Professional Background
With strengths in solutions-based consultative sales, consumer psychology and marketing, Grace’s career focus has been geared towards increasing business and revenue growth across 18 years, applying knowledge through the various aspects of client acquisition, strategic partnerships, research-driven product development, people and change management, and project management. A significant part of her experience has been in driving strategic law practice growth through business development, marketing, lead generation and nurturing, cross-selling, and client-retention for practice groups and key partners. Currently helming business development and marketing for a leading independent Singapore law firm.
Academically qualified with an MBA from University of Manchester UK (end 2021) with certifications as SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) from the Society for Human Resource Management and GRC Professional (GRCP) from the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG).
Under the Big 5 Personality test, Grace is described as an Empathic Idealist who uses insight and creativity to help others, and is driven to make the world a better and more beautiful place; and she is also an Analytic Thinker who problem-solves using rational, complex analysis and continually thinks about innovative ways to improve systems.
She is an adventurous, inquisitive and perceptive MBTI-ENFP (Extraverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Prospecting) ambivert.
Born & bred in Singapore, she has also lived in Australia for study and work across 16 years, namely in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Grace is married to a Frenchman and is a mother of two mighty girls. She has a penchant for uni (sea urchin) and most things umami (the savoury fifth taste), good wine and travel
Coaching Style
Compassionate
Open and authentic
Mindful
Developmental and growth-supporting
Collaborative
Personal Philosophy
Grace is an avid life-long learner and believes in the deliberate practice of the growth mindset, and that the key to unlocking better performance is to continually dare to operate outside one’s comfort zone. She also believes that mistakes are welcome on any learning curve and that there is no deadline for success; and learning traits of resilience and perseverance can establish a constructive pathway into the future.
A favourite quote that she identifies with is Nietzsche's "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." She subscribes to the belief that often, for a person to grow, it is absolutely natural to have internal conflict and competing desires to overcome, and that it is necessary to experience and process the chaos that is within; but acknowledging and overcoming these will lead one out of mediocrity, to subsequently become something greater, and possibly through continual improvement and the right guidance, such chaos can “give birth to a dancing star.”