We offer dedicated experience in Embodied Leadership development attuned to Asia and to you.
In Asia, we are a practice of nine Leadership Embodiment Associates.
We are a growing community of over 200 culturally, ethnically and professionally diverse practitioners.
As we keep practising Presence, Confidence and Compassion, we offer the skilful response in a turbulent world and troubled times that "we are in it together". The fields we are in today include FMCG, education, talent development, technology, energy, mining, the arts, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, government, finance, consulting, agriculture and parenting.
Leadership Embodiment has contributed to numerous impactful institutions, organisations and professionals. Elements of LE can be found integrated into some of our clients' in-house leadership and talent development programmes.
We have served clients at:
NASA, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, BlackRock,
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Twitter, Genentech,
Gap, Salesforce, Accenture,
McKinsey & Co, Oracle, Decathlon,
Intel, Unilever, BBC, UK National Health Service,
PwC, KPMG, Daimler Chrysler Group,
George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership,
Eileen Fisher, Pfizer, US Forest Service, New Ventures West Integral Coaching and many more.
In Asia, we are a practice of nine Leadership Embodiment Associates.
We are a growing community of over 200 culturally, ethnically and professionally diverse practitioners.
As we keep practising Presence, Confidence and Compassion, we offer the skilful response in a turbulent world and troubled times that "we are in it together". The fields we are in today include FMCG, education, talent development, technology, energy, mining, the arts, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, government, finance, consulting, agriculture and parenting.
Leadership Embodiment has contributed to numerous impactful institutions, organisations and professionals. Elements of LE can be found integrated into some of our clients' in-house leadership and talent development programmes.
We have served clients at:
NASA, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, BlackRock,
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Twitter, Genentech,
Gap, Salesforce, Accenture,
McKinsey & Co, Oracle, Decathlon,
Intel, Unilever, BBC, UK National Health Service,
PwC, KPMG, Daimler Chrysler Group,
George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership,
Eileen Fisher, Pfizer, US Forest Service, New Ventures West Integral Coaching and many more.
Meet Our Team
Wendy PALMER, Founder LE
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Wendy is a highly respected teacher and leadership coach. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, she shares her wisdom gathered through over 45 years of mindfulness practice and holds a sixth degree black belt in Aikido . Wendy leads client programmes, LE Retreats and Coach Training at global locations. She teaches with compassion and humour about body intelligence and how to become more connected with one’s strength, dignity, and warmth in order to be more “noble, awesome and shiny.”
She is the author of four books - Dragons and Power, Leadership Embodiment, The Intuitive Body and The Practice of Freedom. |
Wendy arrived in California in 1968. She encountered Aikido - a non-violent Japanese martial art which incorporates the philosophy of "extending love and compassion especially to those who seek to harm others." When she first saw the movements of Aikido, Wendy “felt a sense of coming home – a returning – like waking up and remembering the part of myself that hungers for essential contact with the universe.”
Wendy had grown up around horses and Aikido has a similar way of working with intensity and power, grace and beauty, that she remembered from being around horses. She realised that Aikido provided a way that she could study with her body what she had been studying with her mind. Aikido helped her to train her body to be more relaxed and open, more inclusive in stressful situations. In 1976 Wendy co-founded the Dojo Aikido of Tamalpais, where she is chief instructor.
Leadership Embodiment is the culmination of Wendy's lifework to bring the principles of the two traditions so important to her, Aikido and mindfulness, into everyday life in a way that everyone who is interested can access them. It evolved out of what she was experiencing in Aikido practice and on her meditation cushion as a way of taking these tools "off the mat and into the world of everyday physical, emotional and psychological stresses.”
Wendy serves as an Advisor on the Council on Sport and the Embodied Spiritual Practice of the Fetzer Institute, which sponsors projects to integrate mind, body and spirit in the United States, Jamaica and Africa, raising the awareness of the power of love and forgiveness to educate, inform and inspire people to live to their greatest potential.
In the words of one of her former Aikido students, “Wendy brings personal depth, deep compassion, and a tremendous body of knowledge to her work. Wendy is a living treasure.”
Wendy had grown up around horses and Aikido has a similar way of working with intensity and power, grace and beauty, that she remembered from being around horses. She realised that Aikido provided a way that she could study with her body what she had been studying with her mind. Aikido helped her to train her body to be more relaxed and open, more inclusive in stressful situations. In 1976 Wendy co-founded the Dojo Aikido of Tamalpais, where she is chief instructor.
