Gerauld Wong is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Oopa! Consulting, based in Singapore. With 20 years of experience in facilitation and learning design, he has worked across Asia with corporate organisations, government agencies, and educational institutions. Gerauld's practice is grounded in experiential facilitation, and he has deep expertise in designing processes that use experience to create the conditions for meaningful dialogue and insight.

Tom brings 25 years of senior Asia leadership experience across Consulting, Sales, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Change and Organisational Agility. Combined with a further 25 years in facilitative leadership, he is known for a “walk beside” approach that empowers people to co create stepping courageously into chaotic & ambiguous opaque futures. His work focuses on above and below the water-line shifts that expand personal, team, & Leadership capability flexibility & resilience, building and enhancing role adequacy, and creative new ways of doing, knowing and being that support organisation transformations & thriving.

Max Watanabe is a seasoned practitioner with 27 years of experience in Positive Organizational Development (OD) and Human Resource Development. For more than 10 years, he was mentored by Diana Whitney, the world-renowned pioneer of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). Max has successfully led over 200 Appreciative Inquiry projects in Japan, supporting organizations in creating positive, participatory, and sustainable change. He is also an expert in Finnish Facilitation, which he learned directly from Pepe Nummi. Max believes Finnish methods are especially powerful because they are simple to use, highly participatory, and effective in producing tangible results. Today, he is dedicated to sharing these approaches across Japan as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer. He is the author of 6 books.

Pepe Nummi is an experienced facilitator and organisational development practitioner with over 25 years of hands-on work helping groups create alignment, make decisions, and turn ideas into action. He is the author of five facilitation books, translated into six languages. Over his career, he has provided facilitation services in over 20 countries and trained more than 15,000 facilitators. His work combines deep research with real-world application, focusing especially on how groups think, decide, and commit together.

Rhonda Sparks-Tranks has over 40 years’ experience encompassing: Training and Process Facilitation, Education, Coaching and Consulting HR, Learning and Development, Adult Education, Management and Leadership,. Her management and consulting experience has been developed in a variety of roles and industries in Australia, Mexico, USA, Asia and Europe. She has facilitated hundreds of meetings ranging from: board retreats; planning meetings; navigating organisations and groups through restructures; meetings where the group has become dysfunctional (including overt or repressed conflict); mapping new directions through to team development events. Rhonda has trained hundreds of facilitators around the world. Her Holistic Framework of Facilitation  forms the basis of her facilitation training and practice. 

John Jiang - brings over 20 years of extensive experiences of working with business leaders and their teams ranging from Asia Pacific executive level to local operational management level, from multinational companies to privately owned local enterprises across many industries. Thousands of leaders and hundreds of teams have benefited from his thoughtful advises through training, facilitation, coaching and writings. John’s experience as a leadership development consultant leads him to realize the importance of the human spirit and that true potential is usually underestimated. He enjoys the interactions to unleash his clients’ future possibilities and potentials. John lives in Shanghai, China. He speaks both Chinese and English fluently.

Laura Hsu is Chairperson and Co-founder of Open Quest Facilitation Technology. As the first Asian certified as an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator and now a CPF|M, she has helped shape the facilitation profession globally. An IAF CPF Assessor since 2004 and a 2024 inductee into the IAF Hall of Fame, Laura is also an ICA Certified ToP Facilitator, Trainer, and Assessor. Her work supports organizations, leaders, and communities in navigating complexity, difference, and change, with multiple client cases recognized through IAF Facilitation Impact Awards.

Dr Caitlin Walker is a systemic coach, trainer, and researcher who has spent three decades working at the intersection of language, mental models, and human collaboration. She is the developer of Systemic Modelling and the author of From Contempt to Curiosity. Her TEDxMerseyside talk on Clean Questions and Metaphor Models has introduced thousands of practitioners to the idea that the metaphors people use are not decoration — they are the architecture of how people think.

Marian Way is a facilitator, trainer and author who has spent 33 years teaching coaches and facilitators across the world. She is the author of Clean Approaches for Coaches and co-author of Insights in Space and So You Want To Be... #DramaFree. Marian has a particular gift for taking complex ideas and making them immediately accessible and applicable, designing workshops, programmes and experiences that allow people to discover, from the inside, what Clean Language can do.

Jules Yim  is Senior Consultant at The Cynefin Company and a complexity-informed facilitator with over fifteen years' experience across public, private, and third-sector organisations globally. 

Singapore-based, Jules began her career delivering government projects in Singapore before working across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. She is known for designing and facilitating workshops that help groups navigate uncertainty, including SenseMaker® projects, Future Backwards sessions, and HEXI-based strategy workshops. 

Her background in English Linguistics and Literature underpins a distinctive approach to narrative research and sense-making. At IAF Hangzhou 2026, she brings a practitioner's rigour and an Asian perspective to the art of facilitation.

Jackie has dedicated 17 years to the public relations consulting and marketing industries. During this time, she served as a senior executive at both Taiwanese and international PR agencies. She also held marketing and PR management roles across cable television networks, the internet sector, and five-star hotels. Her extensive PR experience and diverse expertise encompass corporate image building and management, event marketing, marketing PR, issue management, and crisis management.

With 21 years of experience in the field of facilitation, Jackie excels at utilizing various facilitation methodologies to design tailored processes and deliver versatile facilitation services that meet organizational needs. The organizations she has served span government agencies, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, private enterprises, and the consulting industry.

George is a facilitator dedicated to organizational development. He specializes in guiding individuals, teams, and organizations to uncover hidden operational dynamics and translate them into measurable metrics. He is adept at transforming complex problems into a shared foundation that is open to dialogue, adjustable, and actionable.

