the team
Jacki Nicholas – Managing Partner
Jacki’s 20+ year career has spanned corporate finance, management consulting and human capital development. She brings these diverse ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ business experiences to her coaching, facilitation and consulting with warmth and creativity. She is passionate about helping her clients connect with what truly defines them as professionals, leaders and individuals – and to translate this into pragmatic action and results.
Her clients are typically C-suite and senior executives in Fortune 500 companies from diverse industries including investment banking, pharmaceutical, technology, consulting, financial services, engineering & manufacturing, fashion and public sector. She coaches regularly with the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre, and is an adjunct coach and lecturer for MBA students at the Singapore Management University.
In both her coaching and facilitation work, Jacki works with leaders and their teams to transform them and their organisations in positive, sustainable ways, that speak to the heart of who they are and what they are there to achieve.
She began her career in corporate finance, working for Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu in mergers & acquisitions, valuations and capital raising. At the Hay Group, she consulted in organisational development, high performance behaviours and reward management for seven years. On moving to Asia in 1999 as an HR Development professional, Jacki established Deutsche Bank’s corporate university in Asia and led the function across 15 countries, including services in training, leadership and talent management.
Jacki is a member of the European Coaching & Mentoring Council (EMCC), International Coach Federation (ICF), Institute of Chartered Accountants (Australia) and National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH). She served on ICF Singapore’s Executive Board from 2005 to 2007. She speaks and writes regularly on various leadership topics in Asia and globally.
She has a First Class Honours degree in Psychology (The University of Sydney) and post-graduate qualifications in Finance & Accounting (University of Technology, Sydney) and Change Management (Australian Graduate School of Management). She is a graduate of Coach University, a certified NLP Master Practitioner, qualified hypnotherapist, and is certified in a wide range of psychometric tools.