Irene Lee Accounting, Executive Coaching
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CORPORATE EXPERIENCE
Irene spent 23 years in Richemont Luxury (S) Pte Ltd, a Swiss conglomerate dealing in high end luxury products. It was a rare opportunity to start with a new incorporation making its presence here. Started as the Chief Accountant in the newly incorporated organization and then rose to General Manager. The final position held in the last 3 to 4 years was that of Finance Director. Back then, the company grew from 2 brands to more than 10 brands, from 20+ to 200+ employees. Every brand acquisition was an exciting event dealing with personnel, placements, trainings, systems, inventory, valuation, legalities, brand image, space planning, security, policies. Under Irene’s co-ordination efforts, each and every of these events were dealt with such conscientious and exact accuracy that the integration were always seamlessly successful. Numbers were like “play-doh” to Irene, effortlessly “massaging” the budgets to enable projects to materialize even during challenging global financial upheavals. Her scope was wide
spread covering all the back-bone functions requiring much blending and co-ordination among the Brands’ Heads and Support Functions.

TRAINING / SPEAKER / ASSESSOR EXPERIENCE
Soon after Irene attained her professional accountancy qualifications in 1986, she embarked on part-time lecturing with SSA/ICPAS for ACCA programs. In 1993, she joined Blue Harvest as a training consultant and conducted trainings for both corporate in-house and public runs on subjects such as Activity-Based Costing, Understanding Financial Statements, just to name a few. Corporations included Yokogawa, MINDEF and other MNCs. In 1995/96, Irene was connected to NUS to be an Adjunct Lecturer for Accounting subject to the Engineering faculty. In April 2015, Irene took on trainings/facilitations for adult learning with several WSQ frameworks including ICDL, Employability/Problem Solving workshops. Intermittently, she has also conducted customized workshops for companies. Between 2016 and 2018, Irene assumed the Assessor role for the WSQ Professional Diploma for Leadership and People Management.

COACHING JOURNEY
Irene first came across coaching in late 2015 under PPP (Professional Placement Program), funded by WDA. This has led her to discover an untapped talent and passion of hers to make a difference in someone’s life. With that discovery, Irene found her new career direction and went on to pursue a full fledged professional certification in coaching. In 2018, her exemplary leadership ability earned her the title of Master Coach, where she began to train and mentor fellow associate coaches. Self-awareness, her “pet” topic, has helped many of her clients to truly discover themselves and move on in life. She pays keen attention to her clients and helps them explore their hidden potentials and new career possibilities they may not have considered before. Her clients regard her as an inspiration to excel both at work and in life. The profiles of her coaching clients included Director of Global Govt Affairs & Policies in APAC, Group GM (manufacturing), Marketing & Regional Product Manager (China), Global Retail & Sales Capabilitiy Manager (retail, FMCG), Principal Employability Coach (e2i). Over the pandemic period, her clientele included several professionals in the financial industry namely, Portfolio Manager, Financial Analyst, Execution Trader, Risk Manager. In 2020/21, co-founder of Institute for Social Thrusts Pte Ltd, she was Mentor Coach and Director of Training for their 70-hr ICF ACSTH “Exponential Coach Professional Program”. Towards the end of 2021 till current, Irene is a freelance Mentor Coach and Executive Coach under the umbrella of EZRA (part of Lee Hecht Harrison and Adecco) to some of the global corporate establishments over a wide range of industries and supporting a wide diversity of roles and functions (including culture and nationalities).

* Professional Certified Coach (PCC), ICF
• Certified Coach Program (CPC), ICA
• Professional Career Coaching Program, ICA
• Transformative NLP Coaching Certification, ICF
• Certified Practitioner of NLP Classic Code, ITA
• Exponential Career Coaching Certification. ICF
• Leadership Executive Coaching Certification, ICF
• WSG Certified Career Practitioner
• Advanced Certificate in Career Development Facilitation (ACCDF), IAL
• Career Development Facilitation Program Certificate of Competence, CCE Inc
• Certificate of Employment Intermediaries (Basic)
• Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment (ACTA), IAL
• Chartered Association of Certified Accountant, UK
• Silver Medalist of the June 1986 CACA & SSA Joint Examination Scheme

Subjects

Principles of Accounting Intermediate-Expert

Experience

Trainer/Coach (Mar, 2020–Sep, 2022) at Institute for Social Thrust, Singapore

Principal Trainer for professional coaching program, ICF approved coaching program
Trainer/Coach (Mar, 2014–Dec, 2019) at Centre for Career Excellence, Singapore

Trainer for adult educational in various work skills such as :
* computer literacy
* workplace literacy
* motivational programs
* professional coaching
Also worked as Master Coach providing career coaching to job seekers and mentoring other coaches on the bench.
Finance Director (Oct, 1986–Jul, 2010) at Richemont Luxury (S) Pte Ltd, Singapore

Started as Chief Accountant and then promoted to General Manager and finally, Finance Director. Oversaw the entire support functions of the Singapore and Malaysia (based in KL) entities.

Education

Professional Certified Coach (PCC) (Jan, 2017–Aug, 2018) from International Coach Academy
ACCA (Oct, 1981–Aug, 1986) from Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants

Fee details

SG$200–400/hour (US$148.15–296.30/hour)

Basic academic level $200
Intermediate level $300
Advanced (expert) level $400

Courses offered

Change Catalyst Coach Programme
- SG$4500
- Duration: 70 hours
- Delivery mode: Online
- Group size: 11 - 20
- Instruction language: English
- Certificate provided: Yes
The Change Catalyst Coach Programme is a 70-hour certification pathway programme from start to finish, the first step to International Coach Federation (ICF) accreditation. Upon graduation, participants will receive a Coaching Specific Training certificate and with the stipulated number of practicum coaching hours, the graduate may proceed for the ICF ACC Coach accreditation membership, with international recognition.