About Angela Spaxman

Angela Spaxman is one of Hong Kong’s leading experts in professional coaching. She is a highly effective and experienced executive coach, career coach, corporate facilitator and trainer. She is also a serial leader of non-profit organizations including past President of the International Association of Coaching and Founding President of the Hong Kong International Coaching Community. Angela’s leadership experiences, her decades of personal development, her well-grounded confidence and her natural curiosity give her great insight into how to manage, motivate and lead people to be at their best.

Experience

• 18 years as a coach, corporate trainer and consultant in communications, leadership, teamwork and management systems in both Hong Kong and Canada including:
  • Career & Executive Coach, Director of Spaxman Ltd. Hong Kong, 2000 to present
  • Adjunct Assistant Lecturer at HKU SPACE, 2004 to present

• 10 years in planning, engineering and consulting (Canadian forest industry)

• 13 years community leadership experience in coaching, environmental protection and other clubs including:
  • President, International Association of Coaching, 2008-2009
    • Leading an international team of more than 50 staff and volunteers
  • Founding President for the Hong Kong Int’l Coaching Community, 2002 to 2005
  • Chairman, Clear the Air, Hong Kong, 1999 to 2001

Qualifications

• ‘Coach U’ Coach Training Program Graduate
• NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) Certified Practitioner
• Advanced Certification in Harrison Assessments
• Certified to deliver Lominger 360° Assessments
• Advanced communications skills for all aspects of leadership communication
• More than 10 years of intensive personal development

Sample Coaching Achievements

Leadership development of senior business leaders to improve focus and skills for empowering and developing staff, time management and to act as a sounding board for strategic decision-making;

Designing, facilitating and coaching in a 6-month training/coaching program to develop coaching skills for 9 senior managers of the Greater China division of a European multi-national corporation;

Designing, facilitating and coaching in a series of management development group coaching programs for middle managers of a European multinational corporation throughout Greater China;

9-month coaching program with a senior bank manager to facilitate a personal turn-around in management style including improving interpersonal and networking skills.

Corporate Clients

Testimonials

“I found Angela to be an amazing coach! She uses the skills of listening and questioning extremely well, demonstrates empathy and understanding at all times, and knows when to challenge me or ask for my commitment to action. She is non-judgmental, positive, and completely trustworthy. I recommend Angela highly because she is honest, has integrity and is well respected in the Hong Kong market. She is well trained, experienced and ‘walks the talk’.”
Business Owner

“The coaching gave me an opportunity to step back and take status of my life. I now trust myself much more and have more confidence. I went from thinking it would be nice to do ‘so and so’, to actually making it real. It was definitely worth it.”
Entrepreneur

“Even though I was talking to Angela about my problems, all the solutions were coming out of my mouth. I found it very empowering. I might have overcome my problems without a coach, but not within months. It might have taken years to sort out the root of my problems” Read the whole article here.”
Godfrey Chu, Consultant

“My colleagues have noticed the difference in me in the past 6 months since I started coaching. I don’t take things so seriously and I don’t get involved when I don’t need to. I can delegate better and I let my staff handle their issues by themselves. My doctor was very surprised that my health is excellent now.” [He had high blood pressure.]
Social Services Manager

“You’ve really helped me to turn things around. Now I’m making an effort to do things and speak up positively for what I want. You put some points in my head that really helped, especially ‘What are you going to do about it?’”
Information Technology Consultant

「I do not think I would have been this successful without you, and the coaching course. I seem to have finally gone from resentment to constructive 『criticism’. … And I had been grappling with this issue for years now!」
Chief Investment Officer

「I feel a big difference since I started the coaching. I’m more sure of myself and have more insight into things. Before, I used to brush off my emotions. Now I can look at them, analyze them and deal with the situation. I’m no longer too proud or cowardly to tell people what is bothering me. Before everything was a problem and now I have a just a few little problems.」
Manager

“Angela’s cheerful nature with her warm and friendly attitude facilitated me to express my inner feelings and frustrations comfortably though I have known her for a very short time. She was sensitive and patient in helping me to articulate my problems so as to figure out some solutions. Apart from attentive listening, she was able to give me insightful advice, suggestions and encouragement at appropriate times. I appreciate that she has never imposed her ideas on me but provided alternative perspectives for my reference. In three months’ time, I have achieved certain goals set up during our coaching sessions and am in a better shape personally.”
University Executive Officer

“I found Angela to be an excellent coach. She has a great skill at listening, and at getting to the heart of the matter. She made valuable suggestions for change, and pushed me beyond my own limits to take action quickly. Through coaching, I was able to make some dramatic changes in both my personal and professional life.”
Life Coach and Personal Trainer

“I sometimes felt a little lonely when it came to my career. But now I feel I have a real partner, a real coach. That’s very important because I want to be successful – extremely successful….Angela is soft and tender, and always knows how to ask the right questions to put me back on track.”
Businesswoman