With a decade of facilitation experience, George has worked with teams of various types and sizes. His extensive professional journey includes serving as a Software Engineer and Scrum Master at Amazon in the USA, a Consultant at Business Models Inc in the Netherlands, a Behavioral Health Coach at Intellect in Singapore, and a Facilitator at Moodwide in Taiwan. Throughout his career, he has assisted over a hundred international organizations in realigning their strategic directions. These diverse experiences enable George to deeply understand the unique operational models and challenges of different organizations, helping them clarify and focus on the most critical and viable solutions for their current situations.

Furthermore, George possesses a highly astute observational sense of how systems shape behavior, how individuals internalize stress, and how the pursuit of "efficiency" can quietly erode learning and interpersonal relationships. He has also codified his expertise and insights as an author, with published works that include Succeeding With Agile, Leadership on the Line, Web API Testing Strategies and Practices, and Data-Driven Job Search.

Robert Steele is a senior sustainability strategist, biodiversity policy advisor, and systems thinker with over 27 years of experience across Asia-Pacific. He advises UN agencies, multilateral development banks, national governments, and multinational corporations on sustainability and nature-positive solutions, ESG, and SDG-aligned development, translating complex challenges into actionable policy and strategy.

As founder of Systainability Asia and Compass Education, Robert is a recognized practitioner of systems-based tools including the Compass, Pyramid, Amoeba, and Atkisson Sustainability Accelerator Toolkit, which he applies to catalyze sustainability transformations across the region.

He has delivered technical leadership to UNEP, UNDP, UNESCAP, UNESCO, ADB, GIZ, WWF, and USAID across more than 15 countries, and led ESG and sustainability transformations for organizations including PT ANTAM, Indonesia Power, Bank Negara Indonesia, PTT Thaialnd, and Levi Strauss & Co.

Robert has trained over 2,500 practitioners in systems thinking and sustainability leadership across Asia and Africa. He is a certified GRI Standards trainer, Climate Reality Leader, and recognized practitioner in natural capital assessment and TNFD-aligned biodiversity risk analysis

Peter has been facilitating since 2005 and holds the CPF™ (Master) IAF designation alongside his role as an IAF Certified Assessor. He is currently President of the Society for Organisational Learning Singapore and a former President of the IAF Singapore Chapter. Across Southeast Asia, he is recognised as one of the region's most credentialed practitioners working at the intersection of systems thinking, facilitation, and organisational transformation.

What makes Peter's practice distinctive is the depth and coherence of his systems lens. He integrates DSRP-based systems thinking, Systems Coaching and Systems Thinker habits (Cabrera Research Lab and Waters Centre), Human Systems Dynamics (HSD Institute), and the Atkisson Sustainability Accelerator Toolkit -  a multi-layered approach that helps him sense patterns, surface hidden assumptions, and shape the quality of conversation in real time, wherever he is in the room.

Over more than 35 years, Peter has partnered with organisation Boards, CEOs, and senior leaders across Singapore, ASEAN, the Middle East, and East Asia — spanning the public sector, banking, oil and gas, IT, education, and healthcare. His work weaves learning organisation principles and systems thinking directly into strategy and change, through three signature methodologies he has developed: Generative Facilitator/Leadership, Contemplative Inquiry, and ASCOT — Adaptive Strategic Conversations across Operations, Technology, and Transformation Road Mapping.

At the heart of it all is a conviction he returns to again and again: when people learn to see the systems they are inside, they stop chasing symptoms — and start shaping futures.

Kate Doré is currently the Service-Learning Coordinator at the United Nations International School in Hanoi, Vietnam. She has been an educator for almost twenty-five years, working with learners of all ages both in and outside the classroom.

Kate believes in the power of community, and lives this through her work within schools and wider networks supporting systems thinking, community engagement, experiential education, and student leadership. She is a member of the executive team at Compass Education, a founding member of the Service Learning Empowerment Network, and an advisor for student-led networks such as the Peace & Justice Youth Conference, ServICE Conferences, and the Hanoi Student Leadership Network. She holds a M.A. in Education focusing on curriculum and science literacy; as well as postgraduate degrees in Business Management, School Leadership, and Sustainability Education.

Kate’s work provides endless opportunities for surprise, wonder, and hardcore optimism. She is grateful to be able to collaborate with educators, communities, and youth in developing experiences which support and empower young people as leaders for a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. She is passionate about place-based education, and the opportunities it provides to dig deep into interconnections between ourselves, our communities, and our natural world.

When Kate is not working, she loves hiking and paddle-boarding with her Vietnamese street dog, Mullet, and finding new and delicious ways to prepare tofu.

An OD consultant and practitioner who is passionate about heloing teams and organizations be effective. 

Have served on the IAF global board as Regional Director Asia as well as Global Chair (2019-2020). Have been working with clients across the world on leadership alignment and organizational transformation. Has over 25 years of corporate and consulting experience

Min Zhang brings 20+ years of senior leadership experience in corporate operations, training, financing and strategy. Since 2011, she has partnered with organizations and teams to unlock potential as a Facilitator, Coach and Trainer, and lead transformational change across diverse cultural contexts.

Tom brings 25 years of senior Asia leadership experience across Consulting, Sales, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Change and Organisational Agility. Combined with a further 25 years in facilitative leadership, he is known for a “walk beside” approach that empowers people to co create stepping courageously into chaotic & ambiguous opaque futures. His work focuses on above and below the water-line shifts that expand personal, team, & Leadership capability flexibility & resilience, building and enhancing role adequacy, and creative new ways of doing, knowing and being that support organisation transformations & thriving.

Dr. Saya Sone is a facilitator, educator, professional coach, and transformation leader with experience across U.S. federal government agencies, Georgetown University, and international organizations. As a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and SAFe Practice Consultant Trainer (SPCT), she helps leaders and teams navigate complexity, align priorities, and co-create practical solutions through collaborative and participatory processes.

Anna spent her childhood on a wheat and sheep farm and travelled the world before basing herself in Canberra, Australia. She worked for a decade each in community development, university research and public service before becoming a Facilitator and a Coach. 

