Timeout Team Coaching

Don’t come to a coaching session. I bring coaching to your meetings.

I coach C-suite leaders and top leadership teams who are courageous enough to be uncomfortable.

Real learning is not in offsites or workshops. It happens in the room where your team actually works, in the tensions, the silences, and the breakthroughs that follow.

I work inside your meetings. Your team learns to navigate the undercurrents and make decisions with intention, alignment, and direction.

Yolanda Yu, The Timeout Coach

Based in Singapore · Available globally

MCC · ACTC · INSEAD MBA · Penguin Author

Executive Team coaching

The SEE·D Method

Systemic

Team maps their relational landscape: How does team relate to stakeholders, customers, boards, and the broader ecosystem?

Echo

Team hears its own voices reflected in real time, learning how its behavioral patterns shape outcomes.

Empower

Team learns to recognize and lean into its own resources. Integrates toolkits for high-stakes negotiation and decision-making.

Disrupt

Team turns insights into concrete changes, bold actions, and tangible business impact.

Team and C-Suite Coaching in Practice

"To engage her was one of the highest ROI activities I ever made. We learned to better work with each other by managing conflict and negotiating for better outcome."
— COO & Co-founder, FinTech firm backed by Sequoia
"Yolanda's coaching profoundly transformed my executive presence. From being a technical expert, I stepped into true people leadership."
— Principal, Top 10 global PE firm by AUM

Quick to anger and low
on patience?

When frustration leads faster than thought, the team feels it before anyone
says a word.

Coaching a CEO in
transition

The loneliest stretch of leadership is the gap between the role you left and the one you haven't yet grown into.

Surrounded by
Idiots

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