About Ming

Yee-Ming Tan 陈郁敏

Executive coach &
Founder, Third Thinking

• Close to twenty-years of executive coaching, leadership development, corporate culture change, mindset and resilience development in the Asia Pacific region.
• Having lived and worked in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, and studied in the US, Australia and New Zealand, Ms Tan has a unique blend of Western approach and Asian sensitivity in her work.
• She speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
• Her clients include companies like Cathay Pacific, Goldman Sachs, L’Oreal, Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank and Schenker.
• She is one of the first executive coaches in Asia Pacific to have completed the prestigious Master in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
• Her approach is anchored in positive psychology, a field of study that is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to achieve optimal performance and flourishing at work and in life. Her coaching partnership style allows clients to broaden their perspectives, leading them to new insights, new behaviors and powerful results. Helping clients to face their fear is her signature strength.
• Her book 漣漪詞－11個改變人我關係的正向思考 Start Your Own Ripple Effect, published in 2007 in Chinese, takes the readers through a journey of self reflecting and self understanding, and provides useful tools for personal development and transformation.
• She also publishes a series of tools, RippleCards, for people who choose to cultivate greater well-being in their lives and to share this with those around them.
• She is one of the contributors for this book Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women, An online version of her contribution is available here.