 Now in her fourth career, Anna asks a lot of questions about what works to expand human potential and fulfill collective outcomes. She asserts that transformation starts from within us and shows up in the world as facilitation. Anna creates spaces for inquiry that are alive, raw (honest), embodied and exploratory. 

 She lives with her husband Glenn and a black dog, a black cat, one black and one brown chicken and dreams of family adventures.

Jerlyn is an IAF CPF Assessor and CPF|Master, former President of the IAF Singapore Chapter, Points of You® Expert, and Behavioural & Life Coach. She founded Change@Werk to help companies and organizations enhance their capacity for change, collaboration, and performance. 

With over 20 years of experience in Organization Development, Management Consultancy, Human Resources, and IT Project Management, she has presented at IAF Asia Conferences in Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Malaysia, and trained nearly a thousand facilitators. 

Jerlyn also integrates I-Ching and metaphysics into her coaching practice, weaving this ancient wisdom with quantum theory, energy healing, and leadership frameworks to help individuals understand their natural gifts, energy patterns, and life transitions. Her integral approach guides people to shift mindsets, gain new perspectives, and fine-tune their authentic self to achieve balance and wellbeing.

Rani is a seasoned facilitator with over 20 years of experience in strategic planning retreats, focus group discussions, and high-impact team-building sessions. As an Assistant Director in Training Leadership and a trained Change Leader, Rani has helped corporate, government, and non-government organisations build capacity for collaboration and growth. 

 A current IAF Community member and former IAF CPF (2008-2019), Rani brings globally recognised facilitation standards to every engagement. Holding a Masters in Organisational Leadership from Monash University, Rani's practice is deeply rooted in group dynamics and organisational development. 

 As a Subject Matter Expert in Critical and Creative Thinking, Rani helps teams move beyond surface-level ideas to structured, meaningful insights. Rani is also a Certified NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI) Brain-Based Coach and NLP Master Practitioner, and she uses this expertise to help individuals to shift mindsets, navigate transitions and and cultivate stronger relationships and personal excellence.

Allan is a facilitator and advisor. He helps people understand the financial and commercial forces shaping their working world, and to lead themselves, their teams and their organisations more effectively because of it. Allan works with clients across Asia Pacific and the Middle East and lives between Hanoi and Hong Kong.

Hi my name is Vibha Venkatesh. I believe that facilitation is not about teaching, or talking. It's about creating that safe space for people to step in, participate completely and get away with those meaningful insights through the lived experience. My work is deeply action based, which is coming from different methods of psychodrama, Lego Serious Play, social presencing theater and many more. I look forward to seeing you in my workshop. Thank you.

Former Head of Team Leadership, Talent Development Center at ByteDance. The first to introduce “group dynamics” into ByteDance’s leadership development. She supported core leadership teams in nearly 100 leadership workshops. She is a Harvard Management Mentor (HMM), specializing in team effectiveness, organizational psychological safety and dynamic competitive advantage in complex and uncertain environments.

Michael Tam is the Founder of Joyventure, a Hong Kong-based product, design, and facilitation leader. He was the first-ever IBM Global Design Principal from the Hong Kong/Greater China region and has 15+ years of experience helping teams turn ambiguity into aligned action through service design, AI strategy, and structured facilitation.

lvin Lee (李成德) began his career as a Naval Diving Officer in the Republic of Singapore Navy, serving for the first 15 years of his professional life training divers and leading underwater operations, including underwater bomb disposal. Working in demanding and high-risk environments taught him the importance of teamwork, communication, leadership, and the human side of problem-solving. His journey into Process Facilitation began in 2003 when he attended his first International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Asia Conference in Subang, Malaysia. The experience was a turning point in his life. Unlike many traditional training environments he had encountered previously, Alvin was deeply inspired by the facilitators he met at the conference, who generously shared their knowledge, experiences, and practices with openness and sincerity. That spirit of collaboration and learning left a lasting impression on him. Motivated by this experience, Alvin joined the Facilitators Network Singapore (FNS) to further develop himself in the field of facilitation while contributing back to the community. Through years of active learning and practice, he grew within the facilitation community and became a certified facilitator in 2006. Although his certification later lapsed in 2009 due to the demands of his professional commitments, his passion for facilitation never faded. Instead, he continued exploring, practicing, and developing new approaches to facilitation across different sectors and communities. Over time, Alvin came to realise that Facilitation forms the foundation of many other people development modalities, including mentoring, coaching, counselling, training, and consulting. To him, facilitation is not merely a method, but a core human skill that enables meaningful conversations, learning, collaboration, and growth across all professions and industries. Being a highly visual learner himself, Alvin naturally gravitated towards Graphics Facilitation. In his early facilitation years, he focused on visual note-taking, sketching, and the art of creating engaging and impactful flipcharts. As his practice evolved, he began integrating graphics into all stages of the facilitation process — from ice breakers and energisers, to brainstorming with visual metaphors, convergent decision-making using matrices and scales, and concluding sessions through learning maps and visual reflections. In this conference, Alvin will be sharing a range of practical Graphics Facilitation tools and approaches that can be applied from the opening to the closure of a facilitation session. Through visuals, storytelling, and participatory methods, he hopes to demonstrate how Graphics Facilitation can bring together people from all walks of life to collectively explore ideas, solve problems, and create shared understanding. He warmly invites participants to join him in exploring the world of Graphics Facilitation.

David Anderson is Co-Founder and Executive Artistic Director of Walking the Dog Theater. A trained Waldorf educator with more than 35 years of experience, he works internationally with teachers, leaders, facilitators, and organizations through drama, inner development, creativity, and human-centered learning. David has directed over 100 productions, including more than 50 Shakespeare plays, and has developed long-running programs in Drama and Inner Development across Asia. His work integrates artistic practice, self-development, and transformative learning to awaken deeper human potential.

IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), ICA Certified ToP Facilitator (CToPF), Senior Action Learning Expert and Human Resources Consultant. With over 20 years of management experience in large diversified corporate groups and more than 10 years as a professional facilitator, he has provided facilitation workshops, action learning programs, customized facilitation training courses and management consulting services to numerous organizations and enterprises.

IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), ICA Certified ToP Facilitator (CToPF), Coach. With more than 10 years of facilitation experience, skilled at combining different tools and methods to provide tailored solutions for clients. Believes that facilitation can bring positive change to the world.

Rhonda Sparks-Tranks has over 40 years’ experience encompassing: Training and Process Facilitation, Education, Coaching and Consulting HR, Learning and Development, Adult Education, Management and Leadership,. Her management and consulting experience has been developed in a variety of roles and industries in Australia, Mexico, USA, Asia and Europe. She has facilitated hundreds of meetings ranging from: board retreats; planning meetings; navigating organisations and groups through restructures; meetings where the group has become dysfunctional (including overt or repressed conflict); mapping new directions through to team development events. Rhonda has trained hundreds of facilitators around the world. Her Holistic Framework of Facilitation  forms the basis of her facilitation training and practice. 

John Jiang - brings over 20 years of extensive experiences of working with business leaders and their teams ranging from Asia Pacific executive level to local operational management level, from multinational companies to privately owned local enterprises across many industries. Thousands of leaders and hundreds of teams have benefited from his thoughtful advises through training, facilitation, coaching and writings. John’s experience as a leadership development consultant leads him to realize the importance of the human spirit and that true potential is usually underestimated. He enjoys the interactions to unleash his clients’ future possibilities and potentials. John lives in Shanghai, China. He speaks both Chinese and English fluently.

Dr Caitlin Walker is a systemic coach, trainer, and researcher who has spent three decades working at the intersection of language, mental models, and human collaboration. She is the developer of Systemic Modelling and the author of From Contempt to Curiosity. Her TEDxMerseyside talk on Clean Questions and Metaphor Models has introduced thousands of practitioners to the idea that the metaphors people use are not decoration — they are the architecture of how people think.

Marian Way is a facilitator, trainer and author who has spent 33 years teaching coaches and facilitators across the world. She is the author of Clean Approaches for Coaches and co-author of Insights in Space and So You Want To Be... #DramaFree. Marian has a particular gift for taking complex ideas and making them immediately accessible and applicable, designing workshops, programmes and experiences that allow people to discover, from the inside, what Clean Language can do.

Shawn Chung is a core facilitator at Open Quest with over two decades of expertise in group facilitation and facilitation training. As the author of OPEN QUEST: Power of Facilitation, he has extensive experience designing and leading participatory processes across a wide range of contexts. Shawn holds the title of IAF Certified Professional Facilitator | Emeritus (CPF | E) and is also an ICA Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF) and recognized trainer. His work centers on strategic planning, organizational development, team collaboration, and facilitator capacity building. Driven by a clear mission, Shawn is dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations to create positive change through the power of facilitation.

Fluent in German, English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, Qin brings quadrilingual agility to facilitation across Asia's multicultural workplaces. Since 2019, she has applied participatory methods to drive new team integration, cross-functional alignment, and organizational change in complex matrix environments. Qin's practice specializes in translating employee engagement data into concrete action plans while bridging cultural gaps during transitions. Continuously experimenting with emerging facilitation trends—from digital collaboration to systemic interventions — she actively seek opportunities to refine evidence-based participation techniques.

Max Watanabe is a seasoned practitioner with 27 years of experience in Positive Organizational Development (OD) and Human Resource Development. For more than 10 years, he was mentored by Diana Whitney, the world-renowned pioneer of Appreciative Inquiry (AI). Max has successfully led over 200 Appreciative Inquiry projects in Japan, supporting organizations in creating positive, participatory, and sustainable change. He is also an expert in Finnish Facilitation, which he learned directly from Pepe Nummi. Max believes Finnish methods are especially powerful because they are simple to use, highly participatory, and effective in producing tangible results. Today, he is dedicated to sharing these approaches across Japan as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer. He is the author of 6 books.

Aiko Suzuki is an Organizational Development consultant, facilitator, and trainer specializing in Positive Organizational Development and dialogue-based leadership. She has over seven years of experience in human resource development and organizational transformation across various industries in Japan. Before becoming a consultant, Aiko spent 15 years in the healthcare sector, working in highly hierarchical and often silent organizational cultures. Through this experience, she developed a deep understanding that many organizational challenges are not caused by individuals themselves, but by the way dialogue, relationships, and processes are designed. In 2020, she introduced Finnish-style Facilitation® to Japan. As a Master Facilitation Trainer certified by Grape People in Finland, she has trained over 50 facilitators.

Yateen Gharat is the CEO and Principal Facilitator at Pro-Fac Professional Facilitators and Managing Director at Outdoor Adventure Management. An IAF Certified™ Professional Master Facilitator (CPF|M), he has conducted over 4,000 corporate workshops on leadership, vision, values, change management, planning, and group process facilitation. With 25 years of experience across learning and development, leadership, adventure, and survival, Yateen integrates experiential learning and facilitation to design impactful leadership and organizational development programs globally.

Teck Kwang is an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator | Master and Chief Catalyst at Pareto Solutions. With a deep commitment to unlocking human and organisational potential, he specialises in strategic planning, visioning, change management, and building high-performing teams. His work in leadership development equips leaders with practical skills to inspire and lead with impact. A passionate advocate for the facilitation profession, Teck Kwang has contributed to the IAF community for over a decade through mentoring, professional sharing, and conference presentations. He regularly conducts facilitator development programmes and brings both rigour and heart to every room he enters.

Sharon is a learning, leadership, and organisation development professional with 20 years of experience across corporate and public sectors in APAC, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. She has established global coaching frameworks and leadership strategies for major MNCs, and developed programmes for the Singapore Public Service. A certified coach with accreditations including Hogan and MBTI, Sharon excels at facilitating meaningful conversations that surface the deeper psychodynamic currents in groups. As founder of Corsage, her practice centres on co-creation, renewal, and inner wisdom. She holds an Executive Master of Change from INSEAD and a BSc Economics from the University of Nottingham.

