Developing reflective, dynamic leaders for a world that crosses borders

Joanna Chin brings more than 28 years of professional and corporate experience, including over a decade as an executive coach. A former M&A lawyer, she qualified as a solicitor in New Zealand, Hong Kong and England & Wales. During the 2008 global financial crisis, she served as lead counsel, leading units across 13 countries on AIA Group's complex separation from AIG and its pre-IPO restructuring.

Her experience as a trusted adviser to C-level executives in her legal career is complemented by over a decade of coaching senior leaders, a Master's degree in Coaching from the University of Cambridge and Professional Certified Coach accreditation with the International Coaching Federation. Joanna's work focuses on leadership identity, confidence, executive presence, trust-based communication, emotional intelligence and sound judgement in complex environments.

She has contributed to executive development and communication programmes with multinational organisations and business schools, including INSEAD and Ivey Business School, and has worked with senior leaders and teams across diverse industries and cultures.

Kasia Lanucha is an executive and leadership coach, trainer, facilitator and educator who helps international professionals move from individual expertise into leadership. Her work is particularly relevant to technical and research-intensive environments, where success requires a shift from doing to enabling the contribution of others.

Her work brings together cultural intelligence, psychological safety and systemic leadership. Drawing on her extensive experience with global teams across sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, software and healthcare, she understands how leadership, communication and culture shape behaviour in commercial and operational environments. Alongside her corporate work, Kasia supports under- and postgraduate engineering students at the University of Cambridge. She serves as Lead Tutor for Cross-Cultural Leadership for Global Teams with Cambridge Advance Online.

She completed a Master's degree in Coaching at the University of Cambridge. Her research explored how coaching focused on emotional intelligence can support early- and mid-career professionals navigating the transition from researcher to leader.