About Us

Yee-Ming Tan, executive coach and founder of Third Thinking, has extensive leadership development, corporate culture change, mindset and resilience development in the Asia Pacific region.

With close to twenty-years of human resources and leadership development experience in Asia Pacific and 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. This ensures the delivery of sustainable results in personal growth and development as well as acceptance of this work at the emotional level of the people she works with. She speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Ms Tan provides executive coaching to senior executives in the Greater China region. Her clients tend to be multinational companies and the areas of focus are leadership development, organization development, resilience and mindset development. Her clients include companies like Cathay Pacific, Goldman Sachs, L’Oreal, Microsoft, Standard Chartered Bank and Schenker.

She works with executives who aspire to bring out the best in themselves through personal mastery, and also in other people through cultivating inspiring leadership vision and effective impact. 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 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. 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 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.