Sean Blair is the founder of SeriousWork and Serious Outcomes, and the author of The Systems Synergy. His training company has certified more than 3,000 LEGO Serious Play facilitators globally, with clients including Google, HSBC, Pfizer, and the UK Cabinet Office. His practice integrates systems thinking, structured dialogue, and experiential methods to help leadership teams tackle complex organisational challengesYou said: Should we include that I've written four books?

Serving enterprise clients across a diverse range of sectors. She is the Chief Trainer for SeriousWork's LEGO® Serious Play® certified facilitator programmes delivered in Chinese, and the translator of How to Facilitate the LEGO® Serious Play® Method into Chinese. XiaoTsing holds a CPF from the International Association of Facilitators, an ACTC Team Coach credential and PCC Professional Certified Coach designation from the International Coach Federation, and is a SeriousWork certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator at Build Level 3.

You Huiying (Yoyo) is a facilitator specializing in culture, organizational change, and deep dialogue, with deep roots in both Canada and China. She currently serves as Senior Partner at ICAA (International Cultural Affairs Alliance) based in Canada, and CEO of Shenzhen Yindaojia Management Consulting Co., Ltd. She holds dual facilitator certifications from IAF and ICA, is a certified trainer in the ToP (Technology of Participation) method, and serves as a CPF/CTF Assessor. With over 25 years of experience in organizational change and leadership, her core expertise lies in translating participatory facilitation into sustained organizational commitment, and using personal transformation to truly drive organizational change.

Percy Pofeng Hsu helps organizations improve collaboration, agility, and adaptive ways of working through coaching, facilitation, teaching, mentoring, and advisory support. He is an Enterprise Agile Coach & Facilitator, Founder and President of AgileMe (Agile Matter Experts), and Founder of The Agilist & UXer Consulting. Since 2013, he has worked with organizations across finance, technology, and innovation-driven industries to strengthen cross-functional collaboration, foster shared understanding, and enable sustainable organizational change.

Peter has been facilitating since 2005 and holds the CPF™ (Master) IAF designation alongside his role as an IAF Certified Assessor. He is currently President of the Society for Organisational Learning Singapore and a former President of the IAF Singapore Chapter. Across Southeast Asia, he is recognised as one of the region's most credentialed practitioners working at the intersection of systems thinking, facilitation, and organisational transformation.

What makes Peter's practice distinctive is the depth and coherence of his systems lens. He integrates DSRP-based systems thinking, Systems Coaching and Systems Thinker habits (Cabrera Research Lab and Waters Centre), Human Systems Dynamics (HSD Institute), and the Atkisson Sustainability Accelerator Toolkit -  a multi-layered approach that helps him sense patterns, surface hidden assumptions, and shape the quality of conversation in real time, wherever he is in the room.

Over more than 35 years, Peter has partnered with organisation Boards, CEOs, and senior leaders across Singapore, ASEAN, the Middle East, and East Asia — spanning the public sector, banking, oil and gas, IT, education, and healthcare. His work weaves learning organisation principles and systems thinking directly into strategy and change, through three signature methodologies he has developed: Generative Facilitator/Leadership, Contemplative Inquiry, and ASCOT — Adaptive Strategic Conversations across Operations, Technology, and Transformation Road Mapping.

At the heart of it all is a conviction he returns to again and again: when people learn to see the systems they are inside, they stop chasing symptoms — and start shaping futures.

Adle is a Canadian educator and facilitator with over 25 years of experience across business, non-profit, and education sectors. Her work is informed by graduate studies and international certifications in human systems intervention, reinvention, and inner development. She focuses on developing leaders through reflection, experiential learning, and meaningful dialogue. Drawing on the Inner Development Guide, she creates spaces where participants reconnect with who they are and how they show up—believing meaningful change begins from within.

Shalaka Gundi is passionate about People, Prcoesses and the Planet. She is an HR and Organization Development Professional with more than 3 decades of experience across corporates, academia and consulting. She is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators. She was the Co-Chair of the India Chapter and is currently serving on the Global Board of the IAF as the Director of Conferences and Global Events. She is a certified Flow Game Host, Certified Mapstell Personal Guide and an empaneled facilitator with the United Nations Volunteers. She loves to travel, interact with people from different cultures and try different cuisines.

Giewook Koo is Founder and CEO of KOOFA (Koo Facilitation Group), an organizational development consultant, facilitator, Contextualizer, and leadership educator based in South Korea. 

For more than 20 years, he has worked with leadership teams, corporations, public institutions, and communities across Asia, helping organizations move from hierarchical communication and fragmented decision-making toward reflective dialogue, shared ownership, and collaborative leadership. 

He has led organizational development and leadership transformation projects with major global and Korean organizations including Samsung Electronics, LG, SK, Hyundai, KIA, Coca-Cola, and Apple, as well as public-sector institutions and executive leadership teams. 

His work focuses on facilitation, open dialogue, reflective organizations, and leadership transformation in contexts shaped by complexity, generational change, AI-driven transition, and cultural tension. 

Giewook is also the creator of Triadic Skill, a facilitation capacity that helps people work constructively with differences by recognizing the partial nature of “rightness” and co-creating shared understanding through dialogue. 

Drawing from both East Asian relational philosophy and contemporary facilitation practice, he explores how organizations can move beyond silence, blame, and control toward resonance, responsibility, and co-existence.

Alena Koroleva is a certified mediator, clinical and business psychologist, and expert in international relations. She works with teams and organizations in high-stakes conditions — sanctions regimes, conflict transitions, and decisions made without reliable information. Her practice sits at the intersection of crisis psychology, mediation, and TRIZ-based facilitation methodology.

