Precise.
Direct.
Transformational.
I work with leaders and professionals to get to the heart of what is actually going on, then we create change together.
About Wei Ping
I have been doing this work since 2010. Not because it pays well, though it does. Because I have not found anything that matters more.
Before coaching, I spent seven years in banking. I was good at it. Consistently top 10% of performers, every year. But I knew, at some point, that I was not building the life that I wanted. In 2011, I chose to stop and I walked away to build a life that I felt alive in.
Coaching became a big part of the life that I built and it still is.
On the work itself
What I do is not complicated to describe. I sit with people and I help them see clearly. Leaders who are stuck. Teams that are not working. Professionals who know something needs to change but cannot name what it is. I help them find the thing that is actually in the way, not the thing they came in thinking was in the way.
Clients describe working with me as precise and direct. I hear that a lot. I get to the heart of things quickly. I do not stay in the comfortable places or let a session drift into what feels safe. At the same time, I am firm but not hard. I bring warmth to this work and I find people genuinely fascinating. I hold a lot of respect for the courage it takes to sit in front of someone and work to find the truths that have been eluding them for a long time.
I hold the Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential from the International Coach Federation. It is one of the highest standards in coaching, held by fewer than 4% of all ICF-credentialed coaches globally. I say this not to impress, but because it tells you something about how seriously I take the craft. Three thousand hours of coaching. Seven hundred clients. Sixteen years. I do not treat this work lightly.
On what makes coaching actually work
There is a version of coaching that looks like coaching but is not really coaching. The coach asks questions from a list. The client talks. The session ends. Nobody is changed.
What makes real coaching work is harder to describe. It is a relationship. It is presence. It is a coach who has done enough of their own internal work to hold whatever a client brings, without flinching, without projecting, without trying to fix it before it is ready to be fixed.
You cannot take a client deeper than you have gone yourself. This is the practical truth of this work.
The coach also needs to be masterful across the entire coaching process, not only during the conversation but from even before the first session begins, through the full arc of the engagement, and beyond. The coach is a master of human beings, beyond whatever specific domain they work in. Their presence and gravitas come from the work they have done on themselves, not from their title or their years.
The best coaching sessions I have ever witnessed, and the best ones I have run, all had the same quality: the client did something that wowed themselves, something that they thought was impossible. It happened because the coach created a dynamic space that was just right for the client to go somewhere they had not been able to go before alone.
That is what I am trying to do every time. Not to give answers. To create the conditions for the client to find their own.
On training coaches
My job as a trainer is to create the love of coaching in people because I believe if I do that, the person would continue to be a coach in some way or form in their lives going forward. They will seek out opportunities to apply what they have learnt and make a difference to people.
Not to teach them to pass an exam, though they do. Not to get them credentialled, though they do. To help them fall in love with what coaching actually does.
Good training creates wonder. The natural curiosity about life and about people that coaching brings out. When a question surfaces a tension that has been building for years, something shifts in the room. Trainees should walk out of a practice session thinking: that was amazing and I want more.
I want them to be moved and inspired by the change that coaching can create, in themselves, in the people around them, and in the world.
When that happens, they become good coaches. Not because they learned the competencies, though they did, but because they are now genuinely curious about people. They seek out opportunities to apply what they have learnt. And they make a difference.
On designing learning
I have designed over 200 learning journeys since 2013. Workshops that run two hours. Modular programs that run across months. Leadership development for senior teams. Coach training programs for organisations that want internal capability. Life coaching programs that help people make sense of where they are.
Each one starts from the same question: what does this person, or this group, actually need to shift? Not what they said they wanted on the intake form. What they need. Those are often different things.
I design backwards from the change I want to create, and forwards from the context the participant lives in. I do not lift existing programs off the shelf. I build.
On who I work with
I work with leaders. People who run organisations and large teams. People with influence, who carry responsibility for others, and who want to do that well. I have worked with executives, managers, directors, and C-suite leaders from Shopee, Grab, Gojek, Hewlett Packard, and TÜV SÜD PSB, among others.
I also work with people who are not at the top yet but are on their way, and who want to develop in the right direction.
And I work with coaches. People who want to become coaches, people who are already coaches and want to go deeper, and organisations that want to build coaching cultures.
I do not work with people who want to feel better without doing the work because I am not the right fit for them. I work best with people who are ready to be honest, willing to be challenged, and serious about change.
On beyond the work
I am an investor. I have passed all three CFA levels and completed Ray Dalio's Market Principles Online Program. I read newspapers from the US, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East every day. My understanding of geopolitics actively shapes how I think about leadership and the world my clients are operating in.
I am also a gamer. Competed in e-sports in my younger days. Still play daily. And I work with AI every day, genuinely fascinated by where it is going.
These are not separate lives. They are all part of how I think.
On the change I want to see
We are living through a strange and anxious time. Wars are happening. Climate change feels increasingly inevitable. AI is rising faster than most people can make sense of. A lot of people are quietly afraid of what is coming.
I think about this a lot. And I still believe, genuinely, that coaching has a place in this future.
Because at its core, coaching is about working with people to fulfil their potential. And there is infinite possibility in what people can achieve when they set their minds to it. Not comfortable possibility. Not easy possibility. The real kind, where someone confronts what is actually in the way and moves through it.
What I want to see is systemic change. A world where people have agency and live the lives they want to live. Not lives they fell into, or were told to live, but lives they chose with full awareness of who they are and what matters to them.
That sounds large, but it starts in one conversation, at a time.
Are you ready to have a conversation with me?
Three ways to work together
For leaders and professionals ready to move forward with clarity. We work on leadership, performance, personal effectiveness, and the places where things are stuck. I do not work on symptoms.
ICF-accredited programs for people who want to take on the path of coaching. PCTP and LCTP at ECI Coaching, Singapore. Pathways to ICF credentialing.
Custom workshops and programs for organisations. From 2-hour sessions to multi-day modular programs. Leadership development, life coaching, coach training. Designed entirely around your context.
Case Studies
Four anonymised case studies showing how coaching creates change across different contexts.
In their own words
"Her unique ability to recognise, understand and ask questions about complex business issues provided insights that altered how I viewed various problems. She does not hesitate to tactfully but directly point out areas that need to be considered in a different way, and proved to be right 100% of the time."
"Weiping was able to guide me with insightful questions and advice that helped me be more aware of my style and figure out different approaches to interact with different subordinates. I have definitely gained new insights into the specific needs of each colleague and become more able to support them individually as well as building a stronger team."
"Our coaching engagement provided me with three profound breakthroughs. I learned to lead with goodwill and change my own behaviour first. I realised there is a clear playbook for solving complex workplace challenges. And I discovered that synergy is the ultimate antidote to workplace conflict."
Let's have a conversation
If you are thinking about coaching, coach training, or a learning program for your organisation, feel free to reach out. A short note about who you are and what you are working on is enough to start.
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Based in Singapore
I work with clients in Singapore and internationally, in person and online.