our team.
Supporting leaders and leadership teams to be honest with themselves and each other, to reflect and develop, creating positive change for themselves, their organisations, and the lives they touch.
experience is the difference.
Our unique combination of commercial and leadership experience allows us to create custom strategies and solutions for your enterprise, for your leaders, that fits your context. In our experience, that’s the only sustainable way to do this, and the best way to embed meaningful and lasting change.
So, please meet our team...
byron rienstra.
founder & managing director.
Byron has worked in leadership advisory, talent and change management for over 25 years. An award-winning post-graduate of the London School of Economics renowned Institute of Social Psychology, he possesses extensive experience driving positive change with organisations and individuals across the globe including London, Sydney, Singapore and Seoul. A profoundly engaged coach, facilitator and provocateur who has worked with multiple founders and C-suite clients, Byron loves people who want the impactful change that genuine honesty affords.
simon fernyhough.
founder & managing director.
Simon is an experienced, personable and insightful coach and leadership advisor who makes a genuine investment in his clients’ success, and tailors his support to suit individual needs and goals. He leverages his extensive experience as a senior leader and his in-depth understanding of personal development work to support clients to be the best they can be in all facets of their lives.
Simon takes a holistic approach with clients that involves exploring alternative perspectives, new thinking, and questioning existing mindsets and beliefs. He has a disciplined focus on identifying and addressing the root causes of issues, not just the symptoms, and supports clients pragmatically to take actions that will create lasting change, not just short-term fixes.
Simon is a practical ally with a transformative impact, and a proven ability to help clients create the change they want. He truly makes a difference.
tamara singh.
leadership coach.
Tamara returned to Singapore after a decade building businesses across Eurasia. A multi-disciplinary Business Manager, her experience spans energy, financial services and fund management, covering trading floors in London, New York and Asia. She coaches clients including social enterprises and corporate decision makers for scale. She is an advisor to the Official Monetary & Financial Institutions Forum, a London-based think tank, and CarbonBlue Innovations, a Blockchain venture builder. Tamara is involved with organisations and causes that are focused on equality and education, including sitting on the Board of Conjunct Consulting, South East Asia’s first social change consultancy, and is a member of the UNDP’s Private Sector Advisory Group and UNESCAP’s Infrastructure Financing and Public-Private Partnership Network of Asia and the Pacific.
toby ouvry.
leadership coach.
Toby is mindfulness coach and trainer, and the author of the book ‘Engaged Mindfulness – What mindfulness is and how we can apply it to our daily lives’. His passion is empowering people and organizations to greater levels of capability, effectiveness, creativity and wellbeing through the applied practice of mindfulness and meditation.
He has been practicing and teaching meditation and mindfulness since 1993. As the founder of Integral Meditation Asia he delivers mindfulness programs to both the public and corporate sectors. He currently facilitate the mindfulness program for the MBA, staff and faculty at the INSEAD School of Business, Singapore campus. He is a committed mindfulness writer, and the author and creator of over twenty practical workshops and courses on the subject.
His original training was as an artist and creative. After graduating he spent ten years doing his basic training in meditation and mindfulness, specializing in the Tibetan Tradition which included five years as an ordained Buddhist monk.
His coaching combines practical mindfulness and meditation techniques from three sources:
- The world’s great wisdom traditions
- Cutting edge practices that are currently emerging from contemporary psychology and neuropsychology
- His own ongoing practical and creative experience as a mindfulness practitioner, business owner and entrepreneur.
stephen sidebottom.
leadership coach.
Stephen is an experienced business leader with an international reputation. He acts as a coach and consultant to boards and C-Suite leaders, with a particular focus on start-up, creative, and high-growth businesses. Stephen is also an experienced Non-Executive Director and Board Chair, with Remuneration, Nomination, Finance, and Risk Committee responsibilities. He is Chair of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) the leading global professional body for Enterprise Risk Management, and Chair of Kent Savers, a regional UK credit union.
Stephen has over 30 years’ international experience of Human Resources and Organisation Development practice and leadership, primarily in global financial services and in both private and public sectors. He started his professional career as a banker before doing an MBA at London Business School and transitioning into HR.
toby jenkins.
leadership coach.
Toby Jenkins is a leadership coach, Olympian and award winning entrepreneur and author. His purpose is to help people bring all of who they are to everything they do. He’s worked with Olympic medalists, investors, founders, CEOs and leaders – individually and as teams. From leadership to wellbeing, Toby loves helping leaders and their teams work with the pressure that inevitably comes with important decisions, difficult conversations and ambitious opportunities. He helps them work towards their greatest impact and to be the person they want to be in the process. Toby has spoken to thousands of people in live and broadcast audiences around the world at organisations such as Ernst & Young and the Australian Institute of Sport. He’s married to Lucy and father to Beatrix, Heidi and Zoe.
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matthew chapman.
Matthew's passion is creating the future of corporate by concentrating on the creation of a new profession “beyond HR” which he simply titles, 'the wellbeing profession'.
As the co-founder of ChapmanCG, Matthew helped create what is arguably the most connected global HR network in the world. He later sold the company and embarked on his '2.0 me' journey.
Via his beautiful Parihoa Farm, one of the world’s most magical properties based in New Zealand, Matthew now brings to the world The Parihoa Network.
phil pemberton.
Phil co-founded Pemberton Stewart in 2007 and has continued to build the Regional Fixed
Income business at the firm. Phil has completed senior mandates throughout the region across sales, trading, structuring and research and has completed several Regional Head roles for his clients. In addition he also leads Asian searches across all financial sectors.
Prior to commencing his career in executive search Phil worked within the Structured Finance Division of Deutsche Bank in London.
gene moyle.
Gene is a dedicated Senior Executive, Senior Performance Psychologist and Academic with proven results in the areas of performance enhancement, health and wellbeing, leadership, operational management, organisational development, product and business innovation, and cultural change.
Gene's broad experience base has been cultivated within established and start up small-through-large public and private organisations operating across the globe. Positions within these companies have included Senior Executive, external consulting, and internal roles across a multitude of industries.