Michael Brandt is the Co-founder of 33A, a Copenhagen-based AI implementation design firm that helps organizations apply AI in practical and meaningful ways. He trains teams and leaders using the AI Design Sprint®, a collaborative framework designed to help organizations identify opportunities, develop concepts, and implement AI-driven solutions across business functions.

Prior to founding 33A, Michael was an Assistant Professor specializing in digitalization. During his academic work, he developed the first version of the AI Design Sprint® to help students create concepts for Danish companies using emerging technologies, including AI. Today, his work focuses on making AI accessible, actionable, and strategically relevant for organizations navigating technological change. 

David Nevin is a professional facilitator, executive coach, and board member of the IAF Japan Chapter. With 30 years of experience rooted in international conflict management, he helps organizations across the Asia Pacific region navigate complexity and turn difference into creative potential. In his leadership role at Top Cloud Collaboration, he designs and facilitates leadership development and intercultural communication programs across Asia and beyond, bringing systems-thinking tools, experiential learning design, and a deep commitment to the facilitator’s role as a catalyst for change.

Jackie has dedicated 17 years to the public relations consulting and marketing industries. During this time, she served as a senior executive at both Taiwanese and international PR agencies. She also held marketing and PR management roles across cable television networks, the internet sector, and five-star hotels. Her extensive PR experience and diverse expertise encompass corporate image building and management, event marketing, marketing PR, issue management, and crisis management.

With 21 years of experience in the field of facilitation, Jackie excels at utilizing various facilitation methodologies to design tailored processes and deliver versatile facilitation services that meet organizational needs. The organizations she has served span government agencies, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, private enterprises, and the consulting industry.

Simon has more than 16 years of experience as an organization development consultant and over 13 years of experience serving as a certified coach trainer and assessor with the World Institute for Action Learning (WIAL). 

He has been an invited executive coach at Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University, and East China Normal University. 

Simon is the initiator and lead author of, and the curator ofbook series. He is also the Chinese translator ofand the reviewer of the Chinese edition of the.

For nearly a decade, Ivy has dedicated herself to integrating facilitation and coaching approaches into individual and organizational development. Her work focuses on helping organizations and the people within them build greater resilience in navigating internal and external challenges, uncertainty, and change.

She was the lead translator of the Chinese edition of theand has served as co-author and translator of several influential works, including,, and the.

Tomohide “Tommy” Oshima is a facilitator, visual facilitator, communication trainer, and speech coach based in Yokohama, Japan. With more than 20 years of experience, he designs and leads workshops, training programs, and dialogue spaces that help people shift perspectives and think together more deeply. 

He serves on the Stewardship Council of the World Café Community Foundation and chairs The Generative Conversation BA Community (GCBC), which promotes World Café practice in Japan. He is also a Co-Founder of Wisdom Café Asia. 

Tommy has co-facilitated sessions at several IAF Asia Conferences and is an author and co-author of publications in both Japanese and English, including The World of Visual Facilitation. He recently contributed a chapter to The World Café: Social Innovation in Action (2026), introducing practical cases from Japan.

Putri Lestari is an Indonesian-based facilitator, coach, and learning strategist dedicated to designing human-centered experiences that spark deep reflection, meaningful dialogue, and collaborative action. As the Chief Learning Officer at Pause and Grow and Co-Founder of Wisdom Café Asia, she creates transformative learning programs for leaders, educators, and organizations navigating complex change. 

Grounded in a Master’s degree in Adult Education for Social Change, Putri integrates adult learning principles, systems thinking, and reflective practice into her work. She is passionate about fostering collective wisdom and helping individuals and groups translate meaningful insights into lasting social impact.

Shalang Jin, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), visual facilitator, visual scribe, and innovation facilitator.   

Since 2012, Shalang has been dedicated to the practice of facilitation and visuals. He has served as Innovation Project Director at a US-based innovation consultancy, Six Sigma Project Manager at a Fortune 500 home appliance enterprise, and Digital Innovation Project Manager at a global Fortune 500 automotive company. As the Hangzhou Chair of the IAF Facilitator Club, he has accumulated rich, multi-perspective facilitation experience across both internal and external corporate roles. He has delivered visual facilitation and meeting services for hundreds of clients, including SAIC, Volkswagen, Alibaba, IBM, GE, and Coca-Cola.   

He is the Chinese translator of leading facilitation and visual classics, including Drawn Together Through Visual Practice, The World Café, and Everybody Matters. He continuously champions visual practices within the IAF and IFVP communities, helping teams achieve “co-existence of vision” amid complex challenges. He is dedicated to integrating “Human-Centered Innovation × Integral Facilitation × Visual Collaboration,”creating a breathing space for collaboration, co-creation, and dialogue that harmonizes rationality and sensibility.

Facilitator of the 2022 International Facilitation Impact silver Award program . Delivered over 100 facilitation workshops, combining management theories with facilitation techniques to achieve high-quality project delivery and develop a unique facilitation style. Author of the bestselling book Facilitative Management. Founder of the Drucker Facilitative Management Research Institute. Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), MBA from the University of Hong Kong. Former Certified Trainer of the Peter Drucker Academy, Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

Sharon has over 30 years of coaching, facilitation, training and consulting experience for World Top 500 companies in China（ie Deloitte Consulting, Capgemini, Ericsson, Henkel and Lufthansa）. 

 She is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF, by International Association of Facilitation) since 2017 and is currently an Assessor with IAF.   

Sharon facilitates different workshops / meetings for organizations and teams through major changes, involving topics of Strategy and Diagnosis, Action Planning, Cultural Alignment, Team Collaboration. She is highly passionate and is a strong believer in dialogue, participation, collaboration and facilitative leadership that empowers leaders and their teams. 

 Sharon is also an executive /certified 4D-Team Development Coach (accredited by ICF) and coaches mostly executives from medium and large companies (both SOE and private/foreign invested) for over 300 hours. Her client benefit from her extensive background of business operation (including marketing, sales management, training, customer service, process management, project management) and deep understanding of human dynamics through intensive trainings in coaching and acquire higher achievement through accessing the wholeness of their being—heart, head and hands. 