Leadership Embodiment is the culmination of Wendy's lifework to bring the principles of the two traditions so important to her, Aikido and mindfulness, into everyday life in a way that everyone who is interested can access them. It evolved out of what she was experiencing in Aikido practice and on her meditation cushion as a way of taking these tools "off the mat and into the world of everyday physical, emotional and psychological stresses.”
Wendy serves as an Advisor on the Council on Sport and the Embodied Spiritual Practice of the Fetzer Institute, which sponsors projects to integrate mind, body and spirit in the United States, Jamaica and Africa, raising the awareness of the power of love and forgiveness to educate, inform and inspire people to live to their greatest potential.
In the words of one of her former Aikido students, “Wendy brings personal depth, deep compassion, and a tremendous body of knowledge to her work. Wendy is a living treasure.”
Tiphani PALMER, Partner LE

Tiphani is an executive coach, speaker and facilitator who generously shares her 15 years' experience in teaching and coaching with Leadership Embodiment. Tiphani holds a second degree black belt in Aikido, and brings 10 years of experience owning and running her successful design business, Tiphani Palmer Design. She leads client programmes, the LE Coach Training programme design and co-leads the LE Coach Training.
Ched LEE, Regional Director LE Asia
Accredited LE Instructor, Professional Certified Coach and Mentor at International Coach Federation® and Integral Coaching®
Accredited LE Instructor, Professional Certified Coach and Mentor at International Coach Federation® and Integral Coaching®
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17 years of somatic coaching, apprenticeship, mentoring and teaching experience in China,Thailand, France and her native Singapore
21 years of integral study and mindfulness practice Ched specialises in practical LE and custom-fit growth programmes infused with her symphony of skill and method, and systemic vision. Her experience in the fields of dance, spirituality, business and technology has inspired how she works with people and organisations, across cultures and locations. Inspired by her search for truth and our ongoing evolution, she has spoken and written for International Mindfulness Conference, The Embodiment Conference, the 100-year project 84000.co and other works. |
LE ASSOCIATES in ASIA (by first name alphabetically)
Alan is an accredited coach who uses Leadership Embodiment to help clients build executive presence and resilience.
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Angie WONG
Professional Certified Coach at International Coach Federation® and Integral Coaching® Dare To Lead® facilitator Hong Kong SAR China +852 5307 9065 Angie leverages more than 20 years of experience in corporate, multi-cultural leadership prior to becoming an ICF PCC certified executive coach.
Angie is passionate about guiding senior leaders, particularly women, to lead from within for transformative and sustainable change. She developed the Integral Growth Model which incorporates concepts from Leadership Embodiment as well as Brené Brown’s “Dare to Lead” and applies these principles to her coaching and leadership programs. |
A Qi Gong practitioner and fascinated by neuroscience – psychological and emotional process for sustainable change, Jess has dedicated herself to help individuals and groups create meaning in their own lives and works by connecting who they are to what they do. She specialises in leadership presence, empathy engagement and resilience building.
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Nicolas LECOURT
Integral Coaching®, Certified Executive Coach and Senior Associate at Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL), Certified Immunity To Change® Practitioner at Robert Kegan, Regional Lead at Association Progrès du Management (APM) Shanghai PR China 32 years of professional experience, since 1987
19 years of coaching, since 2010 Proven Coach with extensive GM experience in developing emerging markets, serving MNCs with Australasia Regional roles with over $15M P&L responsibility. Nic specialises in interpersonal acumen, personal mastery and leadership presence, to contribute your needs to navigate effectively in an increasingly volatile environment - in these times when value and meaning referentials are being challenged. It reflects his own journey as a human being embodying the ever widening field of consciousness, conducive to increasingly creative expressions of the human potential. |
Tini Fadzillah is an Executive Coach and Trainer based in Singapore with clients throughout South East Asia. Tini specialises in coaching executives in performance, leadership and sustainable change with models rooted in the Embodied Leadership Principles.
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Ontological and Leadership Embodiment coach, Yunn Ee supports clients in exploring spaces of grace, compassion and wisdom.
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Why We Keep Practising Leadership Embodiment?
I knew all these things but my body was on a different program because I'd lose my temper and freak out even though I knew better. Aikido was a way I could start to train my body how to be more relaxed, open and more inclusive in stressful situations. There's a wonderful Bruce Lee quote that goes, "Under duress we don't rise to our expectations we fall to our level of practice." If leaders begin to access this more altruistic part of themselves - this more creative part, then children will know that's possible. And I think we are making some great contribution to our culture going forward. |
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