Top Executive
Executive Coach
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Top executive in International Corporation
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Self benefited from Executive Coaching program
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Across industries and cultures
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Globally recognized coach certifications
Such excellent combination
makes Steve an ideal Executive Coach.
Work Eexperience
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2010 ~ 2011 Vice President / Global Sales Center – Ichia Technologies
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2007 ~ 2009 General Manager - Mead Johnson
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2004 ~ 2007 Managing Director – Johnson Diversey
Executive Coach
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2012 ~ present
International corporates across industries
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DuPont
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Swire
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Pharmaceutical(Pfizer, Chugai)
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Shoe Manufacturer(Nike/Addidas OEM partners)
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Contact Lens(CooperVision)
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Kitchen System(Franke)
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Hotel
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Banking
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Direct Sales
Areas cover
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Taiwan
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Vietnam
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Indonesia
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China
Seasoned Top Executive
experienced with
wide range of industries,
and variety of corporate cultures
Life
Steve was born and raised in Taipei, and graduated from National Taiwan University - The number one University in Taiwan. He has a solid educational background and extensive career experience, loves sports and travel, and has lived in New Zealand with the family for many years.
Business models / Industries / Cultures
The Business models Steve has ever worked for cover both - B to C, B to B.
The industries include – Fast Moving Consumer Goods(FMCG), Mobile Phones, Electronics Components ;
The corporate culture Steve has had experience within are – Western International, Local Public High-tech Manufacturer ; Sales/marketing-driven company, Production-based organization.
Leading changes
In terms of rare/special career experiences, Steve has personally led and managed through different forms of organization changes:
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Downsizing with change of business model,
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Merge and Integration,
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BU Spin-off and Go Public.
Continuous learning,
always going after self-fulfillment and looking to make higher contribution
Steve’s achievements mainly comes from continuous learning and active pursuit of self fulfillment. Although he has been a top executive of well-known international corporations in Taiwan – General Manager for Mead Johnson (Taiwan), Managing Director of Johnson Diversey (Taiwan), he went back to National Taiwan University for EMBA program, in order to further enrich himself.
Steve looked ahead for two distinctive desired accomplishments at that stage of his life.
One to leverage his experience and learning from more established Western corporation to benefit Taiwanese-owned businesses
Two, to demonstrate that a good business leader should not be constrained by industry boundaries.
Fortunately, he has the opportunity then to join Ichia Tech – a Taiwan public electronics manufacturer, as Vice President leading the Global Sales/Marketing Center. On top of his valuable business contributions, Steve has also proved that he is an excellent business leader with no industry boundaries.
Rare / special career experience
Steve has personally led and managed businesses through a number of different forms of organizational changes. Thus, he has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and concrete experiences in the field of organizational changes, which is rare and /special among business executives.
personally led and managed different forms of organization changes
Spin-off, Business unit went public independently
Company merge, organization integration
Change of Business model, Company downsizing
Listening” is very
critical as being a coach.
Got to have the ability to understand smoothly, with empathy.
It’s very important for a coach to have the ability to “listen”. In coaching a conversation, the coach has to listen in order to smoothly understand what the coachee trying to express.
Steve has been
coached by Executive Coach,
enjoyed valuable benefits himself.
Steve was coached by a senior Executive Coach from abroad during his time as the GM of Mead Johnson Taiwan (there wasn’t a highly qualified Executive Coach in Taiwan at that the time). Steve personally experienced great benefits from the coaching program.
From his own experience, Steve realized the value of coaching for top executives, and realized that his leadership style and philosophy is very close to coaching. He then took courses to formally learn coaching, obtained globally -recognized coach certifications, becoming a professional Executive Coach as his second career.
PCC – International Coach Federation
Globally-recognized certifications
plus solid career as top business executive,
is the excellent combination to be a valuable Executive Coach.
Steve possesses
the critical advantage
As being a Business Executive himself for many years
Years of executive experience , across industries and cultures , Steve has the advantage of being able to quickly and correctly understand the coachees through active listening, with high comprehension and empathy. Coaching conversation is really focused more on the issues or challenges at hand, helping the coachees work out the most suitable options and actions.
Coaching conversation can then be focused more on the issues or challenges at hand
The majority of the coaches in the industry at this stage come from a background of HR managers or consultants. It is very rare to find an Executive Coach like Steve, who has a combination of globally -recognized certification and solid top executive experience, to have the passion to dedicate in this coaching profession.
Across industries and cultures
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Top executive in International Corporation
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Self benefited from Executive Coaching program
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Across industries and cultures
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Globally recognized coach certification
makes Steve an ideal Executive Coach.
Steve’s coachees are mainly business owners and executives. His clients include: Hotel Chain, Shoe Manufacturer, FMCG Distributor, Electronic Equipment Agent, Pharmaceuticals, Bank, etc..
Due to his background and rare combination of experiences, Steve can always bring a high value to the clients, particularly on subjects related to leadership, organization, business and management.