Leona Wan

Leona is a passionate learning facilitator. Her mission is to promote and sustain her clients’ successes. Leona specializes in inspiring her clients to transform. In her most recent appointments, she supported her clients to excel in their leadership competencies and to engage their teams to embrace profound change. Her facilitation methodology aligns with the ToP™ method of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. Her coaching clients have ranged from emerging leaders to C-level executives. She partners with them through leadership challenges, professional transitioning, and personal breakthroughs.

Leona draws from a corporate experience of 20+ years including senior leadership roles in financial services and frontline operations. She managed people strategy and promoted learning culture. Leona also led and delivered various transformation projects to fulfill organizational purpose.

Leona followed her vision and left her corporate appointment in 2007 to become a full-time leadership learning facilitator. Since 2015, Leona has become a trainer and mentor for professional coaches. She also has been delivering regional leadership development programs for MNCs in APAC region, and these are some of her recent assignments:

• 2011-2024 HSBC Group – Leadership training programs & culture change programs

• 2011-2013 CLP Power – Performance Management and Coaching to People Leaders

• 2013-2019 Heraeus – leadership advanced program for APAC

• 2014-2018 JLT – performance management and leaders huddle programs

• 2014-Recent Zurich Insurance – executive coach for functional leads

• 2016-2021 Derivco – executive coach for functional leads

• 2020-Recent Swiss Re – leadership training programs, including innovation & creativity

• 2022-2024 Apex Group, DBS, JLL – senior leaders transformation program

• 2022-Recent Grobest, QBE HK, AS Watson – resilience training

• 2022-Recent Liberty Global Group, Carlsberg Group, Carlyle Group, TAL Apparels – leadership team day

• 2023 K11 Artus – executive coaching program for senior leaders

• 2023 Lumentum – women leadership program, emerging leaders program

• 2023-2024 American Express – change management program

• 2023-2024 HIMA – HIMA leadership fundamental program

• 2023-2024 HKUST – Leadership miniseries

• 2023-2024 QBE HK – Future leaders program

• 2024 JLL, MOHG (Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group) – Leadership development program for senior leaders

• 2025 GEG – Effective performance conversation for senior leaders

Leona is an animal lover; she has 2 adorable cats adopted from different cat rescue organizations and she has been an active support of WWF (World Wild Fund). Her interests also include promoting harmony and world peace. In 2017, she started a “Positive 100 Days” initiative with her colleagues to create ripple effects for world peace. In 2019 to 2022, she led her graduates from Coach Mastera Academy to offer coaching to the fellows and employee of Teach for Hong Kong (TFHK) that offers career opportunities to fresh graduates. Her other recent initiative is to promote “Positive Relationship at Workplace” based on the 5 pillars of Positive Psychology. Since beginning of 2023, she and her collaborators in Malaysia (ET Potential) started a new program, Positive Coach Leader, promoting future leadership skills.