 Clients of Sharon comes from the line of Retail, Logistics, Manufacturing, Telecommunication, Internet Start-up, E-commerce and Banking. 

Sharon is the co-interpreter for 3 major books in the area of CHANGE (listed in Appendix) and the 4th book--Dialogue -- she helped to translate is now on the way to China market. 

Jawad is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) from the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and he was instrumental in bringing pure process facilitation into India. He has presented at many forums such as IAF, CII and SIETAR conferences and is currently the Global Vice Chair of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). 

Jawad is a Reina® Certified Master Trust Building Practitioner and is among the first (three) master practitioners in India of the Reina Trust Building® methodology, and he is also a Certified Kirkpatrick Four Levels Evaluation Facilitator. Jawad is Director for OD Solutions at C2C Organizational Development Pvt Ltd who brings over 20 years of experience working with organisations on Business Strategy, Culture Transformation and Performance Management.

Nami is a facilitator who cares about creating and supporting spaces for meaningful conversation. She works with teams and organizations to help them think big, make wiser decisions, and work better together. 

In 2024, she founded HappyTeams (PT People Planet Prosperity Success), a consulting company focusing on team development and organization development through facilitation. Currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia, after years of living in the U.S., Japan, and Laos, Nami draws on her multicultural perspective to help diverse groups bridge understanding and navigate conflict. She is an active member of the facilitation community and hosts the monthly Asia-Pacific Community Cafes, a World Cafe learning community.

Bavani Periasamy is a facilitator, speaker coach, and advocate for gratitude in the workplace. Based in Malaysia, she helps organisations create cultures where people feel valued, heard, and connected. Through facilitation, coaching, and learning experiences, she supports individuals and teams in building trust, strengthening relationships, and having conversations that matter. Her work is grounded in a simple belief: when people thrive, organisations thrive too.

For more than two decades, Raju Mandhyan has been a leading figure in the growth of professional facilitation in the Philippines and across the Asia‑Pacific region. His practice spans corporate, civic, and cross‑cultural settings, grounded in a deep command of methodologies such as Open Space Technology, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, and other dialogic and systems‑based approaches.

In 2016, he founded the International Association of Facilitators – Philippines, creating the country’s first formal platform for advancing facilitation standards. He subsequently designed and delivered nearly twenty complimentary workshops aligned with the IAF Core Competencies, helping strengthen the national community of practice. He now serves as Chairman Emeritus, continuing to mentor facilitators and contribute to global conversations on group process and organizational development.

Through Inner Sun, Inc., Raju has supported leaders navigating complexity, cultural transitions, and organizational change across five continents. His writing, research, and interviews with global thinkers reflect a sustained commitment to elevating human potential through thoughtful, ethical facilitation.

His peers affirm this contribution. Roland Sullivan describes him as “a rare facilitator who blends disciplined methodology with genuine care.” Ernie Turner notes that “Raju brings a depth of presence and generosity that enables groups to do their best thinking.”

Across all roles, he remains anchored in service—helping individuals and organizations think clearly, collaborate effectively, and act with integrity.

Co-founder and Executive Director of Shandao Public Welfare Development; Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF); Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF); Certified Focused Conversation Method Trainer. He holds a Master's degree in Theatre and Drama Education from the University of Warwick.

With nearly 20 years of full-time experience in the social impact sector, as well as extensive experience in facilitation, training, and collaboration, Datou brings deep, grounded insight into social change and development work. He has designed and facilitated a wide range of processes for social impact organizations and networks, including consensus-building processes, exploration of critical issues, project review and development, strategic planning, organizational and network transformation, and team integration and alignment..

Co-founder of Shandao Public Welfare Development; Senior Collaborator; Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF); Certified Focused Conversation Method Trainer. He is also a dedicated practitioner of Mindfulness Practice, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and Process Work for conflict transformation and facilitation.

With nearly 20 years of full-time experience in the social impact sector, as well as extensive experience in facilitation, training, and collaboration, Heaven brings deep, grounded insight into social change and development work. He has designed and facilitated a wide range of processes for social impact organizations and networks, including reflective retreats, exploration of critical issues, project review and development, action planning and reviews, and strategic planning initiatives.

Angeline is an experienced human resource (HR) staff having spent more than 25 years in the people and organization development field across retail, healthcare, leadership consultancy, private education and public sectors.   She works with leadership team to turn strategy into aligned action during growth, restructuring or culture shifts by helping to strengthen how leaders think, communicate and collaborate so execution becomes clearer, faster and more sustainable.  She supports leaders, managers and individual contributors

As the Co-founder of Feon Coaching Academy, I bring 18 years of profound expertise in strategy and brand management. I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a Certified Facilitator of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, and the architect and lead mentor of the "Transformational Facilitator Program."

My professional practice is anchored in a clear mission: to propel top executives from directive commanders to empowering facilitators. In my work with organizations, I am dedicated to seamlessly integrating the agile art of facilitation with robust business canvas models. This approach translates implicit management pain points into explicitly clear, actionable pathways. I firmly believe that when facilitation becomes the everyday dialogue within an organization, we cultivate a sustainable ecosystem that is both strategically "smart" and culturally "healthy."

Pepe Nummi is an experienced facilitator and organisational development practitioner with over 25 years of hands-on work helping groups create alignment, make decisions, and turn ideas into action. He is the author of five facilitation books, translated into six languages. Over his career, he has provided facilitation services in over 20 countries and trained more than 15,000 facilitators. His work combines deep research with real-world application, focusing especially on how groups think, decide, and commit together.

