational Leadership - building the trust, communication, and self-awareness that determines how others experience you

These three are not separate tools. They work together. Strengths without self-awareness becomes blind confidence. Self-awareness without strengths becomes paralysis. Both without relational capacity stay stuck in the leader's head.

I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Advanced Certified Team Coach (ACTC). I am a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach and the world's only coach to hold both the Gallup Gold and Platinum Certified CliftonStrengths Coach awards, distinctions Gallup has since retired, making this credential permanently unique. I am based in Singapore.

What This Looks Like in Practice

My work typically begins with understanding you and your needs - who you are, how you operate, and what is getting in the way. From there, sessions move between reflection and action, always anchored in your real leadership context.

For individuals, this might mean uncovering how a dominant CliftonStrengths talent is overused under pressure, or noticing how a particular way of speaking is closing down conversations that need to stay open.

For teams, it often starts with mapping the collective strengths profile. The strengths data gives insights into what the team naturally gravitates toward, what it tends to avoid, and where the gaps are. From there, the work becomes practical: how do we use what we have, develop what we need, and relate to each other in ways that build rather than drain trust?

This is not a programme with a fixed curriculum. It is designed around you.

Who Victor Works With

I work with two broad groups - individuals seeking 1-1 coaching, and teams seeking workshops or team coaching.

For 1-1 coaching, clients come for a wide range of reasons. Some are navigating career transitions and need clarity on their next move. Others feel stuck in relationships, at work or at home, and want to shift long-standing patterns. And there are others looking to grow their leadership capacity, whether they are stepping into a new role, managing a growing team, or simply wanting to lead with greater confidence and self-awareness.

For workshops and team coaching, the requests typically come from team leaders and HR professionals. Common asks include helping teams collaborate more effectively, building individual self-awareness and mutual appreciation among team members, improving team performance, and working through tension or conflict. Some workshop engagements are specifically for leaders who want to learn strengths-based coaching skills or apply strengths-based leadership principles with their own teams.

Victor's clients come from corporate organisations, government agencies, schools, start-ups, non-profits, and churches across Singapore and Asia. Some engage for a single workshop. Others work with Victor over months or years. What they share is a willingness to look honestly at themselves, and do something about what they find.