Lawrence began working in community development and participatory leadership in the US as part of the Institure of Cultural Affairs.  He as continued with the ICA to India, Africa  and Asia. While continuing community work he also expanded to the broader field of organizational change and has designed and facilitated participatory processes in varied cultural settings with government, business and community-based projects in over 50 nations, with a focus for the last thirty-five years on Greater China and Asia. His clients included more than 40 organizations such as TUV Rheinland , Corning, United Nations, Abbott Laboratory, Titansoft, and Group M.  Leadership program highlights included multi-year programs on Appreciative Leadership and another on Authentic Leadership, The programs included strategy development, leadership with follow through and mentoring.

Undi Gunawan is an architectural educator, coach, and facilitator with over 18 years of experience at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Design, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia. He holds a Doctoral degree in Architecture and specializes in bridging deep theoretical knowledge with practical innovation in business strategy and organizational development. 

As a certified expert in Design Thinking and the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology, Undi has led numerous high-impact facilitations for regional leadership meetings and community activation sessions. Beyond his academic and professional roles, he is a founding member of KomuniClub, where he focuses on fostering collaborative ecosystems and collective creativity.

Douglas Fenech is a Maltese facilitator and educator based in Shanghai, and founder of Third Place, a facilitation and creative programmes company working with corporate teams, organisations, and learning communities. He's spent over a decade watching how institutions - schools, companies, training rooms - default to compliance when they could be building genuine engagement. His workshops are built around a simple idea: people learn and connect through shared experience, not instruction. He holds a Master of Education in Education Technology and is a Certified Workshopper Master (AJ&Smart).

Dolly Wu is a CPF, organizational consultant, and lifelong learner with a deep interest in how adults learn, how organizations behave, and how teams navigate tension, trust, and change.

Originally from Taiwan, she has lived in China for many years and is now based in Guangzhou, while often traveling across different cities for her work. With a career that has moved through sales, marketing, and a long-standing HR function, she brings commercial sensitivity, people insight, and a strong drive to help people solve problems and move through challenges.

Over the past decade, she has focused on applying facilitation to business strategy and organizational transformation, supporting clients in culture building, organizational development, value chain and process alignment, leadership dialogue, and strategy execution. Her years of executive experience have given her a practical understanding of how leadership teams collaborate, make choices, express values, and turn shared beliefs into real organizational behavior.

Beyond being a professional facilitator and consultant, she believes meaningful dialogue does not happen by accident. It requires thoughtful process design, a clear focus on the core needs, psychological safety, and the ability to sense what is both spoken and unspoken in the room. For her, facilitation is a way to help groups face complexity, collaborate more effectively, and meet change with greater authenticity, courage, and possibility.

Senior Organizational Development Consultant, Core Strategy & Business Insight Practitioner

Anita MuktaaShourya is an Organizational Development Practitioner, Leadership Facilitator, Author, TEDx Speaker, and Founder of LeadSpectra. With over 25 years of cross-industry experience and more than a decade dedicated to leadership and organizational transformation, she works with leaders and organizations to build cultures of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and sustainable growth. 

Hardy Alexander is an Executive and Leadership Coach (PCC, ICF), Founder of TRIUNE GLOBAL, and Regional Director for IAF Asia. With over 34 years of experience in sales, general management, and L&D, he creates experiential learning programs and delivers high-impact learning programs for corporate clients in India and global markets.

Babita Choudhary is a senior facilitator, trainer, and learning designer with over 20 years of practice across IT, BFSI, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Pharma, and Government sectors. A certified NLP Practitioner and Diversity & Inclusion facilitator, she is a practitioner of World Café, Open Space, Gallery Walk, Appreciative Inquiry, and projective methods. She has designed programs in Leadership Development, Emotional Intelligence, Inclusive Leadership, Behavioral Communication, and High-Performance Teams across corporate, government, and social sectors.

Jules Yim  is Senior Consultant at The Cynefin Company and a complexity-informed facilitator with over fifteen years' experience across public, private, and third-sector organisations globally. 

Singapore-based, Jules began her career delivering government projects in Singapore before working across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. She is known for designing and facilitating workshops that help groups navigate uncertainty, including SenseMaker® projects, Future Backwards sessions, and HEXI-based strategy workshops. 

Her background in English Linguistics and Literature underpins a distinctive approach to narrative research and sense-making. At IAF Hangzhou 2026, she brings a practitioner's rigour and an Asian perspective to the art of facilitation.

Jackie has dedicated 17 years to the public relations consulting and marketing industries. During this time, she served as a senior executive at both Taiwanese and international PR agencies. She also held marketing and PR management roles across cable television networks, the internet sector, and five-star hotels. Her extensive PR experience and diverse expertise encompass corporate image building and management, event marketing, marketing PR, issue management, and crisis management.

With 21 years of experience in the field of facilitation, Jackie excels at utilizing various facilitation methodologies to design tailored processes and deliver versatile facilitation services that meet organizational needs. The organizations she has served span government agencies, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, private enterprises, and the consulting industry.

George is a facilitator dedicated to organizational development. He specializes in guiding individuals, teams, and organizations to uncover hidden operational dynamics and translate them into measurable metrics. He is adept at transforming complex problems into a shared foundation that is open to dialogue, adjustable, and actionable.

With a decade of facilitation experience, George has worked with teams of various types and sizes. His extensive professional journey includes serving as a Software Engineer and Scrum Master at Amazon in the USA, a Consultant at Business Models Inc in the Netherlands, a Behavioral Health Coach at Intellect in Singapore, and a Facilitator at Moodwide in Taiwan. Throughout his career, he has assisted over a hundred international organizations in realigning their strategic directions. These diverse experiences enable George to deeply understand the unique operational models and challenges of different organizations, helping them clarify and focus on the most critical and viable solutions for their current situations.

Furthermore, George possesses a highly astute observational sense of how systems shape behavior, how individuals internalize stress, and how the pursuit of "efficiency" can quietly erode learning and interpersonal relationships. He has also codified his expertise and insights as an author, with published works that include Succeeding With Agile, Leadership on the Line, Web API Testing Strategies and Practices, and Data-Driven Job Search.